Comments on: What Did You Learn From These Blog Traffic Challenge Entrants Results?

By: George Manty

George Manty — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:31:12 +0000

Ooops, I forogt to answer your questions Andrea.

I find it hard to choose a category on Digg as well.

There are a couple of Digg plugins you can use, just search for “digg plugin wordpress” and you will find a lot of them. Personally, I use an all encompassing widget for all the major social sites. It’s called addthis.com.

I have stumbleupon to bring in decent traffic. I hope to talk about it more sometime. Maki over at doshdosh.com has several good posts about using stumbleupon for traffic and John Wesley wrote a good post on how he used stumbleupon. I don’t recall the links off the top of my head.

Hope that helps,
George

By: kalpesh

kalpesh — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 18:48:41 +0000

I guess in the end it is content which counts.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:49:49 +0000

George,

I have yet to check out StumbleUpon, but I find that every time I digg one of my posts, I have to put it in ‘offbeat news’ and that is even a stretch – they dont have any categories related to marketing – do the others?

Also, do you know how to add the digg widget next to a blog post, so people can see how many times it’s been dugg..

Bottom line – can you squeeze a little more info out of these people ??

Thanks for posting this great info!

By: Andy Martin

Andy Martin — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:54:15 +0000

Ya every blogger should keep it as their basic principle. These things really help in increasing traffic.

By: George Manty

George Manty — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:40:12 +0000

Simnonne,

You are welcome. It was actually quite enlightening.

By: George Manty

George Manty — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:38:36 +0000

Wow Leroy,

I didn’t realize social networking had such a strong impact on your blog.

By: Simonne

Simonne — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:05:39 +0000

Thank you for posting the results and for organizing this challenge. It is interesting to see how everybody did, as there is always something to learn from such projects.

By: Leroy Brown

Leroy Brown — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:37:36 +0000

I re-realized the power of social networking. My numbers were off 85% when using the first 15 days of June vs the first 15 days of March. Why? No Digg love – ouch. Take that out of the equation, and my stats were up.. but unfortunately life doesn’t work that way.