Comments on: Utilising Social Media for Australian Websites

By: The Venture Skills Blog Stumbling voyeur «

The Venture Skills Blog Stumbling voyeur « — Wed, 16 May 2007 13:40:46 +0000

[...] Utilising social media for Australian websites – interesting article [...]

By: Meg

Meg — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 04:04:26 +0000

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

By: Qumang

Qumang — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 03:35:34 +0000

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!

By: Michael Gannotti

Michael Gannotti — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 03:27:52 +0000

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.

By: Meg

Meg — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 23:52:19 +0000

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

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:16:04 +0000

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/

By: Meg

Meg — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 23:34:31 +0000

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

By: Mitchell Harper

Mitchell Harper — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 23:18:25 +0000

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

By: Meg

Meg — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:22:13 +0000

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…

By: Richard Giles

Richard Giles — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:14:48 +0000

Great post Meg.

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

Rich