I think we’ve all experienced some post or story going to the front page of Digg. Until the digg-Nazi’s bury it because (gasp) we stink of SEO. Whatever. But today we had several pieces of content on one of our sites stumbled. Apparently God’s second cousin told all his friends. And they had the day off and nothing particular to do. So they all showed up in a rush and viewed 2.7 pages/person/average.

And we actually hit the bandwidth limit on that particular server/package and I got a phone call from some guy in Chennai asking if I had an Amex to authorize a grand’s worth of bandwidth. Sure, ho-ho-ho and all that.

It was certainly an amusing conversation (do you remember the phone call in Transformers?) and it was fun to watch the site stats climb up and up and up.

But we didn’t make any marginal sales.

Wait, wait, wait for the funny part.

About an hour after the traffic calmed down I got an email from a person at Stumble trying to sell me their advertising package. A nickel a visit or something.

So, let’s see, 50K people wandered over to our commerce site in a few hours and bought exactly … notadarnthing. So “Susan” is trying to sell me a LOT more people just like that?

Gee, thanks. I think analytics is probably my best friend right now.