How Much Traffic does Google Easter Eggs Bring

People Might have wondered on how much traffic(visitors) the Google easter eggs can bring to the site. That happens to be in top 3 search positions of the Google for the corresponding easter egg search on the search engine. The reports of Google Doodle based traffic for the site been out there might make the user wonder how much can a easter egg bring, just like that of doodles bringing as per wikipedia to nearly 2 million(i haven't got that range of traffic for doodle of course 1k is the max have got after the article on doodle for new year day google doodle). The releasing of easter eggs from google in more numbers last year really did made it a super hit than ever before it had been especially the likes of do a barrel roll, tilt, let it snow did contribute a lot for easter eggs of google getting hit like those of doodles it used to be.

Our blog being one of the good range of beneficiary from the release of  google's easter eggs will give an insight of how much traffic and earnings it did got in 24 hrs time on december last year when the easter eggs for christmas, hanukkah and kwanzaa festivals were released by the google.


Tipsntweaks being one of the top 3 search query for those like of google easter eggs, google easter eggs list and so on would like to share some of the secrets behind the traffic as it did really got a big chunk of traffic when google brought its last famous easter eggs in form of the "let it snow" and other easter eggs like christmas, kwanzaa etc... did got us a whopping 150k page views and around $250 USD via google adsense in less than 24 hrs of let it snow easter egg going viral on the net. The main contributors for the traffic was Mega list of Easter eggs and hanukkah, kwanzaa etc.. easter eggs.

And of course the traffic for those posts as of now is no where near that historic traffic especially after those easter eggs like that of let it snow, christmas, etc.. being removed from the google after the occasion of christams, hanukkah and kwanzaa festivals are over, still the event gives one a idea of what traffic and earning one can achieve from google easter eggs just like that of google doodles does it.

Hope that even wikipedia makes the secret of traffic hits it gets when google had released its easter eggs so that we get more clarity on the picture for how much traffic does it gets.

Any more interesting info on this regard is welcome like what range of traffic others got from easter eggs and so on from our readers using the comment form below.

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Charles Dickens 200th Birthday Google Doodle

The birthday celebrations of famous personalities of the past being celebrated by Google in the forms of doodles is now more than a tradition by the google and now on this line Charles Dickens 200th Birthday Google Doodle is been celebrated today on February 7th.

A short Bio on Charles Dickens

Full Name         :      Charles John Huffam Dickens

Timeline            :      7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870

Field of work    :      English Novelist

Work Topic       :     Novels, Short stories, Non Fiction Poetry and Plays

Dickens's work has been highly praised for its realism, comedy, mastery of prose, unique personalities and concern for social reform by writers such as Leo Tolstoy, George Orwell and G. K. Chesterton; though others, such as Henry James and Virginia Woolf, have criticised it for sentimentality and implausibility.




The doodle released today by the Google when clicked on the image gets the search results of Books of dickens work. The doodle is bit special because of the fact that doodle consists of characters of the Novels of Dickens like that of  Scrooge(Principle Character in 1843 novel Christmas Carole), Bob Cratchit( Abused and under paid clerk of ebenezer scrooge in 1843 Novel Christmas Carole), Pip(Parody and Comedy retelling Character in the 1861 Novel Great Expectations) and so on with also characters from some of his top novels like 1859 Novel A tale of two cities, Haunted Man and Ghosts Bargain and Little Dorrit etc.. have been featured well in all the characters of the g-o-o-g-l-e with a background of corresponding novels featured neatly integrated to see it as one background.

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Blogspot.com redirecting to Country specific Url's

Google with having servers in many countries is now making its blogspot.com blogs redirect to country specific domains from now on. This move at times is surely a welcome as well as a bad move as it helps visitors get the data of the blog from their country specific domain easily and also it can be a problem with countries now looking to censor the web as the web helps better in censoring too.

Google had an official announcement for this regard describing things the easier way.


Q: Why am I seeing a URL change?
A: Over the coming weeks you might notice that the URL of a blog you're reading has been redirected to a country-code top level domain, or "ccTLD."
For example, if you're in Australia and viewing http://killmaths.blogspot.com, you might be redirected http://killmaths.blogspot.com.au.  and similarly in India the blog will be redirected to http://killmaths.blogspot.in so as of now blogspot.com is redirecting to blogspot.in and blogspot.com.au which with time will increase later.

A ccTLD, when it appears, corresponds with the country of the reader’s current location.

The change doesn't produce any  other visible differences to the blog other than the URL redirecting to a ccTLD. For people like us who use custom domains the change doesn't have any effect

Q: Where will I see this change?
A: We routinely launch limited updates, so in the coming months you will see ccTLDs in additional countries.

Q: Why is this happening?
A: Migrating to localized domains will allow us to continue promoting free expression and responsible publishing while providing greater flexibility in complying with valid removal requests pursuant to local law. By utilizing ccTLDs, content removals can be managed on a per country basis, which will limit their impact to the smallest number of readers. Content removed due to a specific country’s law will only be removed from the relevant ccTLD.



Q: Will this affect search engine optimization on my blog?
A: After this change, crawlers will find Blogspot content on many different domains. Hosting duplicate content on different domains can affect search results, but we are making every effort to minimize any negative consequences of hosting Blogspot content on multiple domains.


The majority of content hosted on different domains will be unaffected by content removals, and therefore identical. For all such content, we will specify the blogspot.com version as the canonical version using rel=canonical. This will let crawlers know that although the URLs are different, the content is the same. When a post or blog in a country is affected by a content removal, the canonical URL will be set to that country’s ccTLD instead of the .com version. This will ensure that we aren’t marking different content with the same canonical tag.


Q: How might ccTLDs affect the blogs I visit?
A: If you visit a blog that does not correspond to your current location as determined by your IP address, the blogspot servers will redirect you to the domain associated with your country, if it’s a supported ccTLD.
Blog readers may request a specific country version of the blogspot content by entering a specially formatted “NCR” URL.
NCR stands for “No Country Redirect” and will always display buzz.blogger.com in English, whether you’re in India, Brazil, Honduras, Germany, or anywhere.
For example: http://[blogname].blogspot.com/ncr – always goes to the U.S. English blog.
This special URL sets a short-lived cookie (session and/or a short life time) that will prevent geo-based redirection from the requested domain. This applies to all web browsers and all Operating Systems.


Note: The redirecting move has a immediate effect of showing drop in Alexa ranking been displayed, PR of the site shown as 0 for all even though it had good ranking previously. Fact is Alexa rankings doesn't have much change too for the site as the Alexa ranking for the site can be seen with blogspot.com itself later and regarding Page rank of Google it has 0% side effects by this move and would benefit the people in ways like getting backlinks to the same webpage with different link addresses from bookmarking sites and so on. The PR now showing 0 for custom domain will get updated to the original PR of the .com(the reason being all domains landing to same page will have the same PR) within a week or 2 as Google PR Toolbar update is due in february while the real PR of the site can be still viewed with checking of blogspot.com subdomain itself. So no need to worry about it like some uproar on this regard is already happening in many blogs now due to fear of nothing

 

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