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?