Comments on: Social Media – Under the Microscope

By: Dino Dogan

Dino Dogan — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:39:57 +0000

Great article. But wait…I got more

When you first start out, as a business, you want to attract traffic at all cost. This is just reality and most biz owners dont care how its done…just bring me analytics and show me that my thousands of dollars did something…anything.

Social Bookmarking brings this traffic in and allows SEO dudes to show…something, because biz owners want to see…something.

Talk about the need for unlearning, ey?

Im not going to call you out on your lack of scientific detachment when you said that your experiment confirmed your suspicion…oh wait..I guess I just did..lol

So, the questions becomes can a site cash in on the traffic site. Im betting if you have google ads on your site (not that Im an advocate for google ads, just the devil If the site DID cash in on the traffic spike the site owner wouldnt mind some spam in the comments section.

This ties in into your observation that the interwebs are the domain of technical and marketing folks. Right on the nose.

Also, I was ROTFLMAO when you said social media is in its terrible twos….that line split me lol

great site, new find.

I’ll be back (read in your best terminator voice)

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 14 May 2010 21:20:47 +0000

I got dugg once about three years ago, to the tune of around 300 hits. It crashed my WP site (pair.com decided it was too much traffic and unfair to others on the server, so they yanked me during my one brief moment of fame, hehe). No long-term affects, although it’s a lesser site I don’t do a whole lot with either. It certainly was an exciting day, though.

By: Emilio

Emilio — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:03:23 +0000

Hey Matt,

This is some COOL stuff.

Wondering what else do we need to know?

Without Analytics, it’s just “playing business”

Thanks!
~Emilio

By: bakhard

bakhard — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:32:38 +0000

Hi matt
his is the best article I have found so far about getting into Social Media Analytics.

By: Eric Goldstein

Eric Goldstein — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:39:33 +0000

Hey Matt…

Great info here. I’m with you on
marketing not just being about one
channel.

Too many people get stuck on that
and they put all of their eggs in
on basket.

Thanks for the valuable article:)

By: killey Normal

killey Normal — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:01:51 +0000

Hi to all
i think organic traffic will be better than the social media and so all the blogger will be helpful in getting the much and targeted Technics and i will say social media all be coming for large scale companies and small to
thanks to all readers.

By: Yosef Solomon

Yosef Solomon — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:19:59 +0000

It’s seems as though Social Media has definitely evolved over the past couple of years since this article was written. I defintely agree that getting your site on Stumble, Digg, Reddit etc.. are at times only quick means of traffic, but they still establish brand recognition possible subscribers.

By: killey

killey — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:00:55 +0000

“Social media and SEO are now inextricably linked. You couldn’t separate ’em if you tried.” – Ian Lurie.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:12:41 +0000

Thats true organic traffic always works best,i believe social media is actually about interaction with people it should not be compared to organic methods.

By: copynprofit scam

copynprofit scam — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:56:52 +0000

I agree with you, social media traffic is a joke when it comes to internet marketing and especially affiliate marketing. A blogger might benefit from bursts of untargeted traffic but a marketer Is seriously wasting time over at the social network sites. You need 10k uniques a day to make 50-100 bucks and someday you make no money on 10k unique social browsers. To sell products online you must have target traffic and that is organic traffic only. Nice post Matt.