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10 Ways to Improve Blog Traffic in 30 Minutes or Less

Went Hot: April 14, 2008 - 10:50 pm
Posted By: bwelford 449 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.problogger.net)
Category: Blogging

Every suggestion in this is well worth considering. A must-read post on getting more traffic that should give you at least one new thought.

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from bwelford 449 days ago #

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Thinking further, the author did not follow one of his own rules which is not to post your better posts on a weekend. However as a guest author perhaps it wasn't his decision. :)

from jansie 446 days ago #

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this is a great post. good find mr welford!

from bwelford 446 days ago #

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Watch it with the mr, jansie. It's Barry. :)

from bwelford 446 days ago #

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I guess it's real cool when an item can get to 27 sphinns without going hot, but something seems to be wrong. Perhaps a mod can signal that this one is ready to leave the oven. :)

from nowsourcing 446 days ago # - show/hide this comment

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Up to 29 sphinns. This is getting damn entertaining! :)

from kevinheisler 446 days ago #

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I'll see your 29 nowsourcing and raise you 5 - saw your sphinn post on twitter, Brian
do I hear 35?

from problogger 446 days ago #

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thanks for the Sphinns folks - it was a great guest post, glad others enjoyed it too.

from Burgo 446 days ago #

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Weird... how long does a submission have to go hot these days?

from nowsourcing 446 days ago #

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Anyone ever see the movie Vanilla Sky?

Tech Support!

from MattMcGee 446 days ago #

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I'm torn ... as a mod, I can push this hot. But sometimes diagnosing a problem means leaving it intact, y'know? I'll send an email.....

from JohnWeb 446 days ago #

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Considering there is 4 day old stuff on the hot page maybe it would be a good idea to actually have stuff that is hot go on there....:)

from bwelford 446 days ago #

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This really is rather fun. It's a new form of marketing. It's called Stealth Sphinning. How high can it go before it burns up in flames. :) Now 38 and counting. .. on further thought, why not just leave it. Hot is sometimes over-rated.

from Michelle 446 days ago #

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Hi All - Dropping a note here to explain the problem with this one going Hot. We have a 2 day (48 hour) window from submission time to when a post can go Hot. This post was submitted (per the db timestamp) at 6:42am on 4/12. As of that same time this morning, there were only 16 sphinns. Sphinn number 17 came in at 12:37 pm and the other 20 followed thereafter. If an item has not gone hot within 48 hours of submission, regardless of number of sphinns, it never will, without moderator intervention.

The real problem is that items seem to be still displaying on the What's New page up to 3 days (disappearing at precisely 72 hours from the submission time). I'm going to look into that and correct it so that submissions disappear at 48 hours, and that should help end the confusion.

edit: When I say "disappear" - that doesn't mean the posts are discarded or removed, they simply fall off the "What's New" page. They can still be accessed directly, or via the Greatest Hits page.

from Burgo 446 days ago #

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Thought that the time factor was the reason :)

from bwelford 446 days ago #

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Thanks for the explanation, Michelle. This gives even greater weight to one of the rules in the item on not posting items during the weekend. If the 48 hours starts on a Saturday morning, then the only chance for it to go hot is to have an A-list personality attached to it in some way. The other item I posted about Aaron Wall had no trouble going hot well within the weekend. Perhaps Saturday and Sunday should only count as half-days in this calculation, since probably more than half the audience is missing. :)

from neelakanthap 446 days ago #

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Great post!

from RedEvo 446 days ago #

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back to the topic of the post.......... ;)

Good list, mostly common sense though I would have thought. But then, common sense isn't that common in webland ;)