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Re: 11 Ways To Drive Traffic To Your Blog

jacobmorgan — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:32:27 -0000

ya that may not be the best thing to stumble, unless its a new cool app a lot of people are going to go after. try reaching out to other folks in you area of expertise and comment/write for them. im sure u can get out there.

Re: 11 Ways To Drive Traffic To Your Blog

laurent — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:19:27 -0000

Thanks, i did feel that there was something wrong with trying to digg every single post we (its a company blog) wrote. We post stuff about our app which i don't think would be good candidate for digg/stumble but we also post thoughts/analysis that have general interest and am thinking that those posts would be good for digg

Re: 11 Ways To Drive Traffic To Your Blog

digitalextremist — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:26:10 -0000

Ah, sweet relief

Re: 11 Ways To Drive Traffic To Your Blog

jacobmorgan — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:18:56 -0000

@digital
you know i never even paid attention to the fact that the images were links, good point. link removed on the latest post and i will definitely keep that in mind, thanks for letting me know!

Re: 11 Ways To Drive Traffic To Your Blog

jacobmorgan — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:14:18 -0000

Hi Laurent,

It does work, but you have to do it sparingly. One of the first things I would do on digg is to start adding friends who digg similar things or are in similar categories. then when you digg your posts you share it with all of your friends. you may not get that many diggs but you will still get a few and a few diggs is still better then 0 diggs.

stumbleupon is also great for driving traffic and it helps people discover your site. with stumbleupon you just just select the industry and add your 2 cents and click stumble. It may not provide consistent traffic but every now and then you will large spikes and some of those people will inevitably like what you write about and come back.

one of the mistakes i made early on was trying to digg and stumble every single post i wrote, don't do that as it takes away from your credibility. digg and stumble other posts as well and every now and then throw in one of your own. the digg/stumble method is a great way to get introduced to the blog world, it;'s an easy way to get people to discover your blog.

there are other sites out there such as mixx, reddit, etc. that allow you to submit articles as well. don't go overboard with this but do use it.

Re: 11 Ways To Drive Traffic To Your Blog

digitalextremist — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:12:22 -0000

By the way. I know this is preferential, but unless the stock photography is actually larger than what you show on the page itself, having a link to the image is distracting. I keep clicking on them thinking they are links to the post itself. Maybe I am just being dumb repeatedly, but still worth mentioning - no link to image is the image is already shown at full size or nearly full size. (please?)

Re: 11 Ways To Drive Traffic To Your Blog

digitalextremist — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:52:55 -0000

Your stock photography is always really good.

Also, very good post.

Re: 11 Ways To Drive Traffic To Your Blog

laurent — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:48:45 -0000

- I'm struggling with this particular issue you're talking about - I was thinking about trying the digg/stumble upon way. Does it really work? Do you have any advice on how to do it (I'm sure a lot of people are doing exactly that so what makes you visible on top of all the 'noise')

Re: 11 Ways To Drive Traffic To Your Blog

Jacob Morgan — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:19:57 -0000

@engago
that's certainly another way to do it. titles that capture attention are quite important.

thanks for the comment

Re: 11 Ways To Drive Traffic To Your Blog

Engago Team — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:22:11 -0000

Use a title such as "Top 14 power words for email advertising and communications" and get 1,000 visitors in one day.