Funny how the Social Network scene has changed over the years. The only one I recognize here is Twitter.
So I am now making an attempt to get more of my writing into the social media sites and see if this helps out any.
I have found that Stumbleupon does actually bring a fairly regular number of readers according to google analytics, but I am not sure about the rest of the regular culprits:
- Digg seems to be interesting, but I am not too sure how much traffic actually comes from there, and I have yet to get past about 15 diggs.
- Yahoo Buzz? Who knows about that one, I add things there assuming that it helps the Yahoo Search ‘bots to find their way to my posts?
- Google Buzz? Again, not much coming from here either, and not a lot of folks seem to care about this too much.
- OldDogg, is an interesting one, I am not sure about it, but it is supposed to be quite good.
- Tip’d? Getting nothing much of interest from there but I attempt to keep going with that one.
- Twitter? I hope it is bringing something, it is allowing me to expose some of my older work that is for sure.
- Zoomit.ca seems interesting, but again, I really am not sure about how much traffic might come from here either.
Reddit seems to have locked me out for some reason, so I don’t even try to use it any more.
I am using Digg Digg as a WordPress plug-in to help folks easily “push” my stories as well.
Social Network Revisited
Since I wrote this the entire face of things has changed.
- Facebook is the true Social Media Network
- Twitter continues on Happily
- Linked-in has some traction in spots
- Tumblr is still around but is it relevant?
- Reddit is a center of information good and bad, but I never quite got the hang of it.