Showing posts with label myspace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label myspace. Show all posts
Friday, November 9, 2012
Hungry Cat -- Hanging Out in The Birdhouse
Is this hungry kitty particularly clever to hang out in the birdhouse? Only time will tell.
Friday, June 8, 2012
Fat indian kid dancing. The newest internet sensation? - TMF
It's a fat Indian kid ... that likes to dance. What more can I say?
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
How To Build a 1000 Hit Per Day Blog in 1 Year
Image via Wikipedia- 1,000+ entries
- Post 3-5x per day
- 50,000+ Twitter followers
- 10,000+ Facebook friends/Likes on blog page
- Well represented on Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, MySpace
- 100+ reciprocal links with blogs in niche (i.e. blogroll)
- Extensive use of multimedia (pictures, video, etc.) on blog
- Good design and content
1,000+ entries: Unless you're God's gift to blogging, you really need a lot of posts to generate large amounts of traffic. The more entries you have on a blog, the more chance that you have of getting visitors for "back end" or syndication traffic for posts that you wrote 6 months ago and forgot. With 1,000+ posts, you only have to rely on each post to generate 1 hit per day from syndication -- a pretty reasonable goal in my experience. Plus, search engines LOVE big blogs, and you're much more likely to get search traffic from a 1,000 entry blog than a 10 page blog, even if the 10 entry blog has a lot more useful content per entry.
Post 3-5x per day: I think that this point mostly follows from the arguments for a large blog above. If you can get about 50 visitors per day per post, then why not post 5x per day and get 50 visitors per time from your new posts alone? Besides, any good site need constant new content to keep it going. People don't tend to read most articles more than once, even if the article is well written. So, you have to keep feeding the beast.
For those of you who think this is posting too much, let me point out that most of the top 100 blogs post at least 20x per day with the Huffington Post putting up 200+ posts per day on most days. So, if you want traffic like TechCrunch, you have to post a lot -- just like TechCrunch does. Again, I never said it would be easy.
50,000+ Twitter followers: Twitter is a singularly useful tool for generating lots of blog traffic at a low cost. But, it's also a numbers game. The more people you have, the more traffic you can ultimately generate, even if a lot of your followers are bots or spammers. After all, you can ignore the spammers if necessary (like I do) with filters and just interact with your readers.
Also, the one year time frame for this is pretty doable. All you need to do is add about 150 people per day, which is very realistic through using a service like justunfollow.com and adding/subtracting around 300-400 people per day on average.
10,000 Facebook friends/Likes on blog page: The logic for this is pretty similar to the Twitter followers statement above. The more people you have seeing/thinking about your blog everyday, the more chances you have to attract readers and visitors. Again, it's ultimately a numbers game, especially as far as social media is concerned.
If you can manage to get as little as 30 people either friending or liking your Facebook account and page per day, you can hit 10,000 in a year's time.
Well represented on Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, MySpace: The logic here is pretty much the same as the argument for having lots of Twitter followers. Again, the more tentacles that you have in cyberspace, the more chances someone has to find your blog.
100+ reciprocal links with blogs in niche (i.e. blogroll): This point was one that took me a while to realize, but it's a point well worth mentioning. A lot of the bigger blogs, especially those by names like Problogger or John Chan, tend to share a lot of traffic. So, while other bloggers in your niche are your competitors, they are also strangely allies in driving traffic to your blog (and vice versa).
If you can manage to add just two reciprocal links per week, this is an easily obtainable goal in a year's time.
If possible, you should establish reciprocal blogs links with as many of these other bloggers as possible, even if the other blog doesn't have a huge following (yet).
Extensive use of multimedia (pictures, video, etc.) on blog: Sometimes when I'm visiting a blog, I'm looking to read a novel. Sometimes, I'm just looking to watch a funny video or see some cool pictures. Your blog should have both, at least as much as possible. Some of my highest traffic blog entries are where I link to pictures or lists of images.
Good design and content: Ultimately, it doesn't matter how good you are at using social media and SEO to drive traffic to your blog. If your content or layout for your blog is crappy, people aren't going to come back (or stay for very long once they arrive). Content really is king, especially if you expect your posts to generate a lot of traffic in syndication.
I hope that I've given people a good understanding of how it should be possible (at least in theory) to generate 1,000 blog visitors per day in a year or less. Good luck in the blogsphere!
