I Love The Web 2.0, I Also Love What Works
Posted on 6:59 am by Paul ColliganI should file this under a "fun with numbers" category - or something like that - but this should be fun.
I figured my "7 Ways The Apple TV Is A Game Changer" piece would help bring some of that viral 2.0 ish traffic. Here’s how I did …
My Twitters … 8 clicks.
The Facebook … 9 clicks.
That Traffic Powerhouse Digg … 19 clicks.
StumbleUpon.com … 293 clicks.
Yup, them Web 2.0 clicks are the ones that work, right?
Now, about MacSurfer.com … no RSS … no edged corners … no funky spelling … no Web 2.0 luv at all …
They sent me 834 clicks.
Yup, go with what works people.
Tags: twitter, facebook, stumbleupon, macsurfer.com
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3 Comments »
February 14, 2008
James Wadsworth said:
I totally agree, target your audience where it is. In many cases, that won’t be some web 2.0 site.
February 14, 2008
Mike Wills said:
I think I figured out your problem with some of these sites.
Twitter - In some cases there is so much chatter, things will just slip by un-noticed.
Facebook - Same thing if it was just listed in the feed. Plus Facebook doesn’t display everything for everyone, so it can fall through the cracks.
StumbleUpon - While I still don’t know what all it has, randomly hitting a site is well… random.
Digg - Based upon assumptions of late, good luck hitting the front page with anything.
I think social media is getting too cluttered with things that many important things fall through the cracks. Just like many great podcasts, unless that one person of note notices it and really talks about it, it just falls through the cracks as just “another podcast”. Are we developing social media cliques??
February 16, 2008
Christopher Brown said:
For the record, I found your site through macsurfer - the 7 ways article. And then I subscribed. I think there’s a lot of us who still use the old web and the new web (I’m using both tonight from Dhaka, Bangladesh on a pretty snappy connection, hampered only by the occasional loss of electricity which is common in Dhaka - lack of electricity puts me at Web 0.0, I suppose).