Keep your friends close and your enemies closer – Sun-tzu–Chinese general & military strategist (~400 BC)
That adage is true because using this person strategy I manage to capture some of my competitor audience and propel my blog visit into all time high in less than 24 hours (Snapshot included). This post mini guide will be very brief since the majority of my reader like it brief.
The snapshot
Based on the snapshot, the one day traffic, increase to 540 visitors in less than 24 hours. My next point, what contribute to this spike
What Contribute To This Spike
The Tools
Based on Google Analytic snapshot, 87% of the traffic came from stumbleupon. I had compiled a list of how to maximize StumbleUpon on my post:
- The Success System That Never Failed
- MyBlogLog Vs StumbleUpon : The Showdown
- Social Media Optimization – An Easy Guide To Marketing And Promoting Your Blog
The Chosen Post
On the 24 hours period, the most popular post:
However both of this post were written in relation to Problogger.net. Contrary to the title of this post, I had made Problogger.net as my #1 source of reference for blog development.
While some might think, this entire post was written more toward SEO optimization, these two post was never intended achieve SEO optimization. However I find the following post was very helpful:
- A Comprehensive Guide to StumbleUpon: How to Build Massive Traffic to Your Website
- How To Use StumbleUpon To Increase Traffic To A Website Or Blog
- What makes a Successful Marketing Campaign on Social Networks?
The Marketing Strategy
On general, you should read my post about marketing system that used this tactic.
On more specific tactic, you need to differentiate marketing based on:
- Post by post marketing. Skellie had wrote an interesting post about this techniques.
- Wide blog marketing. Also another good post from Skellie how a young blog can grow their traffic using stumbleupon.
This strategy is half finish
This strategy is half finish. Many aspect was not tested, like time of posted to stumbleupon. Perhap someone will comment on this aspect? Or briefly. mentioned one strategy work for you?
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This is a great tip! Blogger are often terrified to mention their “competition” for fear of helping them .. This is a myth. To have a blog that is alive and vital you have to link out- especially to related blogs and your perceived competitors, especially if you want to gain credibility.
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