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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.

Creative Commons License photo credit: steve_jay

Social Marketing: I Love Social Media, Social Bookmarking & Social Networking!

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

OK, so far… so good!  It’s been only a few days since I set up the website and recorded my youtube video.  In my first post about: Social bookmarking domination I explain it pretty well. I just registered a brand new site a few days ago and am publicly going to show the world how I get the site flooded with traffic and make it profitable quickly. If you’re new to the site you should go read that first post and follow along in order. If you want you can also check out my video explaining everything.

I really started my promotion of this site on Sunday night or Monday morning. So at this point I’ll call it 3 days of work on promotion.  What do I have to show for it?  Let’s see: 

  1. This blog is now indexed in Google & bringing traffic from Google search engine results.
  2. My social networking profiles are beginning to get indexed & bringing this site traffic.
  3. My Social bookmarking pages are starting to get indexed & bring traffic.
  4. People are talking about this site on social media sites.
  5. People are beginning to notice this blog & someone even wrote a blog post about my launch.
  6. My YouTube video is getting many views and is bringing traffic to the blog.
  7. My video is also on many of other video websites promoting the launch. These pages are also indexed in Google & getting traffic.
  8. There are now 49 51 subscribers to my email list (I know it’s not 1,000’s but it’s a good start for 3 days)
  9. FeedBurner says that people are starting to subscribe to my blog directly through RSS (Really Simple Syndication: A technology that lets you share your blog posts) NEWSBREAK: Just since writing this I’m already up to 134 RSS subscribers on FeedBurner!
  10. I’m starting to get friends and followers at the various social networking sites. (If you are a member of any of the sites listed in my site down on the below right hand side… go add me as a friend so you can watch what I’m doing over there)

I’m just getting started… there’s a lot more to come!

So far I’m just laying the groundwork. Setting up profiles at many social networking & social media websites.  I’ve made a few bookmarks, but mostly just have been setting up the profiles and working on getting them indexed.  If you are a member I’ll be recording additional videos and writing up exactly what I did & how I did it.  You’re going to get everything, all my resources and any special “secret” tweaks I do to pull it all together.

So make sure you subscribe at the top right of the SocialDominator.com site.  Just fill in your name & email address then hit submit.  Do it now before you forget 🙂 you don’t want to miss out on all the behind the scenes data!

First Post, Friday Night May 16th

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Ok, so here we go!

This is a grand experiment to see just how fast I can get a site ranking, profitable and with loads of traffic. I’ve been challenged to make a high traffic profitable site within days. I’ll keep you updated on all the results I get and fill you in on anything I find a success or a failure (so you don’t repeat my mistakes).

I’m going to heavily rely upon Social Networking, Blogs and Social Bookmarking websites. These along with some really neat automated scripts, software and tools. Keep in mind this is going to be pretty much normal SEO work and I’m not going to dive into my blackhat bag of tricks to get this accomplished. I’ll be using some automated social bookmarking software tools, but not in a way that generates spam. You’ll have to subscribe to see it all in action and find out what I’m talking about.

I’ll update you with videos and posts to this blog. Be sure you subscribe by filling in your name and email on the top right of this page. You’ll be notified of any updates and it will unlock the door to some behind the scenes content.

When it’s all over I’ll also share with you all the techniques I used and any software or tools that helped me along with way.

It’s Friday night at around 11:15 PM and I’ve got 2 season ending baseball team parties to take my boys to tomorrow. So I’m not sure if I’ll get much work done this weekend or not. If I don’t work on the site I’ll start the official “countdown” on Monday the 19th.

I’m really crossing my fingers and toes on this one. I’m pretty confident I can pull it off (I’ve done it many times before) but this is out in the public for everyone to see if I don’t.

Stay Tuned!