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Yesterday after writing this I decided to experiment with social bookmarking sites. This being a relatively new site with very little exposure I figured it would be a good case study for what even the lamest submission scheme could do for a site.
I bookmarked it on my del.icio.us, and submitted it to digg. As a result I got 41 unique page views, so that’s pretty cool. Another thing that seems to have had an effect was that I had tweeted earlier about a site redesign. Looking at technorati and google I see no links to here but that’s no surprise really given the lame submission i did.
My point is that for a new blog doing something this lame can attract some readers. I’ll be doing other lame experiments in weeks to come hopefully (because that will mean I have alot of spare time ) For now I’m doing some following on places like digg. This kind of thing can be helpful because quite a few will just choose to follow you back. This can mean more exposure for me in general and since my blog is really nothing but a placeholder for me on the internet it might gain some small readership.
And no, I don’t consider this underhanded. When I had to move my blog to a new host I had time to do one small post about the move. I generally saw about 200 unique visitors every month so this is just a way to supplement the lack of warning about the move.
On an unrelated matter, this is my first post with scribefire and I’m loving it.
That’s all for now folks.
PEACE.