Yesterday, we got word from our corporate overlords that they were likely to test a link to one of our stories on their homepage in the near future. Today, when scanning our referrer logs, we noticed something interesting. A massively huge tidal wave of traffic from aol.com.

Just how huge was this wave of traffic? Let’s put it this way: so far today, AOL is not only the number one referrer to TechCrunch, it’s tripling the number two: Twitter. That’s just from one little link to one story on a rotating tile on the homepage. It’s fairly amazing.

I point this out of two reasons. One, to boast about this awesome power we now posses. Two, it’s a great reminder of the power of the big boys — even the ones you don’t really think about anymore. Both AOL and Yahoo still have two of the most trafficked homepages on the web. While they may have fallen out of favor with the tech elite, the so-called “normals” seem to love them. I have to assume these are also the same people that click on web ads.

So, in all seriousness, I’ll now nicely ask AOL: thank you sir, may we have another?

[image: Universal Pictures]

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Authors: MG Siegler

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