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by tinytrophies 3932 days ago
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.
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So you DID take this honest mistake to bait people into visiting your site?
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