Web 2.0 Marketing Experiment - 2x Traffic in 2 Weeks!
Published by bruinbear on Tagged Online Marketing, Blog Update, Internet Tidbitsdel.icio.us Digg Furl Reddit Ask Google Netscape Simpy Socializer StumbleUpon Technorati Windows Live Wists Yahoo!
Since I am so new to this blogging thing, I took it upon myself over the past month to learn all that I could about marketing the LaBruinBear.com blog to the Internet community at large. Sure, I am incredibly familiar with all of the “old school” SEO and SEM tools available. I even sent out a “spammy” email, introducing the blog to virtually everyone I have ever known. But this Web 2.0 thing is a completely nascent space and definitely outside of my area of expertise. So, for the past few weeks I have had my head down reading blogs written by the preeminent Web 2.0 marketers in the space, trying to figure out the best way to grow my readership with the newly available Web 2.0 tools.
My goal is simple. Double my readership every 2 weeks by ANY MEANS NECESSARY, while monitoring and tracking each of the techniques and tools used to determine which ones are most effective. Though I will not be dedicating much blogging time to this little test (unless requested by all of you, my core audience), I will keep you posted from time to time on how my little marketing test is tracking. Perhaps with a summary at the end of the month with the results of all of my marketing tests. As it stands today, I am averaging approximately 50 UV’s per day and 25 RSS subscribers (which has actually been growing steadily over the past 2 weeks, but still much lower than anticipated). Though I am not overly confidant with using Alexa as my measuring stick for this test, Alexa is used as a measure for marketers to determine the “interestingness” of a blogging site. So, I have included my baseline Alexa ranking below I am currently the 1,402,885 most popular site online!! Lets see what we can do to improve that over the next week.
As luck would have it, I recently “Stumbled Upon” an incredibly innovative entrepreneur, name Terence Chang, who has devised a plan to increase the traffic to his blog, in short order, by creating a small, harmless script that enables his viewers to create a positive review of his blog on StumbleUpon and subsequently an Alexa redirect within a single click. MAGIC!
So, if you believe in the entrepreneurial cause and want to be part of my Web 2.0 marketing experiment, please click on the ‘Stumble Upon” image below and write a positive review of the “Tales of an entrepreneur wannabe” blog ( I am assuming of course that you will provide something favorable, since you are my core audience, though I am not trying to influence you in any way ;-). As soon as I see a meaningful change in the traffic counts as a result of my most loyal readership following these instructions, I will be sure to report back to you and give you all a BIG virtual pat you on the back for a job well.
FYI, Stumble Upon is a remarkably addictive service that provides a unique web surfing experience. You do not have to have a bachelor’s degree in search engine keywords to enjoy yourself and find interesting sites that you never knew existed.
With that, CLICK AWAY!!!!!!
July 6th, 2007 at 9:44 am
Hi.. Great job on posting this experiment.
I would recommend you do the same improvement like I did on my site. Here is what I did to reduce the dupe content and increase page clicks.
http://www.terencechang.com/2007/06/10/optimize-wordpress-blog-to-improve-my-search-engine-page-ranking-in-progress/
PS. By the way, you spell my first name as Terance. It should be Terence.
Keep up the good work. Good luck on your traffic.
July 6th, 2007 at 10:30 am
Thanks for the feedback Terence, Your input is always welcomed and appreciated. Sorry about the name problem. I knew there was going to be a problem with working on the post at 1AM!!
It has been resolved! Also, you have been added to the blogroll, which already had your name spelled correctly
July 6th, 2007 at 10:42 am
hey, nice redesign. not sure if you’ve thought about the “add this” button to go along with your sphere button, but might want to look into it — http://www.addthis.com/
- sean
July 6th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
Congrats on increasing traffic to your site. My site actually has a ton of information about increasing traffic to your blog.
July 6th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
thanks ocseo, but this is a test that am only going to start working on as of today and i will be sure to provide updates on the sites s appropriate. i took a look at your site and it seems to have great seo related information. with some opportunities that i am currently looking at, i will need to begin understanding the capabilities of the social networking channel as a means to marketing. of coure, seo will play a role, but i am fasinated by what the social networking channel provides. seems to be virtually untapped at this point. anyway, no doubt i will have many related posts on the topic so be sure to come back soon.
July 12th, 2007 at 3:39 am
Hey Steven,
Way to put it out there to self promote. I guess if you don’t do it who else will. Have you used pingoat.com? We use it after every blog post.
Question: You mentioned finding the next Google. What chances would you give yourself for finding it?
FF42
December 4th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
Good Luck, I hope you succeed. You have just been Stumbled.
January 1st, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Sounds like a pretty cool experiment. I can tell you from experience that Stumbleupon can indeed bring a nice chunk of traffic your way. As far as RSS subscriptions go, you may have some luck by holding a contest. I know that a ton of bloggers have significantly increased their RSS count by having some sort of giveaway.
