Stats: How Much Traffic Does a Digg Send?

I’m in a statistical mood once again so this time I thought I would take a look to see if there is any correlation between the number of Digg’s a story gets to how many visitors it sends. I’ve taken one of our Social Media clients and analysed 15 of their stories that made the Digg front page.

These are stories that remained on the full page, in other words they didn’t get buried, and I’ve taken a look at all international traffic that Digg sent.

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comments 13 Comments / date December 19th, 2008 / category Social Media

Social Media Presence of the Top US Newspapers

A good friend of mine likes to call me ‘Mr Analytics‘ so I thought I would keep up the trend and get back into statistics mode. This time, I’ve taken the top 10 US newspapers in terms of distribution and scanned the web to see how well their online counterparts are doing within social media.

I usually conduct these sorts of tests out of personal curiosity but I also find it interesting to see whether the sites with the most traffic are doing well in social media or missing out on a huge traffic source.

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comments 12 Comments / date December 15th, 2008 / category Social Media

Rebranding ViperChill - Welcome to PluginHQ

I want to welcome you all to PluginHQ, the new site where I will be talking about all of the things you could find over at ViperChill, just over here. I’m sure you have a few questions running through your mind such as: “Why do it?”, “Aren’t you going to lose traffic?” or “What is the point?”.

To be honest, I didn’t even want to write this post, I would rather move on and get on with what ViperChill / PluginHQ are all about, writing amazing content on the subject of Internet Marketing / Business. However, this site has been around for 3 years now and I owe it to all readers to explain my decision about what is going on.

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comments Leave a Comment / date December 14th, 2008 / category PluginHQ

Case Study: Turning $100 into 10,000 visitors and 100+ Links

I’ve been testing out blogging in different niches lately, doing some posts for a personal site and also coming up with post ideas for clients. My experience is that there is a lot to gain from writing in a new niche, from learning how to network with zero status and using popular content ideas in an industry where they don’t exist.

This post is going to look at a simple tactic that brought over 10,000 visitors and hundreds of links that you can replicate today.

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comments 53 Comments / date September 22nd, 2008 / category Social Media

6 Sure-Fire Tactics to Re-Ignite your Linkbait

Do you ever think you’ve wrote the perfect viral piece, only to see it flop on Digg and other social sites? Or that because your content didn’t ‘make it’ there’s nothing else you can do?

I’m not one of these social media marketers that simply write about the topic (sadly, there are a lot of them), I work with some of the biggest companies in the world: consistently driving huge amounts of traffic. Today I’m going to share the exact methods I use to help promote linkbait even after it might not have done well initially.

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comments 19 Comments / date July 21st, 2008 / category Social Media

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