Comments on: Social media traffic - Measuring the quality of Sphinn & StumbleUpon traffic

By: James Duthie

James Duthie — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:06:27 +0000

Thanks for the input Shady. Sounds like you’ve worked out a sweet little formula there. Naturally… I intend to copy it I need to build up some serious traction in Sphinn first however. I’m sure you’ll see me there poking my head around there wherever I possibly can.

Thanks also for the heads up re the server.

By: SlightlyShadySEO

SlightlyShadySEO — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 15:38:38 +0000

PS: Before conquering the social news universe, you might want to make this server more stable. It’s been timing out quite a bit. Especially with post requests.

By: SlightlyShadySEO

SlightlyShadySEO — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 15:04:43 +0000

That’s a good way to do it. Done properly though(I’m working on it) mastering a variety of social networks isn’t too time consuming. You concentrate on one, then move to the next one that has the highest user crossover without being too large. God willing, the users that have dual accounts vote. Then you pick up new viewers, and shift one over again.
Rinse->lather->repeat->break digg algo
It’s not perfect yet, but it’s what I’m playing with right now. Seems to be working well, and taking next to no time.

By: James Duthie

James Duthie — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 11:59:59 +0000

Hey Shady,

Thanks for the detailed insight. It helps to add perspective to the discussion. Couldn’t agree more regarding the quality of Sphinn users. Personally, I don’t have the time to master more than a couple of social networks. I’m choosing Sphinn for quality and StumbleUpon for quantity.

By: SlightlyShadySEO

SlightlyShadySEO — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:47:52 +0000

Hey, thought I’d chime in
Ok, so Sphinn at best will send 125-200 visitors a day for 2 days or so, with maybe 3-4 residuals per article per day afterwards.
But in terms of quality, there is no competition. My blog was essentially unvisited until I started frequenting sphinn. The exposure from the site is great, but the real (SEO) benefit is the various trackbacks/social news submissions you get from people linking, and the people you meet.
Beyond that, that stumbleupon thing you mentioned? Tip of the iceberg. I can recall a couple occasions now where the proper combination of people have stumbled an article and brought in 3000 people or so in under 25 minutes.
Some stumblers stick. But even the ones that done build brand recognition for the blog.
However I try and explain it, it doesn’t fit quite right. But somehow off a series of articles that got 50-200 (largely duplicate) hits, I ended up with around 800 subscribers, and growing quickly.

Each sphinn user, due to their huge “social” participation is worth several dozen normal readers.

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300 Stumblers vs 45 Sphinners - Which would you prefer? — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:59:11 +0000

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