Archive for Social Media
Written on January 24th, 2009 at 05:01 am by Darren Rowse
The Day 250,000 People Showed Up At My Blog: Case Study
Wednesday was the biggest day of traffic that I’ve seen to any of my blogs for a very long time (perhaps ever). I mentioned this on twitter yesterday and had a few followers request that I write up how it happened – so here’s a quick recap/timeline on the 24 hours that saw around a [...]
Written on January 17th, 2009 at 09:01 am by Darren Rowse
How to Use Facebook to Promote Your Blog
In this guest post, Steve Schwartz, a professional LSAT tutor, discusses how he has used Facebook to promote his Ace the LSAT blog and create a community of readers.
Your blog’s readers probably have Facebook profiles already, and making your own Facebook profile is easy enough. Aside from allowing you to create a profile and connect [...]
Written on January 9th, 2009 at 08:01 am by Darren Rowse
Add Social Proof to Your Blog With TweetBacks
In this post Dan Zarrella tells us about a new tool he’s created for bloggers – TweetBacks – a tool that allows you to add instances where your blog has been mentioned on Twitter to your blogs comments section.
A few days ago, I created the first implementation of TweetBacks (see the WP plugin here), which [...]
Written on December 19th, 2008 at 12:12 am by Darren Rowse
Develop a Twitter Landing Page
Over the weekend I created a landing page for my Twitter account.
I got the idea off Laura Fitton (@pistachio) when a guest post on TwiTip highlighted what she’d done with her own Who is @pistachio landing page.
What is a Twitter Landing Page?
In short – a twitter landing page is a page on your blog or [...]
Written on December 4th, 2008 at 07:12 am by Darren Rowse
Beginners Guide to Sphinn
This is a guest post by Deanna deBara from Sugarrae.com.
Recently, I did my first guest post (ever) over at Remarkablogger. I got such great feedback on “A Beginner’s Guide to Twitter“, I decided to follow up with a guide on a site even more important to those in SEO – Sphinn, the social media site [...]
Written on December 2nd, 2008 at 12:12 am by Darren Rowse
Characteristics of Traffic Generating Posts
When I set TwiTip up look after itself over the weekend (I set up a few posts to go live at specific times) I wasn’t expecting it to be a huge weekend of traffic. The posts were good – but there were less than during the week and past history shows weekends are quiet (particularly [...]
Written on November 18th, 2008 at 12:11 am by Darren Rowse
Search, Social and Direct Traffic – [TRAFFIC ANALYSIS]
This morning I spent a little time doing some analysis (using Google Analytics) of the traffic coming into my main blog – Digital Photography School.
My analysis was stimulated by a question from a reader who in response to last week’s two posts examining the place of Digg and Social Bookmarkingin a bloggers priorities asked me:
What [...]
Written on November 13th, 2008 at 12:11 am by Darren Rowse
Why Bloggers Should Consider Social Bookmarking Sites Like Digg
Earlier in the week I published a post titled Skip Digg: Not All Traffic is Created Equal. In that post I mentioned that I’d follow up the post with some arguements FOR using Digg by a top Digg user. Today social media expert Muhammad Saleem tackles that very topic.
You will probably be surprised to read [...]
Written on November 10th, 2008 at 12:11 am by Darren Rowse
Skip Digg: Not All Traffic is Created Equal
Today I want to publish the first half of a ‘debate’. The topic is whether bloggers should promote their content on Digg. In this post Josh Klein argues the negative. Later in the week I’ve asked a big Digg users to tackle the flip side.
If you’re promoting on Digg, you’re losing your blog money.
The web [...]
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