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I'll tell you what's interesting. This blog. It's from a fairly unsexy uptime monitoring company, whose services I've got little interest in. If the blog was just company updates ("we've got a new server" or "20% off all packages this week") it'd get very little traffic. But I've got it in my RSS reader and it hits the social news sites every other day with well-written and often humorous observations on tech.

Lots of people have heard of Pingdom who ordinarily wouldn't; it just goes to show how a little effort making your website something more than just a corporate website can go a long way.



Absolutely. And to ask the next question: how many people signed up (and paid) for their service because they heard about it via the blog?


At least this one. I've been trialing it and am planning to sign up at the end of the trial. The service works well.




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