January 13th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
This is a handy little script! StumbleUpon is a great place to drive more traffic to your site. I would be interested in a follow up from you after some time as to how much traffic increased with this.
March 26th, 2008 at 8:34 am
It is a good experiment. Besides StumbleUpon, Digg, Reddit, del.icio.us are also very good social websites to link to your blog or site.
May 20th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Best of luck in your experiment. be sure you can sustain the readership or you’ll just see a small boost and than a shrinkage in your RSS subscribers.
May 21st, 2008 at 5:19 am
Hey Bruinbear,
Good luck with your experiment. Something a friend of mine uses to boost his community and readership through MyBlogLog is to put up a pic of an attractive woman and then communicate and converse randomly with other members he encounters.
He swears that this works, and his blog community has in fact increased, so I guess it does?
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:48 am
Let’s be honest with ourselves. The web is filled with more scams than legit opportunities. It’s hard to find something that really does deliver what it promises. Some of the scam programs now call others scams, promising not to charge you any money. Then, at the end of the webpage, they are telling you to buy something from them. I have been looking for REAL paid survey site for a while now. I paid to join the top 5 I could find. I have to say that 3 of them were total crap. One was so-so, but it only had about 25 companies to work with. One of them was definitely head and shoulders above the others. It had everything it said it had, and it was easy to get started making money. That’s the one I’m stuck with: http://www.all-teamed-up.com/?frankinno
August 12th, 2008 at 12:37 am
Great Post. Thanks for your valuable post. I like it.
August 31st, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Cooking up financial freedom everyday. Living a dream lifestyle.
September 4th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Thank you for the great post!
September 22nd, 2008 at 4:23 am
web 2.0 is the best gift for people all around the world in many ways. It’s a boon for online marketers to boost their income in easy and legitmate ways without spam. I liked your post about traffic. Thanx for sharing some nice thoughts buddy!
September 25th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Yes, stumbleupon can surprise you with stats that make you feel that you seen the light.
But in order to be successful, you MUST stay active and post steadily. Even if you don’t have post yourself to stumble.
November 2nd, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Best of luck to you.
December 1st, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Does your experiment site still exist?
December 4th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
I think creating web 3.0 is very easy rather than web 2.0.However people will go which ever they think better.Thanks for the info.
December 11th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Thanks for suggesting a tip to improve the traffic to the website..As of my knowledge I think one option we may choose social media to survive the option..
December 30th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Web site marketing promotion is one of the things that you almost consistently have to do if you are going to make money online.
January 22nd, 2009 at 12:22 am
Web site designing is the field of today. First of all you need to know the target market exactly, and proceed to different methods as needed.
March 13th, 2009 at 1:20 am
Hiii its very nice to know this. First of all congracts for your success in inreasing traffic to your site. I am also trying this.
March 19th, 2009 at 2:27 am
Its pretty cool. I think creating web 2.o tactics is not that much hard and not that much easy too. But these are very arousing to me.
April 27th, 2009 at 5:01 am
Congrats for you idea. Web 2.0 ist a great opportiunity for more traffic. Its only a matter of time and ideas.
May 24th, 2009 at 12:06 am
There’s nothing like a good blog to move your site to the next level. It looks like this worked out very well. Thanks for the post!
May 24th, 2009 at 11:33 am
Social web has still been a great thing!
July 12th, 2009 at 6:38 am
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July 28th, 2009 at 6:21 am
You have just been Stumbled…
July 29th, 2009 at 3:18 am
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August 3rd, 2009 at 5:59 am
Just touching back to see how this experiment is going (went). You’re currently 1,137,324 in Alexa so your numbers improved a great deal! I kinda expected more for 2 years though. Thanks for sharing.
August 17th, 2009 at 8:45 am
Great Post. Thanks for your valuable post. I like it.
August 20th, 2009 at 3:11 am
The quality content in your website will get you traffic. If you can use social networking sites and forums, there will be heavy rush of visitors. Hope you are already using video posting and pod casting websites.
August 22nd, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Congrats on increasing traffic to your site. My site actually has a ton of information about increasing traffic to your blog
August 22nd, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Congrats on increasing traffic to your site. My site actually has a ton of information about increasing traffic to your blog
August 26th, 2009 at 5:16 am
If you can, post a lot of good posts for a couple of weeks in a row and stumble all of them, surf other stumblers, make friends and join groups, you’ll see you Alexa ranking skyrocket so high, everyone in the world will be wanting to buy placement on your blog. Gotta love stumble upon! Good post.
September 4th, 2009 at 9:25 am
Good Luck, I hope you succeed. Very impressive website!
Good Luck
September 10th, 2009 at 3:48 am
thank you for article
September 20th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
wow! this is exciting. I am also trying to learn everything I can about blogging and this will be very helpful information. Thanks!
October 3rd, 2009 at 6:35 am
Good information! Also there are many more tasks for increasing traffic to blogs.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:31 am
Hop on the SEO and Google Analytics bandwagon. It’s pretty eye opening.