Archive for the ‘Generate Traffic’ Category

New Blogging Site

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Has anyone else tried posterous.com yet? All you have to do is send them an email and your blog is set up and the first post is made. I have created http://martyn.posterous.com, not very imaginative, but I will use it to publish information about my lenses and blogs, hopefully gaining back links along the way. It is also worth logging in and configuring the options available, posterous will automatically post to twitter, blogger and many other sites for you – very neat!

I have not tried it yet, but you can also send photos to update flickr and facebook, or any of your blogs. Best of all, you can use specific email addresses to control the sites you post to, so flickr@posterous.com only goes to flickr, but facebook+flickr@posterous.com goes to facebook and flickr, and post@posterous.com goes to all the sites you have configured.

It really is clever stuff – please give it a try and let me know what you think.

How To Get Traffic From StumbleUpon

Monday, September 1st, 2008

We are all advised to submit our Lenses to social sites such as Digg and StumbleUpon to help generate traffic. But bookmarking without getting involved in the social community is unlikely to generate a great deal of traffic. StumbleUpon in particular is unlikely to be of any benefit to you if it is not used properly. If you would like to use Stumble to generate a rush of traffic, have a look at my latest Lens: How To Drive A Traffic Rush From StumbleUpon, I am sure it will help.

On a different subject, the new look to Squidtop is very good. I like it much better than the old one and the navigation seems to have improved, too. Good work by the management!