Published: May 11, 2008 - 03:17 pm
Story Found By: Lid 1373 Days ago
Category: SEM
13 Comments
13 Comments
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Hey Lid, thanks, but this here will fail too as you submitted my homepage ;-)
hmmm... good thing youre on another continent. It is such a good post; im sorry I mucked it for you. Lets hope the Sphinn team take pity on a dopey woman :)For anyone wanting to see the post later try: http://seo2.0.onreact.com/top-10-reasons-why-great-content-fails-on-social-media
Lid, very good article. I have gone through. But accept the fact that great content sometime fails get the proper attention.
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Rob - thank you!
OK, so now I can vote for it :-)
Trying to help you beat the weekend effect. :)This is a really great article, Tad. Youve got all the important points mentioned. Normally I like to add something to the conversation. In this case, youve got it all. I think timing coupled with giving an initial boost are the most important, but theyre all good.
Good post, but I think the comments relating to the submitter are a little unfair (albeit accurate). Yes... submission by a newbie will mean the article receives less exposure. But thats the nature of social media. We cant control who finds and submits our work (most of the time). Using language such as nobody to describe newbies is a little unfair. Theyre simply trying to help build their own brand. And to say bloggers hate it when this happens is also controversial in my mind...
I agree fully with the time zone point. I live in South Africa and so get to work when most in the US go to sleep, I often get to read and sphinn great articles, but because I do it in the morning this side while most of the US is asleep they dont get that much attention, although they are awesome articles.
It fails becuase you dont have enough Sphinn and Stumble friends, lol
I think youve nailed it on the head incrediblehelp... :)
yup incredible, i think you resumed it in a sentence.you just cannot be a casual poster on bookmarking sites (including Sphinn) if you want to do well on them. Im not entirely blaming social media marketers, but it seems that most of the people that do well on these sites are also the top posters. this means that like display advertising, power is to the one that does most, not the one that does the best. For example, I believe PPC posts add the most value, and put the most knowledge out there (not for you, but for your client; thats the aim isnt it?) because they relate to your clients media spend as opposed to how you spend your client hours doing SEO or SEM. However, since PPCers dont spend their entire day submitting posts and building relationships, they dont usually reach front page.... and thats why we need a SMM to sphinn/digg/stumble them.
This is a great article. It sums up everything I know about social bookmarking.