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It has been quite a year for me. I have been on TV, worked behind the scenes on a nationally televised commercial, and my blog, Dead Rooster, was featured on CNN.

And, now, yesterday, September 23rd (which happened to be my birthday), I reached a personal goal I set for myself when I started this blog on January 1st 2008: To make the Alexa Top 100K within the first year of operation. And, I did it with three months to spare!

Alexa rates web sites according to their popularity based on the amount of traffic they receive. You can see these rankings on every web site you visit by downloading the Alexa toolbar (which only takes up a tiny amount of space at the bottom of your browser):

Yahoo is #1, Google is #2, Ebay is #18, Amazon is #32; and trailing slightly behind is Dead Rooster at #98,727.

Haha! Okay, so I’m not Amazon dot com yet.

You may not think that the top 100,000 most popular web sites on the net is anything special, but when you consider there are literally BILLIONS of web sites, it is quite a big deal to a lowly blogger like me.

Thanks to everyone for visiting Dead Rooster and helping me to hit my goal!

Next stop, the top 50K.

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The recent Silence The Rooster ad campaign to promote the popular sleep aid, AmbienCR, has proved to be a wild success—not necessarily for the company selling the drug—but for completely unrelated humor-oriented blogs such as the one you are reading right now.

See, bloggers, such as myself, will latch on to nearly anything that might bring extra exposure without actually having to do any real work. Because, let’s face it, writing interesting content is hard. So, when a dim-witted ad campaign comes along featuring an obnoxious rooster, I’m all over it.

To give you an idea of how effective this “easy exposure” technique can be, let me show you the noticeable jump in traffic I received after writing a simple related article:

DeadRooster.com’s average daily traffic before ad campaign: 1

DeadRooster.com’s average daily traffic after ad campaign: 265,789

Ha! OK, I was only kidding. Dead Rooster’s average daily traffic before the ad campaign was around 1,000 visitors per day and after taking advantage of the Silence The Rooster ad running on TV’s across America (The ad does not run outside the US), I’ve pulled in about 5,500 extra visitors per day for the past three days. That’s more than a 600% increase!

Of course, after the ad stops running and people lose interest, I will once again be forced to write something interesting in order to inspire traffic; a welcome concept, I’m sure, to my regular readers.

So, this will be the last crappy post for a while—from now on, it’s back to the chain-fighting Elvis impersonators and cream-corn-filled llamas you’ve come to expect here at Dead Rooster.

Note: After I get back into the humor grove for a while, and you’ve forgiven me for pimping my blog out to the easy search-engine keyword grab, I will explain how I was able to steal the top spot on the front page of several search engines for the most popular key phrase at the time. It was pure genius. LOL

By the way, I know it’s Silence “Your” Rooster and not Silence “The” Rooster, but there’s a lot of traffic I’m missing out on…

Have you ever had to run for your life while being chased by a radioactive ape? Well, if you have, then you know exactly how out-of-breath you’re likely to be from laughing after you visit the BRAND NEW HumorBloggers.com

Today is the grand opening!

The site is dedicated to the top 50 funniest blogs on the net and, yes, Dead Rooster is one of them. Ha ha! Take THAT Bill O’Reilly!

I was extremely honored when Chelle B asked if she could add Dead Rooster to the list. In addition to maintaining HumorBloggers.com, Chelle also authors The Offended Blogger, which is consistently the highest ranked humor blog at BlogCatalog; she’s been up there for so long that I’ve given up trying to catch her. At any rate, she knows her humor and I know that HumorBloggers.com is going to be a great success.

Now get on over there and check it out! CLICK HERE to go there right now!

WHOA! I almost forgot about the kangaroo! How about we turn it into a contest? The best comment I get explaining what one should do with a kangaroo filled with creamed corn wins 500 entrecard points. How’s that? *Contest Expired* Winner is…Jenn! (read her comment below and you’ll see why. LOL Hilarious! ).

You can also Jump-the-Shark by voting for Dead Rooster at a similar-sounding, but different site: Humor-Blogs.com