Sunday, May 8, 2011
How to Automatically Add 1000+ Followers Per Day on MySpace with IMarco Script
Image via CrunchBase1. Download the IMacros Add-on for Firefox: I believe that this script will work also if you have the full edition of IMacros, but I haven't checked that personally yet. The full version of IMacros requires you to pay after a 30 day free trial, and I think that software, like sex, is best when it's free :) So, I just downloaded the add-on, which I know is free.
To download the add-on, go to the IMacros add-on website and click the green download button. Follow the instructions on the website (and leave me a comment if you have any problems).
2. Run the following IMacros script: I wrote this simple little script to automatically add people. The link to the script is here. In case that doesn't work here is the text of the script:
VERSION BUILD=7210419 RECORDER=FXTo explain, the first three lines of the script take you to the "People You May Know" section of the MySpace website. The fourth line selects all of the people on that page, the fifth line clicks the "Friend" button, and the sixth line selects "Ok" in the dialogue box that pops up to add the people as friends. The seventh line is to allow the MySpace website to send out friend requests to all of the people you just added before trying to load a new page. So, you can add edit the script if needed.
TAB T=1
URL GOTO=http://www.myspace.com/my/pymk?view=grid
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:CHECKBOX ATTR=ID:selectAll CONTENT=YES
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Friend
TAG POS=1 TYPE=BUTTON ATTR=TXT:OK
WAIT SECONDS=12
I am not sure why, but the add limits in MySpace are currently broken, meaning that you can get away with making copious amounts of friend requests per day. Even if MySpace ever fixes this glitch, you can still use it to add people up to the friend limit for the day.
Is MySpace dying? Maybe. Will MySpace eventually fix the glitch that allows someone to make friend requests like this? Almost certainly. However, for right now, this program program works, so enjoy :)
Here is a gratuitous shot of a pretty girl for you to enjoy:
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| Gratuitous Shot of a Pretty Girl |
Leave a comment if you have any questions.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Social Networks and Blog Promotion: Which Ones Work and Which Don't
Image by jerandsar via FlickrHere are the networks that work well to attract traffic, in the approximate order of how many followers they attract. Also, a small explanation of why the work (or not) is included to the side.
1. Twitter: In my opinion, Twitter is the "gold standard" when it comes to attracting traffic to your website. In general, I count on a minimum of about 1 viewer per 1,000 followers per day, assuming that I update regularly. If you have more engaged followers than I do, you'll probably have more hits from them too. In any case, Twitter is a godsend for blogging. I actually get about 33-50% of all my daily traffic from Twitter, and I only have about 20,000 followers.
2. Facebook: The Facebook account that I have associated with my blog is relatively newer, but I'm still seeing good results from the initial trials. With only about 200 friends, I'm seeing about 2 hits per day originating from Facebook -- results even better than Twitter per capita. Of course, if you have friends and family on your blog Facebook page (as opposed to strangers), I would expect that you would see higher traffic from this. However, Facebook is still below Twitter in my estimation because it's much harder to add new followers -- meaning that even a lower rate of click through from Twitter will win in the end through sheer volume.
3. Digg/Reddit: It depends on which "camp" you're in here (team werewolf vs. team vampire guy anyone?) but both services are marginally successful in driving traffic to a blog. Both have problems, however. In the case of Reddit, they like to block users who submit a lot of articles to Reddit from a blog, and they are difficult to deal with in general. Also, the interface sucks rocks. For Digg, they have a much cleaner interface and are much more lenient on submission, but they send a lot less traffic to a blog per article submitted. I guess which one (or preferably both) of these sites you use depends on your approach to blogging. More articles -- Digg is better. Fewer, higher quality articles -- use Reddit.
4. Myspace: In theory, this dying giant of a social network site should send lots of hits to my blog -- in theory. In practice, my 1,000 plus followers have generated very few hits for my blog -- probably because many of them no longer use the service.
5. Stumbleupon: I have blogger friends that swear by this, but I've never seen a large number of hits coming from that site. For each article I submit, I can usually expect a maximum of five hits to my blog from that site, I think that the problem here is that they receive such a high volume of article submissions that most of your articles are never "stumbled upon" by the site's bots.
In summary, all social networks are good to some extent to drive traffic to your blog, but some are better than others.
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