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So about two or three weeks ago I was watching Juice I think and I came up with a couple of IMO really good social media yo mama jokes, since then I have been trying to think of 3 more to get my top 5 list and thanks to a bit of help from Mr David Towers I have them, so here goes:
1. Yo mama so stupid that when I told her I was on digg, she asked if I needed a shovel.
2. Yo mama so fat that when I told her I was on delicious, she asked if she could have a bite.
3. Yo mama so clumsy that when I told her I was on Stumbleupon, she said I took a stumble yesterday and grazed my knee.
4. Yo mama so dizzy that when I told her I was on Sphinn, she said I went for a drive this morning.
5. Yo mama so crazy that when I told her I was on Plime, she said I prefer oranges myself.
Posted in Social Media News By David Eaves a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
July 13th, 2009
So I have been working on this air conditioning website and as you can imagine good air conditioner scoops are few and far between, so when Jeff the owner called me up with a bit of a story I knew I had to do something.
He found the story on a website called KRGV.com, you can read it here. It’s about some women in Texas who found an image that she believes is the Virgin Mary on her air conditioner.
There weren’t very many details really so I just re-worded it pretty much, blew up the tiny photo to a decent size and published it, you can see my post here.
I really didn’t expect it to go anywhere, I mean look at the image, it does in fact look more like death then the Virgin Mary, but to my amazement it did. The bait was just about crap enough to actually work. I got people talking about this image all over the web. Check out the discussions at Reddit, Propeller, Mixx and Plime.
I went to bed last night thinking oh well it’s not going to get any good links but at least it sparked a bit of discussion and sent Airconco a bit of traffic. When I woke up this morning and checked the stats, everything looked pretty normal, 1,500 from Reddit, 90 from Mixx etc. but then I saw Twitter.com 500 clicks. Now I don’t know a lot about Twitter, but that looked like a lot of traffic, my previous actual decent baits had gotten 50-100 clicks from Twitter at the most.
About an hour later I refreshed the stats. again and now Twitter had sent over 1,000 clicks. I decided to do a bit of investigating and found the URL that was sending the Twitter traffic: http://bit.ly/NVE6h, I searched Google for the URL and found Ashton Kutcher’s twitter profile aplusk.
Ashton Kutcher is a big time movie star, he was in that movie Dude, Where’s My Car and he is married to Demi Moore. He is one of the most popular Twitter users with over 2 million followers. Getting some of my work linked to by him is awesome.
The Airconco website has had 5,172 visits from Twitter.com so far and he only linked to the story about 9 hours ago – Link
Update: The traffic has started to calm down now and the post has had just under 10,000 unique visitors from Twitter.com, about 4,5000 uniques that are unaccounted for and a couple more thousand uniques from other social networks. Altogether the story has had over 16,500 visitors and there are 60 comments on the post.
Posted in Social Media News By David Eaves a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
June 9th, 2009
Image credit: too much stumbleupon
Around about a week ago I was happily stumbling away when all of a sudden this warning page came up, telling me that my account had been disabled:
Stumbleupon warning
Stumbleupon has been temporarily disabled, because you have used it too much.
- Stop stumbling and disable stumbleupon toolbar
- Do your work
- Don’t think about stumbling
I feel really stupid now, but I fell for this thing hook, line and sinker. I thought that I had been caught stumbling my own blog too much and that someone at stumbleupon was messing with me.
The page is possibly one of the most popular stumbles ever, it was discovered about 8 days ago and already it has received 351 reviews.
I wanted to find out more about the page and who created it, so I used the form on the website to contact the creator. He kindly agreed to answer a few questions for me, but wishes to remain anonymous:
Question 1: How long have you been a member of StumbleUpon?
Answer: I have used stumbleupon since April 2007, So it is about 1,5 years ago.
Question 2: Did you create the page for fun? profit? Or both?
Answer: It was just for fun, I was bored and playing with new firefox 3 and surfing on the “about:robots” page. I noticed how easily the source of the about:robots page could be copied, I remembered those funny “stop stumbling” images and got the idea. I created the page, uploaded it to my site, added it to stumble and forgot it.
Question 3: How many unique visitors has the page had so far?
