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Why We Are Here => Traffic => Topic started by: littleman on July 11, 2013, 11:39:02 PM

Title: Do you think an Easter-egg like this will get much link juice?
Post by: littleman on July 11, 2013, 11:39:02 PM
http://www.vogue.co.uk/

Do: Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, A, A, A, A
Title: Re: Do you think an Easter-egg like this will get much link juice?
Post by: ergophobe on July 12, 2013, 01:29:08 AM
How do I do Up Up etc? are you swiping on a tablet?

Title: Re: Do you think an Easter-egg like this will get much link juice?
Post by: littleman on July 12, 2013, 01:44:31 AM
Heh, I'm using a keyboard, the up & down arrows.
Title: Re: Do you think an Easter-egg like this will get much link juice?
Post by: Zwart on July 12, 2013, 11:05:19 AM
Hehe keep adding A's.

It doesn't work w/ Firefox of course if you have search-as-you-type enabled
Title: Re: Do you think an Easter-egg like this will get much link juice?
Post by: buckworks on July 12, 2013, 01:54:35 PM
Fun! :)
Title: Re: Do you think an Easter-egg like this will get much link juice?
Post by: ergophobe on July 12, 2013, 04:49:16 PM
ahh... I think it was a latency issue b/c of satellite. If I do as above and then wait long enough, I get the easter egg.

will it go viral? In only a very minor way. It's cute, not "must post to Facebook now". I'm guessing that in terms of ROI they wasted their money unless they had some in-house intern do it.

Based on what my wife's company (I would think Vogue would be in that size range with a whole, painful procurement process that makes it impossible to get anything done cheaply) would pay for something like that on their site, not worth it.
Title: Re: Do you think an Easter-egg like this will get much link juice?
Post by: JasonD on July 13, 2013, 09:38:35 PM
It got SHITLOADS of link and general love-

EG - https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=conde%20naste%20easter%20egg

My guess is it was a bored dev at Conde Naste that installed it on all the groups site's CMS. There was some unsure execs whether to keep it or take it down (as it was on then off for a few hours when the story broke), but ultimately common sense ruled and it was allowed to stay.

It was using the Raptorize JQuery code - http://zurb.com/playground/jquery-raptorize

so the costs were 5 minutes of a bored techs time to install and probably 100 hours of execs time to decide what to do!
Title: Re: Do you think an Easter-egg like this will get much link juice?
Post by: ergophobe on July 13, 2013, 11:55:10 PM
Quote from: JasonD on July 13, 2013, 09:38:35 PM
It got SHITLOADS of link and general love-

That's just sad.