It’s been an amazing year for the Packers, and I have to believe that their dramatic improvements played a big role in the amazing things that have happened to this blog. Here’s the 2007 highlights for Green-Bay-Packer.com:
In early October this blog was featured in the USA Today Blog Blitz. The feed from that profile quickly surfaced on the Sports Illustrated website. So there I was, 4 weeks into the season, my Packer blog on the highly popular pages of USA Today and Sports Illustrated’s websites. I went out and bought a Powerball ticket because I knew the odds of winning were about the same as appearing in the USA Today and SI websites at the same time. Dude, I am so freakin’ rich right now.*
The uptick in traffic from that exposure gave the site about 300-400 visitors per day for the next few months. Pretty nice for a blog without any expectations.
I watched the last regular season home game against the Lions and saw some attractive women wearing matching bikini tops. I wondered if I could find any pictures or info about them online. Found a few. Posted ‘em. The next few days the site got a boost in traffic that made this site rival the biggest of my other websites. Little did I know what was to follow. I heard from the family and had a dialogue going with the oldest sister and later their father.
A Wausau newspaper contacted me asking if it was OK to include information about this blog in their article. It wasn’t a headline, but ink is ink.
The NFC Championship game. Sub-zero temperatures and a trip to the Superbowl hung in the balance. I paced like a caged dog with cabin fever watching the game, then saw something crazy: the bikini girls were at it again. But now the audience was national. They were on NBC’s Today show the next day. Apparently that made a lot of people want to learn more.
This site was crushed with traffic. Our server was hanging up and crashing from all the people wanting to know more about the bikini girls. I got contacted by Inside Edition, ABC’s Good Morning America, Maxim Magazine, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Sportsline Radio, that same Wausau newspaper (The Daily Herald) and a host of others trying to get hold of the bikini girls for creepy requests for photo shoots, product endorsements, and more (and sometimes, less). Traffic briefly spiked from 400 visitors a day to nearly 20,000.
It’s been quite a ride. It didn’t end the way any of us wanted it to, but it ended better than almost all of us thought it would when the Packers kicked off the season. Thanks for all of your visits, comments and bikini-clad Packer fan pictures (always feel free to send more to webmaster[at]green-bay-packer.com 
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*Not accurate. I’m broke.
February 7th, 2008 at 12:04 am
Nice story. Congrats on the good ‘07. Gives me hope as a fairly new blogger that exposure will eventually come.
February 7th, 2008 at 7:44 am
Thanks for the well wishes.
Admittedly, there was a healthy dose of luck that went into my getting this amount of exposure. But I also think that just keeping new content going on the blog probably had as much to do with it (at least during the football season).
Of course, greasing the media with hookers didn’t hurt, either.