Consistency and Traffic

Subtitle: Blog more for more traffic. Since I’ve been blogging more recently, I’ve seen a spike in traffic. There’s nothing special I’ve been doing outside of what I normally do when blogging.  It’s just the consistency of pushing out relevant content that really matters. AKPC_IDS += "2140,";Popularity: 10% [?] Read More

The Voyeurism aspects of Social Media

Subtitle:  Social Media and Participation If you’re a blogger, there’s a frustrating conversion rate between visitors and commenters .  The ratio can be a 100 to 1 (this can also be true on Facebook and Twitter).  This is so true that I can lay down a challenge to prove me wrong. There are also other levels of interest here as to who is actually reading you’re site, participating, and who is bouncing off.  If you have a good... Read More

When not to Fish where the Fish are

Subtitle:  “Give me back that Filet O’ Fish, give me that fish.” There’s a common piece of advice to “fish where the fish are.”  While no doubt this is a great short term strategy, but eventually the resource will dry up.  Why?  Because, soon enough everyone will start fishing in the same spot! There’s some recent data released by HitWise that shows Facebook touting 50% of web visits and Twitter only... Read More

Why more Visits on Facebook is not Important

Subtitle: Levels of Truth in Data Representation of Social Networking Sites The recent data by HitWise that rated social networking sites, ranks Facebook as #1 with 50% traffic, and Twitter as #5 with a mere 1% is a perfect example of a data presented at a certain level of truth, leaving questions at all other levels. 1. Facebook 50.15% 2. YouTube 15.21% 3. MySpace 15.08% 4. Tagged 1.16% 5. Twitter 1.14% Here... Read More