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Viral Gold!

As an Etsy shop owner , I keep a watchful eye on my stats.  I notice immediately when views start to rise and fall.  I'm convinced that the whole of the internet works in waves and moves around the entire earth - like during a football game, eventually coming back to your particular spot.  There are certain days and certain hours I feel off the grid and then all of a sudden I'm back.  I noticed it years ago when I mapped the sales from my Yahoo! store on a large wall map of the United States. It seems to me that the same might be true on Etsy. Of course I have no way of proving this, but statistically speaking, an argument could be made if one were to forensically analyze all that information. But again, I can see it with a wall map. I noticed one day that my views shot up from about 75 to well over 400. I got several orders within a half hour. Then 500 and 600 views. Orders started to cha-ching all day and into the night. I went behind the scenes and looked at my traffic s