And here is the rest of the experiment I started about two days ago. See which ones work for the average writer.
And here are the results of my experiment with the top bookmarking networks. You might be surprised with what you are going to see here. I only submitted my 10 latest articles to speed up the experiment and this number is more than enough because if they cannot send traffic to just one article, they probably won’t send to any other too.
My Newsvine account was deactivated because I was promoting my own work there and it seems it is a direct violation of the Code Of Honor… too bad because this site is of no use to you then.
I did not submit all the ten to either Slashdot, Yahoo Buzz or Reddit, just a few articles because they are so slow and unreliable that you might fall asleep in the process, however I submitted enough to see results.
What can I say about them?
None of them actually work. They sent me zero visitors in one day and this number tends to get lower as time elapses. If you have been sharing your articles on Digg, Propeller, Mixx, Fark, Yahoo Buzz then you are just wasting your time, they will never send you any relevant amount of traffic if any traffic at all.
It’s much better to focus your effort on creating new content, on creating new creative articles, focus on finding very interesting topics to write about because the topic is the most important part of the article, not so much how you write it like you learn in school, but the topic itself.
Which social networks should you use? Stumble Upon keeps on rocking my articles with traffic, and Facebook sends me some too enough to be in the Triond top 10. Twitter only worked for a few days, now it’s zero.
September 21st, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Interesting…
September 21st, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Facebook has been somewhat helpful. Just getting into Twitter, marginally helpful.
September 22nd, 2009 at 6:31 am
You’re right. most of the sharing sites don’t really bring in much traffic. Stumbleupon and facebook sends some readers.
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:42 am
Yep, I agree. Just keep on writing. Each article will add a little something. Difference in article views point out that there are topics that get more attention and read more often. Of course, people have different interests. The challenge is to hit a topic that will appeal to the general public.
September 23rd, 2009 at 5:11 pm
SEO – Search Engine Optimisation is the key – tag your work right, and get the right title – it helps so much.
November 2nd, 2009 at 3:38 pm
I agree with you. I tested with a few articles myself. Then I decided to stick to FB..coz my friends read my work,.lol