news2 and smi2: experience in promoting news networks
Or, especially for traffic from sotsialok.
As you may remember, recently, on June 17 was the day downloads of Firefox 3. 17 th June is already in the morning, at 9-00 Lifehacker.com published a damning article titled Power User's Guide to Firefox 3. The article turned into cash, and brought them to 3047 votes on Digg, 234.835 views and 256 comments. Since I signed up for updates Lifehacker, I learned about this article of mail as much on June 20 in the morning.
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 a different name: Firefox 3: 10 hacks for fine tuning your browser. This was done deliberately, as well as a request to vote on the text of the article on the blog. As a result, the news was about the same number of votes (47 to news2 and 48 on smi2).
Herewith:
- Profile on news2 pristine, like the second from the end, credibility = 0.
- Profile on smi2 sufficiently weighty, 7 level at the time, a feature of sending the recommendation and all that.
And yet, despite all the rumors about that, they 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 spiders and waited for the results.
Results were not slow: 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 during the week since the publication of news.
Figure 2. Wave of traffic. From Friday to Friday.
Such a picture. If you do compare, for example, news2 smi2 and the number of readers and presented in attendance themselves news resources, it becomes clear that nothing is clear. Judge for yourself: at the bottom of the picture counters Li.ru. In attendance counters smi2 more than news2, from 2 to 5 times. And the hits to the site with less in the same 5-fold despite again on prokachanny profile and all that. At that news smi2 hung in the overall Top a couple of days exactly without any emissions and Ascension, and on the news it was only in a separate Top of the software, to which we must still try to get there.
Figure 3. Attendance resources news2.ru and smi2.ru according Li.ru
That's it. Without going into mysticism, is very clear share of the news networks. And the fact that a known unwound network smi2 in the grand total came to 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;
- sloger.net - 65;
- -23;
- socialink.ru -2.
It would be possible to test network and the latest sotsialschinu But second, if, again, I'm not mistaken, opened almost a few days, but the first I forgot banal (robots do not elephants to remember everything:)
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. And to push yourself to the news softodrom like tells me the same "something" would be a bit difficult.
Hence the conclusion: publish news on regular news networks, in the right section, and even better, if possible, in the thematic news network, if any of your subjects. If not - we must organize, since now it is not difficult.
Second. Correctly identify their news.
I. .. write to the issues of the day. This is most important.
And another thing: time - your capital. So look, that brings great results for the same investment of time.
Some of those sotsialok I made to plug buttons bookmarkz, displayed at the end of each post. In the end, there will remain the most needed sotsialka runet.
Firefox, clarifications, corrections made in the comments.
Blogobzor: Dmitri Rogov invented to collect on one page the best articles from webmasters blogs Runet . Incidentally, the above article there is also present.
Distribution of seven-digit number .
Yes, but only with my help was produced 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 I had never known:)
July 4, 2008 at 00:58
Heh, good to know that almost sloger third place:) And if we remove from the first line Softodrom:)
And about smi2.ru and attendance - I watched, analyzed. I can not believe that they are twice the pull news2.ru ... Though of course I could be wrong. :)
July 4, 2008 at 01:00
According feel there is no movement at all. As such attendance (on the meter) flying will never touching - a riddle
July 4, 2008 at 1:27
Counter wind the 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 of the visitors to slogere with the banner goes for news passed 13 out of 65 visitors, 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 traffic is taken bloggers who managed to break into the Popular section.
July 4, 2008 at 1:39
Well, this news was popular:)
July 4, 2008 at 02:00
Yes, and for 11 days had gone right on to the fourth page:)
Of course slogeru is where to grow. But the goal is not to achieve some indicators Traphen, PR or position in the sickle. The goal is to make interesting and useful service. And the fact that he has a large number of imitators for a short time interval suggests that the idea of necessary and useful.
July 4, 2008 at 10:06
on smi2 just badly not bury the news ... you can acrobystitis their posts, for instance, and not run into the shovel
July 4, 2008 at 10:47
Similarly, only approved automatically, without even reading the news. The pursuit of ratings, which get to smi2 much easier, makes men robots: (
But this example is indicative to the news never buried, even news2, although there are goraaazdo critical to the quality add news.
And - my personal feeling, the audience news2 seems mature.
I do not oppose smi2, I like their concept and I am actively use this service, but still some sense of "toy":)
July 4, 2008 at 14:16
Good time of day. If you are going to conduct this experiment again, please turn back and monrate.ru By the way, I invite submissions for their articles there, just not enough analysts.
July 4, 2008 at 14:50
Mandatory coverage and this social departament.
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 sotsialka preferred, although I think that all is still some news with links to add in those social sphere, 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 fit the theme, generally good.