Murmurs

For the last week or so, I had a caption competition here on the blog. The 5 winners received 2GB USB keyrings compliments of Littlequiz.com

It was a fun picture taken of me working outside in a large pool that had formed due to the heavy rains in Cork recently.

I discovered 3 new things from running the competition:

1. A fun caption competition can bring a lot of traffic to a website
2. Facebook can bring in lots of this traffic, I thought Twitter was the king at this
3. One of my Wellies has a couple of tiny holes (which I have since rectified with some super glue)

On the graph there’s a clear hike from my usual number of visitors per day. Google and Twitter brought in the first wave of visitors.

Facebook on its own brought in the rest on the second blip on the graph, peaking just over 300 visitors on that day.

A couple of people put the image up on their facebook pages which is where this traffic came from. Thats a nice amount of traffic to my young blog. It would probably have been more or have a longer tail if it wasn’t on a Friday and Saturday.

So a fun caption competition happens to be a good source of traffic mixed with Twitter and Facebook too. I recommend trying it.

Check out some fairly regular caption competitions on Littlequiz.com

The 5 winners of the caption competition, winning groovy 2GB USB keys from Littlequiz.com are :

Ger Swanser

…’dear diary, when i asked for an office with a ‘light airy feel’ i think they took me too literally…..’

Paysan

AIB repossessions get serious…

Marcela

So you got an invite for Google Wave, then

Tomas McGuinness

As Gordon read through his email, he began to get a strange, sinking feeling….

Patricia Doyle

This online f(psh)ishing is not all its cracked up to be

Thank you everyone for all the great comments, it was good fun reading through them.

I didn’t pick out the winners in case I was biased in any way so I asked some friends and family to read through them and pick out 5 of the best. I’ve emailed each of the winners earlier this morning.

My nephew Donal tested the quality of the prizes before they go out in the post.

Trying to work in this weather..

Thanks to the Monkeys at Littlequiz.com, theres a free 2GB USB stick for the 5 best captions for this picture.

Update: I’ll close the competition this Friday the 27th and ask some friends and family to pick the best ones. Thanks for all the entries so far..!