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Monday, June 20, 2011

PROMOTE YOUR BLOG USING UNORTHODOX TECHNIQUES

So I’ve listed a few social-networking sources and will go into detail on how to use them , how to expand your reach. Be prepared to burn an hour a day or more marketing properly. You know you can stop when your website’s traffic is increasing on a daily basis without you the owner doing 1-ounce of work I call this web-traffic-nirvana. But be aware that it’s best not to leave your blog tend to itself for long periods of time. It’s kind of like your puppy , if your away from the house for too long then it will mess up your house and rip your pillows up.

Resources

1) StumbleUpon – StumbleUpon is more friendly in my opinion as well as my friends I’ve spoken to. The only gripe on it is that to have an effect you have to spend some time building your friends network.They offer a toolbar you can download to stumble sites you enjoy and would like to share.

Advantages the great part about this is that unlike Digg traffic that spikes to 30k the first day then just dies off quickly, traffic from StumbleUpon is spread out and doesn’t die out for weeks to months at a time depending on how great of an article you wrote. From my analysis StumbleUpon traffic is more quality traffic. By quality traffic I mean that the users don’t just come on to your site then leave it in under 15 seconds.
Disadvantage DO NOT submit or stumble your own website , SU has an algorithm built in for that each time you stumble your own site , it becomes less effective till no one comes on your website. What I you could do is suggest an article to your friends and it could start a chain reaction of stumbles as well as other social sites posting your article.

2) Digg – What I think – Personally I have used Digg for experimental reasons at first and have gotten the front page on my second submission , but albeit the users over there can be pretty nasty. Some comments may even offend you. That’s why I have listed them at #2. If your article is of low-quality or not helpful to the average user , expect your blog to be marked as spam and get lots of hate comments if at all any depending on how much visibility your Digg has gotten.

Advantages - It’s supposedly the number 1 option for marketing as there are over 10 million users. If you get the front page expect 20,000+ Unique Hits (overall traffic spike can last anywhere between 1-5 days then usually just dies)

Disadvantages are the users have a bounce rate of 80-90% or higher. So if you were to get like 1000 users from a Digg article expect only 50-75 to actually stick around.