Ah, the amazing world of backlinking.

Last week I participated in the Freelancer Survey held by the excellent Freelance Switch site. This survey (which is still going on, just click this or the logo to have your try) aims to compile the collective knowledge for the benefit of freelancers everywhere, and gosh, as big as that sounds, they even give away some prices, like a desksitter screengazer dream the wii. Anyway, it took, just as promised, about 10 minutes. After that I put the logo in my sidebar, and then sort of forgot about it.

Until this morning. Sipping coffee, doing my regular blogs, getting my brains to work, I also went through my Google Analytics, and wow, the visitor count had skyrocketed from an average of 10 to a stunning 84! All of a sudden the Himalaya showed up in my usual Dutch mountain graphs. What happened? Did a busload of fans crash down on my site? Did I write something funny, remarkable, unique (all as in stupid)? Well duh, brilliance as ever a faraway dream, as it turned out Freelance Switch had linked back to my site on it's blog. I got a present, a reward for the effort so to speak, that's what happened.

So how does it feel you may wonder, visited so many times? Well, I had a good laugh. And, as important, I finally had a not so beside the point subject for this blog. That's something, not?

Tags: Freelance, Internet communities, Ambition