Tuesday marked day two of this weeks social media traffic experiment and the big news was the surprising SEO results of the page.
The first surprise was that Yahoo has already spidered the site and is showing a backlink from Del.icio.us. The second surprise was a Google search for the blog post title “Shopping For Tents” shows two results on the home page for the post. One leads to Digg and the second leads to Reddit. So in less than a week we were able to get our blog post onto the first page of Google for a phrase with over 1.8 million competing pages purely on the strength of links from social media sites.
Overall the blog post has been viewed 268 times this week. The social media sites sending traffic to the blog are:
- Stumbleupon.com – 117 Visits
- Reddit.com – 26 Visits
- Digg.com – 4 Visits
- Indianpad.com – 2 Visits
- Newsvine.com – 1 Visit
- Grupl.com – 1 Visit
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Yes! Ranking high in search results is one of the huge payoffs I’ve noticed while submitting to social bookmarking sites. Even if a particular site doesn’t bring a lot of direct traffic, these sites tend to get indexed often and rank high in Google’s SERPs. Even if no one from Digg actually visits your site, just having the link on Digg will boost your search results, which is a benefit that certainly can’t be ignored.
Hey, I work for Indianpad.com. it’s great 2 see our website listed all over the internet. Wish to see our second huge website makemoneykingdom.com on such lists.
Great going dude, thanks again
Regards,
John R Wendwell