my web site traffic

Recently my spam stock web site was mentioned in the Wall Street Journal.  That kind of publicity is quite exciting.  Even though I had a link from their site, and full mention of the web address was in the article, the traffic of my web site went up by only a few  hundred viewers that day.   I had a similar experience with being in Forbes magazine.

For all the big press that the web site has received, nothing has even come close to matching the traffic I received from blogs and site lists such as boingboing.net , digg.com and gorillamask.net. 

What does all of this mean?  I am not sure.  Maybe the average Joe or Sally that reads such magazines and newspapers doesn't care enough to click?  Maybe they get enough of the information from the article and don't need to visit the web site?  Maybe traditional media isn't as relevant as it used to be for eyeballs, advertising, etc.

On another note, fully half the traffic to this blog are now RSS readers (bloglines, onfolio, magpierss, etc) or search engines indexing the site.  For whatever reason, google loves my blog and I show up quite well.  MSN is indexing quiet a bit now too.  Yahoo still only looks at a page or two.  It takes a bit over a week for my post to show up in the index, but I am often in the first page of search results for the pertinent keywords.