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Residuals of Social Bookmarking

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When I talked to Ben Yoskovitz about a week ago on one of the Open Comments Nights that Liz Strauss has on Tuesdays, the subject of an article he wrote being Dugg came up.

He mentioned that he had Thousands of Additional Pageviews and a corresponding amount of RSS Subscriptions from that post.  But he expected it to drop off fairly quickly.  I told him that I got quite a few additional PV’s and Subs from a link he had to my Blog in his article as well.  I tried to cheer him up a little by telling him that there should be some residual readers returning from the influx.

 

I’m not sure what Ben’s numbers turned out being, but if they are anything like mine, he may be as happy about the result as I am.

 

    

This is a screen shot of my Statcounter and FeedBurner stats for that time frame up until yesterday.

 

It is a little hard to tell from the caption, but the Statcounter (on the left) shows that the resulting Vistits and PageViews are staying at a higher level than prior to the Digg Spike.  On average the wave is continuing at about 30% above the prior level.  More or less like a High Tide coming in.

The FeedBurner shot (right) shows that even though the level of subscriptions was on the rise, when things settled after the Spike, the number is quite a bit higher than previously.  Again about 30%.

 

I think this shows the value of Social Bookmarking, and being linked to someone who is Dugg.  The more eyes that see your work, the better.  There will be some that like what you write and return.  Possibly even become part of your community.

This is a way to have more people see you and just maybe, stick around.

 

Have you seen similar results from Social Bookmarking?  Do you think that type service helps your numbers?

 

Related Post:

The Ripple Effect of Social Bookmarking 

October 12th, 2006 at 03:55pm | Posted by Joe | Blogging, Book Marks, Community, Linking | 2 reader remarks | Print This Post

The Ripple Effect of Social Bookmarking

 

If anyone ever asks you what good is social bookmarking, you can refer them to this post.

 

Yesterday, Ben Yoskovitz wrote an article, 5 Things You Shouldn’t Spend Money On When Starting a Business.  It is a good, thoughtful article.  There was a link to my Blog, not even by name, just “Go Home Office” as a reference.

As it turns out, someone Dugg (or is it Digged?) the post.  As of last night Ben had over 10,000 hits, and I’m quite sure there were many more today.  I think that even though the benefit may not be obvious to him yet, I think that the overall rewards will be forth coming.

 

Let me explain…

With that one link, everything went through the roof here.

~~ PageViews went from an average of 50-75 per day (with the occasional spike) to almost 2,000 in two days (and the day is not over).

~~ All of the Header Links had numerous hits.  This helped navigation here and to my other sites.

~~ My “links i like” list got quite a few clicks to other blogs I like.  This may help them out a little.

~~ There were 89 (at last count) views for my Blog Carnival.  I hope some actually joined.

~~ Navigation to older pages in the Archives went sky high.

~~ BlogTopSites went from 75 to 29 in the Internet Category.

~~ RSS Subscribers increased from 40 to 89 (over a 100% increase).

~~ Each of the Social Bookmarks at the bottom of the post had at least one hit.  (I hope that’s a good omen).

~~ I got links from other Blogs that I’m sure would not have known about me otherwise.

 

I never really thought too much about the usefulness of Social Bookmarking.  I always just used the icons as a convience for my readers and hoped that they might share something I wrote with other people.

I can now see where the benefit is not just to the Blog that is being Bookmarked, but to others that are referred to, linked to, or otherwise listed as a source for additional information.

Working on the Internet is all about numbers.  The more people who read an article, the more possibility of a return visit.  When a Social Bookmark like Digg is used, MANY people see the referral.  If it looks interesting to them, they will visit the site.

The effect can be quite good as long as the visitor trusts the first blog and their referrals, which leads to the second and their referrals, then the third and so on.

 

I am a big proponent of Social Book Marking now.  What do you think, have you seen anything like this on your site?

October 3rd, 2006 at 05:10pm | Posted by Joe | Blogging, Book Marks, Community, Linking, Stastics | 5 reader remarks | Print This Post

Pulling My Hair Out

 

I hope you have noticed that I have put a couple of Social Bookmarks at the end of each post.  I have been pulling my hair out trying to get them to work.  And I’m not finished yet.

I did the old copy/paste for both del.icio.us and reddit! On del.icio.us I can’t even find the icon to try to load, and the link itself doesn’t work.

On reddit! I did the download/upload to the server for the icon, and copy/paste for the insert to the template.  The icon doesn’t work, all I seem to get is the little box with the X inside.  I know that I have to make sure the reddit.png file is in the corresponding server file and the path in the template, Still not Working.

I finally got the link to work by changing the (what looked to me like Blogger) code in the link to something that at least resembled WordPress.  ie. $PostTitle$ to the_post and the same for the permalink.  At least that works now.

Why do they have to make the most simple of procedures into a major challenge?  Needless to say, if I want to have anything of that nature on this Blog, I will have to relearn (forget) everything I already knew from using Blogger.

Any Tips?  Easy ways to handle this?  Tell me where to look?

July 10th, 2006 at 02:53pm | Posted by Joe | Basics, Book Marks, Linking | 8 reader remarks | Print This Post