Nick Berg traffic surge for some bloggers

Some bloggers are experiencing traffic surges, thanks to the continued uproar (in the blogosphere, at least) over the cold-blooded murder of American Nick Berg by terrorists in Iraq.

I’ve never seen anything like the deluge that’s hit from the Nick Berg tragedy. I went from averaging 4,000 or so unique daily visits (as calculated by SiteMeter) to over 11,000 yesterday, starting with a huge surge around 9 last night. For some reason, this OTB post is the #2 result on Google for “Nick Berg.” I’ve had over 22,000 today and it’s not even 7 a.m.

Apparently, this spike is widespread. Jeff Quinton is getting so much traffic that heÂ’s worried about his bill for excess bandwidth charges. If you can help him out, please do. Kevin Aylward, which has a direct link to the video, is experiencing so much traffic that heÂ’s experiencing technical problems with the site. Kate McMillan is getting a ton of referrals and didnÂ’t even mention Berg by name in her post.

And as James at OTB says, he's not alone. It seems that since the mainstream media appears to be trying to ignore this vital story, Americans and citizens all over the world are looking online for more information about Nick Berg's violent death and the predators who summarily executed him.

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