Thank you, Six Revisions
As you may remember from my blog entry a couple days ago, I recently created a javascript animation library. In the first day, it received over 2,000 visitors, thanks to StumbleUpon. After that, it was already on the first page of the google results for ‘javascript animation ‘library’ and the ads were doing quite well. Now, to put the cherry on this delicious sunday, someone at Six Revisions didn’t do their homework, and used the google search results to write a top ten list!
That’s right, after the initial wave of stumbleupon traffic subsided, I noticed from my Google Analytics that I was receiving a significant amount of referral traffic from this page. I investigated to find that my brand-new virtually unused javascript library was featured second in the list of “10 Impressive JavaScript Animation Frameworks.” Holy crap!
Even Dan the weatherman felt this was big enough to twitter me with the words “Epic Win.”
It turns out, whoever wrote this article really didn’t do too much research. Though my framework is definitely good, it is by no means ready to be second best material. There are still so many bugs I need to work out before it’s this good, but I certainly appreciate the traffic!
This is what they had to say about my library
Created by web developer Kevin Dolan, jsAnim is a JavaScript animation framework for creating high-impact and slick animation sequences for web interfaces. Crafted with standards and best practices in mind, jsAnim allows you to create stunning animation effects without sacrificing web accessibility of your web projects.
Sounds nice, but oddly familiar… And nicely they also linked to my DesignByDolan site, which has also been receiving a lot of traffic thanks to this article. This is really doing wonderful for me.
Though, it’s not all fun and games. I was reading through the comments, and I noticed that not all SR users were satisfied. Dan says:
This list is bizarre. Glimmer is not a framework, it’s a GUI tool for implementing jQuery effects.
Scripty2 reference doesn’t make note that it is the second version of Scriptaculous.
Has the author even tried these tools? Or are they just randomly posting crap?
I’m leaning towards the latter, Dan. But in response to this negativity, Justin responds in twitter fasion:
@Dan… Chill man, no one likes you
Probably true, though I think Dan is the only one to see the truth here…
All that being covered, some SEO news:
The Kevin Dolan is now on the first page for google searches of ‘kevin dolan’. It is on the bottom, but still, we are moving up in strides. Also, DesignByDolan is on the third page…
If you search for ‘javascript animation library’, jsAnim is not only on the first page, it is the fourth result, beating out $fx, the library which I have found to be really just awesome. Though, I’m not going to link to it, to help my own selfish SEO whims.