Miley Cyrus released an album on a new domain mileycyrusandherdeadpetz.com I thought it was weird so I typed it in. After realizing I typed it incorrectly I realized a great deal of people would likely do the same. Posting the strange purphase on facebook got a lot of attention as well.
So the analytics I got pretty much show that it worked more as promotion than bait. I posted my purchase to facebook mocking the stupidity of the domain (there are a bunch of different ways to misspell that lengthy domain). The day I posted that status I saw 9.38% traffic but the analytics is treating the miley cyrus domain as a referral and isn't recognizing if that click came from facebook or direct. realized I need to add tags to recognize that now
Slightly self motivated yes. That being said I've spent two years developing applications that could greatly help communities across the world and was having a hard time getting those ventures the proper attention. I theorized that something "less-impactful" would get more attention and in the long run drive attention to more important projects. I've been sharing my google analytics on the facebook page and with friends as a way for all of us to better understand the influence of different platforms. 32% of traffic has come from Facebook which is pretty much free to all startups. I then ran an ad campaign for five days which performed miserably. I will be carefully examining traffic sources and how to cheaply launch my app in the coming month. I don't expect a great deal from tiny tiny trophies I put up a wordpress site in a night and have been watching it in the past week.