Thoughts on My Spike in Traffic

As I mentioned in a previous, my site saw a spike in traffic due to eHarmony's free weekend. Something that was very interesting here though: I have good rank for the free weekend (top 5 for most search queries) and this rank seemed to be passed along to my other posts. For example, I have a post on eHarmony prices and another arguing whether or not the service is worth using. Both of these articles jumped to the first page and for some queries were number 1.

Then, as the free weekend is passing, these "related" articles jumped to the first page have reset to their original position. I'm not an SEO expert and I don't even know what this means but it was very interesting to see.

eHarmony Free Weekend Drives Spike in Traffic

Every time eHarmony has a free event, I post about it on my site. I'm normally on the first page of Google for the event (as long as I can submit it early enough). This time for many of the searches I'm in the top 5 for many of the search terms and this is driving about double the traffic I would normally see. I think it's great but I do wish this was from a more permanent source - my traffic for this search will likely start to drop today and will be all but gone by this Sunday when the event is over.