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When beginning a new blog, it can be very demoralizing having no readers. You are writing great content, but no body is seeing it. However, the game is changing now. Through the use of social media, you can attract readers to your blog with your first article. Social media sites allowed me to go from zero page views to 190,000 page views in just three months.
Through the use of social media, Newest on the Net has grown from 6,300 unique visitors in September (NOTN’s first month), to 8,200 unique visitors in October, to 31,200 unique visitors in November.
In this series, I want to share how I used social media sites to jumpstart Newest on the Net’s blog traffic. This series will describe how I used social media to go from zero page views in September to over 190,000 page views in just three months.
I want to share with you the power of social media. I want to share with you what social media sites you can use to catapult your blog. This series will focus on the following social media sites:
- StumbleUpon - Add me as your StumbleUpon friend. My profile name is epsilon97.
- Mixx - Add me to you Mixx Friends. My Mixx profile name is fpeters.
- MyBlogLog - Join MyBlogLog Community.
- Bloggingzoom - Add me as your Bloggingzoom friend. My bloggingzoom name is fredpeters.
- Bumpzee - Join my bumpzee community.
- Twitter - Start following me on Twitter. My Twitter name is Fred_Peters.
- Sphinn - Add me as your Sphinn friend. My Sphinn name is fredpeters.
- Pownce - Add me s your Pownce friend.
- Facebook - Add me a Facebook friend.
- Del.icio.us - Add me to you Del.icio.us network. My del.icio.us name is epsilon97.
- Any other social sites that I decide to cover.
This series will (i) give an overview of these social media sites, (ii) describe the most effective ways to generate traffic using these social media sites, and (iii) give you a step-by-step approach to begin your social media jumpstart.
Please leave a comment sharing your social media profiles so that we can add each other as friends.
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16 comments ↓
Looking forward to the series!
I’m in the process of checking some of your suggested sites out as I type
This is looks like it’s going to be juicy! I’m not sure I can stand the anticipation.
Fred, when I saw the title in my reader, I can’t help but click on it. I’m definitely looking forward to the series!
Cheers,
Ellesse
Looks great. I look forward to reading it. For stumbleupon - link to just username.stumbleupon - the one you link to gave me an error - asking that i login.
I am glad that you are all looking forward to this series. I hope to not disappoint you.
@Matt - Thanks for telling me about the bad stumbleupon link. I have fixed it.
Looking forward to the series. Being proactive I SU’ed, Mixx’ed, BZ’ed, and Bumpzee’d you so I’m ready
I’ll be really looking forward to this series. I’ve seen you active on many social media sites. I agree, social media can propel a blog to vast heights within a very short period of time. I’ve had some success with SU, but other than that I haven’t been able to leave my mark on the social media sphere…
Your post made me feel like want to join these social media sites.
I’m surprised that you didn’t mention slashdot or digg. Slashdot is the original social media site, and digg is one of the most famous.
The reason that I did not mention Digg or Slashdot is that I do not think that they are good sources of traffic for the average blogger. Digg requires you to be very, very active in order to have any power to promote your own content.
I’ll be interested in reading what you write on this topic, Fred. I’m sure it will be very educational for most of us. Can’t wait.
I’m going to check out MIXX as I’ve found that digg is very clique-ish. I still go to it for news and whatnot and I still submit on the off chance that it will work but so far, only one post of mine was dugg to the front page and that wasn’t even for my own website! Duh.
Looking forward to this. It’s just I need. Thanks!
[…] It’s a blog, so after reading the About page (most of which I’ve copied and pasted above), I headed straight for the first post, StumbleUpon - A Blogger’s Secret Weapon, and I agreed with it before even getting past the title. StumbleUpon was, for me, a kind of mental note that got ignored. For a while, it was that social media site that I kept meaning to play with, but didn’t really see the value in it. Anyway, I’m not reviewing SU here, but let’s just say I had a moment of clarity a month or two ago and now realize the incredible value of StumbleUpon to a blogger. Fred gives a good description of StumbleUpon and why you should use it, points out where you can find him on the site (critical thinking there, Fred), follows with a 4 step guide to promoting your blog articles with the site, and finishes with more follow-up resources than you can swallow. It’s a good read and definitely bookmarkable [Shut up, Firefox spell-checker! I’m MAKING it a word]. I liked it enough to stumble it, and that’s what’s important. If you’re thinking of heading over there for this article, check out his series-starter, From Zero to 190,000 Page Views In Just 3 Months. […]
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