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Utilising Social Media for Australian Websites

March 8, 2007 · 10 Comments

At the risk of stating the obvious, unless you have a really large budget, driving traffic to your website can be quite a challenge. This year I’ve been experimenting more with social media, as a distraction, an outlet and, to a lesser extent, as an advertising vehicle.

Below is a summary of some of the things I’ve tried.

Continued – Utilising Social Media for Australian Websites

Categories: Australian Websites · General · Google Adwords · StumbleUpon · blogging · dLook · mybloglog · obits · social media

10 responses so far ↓

  • Richard Giles // March 8, 2007 at 9:14 pm

    Great post Meg.

    Generating traffic certainly takes time, and something I’m currently fascinated about.

    Rich

  • Meg // March 8, 2007 at 9:22 pm

    Hi Rich

    Hope Scouta’s going well for you. I’ve been having a little play with it when time allows – good stuff!

    Traffic watching can get a bit obsessive, I remember the early days (before Google analytics) when I’d wake up early because I knew the back end stats were updated at 4 am. Pretty sad – fortunately I got over that pretty quickly.

    Thanks for stopping by. I have been a bit remiss, as I meant to write about Scouta – it’s on my to do list…

  • Mitchell Harper // March 9, 2007 at 10:18 am

    Hey Meg. Getting traffic is definitely the hardest thing for a web site to do, and the StumbleUpon advertising works particularly well for information based sites such as blogs. Be careful, the StumbleUpon team sometimes wont accept advertising from “commercial” sites – or so I’ve heard. Good luck with everything and if you need anything just email me from me blog :)

  • Meg // March 9, 2007 at 10:34 am

    Hi Mitchell

    That’s surprises me – aren’t “commercial” sites the ones who are more inclined to pay? Without a commercial motive, I can’t see why one would pay to drive traffic to the site….

    Still, they’ve approved every campaign, but perhaps the danger might be the risk of ostracising stumblers by “forcing” a type of site they aren’t expecting? I’m almost out of my original budget, so I might rethink when it runs out.

    Thanks for stopping by – Good luck to you too, I’m enjoying the read :)

  • Andy Beard // March 10, 2007 at 11:16 pm

    Stumbleupon traffic is fleeting at best but it can generate a ripple effect to other networks.
    I am in the middle of a small Stumble atm on my buttons site, around 400 page views, so far one person has installed my new Twitter button, and I bet that was my blogging friend Paul O’Flaherty.

    Have you tried the Aussie Stumbleupon group?
    http://australia.group.stumbleupon.com/

  • Meg // March 11, 2007 at 10:52 am

    Hi Andy

    I’m still getting used to SU. Yesterday I tried to add some photos and artwork from this blog to my profile, as I had seen on others.

    The next thing I was flooded with hits from stumblers (close to 200) – so I must have inadvertently added them as general sites, not just my profile! Obviously these are popular categories.

    I have joined the Australia Group – but haven’t invested a lot of time….

    That’s a cool Twitter button! I joined Twitter (Scoble keeps raving about it) but I guess it helps if you have friends ;)

    Thanks for dropping by – keep up the great blogging :)

  • Michael Gannotti // March 11, 2007 at 2:27 pm

    Great article! You have done a realy good job in laying out some of the ways to generate traffic. I am now on my second blog (just retired my old one and migrated to a new infrastructure and am always amazed to see how people seem to just find you.

  • Qumang // March 11, 2007 at 2:35 pm

    MyBlogLog absolutely ROCKS! Love it so much! It’s lead me to things that I never discover before. Most importantly it’s creates global networking.

    Cheers!

  • Meg // March 11, 2007 at 3:04 pm

    Hi Michael

    Many thanks for your comments. I’ll be sure to stop by – good luck with the new blog.

    Hi Qumang

    I noticed you on MyBlogLog & have joined your community. Hope you keep having fun with it!

    Thanks for stopping by :)

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