Comments on: Social Media Marketing – Drive Traffic to Your Blog

By: Dita

Dita — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:34:47 +0000

Very new to all these but can understand the importance of it. Thank you for this great informative article.-Dita.

By: CaliforniaWeddings

CaliforniaWeddings — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:15:25 +0000

One thing I have to say about social marketing is that it’s very time consuming. Between creating Squidoo pages, posting responses on Yahoo Answers, Tweeting, Stumbling, Digging, Blogging, etc., etc., etc., all in an effort to create links to my main website, I find I have no time for creating new pages to my site. I hope eventually it’s worth the effort.

Yes, it’s true a good stumble on Stumble Upon will increase traffic immensely. But, I find it’s very fleeting, and does nothing for profit. At least, not my profit.

It seems since the explosion of social marketing, there’s way more competition for keywords now, as the community sites are ranking higher in the search results, knocking many of us into the hinterlands.

Ah, but enough of my complaining. I have to go Tweet my Squid. Time’s a wastin!

By: katrina

katrina — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:21:10 +0000

nice..good idea…me also trying..congrats….!

By: Planet Berry

Planet Berry — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:42:13 +0000

We have over 180 pages of articles on health and wellness topics at Planet Berry. How do we get these shown or looked at via this service? Looks very interesting to us.

Thank you.

By: Mike Clover

Mike Clover — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:28:14 +0000

Appreciate the information. I am new to blogging, I am a lender and wanted to educate individual about there personal credit. There is so much information out there. I found that most people had no idea what was on there credit report. So I created one of the most unique resources on the web for quality information in regards to credit reports, secure credit cards, identity theft software and quality articles. I have just trying to get the message out there. Any advice, I am running feed burner to all Blogs ?

By: Starfeeder

Starfeeder — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:38:54 +0000

I just wanted to post an update about the post I stumbled:

“I love stumbleupon, today was a pretty slow day for my blog, only 66 unique visitors before I left work. I stumbled one of my posts (no I don’t stumble them all, very selective) when I got home I had over 300 visits from stumbleupon :)

And before I hit this submit I have 438 visits, from other sources now too, not just stumble”

Anyways I just checked and I’ve gotten over 1500 visits to that single post cause of stumbleupon! And its an off-topic post too!

I love stumbleupon, but I’m never going to stumble my own post again, don’t want to risk getting banned.

By: Rich Saum

Rich Saum — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 21:52:28 +0000

Hey I’m new to all this, any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Not sure if all this internet marketing is really going to work. But I’ll keep trying. maybe theres a better niche out there, if someone knows of any shoot me a line.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:05:02 +0000

millionface.com – sorry to have linked to something that you’ve obviously done so much research into and understand better than the rest of us.

How about you write a post with something new then and shoot me a link so we can be dazzled by your own wisdom on the topic?

By: millionface.com

millionface.com — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 09:01:49 +0000

hi Darren.
I read Maki’s post. It explains the usual, nothing new. The points he listed are already beaten to death everywhere, so not anything more for me to learn.
Sorry to disappoint you.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 08:04:48 +0000

It works!!

I own a small Blog-network and can vouch for the social-marketing method. In less than 5 months i have 50% of my visitors or over 500.000 hits a month coming from social networks!!

By: CB

CB — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:40:31 +0000

Hey,

Do you guys think there is a role for memetics to play in this area?

By: Hot Librarian

Hot Librarian — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:37:16 +0000

Thanks for this link, I have been futzing around trying to figure out how to make the copious amount of available social media work for me… this may help.

By: Jeremy Steele

Jeremy Steele — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:56:32 +0000

“Is it ethical to submit your own stories?”

Kevin Rose does it :P

By: Elliott

Elliott — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:55:31 +0000

Ok, so I have tried the social network and bookmark sites and have one big question:

Is it ethical to submit your own stories?

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:38:20 +0000

Sometimes all it takes is on kick-arse article to get you noticed. Get some viewers to head over to your site and if you have quality content they’ll stick around.

By: bocah

bocah — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:53:51 +0000

hmm….. i Agree wuth you. Social bookmark is very-very traficcking in my blog :)

By: * MISS UNIVERSE

* MISS UNIVERSE — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:00:01 +0000

The only problem with traffic from a Digg homepage is that it is not often quality traffic.

Some members Digg without even visiting the site. Many Web trackers offer TIME SPENT ON PAGE per visitor, analysis. What is problematic is the extremely short amount of time those visitors who do visit – remain. Also the return rate is low.

In terms of Reddit – they do not even link directly – they use a redirect link, thus depriving sites of valuable backlinks.
Netscape use to be a valuable backlink, but with the latest domain name change for their social site, the link value has been taken away

It does appear the Stumbleupon will bring a flow of occasional traffic for a period after the buzz has subsided.

But it is good to get those additional backlinks with wordy anchor text – unless Google decides to filter out any impact from those sites – they do have the potential to give an extra push in the SERPs

By: Michael Woo

Michael Woo — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:12:59 +0000

It’s a great article :) I’m sure that she got the benefits :D congrats to her..

By: Blog Opinion

Blog Opinion — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 07:00:12 +0000

Wow writing a feature article in 20 hour, real great hard work good luck ! . Social network is the key to take your message to other bloggers.

By: maneesh

maneesh — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 05:55:46 +0000

They key part here is the “influencer profile thing”.. and that’s why among all the social bookmarkings i love stumble upon the most, imo its the easiest to create an influential profile on stumble upon more than any other…
as usual a comprehensive post by maki..