Not mine. Here is the story…

I have a site about MacBooks I had quickly thrown up (it’s a .com domain). I used to be getting a few visitors every day from one long tail keyword from MSN but those few visitors were not converting. I thought, to hell with it, and decided to pull a little stunt.

I redirected the domain to an eBay page of search for “macbook” with my affiliate id embedded.  Surpsire, MSN didn’t stop sending traffic. Not many but a few visitors every day. And only today, I checked the stats. Watch:

(hint: I intentionally narrowed down the spaces using GIMP to make the screenshot fit better.)

Now, my affiliate network wouldn’t tell me what exactly I sold so it could be something else the user bought after having visited that page, but it is very likely that it was a MacBook. It took me about 107 visitors to make a sale so that’s a convertion rate of roughly 1%.

The traffic trend seems to be declining now. Still, a funny story.