news2 and smi2: experience in promoting news networks
Or especially receiving traffic from sotsialok.
As you may remember, recently, on June 17, was a day of downloading Firefox 3. 17 th June is already in the morning, at 9-00 Lifehacker.com murderous published an article titled Power User's Guide to Firefox 3. This article received in cash and brought them the 3047 vote on digg, 234.835 views and 256 comments. Since I subscribed to updates Lifehacker, I learned about this article of mail in 20 the morning of June.
The thought flashed and then faded, giving way to action: to dinner 20 June, I published a translation of articles on fine-tuning the new Firefox3, calling it Firefox 3: 10 tips and tricks.
The news was added to news2 and smi2 under several different names: Firefox 3: 10 hacks for fine tuning your browser. This was done deliberately, as well as a request to vote in the text of the article on the blog. As a result, news was about the same number of votes (47 to news2 and 48 on smi2).
Herewith:
- Profile on news2 virgin state, like the second from the end, credibility = 0.
- Profile on smi2 fairly hefty, 7 level at the time, a feature of sending the recommendation and all that.
And yet, despite all the rumors about that, say, to bury news2 news, published with their own blogs, this news is equally highly rated and here and there. I must say That good news will not be buried.
"- What a blessed event for comparison sotsialok" - thought the search robot and waited for the results.
The results did not hesitate: for the first day, but it was Friday, it's 328 visitors on Saturday 483.
Weekly article in 1626 brought the visitors.
It's time to figure out which of sotsialok yielded a maximum in order to draw conclusions and do not waste your time on the notorious slag.
So, summing up.
Figure 1. Traffic per week since the publication of news.
Figure 2. Wave of traffic. From Friday to Friday.
Such a picture. If you take the comparison, for example, news2 and smi2 the number listed on the attendance of readers and news sources themselves, it becomes clear that nothing is clear. Judge for yourself: at the bottom of the picture counters Li.ru. For free visitor smi2 more than news2, from 2 to 5 times. And the hits to the site with less, in the same 5-fold despite again pumped to the profile and all that. At the same time to hanging smi2 news in general TOP of a couple of days exactly without any precipitates, and ascension, and the news it was only in a separate on TOP of software, to which we must still try to get there.
Figure 3. Attendance resources news2.ru and smi2.ru according Li.ru
That's all. Without going into mysticism, is very clear share of the news networks. And the fact that a known-promoted network smi2 in the grand total came almost as many people as the new social network for bloggers Which About something so he says. Look at all the participants of the experiment.
- news2 -368 persons;
- smi2 - 82 people;
- sloger.net - 65;
- -23;
- socialink.ru -2.
We could test the network and the latest sotsialschinu , But the second, if, again, I'm not mistaken, almost opened the other day, but the first I forgot banal (robots elephants to remember all that:)
If you notice, the lion's share of traffic has brought still not news2, and news.softodrom.ru. But something tells me that the admin with softodroma found this news at the same news2. A push yourself to the news softodrom, I suggest the same "something" would be a little difficult.
Hence the conclusion: publish news on regular news networks in the right section, or even better, if possible, in the thematic news network, if any of your topics. If not - we must organize, good now is not difficult.
Second. Correctly identify their news.
I. .. write on topics of the day. This is the most important.
And: time - your capital. So look, what brings better results for the same investment of time.
Some of these sotsialok I made to plug buttons bookmarkz, displayed at the end of each post. In the end, there will most needed sotsialki runet.
Additions, clarifications, corrections made in the comments.
Cross-blog survey: Dmitri Rogov invented to collect on one page the best articles from blogs vebmasterskih Runet. Incidentally, the above article there will also be present.
Distribution of seven-digit number .
Yes, but only with my help was made 8 002 530 downloads. :)
July 4, 2008 at 00:53
Hopefully in the next report chipp takes a higher place than the void :-)
July 4, 2008 at 00:57
Just in this case Chipp was not yet known to me:)
July 4, 2008 at 00:58
Heh, good to know that almost sloger third place:) And if we remove the first line Softodrom:)
And about smi2.ru and their attendance - I watched, analyzed. I can not believe that they have twice pulled news2.ru ... Though of course I could be wrong. :)
July 4, 2008 at 01:00
According sensations there is no movement at all. As such attendance (on the meter) flies would not touching - the riddle
July 4, 2008 at 01:27
Counter to wind snap ...
And on slogere attendance is growing, and I think that if your ekspreiment be held a week later, we would have left smi2 behind.
July 4, 2008 at 01:32
Yes, but most visitors to slogere with the banner goes to news passed 13 attendees from 65, which is also in-general, significantly.
July 4, 2008 at 01:37
News quickly go down, I am sure that the lion's share of the traffic pick up bloggers who managed to break into the Popular section.
July 4, 2008 at 01:39
Well, this news was popular:)
July 4, 2008 at 02:00
Yes, and for 11 days went right on to the 4th page:)
Course slogeru is where to grow. But the goal is not to achieve some indicators cores, PR or positions in SERPs. The goal is to make interesting and useful service. And the fact that he has a large number of imitators for a small period of time indicates that the idea of necessary and useful.
July 4, 2008 at 10:06
to smi2 simply does not instill much news ... you can post and their posts, for example, and not to run the shovel
July 4, 2008 at 10:47
Similarly, only approved automatically, without even reading the news. The quest for ratings that get on smi2 much easier, makes men robots: (
But this example is indicative fact, the news never buried, even news2, although there are more critical to the quality goraaazdo add news.
And - my personal feeling, the audience seems news2 adults.
I do not oppose smi2, I like their concept and I will actively use this service, but there is some sense of "toy":)
July 4, 2008 at 14:16
Good time of day. If you are going to conduct a similar experiment again, please turn back and monrate.ru By the way, I invite submissions from there his articles, just not enough analysts.
July 4, 2008 at 14:50
Mandatory coverage, and this sotsialku.
July 4, 2008 at 17:00
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July 17, 2008 at 01:44
Thanks for the analysis sotsialok. Just starting to learn. I would know how sotsialkam preferred, although I think that everything is still some news with links to add in those sotsialki, from which smaller parish. The more options the better, like, properly understand the essence of progress.
July 17, 2008 at 22:53
2 Richman: is correct, the more options the better. If sotsialka suits on, do well.