Football world cup 2006 and internet traffic

[Paz]

Hi,

as you've all probably heard, the World Cup starts soon, and of course everyone's expecting South Africa to win!

But experience has taught me that traffic to my sites will drop to a trickle during the world cup.

Any ideas about how to do something about that, or should we just enjoy the football and forget about our sites for a few weeks?

Yahoo had a good idea, they're the official world cup partner...

Cheers,
Paz.

[Blazingpie]

well, you could start a few blackhat sites about the world cup that redirect to your sites XD

[daniel]

I saw this really cool little viral / branding tool. Its a little exe that sits on your desktop and counts down the the games and shows the live scores.

Thousand have been downloaded,

D

[BSolveIT]

Hey now thats a neat idea.

If we can find a site that displays world cup info, I can throw together a bit of AJAX to grab it and stick it in our sites.

Would make life easier for me if the site with the real data didn't have a complicated page structure.

Anyone want something like that though? Maybe turn it into a virtual betting booth or something?

:cool:

[Paz]

Sounds good, but you'd better do it quick..... traffic's crawled to a standstill on a few of our UK sites.... :toilet:

[Blazingpie]

Yeah, one of my clients (american) came running to me asking if they rankings had plummeted. I said no, that in fact they went up quite a bit, but it turns out his sales plummeted on the day that America was playing. heh heh.

[Paz]

Tell your client the US won't be in the Cup for much longer..... haha

[Blazingpie]

Tell your client the US won't be in the Cup for much longer..... haha

Haha, perhaps I should :p

[RMcLasker]

Hi,

as you've all probably heard, the World Cup starts soon, and of course everyone's expecting South Africa to win!

But experience has taught me that traffic to my sites will drop to a trickle during the world cup.

Any ideas about how to do something about that, or should we just enjoy the football and forget about our sites for a few weeks?

Yahoo had a good idea, they're the official world cup partner...

Cheers,
Paz.





Great post. I'm just not completely sure that I'm understanding the depth to this.
Can anybody explain this out a little bit more?

[Jrisey]

Hi,

as you've all probably heard, the World Cup starts soon, and of course everyone's expecting South Africa to win!

But experience has taught me that traffic to my sites will drop to a trickle during the world cup.

Any ideas about how to do something about that, or should we just enjoy the football and forget about our sites for a few weeks?

Yahoo had a good idea, they're the official world cup partner...

Cheers,
Paz.

I tend to agree mostly but im still not sure I understand everything here.