{"id":3211,"date":"2012-01-10T14:59:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T20:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davintosh.com\/?p=3211"},"modified":"2012-01-10T14:59:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T20:59:52","slug":"the-instructables-bump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/10\/the-instructables-bump\/about-this-site\/","title":{"rendered":"The Instructables Bump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week saw a huge jump in this site&#8217;s visitor count&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/instructables_bump.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/instructables_bump.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"instructables_bump\" width=\"519\" height=\"346\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3212\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/sitemeter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/sitemeter.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"sitemeter\" width=\"460\" height=\"380\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3213\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t matter which counter I check, they both show a bit of an increase after Christmas, with a huge jump on January 2. All that is attributable to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instructable<\/a> that came up last week which on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Paint-your-own-car-for-under-200-or-how-I-learne\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$200 Paint Job<\/a>; the writer included a link to my <a href=\"\/2009\/07\/04\/cheapskates-paint-job\/\" title=\"A Cheapskate\u2019s Paint Job\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cheapskate&#8217;s Paint Job<\/a> post. The big jump happened when that Instructable was featured in the email newsletter. Traffic has dropped off a bit since then, but from the Google Analytics info it looks like there is still some traffic coming from that link.<\/p>\n<p>You know, I was thinking of putting up an Instructable on the Rustoleum paint job, but never got around to it. Probably ok that it went this way; I would&#8217;ve felt guilty about posting a link to my own post in an Instructable, but since someone else did it, it&#8217;s all good! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week saw a huge jump in this site&#8217;s visitor count&#8230; Doesn&#8217;t matter which counter I check, they both show a bit of an increase after Christmas, with a huge jump on January 2. All that is attributable to an Instructable that came up last week which on a $200 Paint Job; the writer included [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-this-site"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}