My blog made an appearance on Time.com
It’s interesting to see who comes to your website and where they come from when viewing Google Analytics. Until tonight, I had no clue how to see exactly what page of a site a viewer was coming from. I found out that in Analytics by clicking on Marketing Optimization -> Marketing Campain Results -> Referral Conversion, you can click on the general site url and it will expand to show you exactly what page from that site a visitor came from. Pretty cool if you ask me, but even more cool is me finding out that I had a hit come from Time.com
Time.com as in Time Magazine Time.com. That’s severely cool. So, how did it happen? Well, it begins with a post that I made about tickets to the PBR World Finals In Las Vegas a few days ago. And then, Time.com uses Sphere.com, which uses an advanced search algorithm helps you discover high-quality, relevant, and timely blog posts and makes it possible for publishers to integrate contextually relevant blog posts alongside their articles (taken right from sphere.com’s about page). So, I ended up in Related Items on an article that had been written in September about bull riding on Time.com. You can check it out here. That link takes you to the third page of the article, because that’s the relevant page. If you scroll down and click on related items, I appear there at the top of the list under related blog links.
This is what it looks like incase you don’t want to go see for yourself:
I had the same thing happen when I did a piece on my blog about Times “Person of the Year” award. Sphere listed my blog first at the end of the article and I got a ton of traffic from it.