Posts Tagged ‘social traffic’
Internet bandwidth can be a scarce commodity in the midst of a product launch, so “hotlinking” or having someone post one of your images, audio or video from their website, blog or forum can reduce your total available Internet bandwidth. Here are a couple of fixes for this issue.
Solution 1: Write to them
You could locate an email address or look up their domain whois information and contact them directly to remove the link to the file on your webhost. If they’re linking to copyrighted content, you might get your legal department to send them the appropriate legal response.
This generally takes some time.
Solution 2: Remove/Delete the file
If you remove the file from your server, the file they’re linking to will show up as a broken link (generally a “404 Error – File Not Found”). This means you’ll (more…)
Yahoo! blog community service MyBlogLog has added tagging to its arsenal of killer app features. An innovative use is the ability to tag spammer and regulate the flow of overzealous mass messaging within the service.
The new tagging feature allows you, as well as other MyBlogLog members to issue tags to your personal and community profile.
For example, someone could tag you as “SEO Expert”, making you easier to find.
As a set of common tags proliferate, I can see tagging as the basis of creating another level of connection within the community.
Here’s what MyBlogLog founder Eric Marcoullier’s tagging profile looks like:
I created a fictious “mamalemon” tag on my personal profile and entered that keyword into the MyBlogLog search engine. It didn’t find my profile (it reported zero results).
Would tags show up in the MBL search results?
I’d think it makes for a more (more…)
Getting traffic from all sources is a good way of diversifying your risks. That way a shift in the search engine algorithmn or a social networking site won’t entire rock your traffic picture. But how does organic search engine traffic compare to social traffic?
Lesson 1: Your site needs to mature
This is probably one of the harder lessons for new marketers to absorb, or mentally comprehend. You need to achieve critical content mass and have it indexed to attract either search engine traffic or social traffic.
It could be as fast as 24 hours, or as long as a month before your traffic hits ‘acceptable’ levels. [Acceptable levels could be 1,000 uniques or 10,000 or 100,000 uniques depending on your personal goal and strategies]
Lesson 2: It’s not just purely a numbers game
Traffic quantity is as important as traffic quality alone. What’s the point if you’re going to get 50,000 uniques in a day if they aren’t interested in your content? Perhaps someone inadvertedly did a redirect to your page.
Metrics like (more…)
Insiders at the recent blogger convention SOBCon revealed plans about $10 million wunderkind social network site MyBlogLog. In the mix: a rebranding, a new widget and features to protect against social spam that is becoming more pervasive on the networks.
David Dalka mentions that during SOBCon upcoming changes to the popular social networking site include:
- A rebranding (to reflect it’s acquistion by Yahoo!)
- Some MyBlogLog 2.0 upgrades – site redesign and a Web2.0-ish widget upgrade
- Anti-social spam features like avatar moderation and masking type features
Since Google rules the roost at the moment on the search engine front, there’s plenty of opportunity for Yahoo! and Microsoft to capture mindshare and market share on the non-search engine traffic fronts.
There’s opportunity to look at the hubs of highly targeted traffic clustered around social sites and forums.
So far we haven’t heard not many high profile forums being acquired have been reported in the mass media, even though transaction values for these deals can range from the hundreds of thousands to the millions.
Selective media focus? Perhaps. But as social traffic and social media continue to (more…)
I was somewhat happy (in a perverse way) when I saw this message in my MyBlogLog message center. It read:
I am the granddaughter of the General Abirudhdklf and recently $20 million has come into my possession…
A-ha! Had the MyBlogLog guardians fallen asleep?
Granted it’d fallen into my “Messages from Everyone” box (which is less filtered than regular messages).
And I’d been about to highlight this infiltrator which had slipped through the spam detection cracks when I noticed that the message has mysterious vanished when I checked the account.
I believe the profile has been deleted.
So kudos to Eric and the MyBlogLog development team.
I wonder though, clicking on the “Report Spam” button to report a spamming MyBlogLog user results in a “mailto:” command which pulls up your email client to send an email to MyBlogLog’s customer service. (more…)
Social traffic is fantastic because:
- It’s highly targeted
- It’s immediate
- It’s low cost and often free
The downside is because of it’s interactive nature (which contributes to it’s virality), spam marketers will always try to flood you, and drown out your message with their spam.
This includes, but is not limited to:
On social community sites like MyBlogLog, Eric and his team have instituted several measure like: limiting personal messages to 20 a day (with an innovative reciprocal message feature in place) , and eliminating animated GIF avatars in favor of single (static) image ones.
But that still doesn’t quite solve the problem of ‘widget spam’ where people with link baiting avatars feature on your sidebar widget that appears on the right of this blog.
Fortunately, MyBlogLog community manager Robyn Tippins informed me that MyBlogLog includes features to (more…)
