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Social Networks == Blog Traffic

January 31st, 2008 · 12 Comments

Social Network

 If you have ever had one of your posts Stumbled Upon or Dugg you know how much traffic a social networking site can bring you. If you are a stats fanatic like me then you have seen first hand the results Stumble Upon can have on your posts. My photoshop tutorial on peeling an image away to reveal another image was Stumbled Upon and the traffic soared. A few other posts of mine have been linked by other social networking sites. You can definitely see the traffic increase from this. So of course you want your readers to use social networking sites to mark your posts. But how do we make it easy for our users/ readers to do this?

Well in steps Joost de Valk. I am really starting to like this guy, I would like to call him a friend but I have never met him. However he has breathed new life into the Sociable WordPress plug in. You can see it in action at the bottom of this post.

 The plug in is great and offers a huge selection of social networking sites to display icons for. Your users/readers can just click on the icon of their favorite social networking site and voila just like that add your post. Go ahead try it out with this post and your favorite social networking site. If your favorite social networking site is not displayed leave me a comment and I will make sure it is.

 Thanks again Mr. de Valk for another great plug in. By the way I am kind of weird because before I install a plug in I always look at the code. Mr. de Valk does an excellent job with his code.

Note: If you wonder why there are two equal signs in the title, let me tell you now that it is not a mistake. Other programmers will know what I mean.



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  • 1 no imageNicole (Who am I?) // Jan 31, 2008 at 8:55 pm

    Love it :D

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  • 2 no imageJoost de Valk (Who am I?) // Feb 1, 2008 at 1:18 am

    Glad you like it, and please call me Joost, and not “Mr. de Valk” :) makes me feel old :)
    Joost de Valk’s last blog post..Sociable WordPress plugin take-over

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  • 3 no imageBendz (Who am I?) // Feb 1, 2008 at 1:34 am

    I totally agree!

    Entrecard is another traffic booster and so does piqq.us

    Bendz’s last blog post..Dropping

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  • 4 no imageBen (Who am I?) // Feb 1, 2008 at 1:52 am

    Well Joost, I wouldn’t want to make you feel old. ;) Again Great work, I am also trying Rank Tracker, and so far I am liking it very much. Now if I only knew more about SEO.

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  • 5 no imageSteve Yu (Who am I?) // Feb 1, 2008 at 2:16 am

    How about blogspot?

    Steve Yu’s last blog post..Miss Swiss Army Knife for Girls

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  • 6 no imageJoost de Valk (Who am I?) // Feb 1, 2008 at 2:46 am

    Ben: for the SEO stuff, just keep reading my blog :) And perhaps start with my WordPress SEO post :)
    Joost de Valk’s last blog post..Sociable WordPress plugin take-over

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  • 7 no imageRudy (Who am I?) // Feb 2, 2008 at 12:29 am

    I think everyone should ditch the ShareThis plugin, if they’re using it. It’s too much of a bloat and contacting the sharethis.com site is a bottleneck for page rendering.

    Rudy’s last blog post..How to Become a Better Blogger

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  • 8 no imageJenny (Who am I?) // Feb 2, 2008 at 3:27 am

    Ben,
    Looks like a great plugin. I often wonder though about stumbleupon traffic. You get this huge spike but do people stay long on one’s site?

    How do you compare these social networking links with the one I have : the bookmark one which does the same thing?

    Jenny’s last blog post..Cameras and photos

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  • 9 no imageBuzzBop (Who am I?) // Feb 2, 2008 at 10:09 am

    This looks great. I have been using the Share plugin, but I like the more visual nature of this one.

    Unfortunately, I am finding that many of the social networking spikes are short-lived, and often do not translate to more comments, participation, ad clicks or RSS subscribers. They seem to come, and then bounce right out.

    Thanks for the heads up on this plugin.

    BuzzBop’s last blog post..Why Do We Blog?

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  • 10 no imageNhuong Son (Who am I?) // Feb 4, 2008 at 5:36 pm

    If you have a good article, stumble it! People will come and your stat will be off the roof! It is amazing.

    Nhuong Son’s last blog post..2000 Ec Contest [Revised]

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  • 11 no imageBen (Who am I?) // Feb 4, 2008 at 5:42 pm

    Stumble traffic is a huge burst of traffic. I have had several posts of mine stumbled upon. I just don’t feel right stumbling my own posts.

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  • 12 no imageTV Bracket (Who am I?) // May 23, 2008 at 2:39 pm

    Good info here! I am trying to figure out how to get more attention to my niche blog and I have been looking into social networks.

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