Caffeine Spot

All about the buzz

33rd fastest in the world!

Upward trend

We noticed incoming traffic from a link titled "Growing Blogs". To our surprise (and delight), Caffeinespot was WordPress's 33rd fastest growing blog worldwide on June 16th!

Not bad for a little coffee shop in Seapoint.

If you're a Cape Town based blogger, you can be part of it by mentioning Caffeinspot in your blog. In return, we'll hook you up a free buzzy coffee and jumbo muffin, add you to the blogroll, and try send some link-love your way.

Dewet, a Cape Town programmer, did an excellent roundup of Barcamp Capetown. Thanks for the Caffeine mention Dewet… we look forward to meeting you for that muffin and coffee!

June 18, 2006 - Posted by Dubble | winners | | 14 Comments

14 Comments »

  1. Congrats! That's really impressive.

    I saw Caffeine in town by the Moulin Rouge… is it the same owners?

    Comment by Joao | June 18, 2006

  2. [...] Caffeine Spot [...]

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  3. [...] Thanks to Dave's underground microbranding strategy, Caffeine has shot up WordPress' fastest growing blog stats to 33rd globally. Excellente. I'm particularly stoked 'cos their shop is a few metres away from my office (which I share BTW with a brilliant German designer Kristoph with a wicked sense of humour – so if you ever need a website designed or fresh brand face he's deep in the trust network!).. so I'll be delighted if it attracts a rockin' crew because I'm missing being in the heart of town. [...]

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  4. Hi Joao – yeah, there are currently 3 Caffeine’s – one in Town, (near Moulin Rouge), one in Hout Bay, and the newest one opened a few weeks ago in Sea Point.

    Comment by Eric | June 20, 2006

  5. WOW!!!

    Comment by Eric | June 20, 2006

  6. i wasn’t sure whether there really was an award for fastest growing blog on wordpress or whether this was a late april fools joke, but happy to report it really is true.

    investigation revealed the following:

    #33
    Caffeine Spot

    All about the buzz

    Comment by Eric | June 20, 2006

  7. [...] Max flipping the globe upside down and getting Cape Town on top and in the middle of everything. Let me know when your schedule allows for a chat at Caffeine. [...]

    Pingback by » A Web AddiCT(s); view of BarCamp Cape Town (day 1) » Blog Archive » A Group of Web AddiCT(s); | June 20, 2006

  8. [...] Caffeinespot was ranked 33rd fasted growing blog in the world by WordPress last week. Adrian Rossouw – Alpha Geek, developer of Drupal declared Caffeine “the unofficial hang out of the web cogniscenti“. We’re all really stoked, and now the shop is having WiFi installed (as per cogniscenti demand)! [...]

    Pingback by Dave Duarte’s Journal » Blog Archive » Presenting lessons from Barcamp | June 20, 2006

  9. What? only CT based bloggers benefit? What about us Jozi boys and girls who want a piece of the action!?

    Comment by Mike Stopforth | July 5, 2006

  10. [...] Blogs are dialogues – they invite conversation and participation from readers. This empowering, transparent approach to journalism has revolutionised the make-up of the web. It’s quickly evolving from a collection of static web pages into a vibrant, pulsating conversation driven by the consumer. Caffeine understood the inherent potential of such a platform and took the plunge by creating a simple, free (emphasis on free) blog using http://www.wordpress.com. The resultant creation is located at http://www.caffeinespot.wordpress.com. But just having a blog is not enough – you need to generate conversation and buzz to attract consumers. So Caffeine drew alongside some prominent Cape Town bloggers – Dave Duarte, Jon Cherry, Max Kaizen, Rafiq Phillips being just some of them – to develop a strategy for creating buzz. They decided to incentivise bloggers to talk about Caffeine in their blogs by offering a free coffee and muffin to any who did so. It wasn’t long before Caffeine was enjoying some friendly ‘linkage’, and WordPress.com reported on 16 June this year that Caffeine Spot was the 33rd fastest growing blog in the world! [...]

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  11. Hey Mike, stop by the shop when you’re next in Slaapstad and we’ll give you a cuppa with such a kick that’ll make you think you’re back in GP:-)

    Comment by caffeinespot | July 10, 2006

  12. Very impressive. Keep up the great work!

    Comment by energy_guru | August 18, 2006

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    Comment by freeeeringtones | August 18, 2007

  14. I would like to see a continuation of the topic

    Comment by Maximus | December 20, 2007


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