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As you know, a buddy of mine and I created a website promoting the game of Cornhole. We've had a fair amount of success. We have about 40 members, and about a dozen are actively posting in the message forums. We've been getting a lot of hits for people looking for information. Our average is about 80 hits a day which isn't bad considering we are such a niche market. We are ranked #2 on Google for 'building cornhole' searches and usually on the front page of most any other cornhole related search. So we have enjoyed moderate success. Much more than we anticipated, which is a nice surprise.

But yesterday, our traffic went through the roof. According to our web tracker, most of our hits came from BoingBoing.net. This is a group like Fark.com, SomethingAwful.com or i-am-bored.com. They're basically a group that finds random stuff on the internet and posts it in their blog. They did a quick blurb about our website and in 4 hours, we got 560 hits within 4 hours of that post. Since then, we're close to 2000 hits in 16 hours of it being posted. It's starting to pop on a bunch of other blogs as well. The funny thing is, other than boingboing.net, our other top referrer is a Hungarian blog. The traffic is mostly people who pop onto our front page, look really quick and then leave. They don't explore any of the links much at all. But its fun to see our stats grow and see where our guests come from.

You can check out the boingboing.net post here.