Social Marketing Traffic Experiment Updated Results Video
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
It’s time for an update to my experiment here to see if I can use social marketing and social bookmarking to launch a brand new site into the web traffic stratosphere. I’ll be doing this with high speed SEO, social networking, social bookmarking & video marketing. If you have not seen my first YouTube video on social bookmarking explaining my experiment you should watch it by clicking here. You can also see my first post explaining the whole live social bookmarking online experiment by clicking here.
Here’s my latest YouTube video:
My Timing Could Have Been Better
One of the things I’ve run into this week is extremely bad timing. This whole project came down at the last minute so I couldn’t really plan when I was going to do it. Unfortunately, the holiday weekend here in the US really messed up my timing. I really wanted to keep working on this through the 3 day weekend, but family comes first. So instead I had some fun with my wife and my boys. We went and saw Indiana Jones and did some other fun stuff. Have you seen it yet?
Anyway… on to more serious stuff: I’m back on the project and able to start promoting the site again.
SEO Progress So Far:
So far I’ve been setting up profiles at the major social networking sites, bookmarking & pinging my profiles (if you don’t know what pinging is be sure to watch the video above) and adding friends at the sites like FaceBook & MySpace.
My subscriber list is starting to take off and incoming traffic is building. I’m getting traffic coming from Google as well as dozens of other sites.
Another key point has been my video promotion. Always make sure you attract links to your videos (or at least your profile on the video sites). This REALLY helps. I also have been promoting my videos on the social networking sites and in my profiles.
I’m not going to get into too many specifics quite yet, but at the end of this experiment anyone signed up to this site will get all the inside data. I’ll give you EVERYTHING. Im even considering throwing in some of my scripts or WordPress plug-ins that my programmers made for me.
As always, I really want to hear from you! Comment below and tell me what you think of my experiment or my results. Ask me anything. I’ll do my best to answer here.