Time to show off!
Show all your fellow FTR readers what your most successful Web 2.0 marketing tactic has been thus far in your quest to drive targeted traffic to your blog.
1. If it came from an idea in the Authority Black Book, even better!
2. Be specific and include the post that got all the attention and the places you got the most traffic from that day.
3. Only Web 2.0 type sites apply: Digg, Reddit, Netscape, YouTube/Google videos, StumbleUpon, Wikipedia, etc.
Finally, your best day is your best day. Even if you’ve just started out, tell us what’s worked for you so far and get a link to your site so everyone can check you out!
Leave a comment below or post about your best Web 2.0 traffic tactic on your blog and trackback this post.
(This idea was unabashedly stolen from Darren Rowse at ProBlogger!)
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Rena Klingenberg 06.03.07 at 9:33 am
Jewelry Display Ideas is my Authority Site Center website that gets a swarm of traffic from my Squidoo lenses every day. The most popular post, Tutorial for a No-Sew Ribbon Jewelry Pouch has also been submitted to and voted for on Netscape.
Another article, How to Start a Jewelry Business (on a separate website), also receives a lot of traffic from being submitted and voted up on Netscape.
Jack Humphrey 06.03.07 at 3:09 pm
Rena is also the Queen of Squidoo, in case you didn’t know!
With this one Web 2.0 strategy guide for just one of the popular 2.0 sites I have watched members of ASC bring down some serious traffic and increase their search engine rankings.
Rena rocks for putting this guide together!
She has a couple more just like it at ASC.
Chris Stirling 06.03.07 at 4:18 pm
My Blog Log has been one of my favourite sites that I have found since I found FTR. The communities in there are great and the stats reports are awesome. It has only been a few days but from MyBlogLog.com I have been getting close to 100 views a day - I can’t wait to see what happens when I get running at full speed!
Paul Sayer 06.03.07 at 6:48 pm
Outdoor Living Authority is my Authority Site Center site. I have only been postng to it for 7 weeks but it is getting great traffic thanks to ASC and the Web 2.0 strategies.
My biggest day was after submitting 10 Tips for Small Front Yard Design to various Web 2.0 sites - 1800 visitors.
Traffic came mainly from Netscape and StumbleUpon, with a surprising amount from Reddit. I still get a very steady stream of visitors (600-800) to that post from StumbleUpon.
Peter Lenkefi 06.03.07 at 7:19 pm
My site gets traffic from various web2 resources. I have learnt about these social media sites from the Authority Black Book.
Here they are:
http://YouTube.com
http://SpicyPage.com
http://PlugIM.com
http://MyBlogLog.com
http://Netscape.com
http://Reddit.com
http://StumbleUpon.com
Julia 06.03.07 at 11:20 pm
I really love browsing so I go through MyBlogLog a lot and get people to link exchange or guest post on my blogs. That way you don’t just go in an comment spam, you actually network — that’s what Web 2.0 is really about isn’t it?
Ken Johnstone 06.04.07 at 1:39 am
For the 1st 3 weeks of May, we’d had a steady, but low level of daily visitors. (Google seems to have got confused by some of the changes we’ve made to this site recently, and has most of our newest web pages in its “supplemental” index. This means pages previously ranked page 1 on Google just don’t appear anywhere! We’re working on it..)
In the meantime, Web 2.0 Marketing strategies are bringing us almost as many visitors as Google used to.
Here are two notable successes:
Home Recording - The Essentials - Part 1
On May 22, this set the record for visitor growth (up over 500% on the day).
Drum Sample and Loops - The Essentials
On May 30, this post almost stole the daily record - but didn’t quite. It has been much better sustained over several days however, and is now the post receiving more visits than any other to date.
In both cases, over 90% of visitors arrive from stumbleupon.com, with remainder from Netscape, Digg, and a few others.
Cheers, Ken
marvia 06.04.07 at 1:23 pm
Jack,
Wondered if I should post again since I left a comment recently. Then thought, why not. You did invite us to ’show off’…:-)
So here goes.
My best tactic came from the Authority Black Book. Nothing new, but it appealed to my own convictions so I took it as affirmation of what I wanted to do with my blog. It emphasized an uncompromising stance on valuable content.
Next thing I got from the Authority Black Book was more places and ways to get traffic that made me a bit dizzy at first. I began to install Wordprss plugIns, and register at Social Networks.
Top plugins so far - Ultimate Tag Warrior, Akismet, ShareThis and Wordpress Blog Stats
Best 2.0 sources of traffic-
Digg
Technorati
Shoutwire
StumbleUpon
MyBlogLog
BlogHer http://www.blogher.org - is a place for women bloggers. Ladies of FTR you should sign up there and make some friends.
So my visitors started climbing steadily. On June 1st I went to check my Wordpress blog stats and thought I must have had a Spam attack. It said I had 854 visitors on May 31st. I checked Akismet, and no Spam comments. Went to Google Analytics and sure enough Google showed over 900 visitors!! This is still the most popular post on my blog having received 1056 visitors alone. My total site visits now stand at 1759, up since my previous comment. This is the article -
Rastafarian Miss Jamaica 2007- Black Women’s Hair Reloaded (http://www.marviaspanamajournal.com/92/rasta-miss-jamaica-black-hair)
At the time I wrote this post, I was doing a series on Black Women’s hair and the Bible and had no idea it would have ended up being so popular. I just wanted to add it to my collection in a series.
I feel like I’m having an ‘authority content’ moment ! Yea, yea I know..one article an authority site doth not make
but I’m working on it!
Thanks for the spotlight Jack. Oh and thanks too to some of the readers here who have faved me at Technorati (remember that experiment?? I got 14 faves).
Marvia
Ray Johnson 06.05.07 at 4:16 pm
So far my favorite web 2.0 tactic is Stumble! To think I have not even invested in purchacing vistors to come. To date they have brought me over 200 vistors and my site is still farely young. Today I am trying some of the other sites out with this new list I posted and will get back to see what is the best web 2.0 marketing tool.
Vic Carrara 06.08.07 at 4:23 am
Hello Jack,
For me, the biggest discovery traffic creator is squidoo. On the 31st May
I signed and created my first lens on Self
Motivation. Being a new lens is wa ranked something like 157,001!
Using simple SEO, adding original content, and sending a small amount of traffic
there to get things rolling … today (9 days later), it is ranked 73 in How
to & Education, and 701 overall!
Google indexed Self
Motivation on the the 6th June and has me on page 3 for a very highly competitive
search term. As that was when I was ranked 7000 on Squidoo, I’d expect a steady
move to page one over the next days.
For a few hours work setting it up, plus perhaps a further two hours since
then, and at no cost, I am very impressed.
I’m certainly going to be building more lens clusters over the next months.
Kind regards,
Vic
Len Estrada 01.11.08 at 5:41 pm
This may not be considered a Web 2.0 tactic, but creating a WordPress blog alone has increased my traffic by 10-fold.
Also, landing on the front page of PlugIM brought me from #9 to #4 on page 1 of Google for my keywords.