Written on November 18th, 2008 at 12:11 am by Darren Rowse

Search, Social and Direct Traffic – [TRAFFIC ANALYSIS]

Blog Promotion, Case Studies, Search Engine Optimization, Social Media 71 comments

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 September 20th, 2008 at 12:09 am by Skellie

How to Grow a Young Blog With StumbleUpon

Blog Promotion, Social Media 97 comments

Skellie wrote this post. She writes plenty more advanced blogging tips and strategies at Skelliewag.org. You can also get to know Skellie on Twitter.

It’s ironic that arguably the biggest challenges for a blogger come when they are least experienced–when their blog is just a few weeks or months old.
Any blogger will tell you that [...]

Written on September 19th, 2008 at 12:09 am by Skellie

What is the Real Value of a Social Media Visitor?

Social Media 46 comments

Skellie wrote this post. She writes plenty more advanced blogging tips and strategies at Skelliewag.org. You can also get to know Skellie on Twitter.

Bloggers are fiercely divided when it comes to deciding the value of social media traffic.
Some crave it or even become addicted to it, writing every post with an aim to hit the [...]

Written on August 1st, 2008 at 02:08 pm by Darren Rowse

How Social Media Helped Me Get Unbanned from a Social Media Site in 1 Hour and 44 Minutes

Social Media 79 comments

In my last post I wrote that I’d just discovered that StumbleUpon had banned me.
I’m happy to announce that 1 hour and 44 minutes after posting that – I was unbanned.
How did it happen? I put it down to Social Media. Here’s the story:

I had a number of people Tweet me 30 or so minutes [...]

Written on August 1st, 2008 at 12:08 pm by Darren Rowse

ProBlogger is Banned from StumbleUpon

Social Media 103 comments

This story has been updated at the bottom of this post.
This morning a number of readers have emailed or tweeted me to let me know that when they try to bookmark a post on ProBlogger that it leads them to a page saying that ProBlogger has been banned from StumbleUpon (thaks to @Fussypants on Twitter [...]

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