This week I will continue our ongoing experiment to see what social media sites send traffic. The article that we are using is titled “Shopping for Tents”. We posted the article on Friday to ensure that we would have no problems adding it to the social networks today.
The blog we are using is relatively new with no real traffic to speak of. That way the name or title of the blog will not impact the traffic that we get. As with last week we are not trying to “game” any of the social engines by asking people to vote for the story and we are tracking the referrals to the site using Google Analytics.
We expanded the list of social media sites for this experiment from 20 to 36. The list of social media sites that we are using are:
- Digg.com
- Netscape.com
- Reddit.com
- Del.icio.us
- Stumbleupon.com
- Google.com/Bookmarks
- Myweb2.search.yahoo.com
- Technorati.com
- Indianpad.com
- Socialogs.com
- Furl.net
- Diigo.com
- Wirefan.com
- Bibsonomy.org
- Looklater.com
- Blinklist.com
- Blogmemes.net
- Bluedot.us
- Myjeeves.ask.com
- Simpy.com
- Backflip.com
- Spurl.net
- Newsvine.com
- Netvouz.com
- Folkd.com
- Grupl.com
- Blinkbits.com
- Bmaccess.net
- Shadows.com
- Ma.gnolia.com
- Scuttle.org
- Smarking.com
- Blogmarks.net
- Plugim.com
- Flickr.com
- scoreguru.com
I am curious about whether Reddit will once again be a source of traffic and whether any of the new sites we added will drive traffic.
Check back tomorrow for today’s traffic numbers.
