Comment Friday for March 28th
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I just got back from a game of mini-golf. On the ride I realized I had to write up Comment Friday! I’ve got a big to-do list around here so let’s get started.
If this is your first Comment Friday we give one lucky person a free weekly blogroll spot as our “blog of the week“. Along with that we are also giving that winner 200 entrecard credits.
With our recent social media articles, I thought it would be an excellent Comment Friday topic. I want to know, what is your best experience with social media? Whether it is a meaningful comment, a bunch of participation, votes, or loads of traffic. I want to know! Happy Friday.
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rodaniel said:
I’ve had a dab of success with social media sites, but the influx of traffic is always very brief. I think of the hits my site get swith these as Internet junk food – very tasty, gives you a quick buzz, then it’s gone.
March 28th, 2008 at 12:15 am -
Rhys said:
The best result was on Retro Garden, an article was stumbled a hell of a lot and got around 1,000 hits.
March 28th, 2008 at 1:30 am -
Shamelle said:
noticeable difference
* Attractive headlines matter!
* I have a few readers who have turned out to be regulars ones.
* Significant increase in feed subscriptionMarch 28th, 2008 at 2:10 am -
RandomThinker said:
I’ve had limited success with social media sites. I had a few stumbles that generated around 500 visits, but the bounce rate was very high so they likely didn’t stick around.
I’m actually having great success with a site called Blogsvine where they don’t penalize you for submitting your own material. It’s not so much of a networking tool as many other sites, but more of a way to get your content out in front for at least a few minutes. Seems to work for me.
March 28th, 2008 at 4:11 am -
Malin said:
It must be the traffic, I don’t think so many people would have visited my posts if it weren’t for sites like SU.
March 28th, 2008 at 4:51 am -
Owen said:
Well .. not quite sure if this fits the criteria but I had an awesome experience yesterday. A friend sent me a message on Twitter to try out a plugin called Zemanta (waits for you to blog then suggests additional content for your post). I installed it, but it didn’t work so I blogged about my experience. My blog post was echoed in Twitter and within a couple of minutes, one of their staff was talking to me (using the Google Talkback widget on my blog) to walk me through the problems I had with their plugin.
There’s a bunch of social media tools in there … but the main thing was, it was a brilliant consumer experience!
March 28th, 2008 at 9:46 am -
Matthew Henrickson said:
thanks for sharing everyone.
that sounds interesting owen. Its amazing whenever I write about a big company and I get staff to discuss with. That happened with sponsored reviews, which was cool.
My favorite social media experiences had to be when I first went popular on digg even though it took down our server. The other is when our post Stumbleupon Using Captcha went crazy and received 2500 hits in a day
March 28th, 2008 at 10:11 am -
kidblogger said:
My best experience was when stumble upon delivered me like 2000 visitors 🙂
March 28th, 2008 at 10:19 am -
deloresdefacto said:
I’ve had repeated shouts via Digg users and I’ve gotten some nice comments on my links through StumbleUpon. As far as how many readers I get through a social media site I’d have to be honest and say it’s through Google image searches. {shrug}
Man, I miss mini-golf…
March 28th, 2008 at 10:31 am -
Anne-Marie said:
Stumble Upon still reigns supreme as the best traffic getter. But I’m enjoying the mom, health, and food niche social networking bookmarkeing sites like sk*rt, Mom Blog Network, Health Ranker and Foodbuzz. Doing more networking on those sites and I like the content I find there better.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:13 am -
Fool said:
I am just happy I found entrecard the community is great and it seems like a big family! I have only been in the community for a month, but it seems like a great place to share blogging thoughts. Thank you all!
March 28th, 2008 at 11:15 am -
Erica said:
My best experience with social media was a mixed blessing. A post on our blog was stumbled and since early Feb. has received over 100,000 pageviews (and still receives a few hundred a day) – but some comments left were negative, and our shared hosting couldn’t hold up! An unanticipated positive outcome was many, many linkbacks 🙂
March 28th, 2008 at 12:20 pm -
Dennis Edell said:
Reader and subscribers, but I think the best of all is finding new/cool/interesting blogs/sites/people that I wouldn’t normally during “casual surf”.
Even some very potential business partners/associates.
Ok, a little carried aways with the /// but they work better then commas 🙂
March 28th, 2008 at 1:05 pm -
Dennis Edell said:
That shoulda been readerS, sorry. Hard to have 1 reader and multiple subscribers lol.
March 28th, 2008 at 1:07 pm -
Jim said:
Always gotta remember to enter in that comment friday! Thanks for the contest 😉
March 28th, 2008 at 3:45 pm -
Jodith said:
I’ve got a fan!
I’ve been so busy with Entrecard this week, I haven’t been paying much attention to Stumble. I went and checked it a few minutes ago…and I’ve got a fan!
I know 1 fan doesn’t mean much to most people, but it just tickles the heck out of me *laughs*.
March 28th, 2008 at 6:00 pm -
Matthew Henrickson said:
I thought Owen left a great comment, so he is this weeks winner 🙂
March 30th, 2008 at 12:50 pm -
Owen said:
Thanks Matthew. Much appreciated 😉
March 30th, 2008 at 1:08 pm -
Matthew Henrickson said:
thanks for your comment, i have sent your credits as well 😀
March 30th, 2008 at 1:12 pm