Fun Competition
Happy Thanksgiving to my American cousins. Hope y'all have a nice day tomorrow.
In the spirit of the season, I thought I would run a fun competition. Some time ago, I posted my Turkey recipe:
http://hubpages.com/hub/Best-Roast-Turkey
Recently, Paul Deeds wrote an article at tech crunch suggesting hubpage traffic peaks at 3 years.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/23/hubpages/
I think this may be wrong for this hub and here is my traffic graph from publication to now:
You can see the full size image here:
http://markpknowles.com/wp-content/uploads/turkey.JPG
The traffic goes like this (maximum page views in a day):
2007 (year of publication)
Day before thanksgiving - 55 views
Day before Christmas - 138 views
2008
Day before thanksgiving - 122 views
Day before Christmas - 157 views
2009
Day before thanksgiving - 269 views
Day before Christmas - 881 views
2010
Yesterday - 304 views
As you can see - I already exceeded the max thanksgiving views the day before the day before thanksgiving. If that makes any sense.
So - here is the competition. Please try and guess the amount of page views it will get the day before thanksgiving (today) and the day before Christmas. Post your guesses here in this thread.
Whoever gets closest on each day (two prizes) gets the prize which is a hubpages related favor from me. It can be anything you like (within reason - I am not giving you my account lol), but I will help you out in some way for free.
Have fun. I will post the stats the day after the day before thanksgiving and the day after the day before Christmas, then we can see who was closest. If 2 people guess teh same - we will go with whoever posted first.Day before thanksgiving - 322 views
Day before x mas - 1647 views
good luck!
and post a pic of your made Turkey for us before x mas, OK?
cheers
Nice idea Mark
Ok here are my guesses.
Day before Thanksgiving - 570
Day before Christmas - 1800i have already taken a shot
In that case - good luck, but it is not looking good for the first one.
Before Thanksgiving - 749
Before Christmas - 3240
Good luck hope you reach itLOL
Interesting numbers.I have no clue either. It is a pleasant surprise every year - hardly anyone looks at them the rest of the time.
Day before thanksgiving = 817
Day before Christmas = 2458
Off to think about what favour I want..If you think of any ideas, let us know Gracey
Is that the favor you want if you win?
Still - you cannot win if you do not take a shot.
oh you are clever!
OK - Thanksgiving is upon us and yesterday I received 549 views according to Mr. Analytics, which makes Prettydarkhorse the winner I think.
You can claim your prize any when you like.
Happy Thanksgiving.My pleasure. You know where to find me.
Hubpages-related.
Congrats to PDH, but damn (!) I was hoping for a special favour, lol
There is still Christmas to come.
oops
me bad
congrats PDH!No worries.
Thanks - it will go in the gravy.
Nope. Where I come from you catch them at the Super Market.
Missed out on that when I was in the US.
Ate lots of wild deer but no turkeys.
I buy free range organic turkeys, because the usual stuff tastes of nothing. Same with chickens. You can't even make a decent soup out of most chickens.
congrats PDH!
Hope everyone enjoys a happy Thanksgiving!
we'll check back after Christmas, Mark, for our second chance.1780 for Christmas
Hey Mark - I just remembered this competition of yours
So who's the winner for Christmas???I had lost this thread - thanks for the bump.
Christmas Eve was 1,016 visits. Which means the winner is:
Ms Chievous
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