Comments on: 5 Flaws of Social Media Traffic

By: Steven Snell

Steven Snell — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:57:28 +0000

you can email me at info at vandelaydesign dot com.

By: Raghunath

Raghunath — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:42:26 +0000

Thank you Steven, would like to send you a copy of the excerpt first. Any email contact?

By: Steven Snell

Steven Snell — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:30:57 +0000

Hi Ragunath,
You cannot publish the complete article. If it’s online you can re-publish an excerpt with a link to this post. Thanks.

By: Raghunath

Raghunath — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:41:55 +0000

Hi Steven, Greetings from Malaysia. Great article. Would like to publish this in the next issue of Brand Equity mag. May I have your permission. Past issues can be viewed at the website. How may I credit this article to you? Can you send me a high res pic of yourself as well. Tx.

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By: Steven Snell

Steven Snell — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:59:22 +0000

TzuVelli,
I agree that the benefits outweigh the flaws. I’ve gained a lot from social media and I use it everyday. You’re absolutely right about being able to get traffic for a new site. This one is a good example. Within 24 hours of launch I had thousands of visitors with no money spent.

Graham,
I think its important to focus on just a few social sites and then to maybe use others occasionally. StumbleUpon would be my first choice if I could only use one.

By: Graham Smith

Graham Smith — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:43:14 +0000

Im still at a early stage with my various new blogs that I can really set back and watch with a healthy knowing glow and I will be confronted much much useful information.

The problem then comes summarising for you own use, and this can be hard. Im starting slow, Stumble in one site I am quite active in mostly right now. And will build up from there, but no made rush to try everything an everyone at once.

DIGG I really am debating on. Really my interest is helping other sites more than what it can do for me (nothing of my stuff is DIG material, so why bother) but I love to show my appreciate by DIGGIN knew stories etc.
If I did this, my head would sure sure implode and become a much bigger hole than what was there initially. Now that hole in my head only hurt me, but this would be very unpleasant.

Anyway, I digress. Another very useful read, absorbed and bookmarked for future reference.

Ciao

By: TzuVelli

TzuVelli — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:40:54 +0000

The potential reward from social media traffic far out weigh its flaws. This is especially true for new blogs and websites. Before social media sites like StumbleUpon, Digg, etc, the only avenues for marketing were search engines, directories and forums. These avenues are slow at best. Social Media has really opened up the possibility of getting huge exposure early in the life of a site.