Web traffic school: news and social network sites
Despite the fact that all my websites are in the sandbox (except one) and do not get much search engine traffic I have just now found some time to explore and test social networking and popular news websites.
Yes, the saying ‘first things first’ sometimes does not work in my case. But as I know many website owners target this channel of traffic.
Well, I am quite happy with the results. It took me 10-15 minutes to register with the below listed websites and 5-10 minutes to submit one of my articles to all websites. No, I did not make Digg.com home page or anything of that type (though I wish I did), but I have got my first experience, discovered that it is a fast, easy and efficient technique. And I have got over 100 visitors to that page within 16-18 hours.
Websites I experimented with (in addition to del.icio.us that I use for a few months now):
www.netscape.com
www.boredatwork.com
www.digg.com
www.shoutwire.com
www.stumbleupon.com
www.shadows.com
www.i-am-bored.com
www.fark.com
www.boingboing.net
It is evident that one either needs good contacts with the regular users and members of the websites or you should submit something terrific to really succeed and get tons of traffic. I conclude this from the amount of posts that I could see submitted to the websites - virtually every second there were made new additions.
I do not expect much financial benefits from the traffic that these websites will generate for me. It is obvious that the greatest part of the users is web savvy people. They are not likely to click on my contextual ads or explore my CPA offers. The only way to make money with this traffic is CPM (get paid for adv impressions and using some ingenious ad blending techniques).
But it is also a good way to go for branding and getting some recognition in your niche – I think it is guaranteed if you submit something useful on a regular basis.
Summary: if you are unfamiliar with these services – just spend 30-40 minutes for fast acquaintance with them – they function more or less in the same way: it is a community of registered users that review submitted news and articles and decide to vote for it or not, if it is worthy information or just crap. If they decide it is valuable you are guaranteed a great amount of visitors to your website – be prepared to handle it.
I do not doubt that these websites are also a great place for learning what types of content and news gain most popularity on the Internet, what is the recent buzz, what consumers want.
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