Comments on: 3 Great Traffic Generators

By: martin

martin — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:00:47 +0000

I also think this is a good idea. Will check it out.

ps thanks for the comment on my blog.

By: sd

sd — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:40:55 +0000

Your EC drop list sounds like a good idea.

Include me in: http://slightlydrunk.com

Cheers!

By: Mac

Mac — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:49:04 +0000

You are right. I only included the things that are “easy” and anyone with a blog can do.

I did not include other things, directories and search engine submission for example. Thanks for reading.

By: ceblogger

ceblogger — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:43:27 +0000

Hey, paid you back with a stumble. I noticed that you didn’t include SEO as a traffic generator. Given all things equal, it’s the optimized post that ranks high in search engines, and eventually gets more traffic.

By: iris

iris — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:06:35 +0000

Simple yet effective strategy, i am using some that are in your list except social media which i am no longer active. I am now active with Entrecard, leave a comment when i have too and not expecting any return some does, some don’t but at least i multi-task while dropping (Reading and commenting) it saves me time.

I also agreed with your explanation with bounce rate, i run a blog therefore no longer worried with bounce rate, Entrecarders are very much worried about it when they first notice it but now blogger’s seems like not worried with it anymore.

Stumbled.

By: Mac

Mac — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:27:03 +0000

I have my opinion, but have only recently started following that as a stat – and only half heatedly. Here is my reason:

1) This is a blog and people that come to read my latest post hit one page, and then move on.
2) Entrecard droppers hit one page and then move on.

There is no statistical difference for me between a regular reader who comes from an email update and an EC dropper. Since this site has nothing for sale, I have no conversion to measure.

Here – when I say conversion, I mean number of daily or weekly sales.
If my site was a sales page and adding the EC widget shown an increase in traffic and conversion remained the same I would say EC had no value except lowering my Alexa rank.
If adding the EC widget caused a drop in conversion it would be bad and I would remove it.
For a blog (maybe in general), I place a low value on a bounce rate unless there is also a change in the conversion rate.

I have a bounce rate of 76% on this site & 55% on a more technical site where I post less often. Both have the EC widget. EC seems to send the same amount of traffic to both sites. In my opinion that other site merits more time reviewing the subject.

By: John Doro

John Doro — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:08:57 +0000

How about the relation between “bounce rate” and entrecard dropper list? Do you have any idea?

By: Mac

Mac — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:05:57 +0000

Just found my list, it is by page rank and I have over 60 Article sites. I’ll verify PR and that they are still live before posting.

By: Mac

Mac — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:33:51 +0000

I do, I’ll post about it tomorrow. I have a rather large list of article directories and opinions about some of the better ones. For now, I’ll just say that they do work.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:01:31 +0000

Do you have any more information about article directories. I was thinking about using them but am not too sure.