by Keith Keller | Nov 8, 2016 | GUEST BLOG POSTS: Social Media & SEO
THE RISE & FALL & REBIRTH OF DIGG Guest Blog Post By Sophia Williams There have been many thousands of websites which have come and gone ever since we were all introduced to the internet, with some casualties more high-profile than others. A prime example would be the social sharing site Digg. Digg was launched back in 2004 and quickly established a reputation as the go-to website for users who wanted to discover and subsequently share, some of the most interesting content around. At the peak, Digg was drawing well over 230 million visitors to the site on an annual basis, but the decline was perhaps as spectacular is its ascent, and just two years from hitting record visitor numbers, it had already hemorrhaged over a third of those visitors. This turned Digg into something that was hotter than the sun and there seemed to be no stopping it, racking up ever-increasing visitor numbers as the success story rolled on and the site just grew bigger and bigger. The infographic listed at the bottom of the article illustrates just how Digg managed to get to the top of the internet tree and what caused it to suffer a spectacular fall from grace. Some commentators seemed to view the decline of Digg with an air of inevitability and predicted that the site would become the first to die from what they termed as social fatigue. The argument goes that Digg ultimately failed the first time around because it became a victim of its own success, growing in popularity to such an extent that it reached a point where individuals...
by Keith Keller | May 10, 2016 | GUEST BLOG POSTS: Social Media & SEO
HOW TO USE STUMBLEUPON Get More Traffic To Your Blog With Social Bookmarking Guest Blog Post By Karen Repoli Where does your website traffic come from? Does it come from a specific social media platform more often than others? If you’re an online entrepreneur it’s extremely important you know the answer to these questions. When you know where your traffic comes from you learn where your target audience is and can adjust your marketing efforts accordingly. I was recently talking to Keith Keller regarding which social media platform works best in terms of traffic to our sites. I took a quick look at my statistics using Google Analytics and found that 70% of my website visitors came from StumpleUpon. That is significant so Keith asked if I could write a blog post about StumbleUpon and how it works. (Of course, the answer was YES!!) What Is StumbleUpon? StumbleUpon is a social bookmarking site. Like Delicious, Instapaper, and Google Bookmarks, it allows you to save links to articles for later reference and share them. The “Stumble!” toolbar also allows you to randomly discover new articles, based on your interests. It is also a social voting site similar to Digg and Reddit, it allows you to vote for videos, blog posts, images, and articles you find on the Internet. Finally, StumbleUpon is a discovery engine that recommends online content about most anything you can think of. Do you need information about blogging? Just type it in the search box and you will discover all the content you can read on the topic! StumbleUpon is one of the best traffic generators among the top social...
