Best strategy to promote a single web page

[petermas]

I was impressed a while ago by this page
http://www.howtofoldashirt.net/ and the amount of traffic that a simple idea like this can bring in.

I tried to re-create something similar on my website
http://www.annamariavolpi.com/how_to_eat_spaghetti.html

My page is far from being as clean as the japanese one, (and I would like a comment on my page), but my main question is: What is the best way to promote a funny single page? Articles, nesgroups, press-release, etc ?

Many thanks in advance.
Pietro

[radu]

Sorry but how do you know the ammount of trafic this page gets. Indeed, it has a good PR, but the traffic ??

Thanks,
Radu

[InfoMiner]

Such pages mostly get traffic from word of mouth. Only then do people voluntarily add the links to their sites, blogs, forums, etc.

I used to have a small page back in 1999, it was a single page hosted on a "free host" with a small Flash on it.

This might sound unbelievable, but I have no ways of proving it:

I hit my first 1,000,000 unique hits in 2 months with absolutely NO advertising. I was much younger then, thus I did not use the potential at all.

[petermas]

I think you are right regarding word of mouth. In fact I found this page on a blog a couple of months ago. I remember also reading about the numbers, I don't remember now: Judging by Alexa they may have 1500 to 2000 visitors/day.

I will try to disseminate my page around and see what happens.
Thank you for the hint.
Pietro

[dburdon]

Seems like how to fold a shirt is doing rather well on Alexa:
http://www.alexa.com/site/site_stats/signup?range=1y&style=c&submitted=true&mode=graph&site_url=howtofoldashirt.net

If my eyes don't deceive me it looks like 70k hits a day.

[Mister Tut]

Some ideas:

1. Join several social bookmarking groups like http://del.icio.us and post site under several different tags at each (eg: funny; spaghetti; food; pasta; cooking; etc.).

2. Try to get a third party to submit the page to www.boingboing.net or other meme-of-the-day type sites, like FARK

3. Know any bloggers? Enlist their help.

These are good guerrilla methods to get word-of-mouth happening.

[greeneagle]

Every onece in a while you can fall into a well, or find a "bird nest" on the ground!

Here's an existing related thread:
http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=48331

Viral marketing usually happens by "word of mouth or fingertips".

There is just not too many other things you can do to promote a one page Site on-line and expect high serps in a competitive arena. The down side of those shooting stars is they usually have a very short life span.

It MUST be a multimedia experience that commands attention at some extreme.

at some extreme.
at some extreme.
at some extreme.

Ken

[delstu]

why so much empty space at the bottom of the page?