You might remember a post I made a couple of months ago about a blog that I was creating about the State College Spikes baseball team. The intention at the time was to just track the Pittsburgh Pirates draft choice to try to figure out which ones might get assigned to State College. Well that worked out so well that I decided to keep it up for the entire season.
Not surpisingly I’ve swizzled the blog a lot since I originally created it – I’ve changed the format a couple of time, added a few features, and actually renamed it “Fear the Deer” which is the team’s rally cry.
I occasionally add some editorial content but for the most part the blog is simply a collection of news stories, game reports, and box scores about the team. Even with no effort of my own to promote it, it’s generated a modicum of success:
- I’ve had over 7000 visitors to date and hope to hit 10,000 before the season ends.
- I’ve made my way to the first page of Google search results when you search for “State College Spikes”.
- WordPress.com listed me as #78 on their Blog of the Day Growing Blogs list a couple of weeks ago.
- Numerous baseball blogs have found me and included me in their links, among them are:
- “The Pittsbugh Lumber Company” includes me in their blogroll
- “Bucs Dugout” has me on their homepage in the Pirates Links section
- “Crawdad’s Blog” – a blog about the Pirates Hickory TN farm club has me in their blogroll
While it certainly hasn’t enjoyed the exposure my “Every Day is Valentine’s Day” exploit did, it’s really not doing all that bad – and I’m having fun doing it.