{"id":73,"date":"2006-08-19T09:23:15","date_gmt":"2006-08-19T01:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/2006\/08\/19\/viral-internet-marketing-fedexfurniturecom\/"},"modified":"2006-08-21T14:00:47","modified_gmt":"2006-08-21T06:00:47","slug":"viral-internet-marketing-fedexfurniturecom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/internet-marketing\/viral-internet-marketing-fedexfurniturecom\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral Internet Marketing: fedexfurniture.com"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>Credit to Gwen for pointing this site out on her site: GwendolynTan.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Let’s look at the elements of this site:<\/p>\n Jose’s friends moved to Seattle and did not have a job. Although they managed to get housing, they didn’t have furniture. They decided to built furniture<\/strong> using Federal Express shipping boxes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Some time later, Jose moved to Arizona and faced the same problem. He decided to follow their example building his own furniture, which now includes:<\/p>\n Whether you’re curious about how they did it, or just wondering if they’re plain crazy, you’ll be drawn to their site.<\/p>\n How sticky is their site?<\/strong><\/p>\n Very<\/strong>. Even though they don’t have a technorati account, there are 91 links to their fedexfurniture.com<\/a><\/strong>. (now 92 after counting this post!)<\/p>\n Their Google PageRank (PR)<\/strong> is a mighty 6<\/strong>. (anything above a 4 means the Google Spiders crawl your site very regularly). Their Alexa ranking<\/strong> is also a respectable 439,637<\/strong> (as of Aug 19,2006).<\/p>\n What helps is that lots of traffic has been generated from links from several high authority sources like:<\/p>\n\n
\n
\n