Garfield Ridge

Hey!

Yeah, you-- I'm speaking to you, you Jonah Goldberg fan.

Thanks so much for stopping by! But please, do check out the rest of my site, Garfield Ridge. If you like, please come on by again-- I always appreciate new readers!

Now, on to the original post:

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What, pray tell, is an Instalanche?

For all you non-bloggers out there, an Instalanche is blogging slang referring to a massive, out-of-the-ordinary spike in site traffic, almost always generated by a link from one of the major blogs on the web.

The name itself comes from Glenn Reynold's Instapundit blog, a site with enough lemon-scented cleaning power to jack a Sitemeter into low-earth orbit via a single link.

Here's a good piece talking more about the coveted Instalanche, with some useful tips on how to get one for yourself.

Well, the Unpopulist, a.k.a. someone I haven't linked to yet but should have long ago, decided that the biggest Instalanche Garfield Ridge has had to date deserves to be recognized, perhaps in humorous textile form.


Garfield Ridge, 1 November 2004: Tower of Power, baby.

Here's the pre-election post that generated all this traffic: "Why I am voting for George W. Bush today."

Why that post tricked it off, and not my screed against infernal housecats, or any one of my warnings against the impending ape apocalypse, I have no idea.

Now, I'm not sure the Sitemeter jump technically qualifies as an Instalanche, if you define an Instalanche as requiring the intervention of Instapundit. Instead, I think my biggest chunk of referrals came from a Jonah Goldberg link in National Review Online's The Corner.

However, I feel comfortable in appropriating the term Instalanche to mean any such random, high-traffic spike (I say it's like Xerox; the trademark is no longer applicable just to a particular brand).

Anyways, thanks to the Unpopulist, my moment of glory is getting another day in the spotlight. Hopefully, with help from you, the readers, I can continue to get cool moments like these.

Remember, my site visits don't need to be sparked by political blogs-- I'm happy getting referrals from gardening blogs, action figure collecting blogs, even Goth deathrock blogs. I just need the traffic, man.

Because, as we all know, bloggers eat site visits for fuel.