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For the past 4 days the site has been offline. I don’t really know the reason for this: it could be the fact that that some hackers did something (and i really don’t know what or why) or it could be the fact that my database crashed due to the huge number if visitors. Thank God i had a backup (which was corrupted - my host said something about a SLEEP command - if you know something about this please let me know, i don’t want it to happen again). So to get the site back on i had to manually copy/paste every single post.

In the 4 days that the site was offline i think i lost at least 40.000 visitors (they still keep coming for the same thing).

Previously i wrote the 5 Ingredients For A Perfect Viral Linkbait article. And immediately after that i wrote the actual linkbait: 13 Wordpress Plugins That Can Make Your Life Simple, using the 5 ingredients. After that i asked someone to submit the post to Digg and StumbleUpon. After a few hours the flood came. Digg traffic is like a 1 time bomb - exploding for a few hours and then it stops. But StumbleUpon is so constant - even today i got 1200+ visitors from SU in only 4hrs.

So the thing is, before going online with a potential viral post, first you must prepare your server.

I am a Wordpress Noob, so I ask you guys if any of you knows something about the MySQL sleep command or how to make your WP based site load faster(any mysql setting on anything that can help)? I await your answers.

Oh and regarding the contest, you may have noticed that all the comments were deleted. But don’t worry i have all the entrants and the points they have on a spreadsheet, so there is nothing to worry about.

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Viral content is the kind of content that will be linked to and will be discussed over and over. The result of viral marketing is truckloads of traffic. And i’m talking really big trucks.

One misconception about viral marketing is that the huge amounts of traffic it brings it’s kinda worthless for the money maker. I know this ain’t true. You know this ain’t true. Just be reasonable and think: how could huge amounts of traffic not make money for you? Yea you could say it’s not targeted traffic but still… it’s free.

You can find a fully detailed explanation (and example) at JohnCow.com.

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