It has been an exciting couple of days. One of my posts, “7 Office Games You Can Play with Your Co-workers“, was promoted to the front page of a nice little site called I Am Bored. 15,000 visitors later, I am happy to report my site stayed up for the entire time and I learned about a new source of traffic.

What is I Am Bored?

This is a fun social bookmarking site that has more of feel of Fark than it does Digg. The appearance of the site is simplistic and easy to navigate. They have tons of content to keep you entertained.

Notable Site Features for Marketers

One thing to mention about the I Am Bored site is they publicly display the number of visitors that click on the item. Also display is the number of times the item has been favorited, email and a user rating.

Traffic Analysis From Being on the Front Page

I must say I expected DreamHost to drop the ball again and have my site down during the crucial first hours of being promoted to the front page. The site did lag for a bit, but it was still accessible. The first day, traffic was strong with over 12,000 visitors from that site and a miscellaneous 2,000 visitors from other sources.

Monetizing on the I Am Bored Audience

Once the traffic was flowing I decided to add a 336×280 AdSense block to see if I could squeeze some clicks from these visitors. I was pessimistic many people who have been on the home page of Digg know that diggers do not click on ads. I was able get XXX number of clicks netting about $31 in click revenue. Not to bad for social traffic.

Loads of Inbound Links

Actually, not really. Of the 15,000 visitors, I received four alternative sources of traffic. Those accounted for about 400 clicks. There were no links found in blog posts to help my Technorati rank. I didn’t find any additional saves for del.icio.us either.

The I Am Bored crowd is welcome in my house any time. The came storming in and didn’t break anything. They left some money on the table, and told a few friends.