Answer: Here are my traffic statistics according to AWStats and Google Analytics:
- AWStats – 101,789
- Google – 89,901
Question 4: Has the amount of traffic you have received surprised you?
Answer: It was a big surprise to me, because I almost forgot the whole page… The last popular page I had: a joke about vista’s source code, only received 9,240 visitors.
Question 5: Have you ever thought about a career in viral marketing?
Answer: Nope.
Going off this page’s performance, I would definitely be interested in taking this guy on for his social media skills. He is not a professional and as far as I am concerned he hasn’t even marketed the page – One hundred thousand unique visitors and going strong.
Here is a link to the warning page and the 350+ comments at SU.
Posted in Social Media News By David Eaves a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
July 14th, 2008
You know how you get some people who just take to blogging? I was not one of them people. I started blogging for all of the wrong reasons. It was very much a case of keeping up with the Joneses. Many of my competitors were getting blogs and I thought that I should have one.
If you look at the 1st few posts on this blog you will see that I blatantly did not know what I was doing. I would say that I started to enjoy it and get the hang of it around Christmas time. IMO the Mixx review getting linked to by TechCrunch was a complete fluke.
Over the last couple of weeks a lot of the hard work that I have put in seems to have really started to pay off.
About two weeks ago, Lee Odden from Top Rank Blog added this blog to his big list of search marketing blogs and yesterday Liz Strauss over at Successful-Blog.com made me an official SOB.
Other blogging achievements include:
- Around 150 RSS subscribers
- Linked to by most of the major search blogs
- Technorati top 25K
- Over 100 unique visitors per day (without the main site)
- Good SE authority – most of the posts rank well
Over the next 6 months I would like to achieve the following:
- 400 RSS subscribers
- Technorati top 10k
- 200+ unique visitors per day
I would also like to start making some money doing this. If I can get this blog (including the rest of the site) making over £1,000 per month off advertising I can cut down on doing SEO a bit and focus on doing more blogs. I will start looking at monetization strategies this week.
Posted in Social Media News By David Eaves a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
June 16th, 2008
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If you have really good content that you want to get thousands of visitors to, then this guide should come in useful.
With social media optimisation (SMO), it helps an awful lot if you either know the right people or are active in the places where you are looking to target. Once you do or are it is fairly easy. Here are a few tips to help you get the most out of your good content and your SMO campaign, for once you find your feet:
Forget Digg: I know it has been said many times, but it is even more true then ever now. For nine out of ten sites Digg is a big waste of time and getting any kind of e-commerce site on the homepage is virtually impossible. The only people who look in the upcoming section are the digg staff and fellow marketers. Spend 30 seconds getting your free link and then move on.
Planning is Everything: Make a list of all of the social media websites you are going to submit your content to and then work out roughly how long you think it is going to take for your content to go popular on each site. For example with Reddit you can be fairly sure that if your content is going to go popular, it will do within and hour or two. With Mixx it will normally take a good 6 hours and with Stumbleupon you just can’t tell, so you leave that out of the equation.
Once you have done this you need to choose a time for when you are going to plan to have all of your submissions go popular. You might say to yourself, I want all of my submissions to be going popular 7 hours from now at 11.00pm. Then you add the time you need to submit next to each social media site on your list.
Go to work and do everything as planned. If you have submitted to all of the major social sites and if all of the elements are in the equation, then when the time comes you should be able to make it into the top 10 on popurls and you should be getting a load of traffic from JimmyR.com. I have had over 3,000 uniques from popurls.com and I have had over 2,500 uniques from JimmyR.com. If you make it into the top 10 on popurls you have won and you will generally receive over 50,000 unique visitors in a short space of time and lots of trackbacks.
Comment Management: Once you have started to go popular on some of the social media sites you can make your content go a lot further by dealing with negative comments. There are lots of different ways to do this and trying to talk to the negative commenter(s) isn’t always the best one, here are a few ideas:
- Have all of your friends down vote the negative comments heavily
- Take the mick out of the negative commenter(s) or their comments
- If they have a good point, you might want to think about possibly changing your content
With good planning you can consistently get content to go popular on the social media sites, generate buzz and generate trackbacks.
Posted in Social Media News By David Eaves a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
June 5th, 2008
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