Jan 8 2008

Social Media Could Put You on the Map

In our last Comment Friday I was asked if I thought it was worth spending time and trying to “crack” social media. The simple answer is hell yes. Many bloggers have received social media ‘stardome’ and constant diggs, stumbles and votes. They never looked back and earn thousands of dollars a month.

Social Networking

My favorite things about social media and networking is that it’s free and it’s fun. Personally I’ve mostly worked on building my stumbleupon profile and account. Now I have over 1,000 stumbles and close to 200 fans. The way I achieved this has been to mention my profile a lot and simply ask for people to add me as friends. I’ve also run promotions offering stumbles for those who have added me. This in turn makes my stumbleupon more “powerful” because these people are now subscribed to my stumbles. When I submit something, when my friends stumble they will likely see that page.

Not only does this provide my own articles more traffic but also the articles I enjoy. All it took was my time and energy, the rest is free traffic and growing my sites and others.

It’s Worth It

Before John Chow was the blogging mogul that he is, it started with being dugg a hell of a lot. He was a digg machine. That somehow put him on the map, I don’t think he would of built his ’empire’ as fast without it.

Problogger recently mentioned two bloggers that I only know by their social user and name, not by their blogs.

Shana aka TheNanny12 is popular on several social media sites, I mostly see her on stumbleupon and sphinn. She recently wrote 5 Reasons My Stumbleupon Profile Stands Out, which mentions the Problogger article as well.

Another name mentioned in Probloggers article was Muhammad Saleem who has become a Digg top user. Lots of the articles he submits goes popular, I’m often voting for them. His own personal blog is about social media strategy, which I’ve just subscribed to.

One that wasn’t mentioned is DoshDosh. Besides writing essays for articles and being one of the top blogs out there, he is also a very active and popular social media user. He went from just another .blogspot blog to a top blog in his niche. Did social media give him that boost he needed?


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    1. Half Year Traffic Round-up | Blog About Your Blog wrote:

      […] Social Media Could Put You On The Map […]

      July 7th, 2008 at 5:29 am
    1. How To Rule The World said:

      It think it is becoming widely known that the top active users on the social media sites are the ones that get pages to the home page. Taking an active approach to this can on be beneficial. Now you just need to figure out how to squeeze it into your schedule

      January 8th, 2008 at 9:20 am
    2. Matthew Henrickson said:

      for a while i was doing more social media than promoting. Its all time management like you said

      January 8th, 2008 at 11:06 am
    3. Shana Albert said:

      Hey Matthew,

      Great post & Thanks for the mention!! 🙂

      It’s so true how doing Social Media Activities can totally put you on the Map. It’s happened to many. And, like you say in this post…. not only doing Social Media Activities increase traffic to your site and to the sites you like, but it is also fun. So, it’s a win-win situation!! 🙂

      Keep up the great work.

      Shana

      January 8th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
    4. Erica DeWolf said:

      Great post! It is so true that social media can put you on the map…take for example Vincent Ferrari’s recorded call with AOL when he was trying to cancel his AOL account. He posted the audio file and an accompanied post on his blog, submitted the story to Digg, and was interviewed on CNBC less than a week later. If the post is relevant, fun, funny, or interesting. That’s all it’ll take!

      January 9th, 2008 at 11:21 am
    5. Malin said:

      I think social media activities takes too much time, time that I don’t have. But hey, there is no doubt that it works.

      January 9th, 2008 at 11:26 am
    6. Brandon said:

      I agree with Malin that it takes a lot of time, but I think that social networking is too important to ignore.

      The problem is that I’ve been quietly making money online for years and I was even one of the first stumbleupon members back in the day. However, I ignored the social networking side of things until now. I wish I hadn’t! But now, despite a fully loaded schedule of client projects, I’m still trying to juggle in time to start building my profiles and network of friends online. 🙂

      -Brandon

      January 9th, 2008 at 11:36 am
    7. Matthew Henrickson said:

      Thanks Shana for stopping by 🙂 Glad you enjoyed the post.

      It does take time, but not all at once. To build a powerful stumble profile takes a while to do. By taking a little time each day for social media it’s achievable

      January 9th, 2008 at 12:00 pm

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