I ran an ad for my Canes blog
Posted by gercohen on December 8, 2006
As you know, I’ve been doing a blog on the side about the NHL all-star game, http://canesallstars.wordpress.com The game features online voting to choose the starting lineup for the game. A few weeks ago, a Buffalo Sabres fan started a website http://www.voteforrory.com encouraging people to write in Rory Fitzpatrick, a Vancouver Canucks player who played for Buffalo last year. Fitzpatrick is basically a back up player who has not even scored this season. Well, the effort snowballed, and the guy got 150,000 write ins already, and has been getting huge media coverage. His website is getting about 10,000 hits per day, and has been written up on dozens of sports websites in the last three or four days, including espn.com
I found out about the Rory campaign on November 26, and made my first post about Rory on November 27th. (I’ve written three or four posts at my blog so far on Rory).
I saw the offer yesterday at voteforrory.com to run ads in return for donations to the Canucks foundation and emailed the site last night and negotiated my ad. It went live around 11 pm ET, and as of 6 am ET today, I’ve already had 102 hits on my blog coming directly from http://www.voteforrory.com !!
I paid $40 to have the ad run for two weeks.
Here’s my ad at http://www.voteforrory.com:
I’ve seen Rory play a number of times, as I attended Games 1, 2, 5, and 7 of the Eastern Conference finals in Raleigh last year and game 6 up in Buffalo.
I was glad to donate to the Canucks charity, and I’ll post here and let everyone know how much traffic my ad generates!
