That Pony has 4500 Facebook Friends and the horse is all "who needs social media?"
Many and varied are the questions in the WordPress.com technical support forums.
I lie.
Basically, all the questions come down to:
- Why can’t I find my blog in Google? (answered)
- OMG HOWCUM I CAN FIND MY BLOG IN GOOGLE???/?? I AM SUING YOU JUST AS SOON AS THIRD PERIOD IS OVER
- How do I get more hits?
and of these, the greatest is #3. And here is a very, very clever and very, very simple technique for timing your posts to get maximum attention from your already-engaged and no-doubt-loyal audience.
Here I was, giving my standard rap about how you should time your posts to go up shortly before 10am in the time zone where your largest audience is because people love reading blogs on their coffee breaks (which works like you wouldn’t believe) when momfog came up with something so blindingly brilliant it even shut ME up for a second.
I have watched my facebook page and when there are a lot of people logged on, I share the link. It seems to work pretty well. Of course, theoretically, these are my “friends” and might feel obligated to read, but so what? A hit is a hit–guilt induced or not.
True, dat. And a hit from a FB friend who’s online at that time is more likely to be shared to their own networks at that moment and thus to potentially go viral. The only downside is you have to appear Online to FB chat for this to work, and god knows everyone who isn’t addicted to cybering hates that. Oh well, close your eyes and do it for your blog!
Don’t forget to post it to Twitter at the same time! And for god’s sake, don’t use Publicize: nothing says “I couldn’t be bothered to pimp myself out so I sent this robot” like a tweet that goes, “New Post: Big Changes for Whatsis Incorporated on the Virtual Horiz….”
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Team Oyeniyi
May 20, 2011
I had to check it out.
You are right about the hating to be on-line. And some of us have a day job – LOL – we can’t just sit around waiting to see when the proletariat are wagging school!
Now, I have to point out that in some regions of the world sites that are not work related are blocked. I have noticed over the years this seems not to apply much in the USA and Canada. I was always astounded at how many people were playing euchre AT WORK, for example. We wouldn’t have a job for very long.
Jean
May 23, 2011
I think I’ve given up abit on finding the right timing thing for blogs. All I know is that I simply set my blog posts to publish early in the morning (Canadian time, whichever time zone I’m in). So that Europe can start their work day with a blog post.
And there is someone in Belgium that is monitoring one of the blogs nearly daily. I think it’s one of our sponsors.
By the way, I love the cute pony trying to outrun the parent. It’s a wonderful photo to illustrate your blog post theme.
raincoaster
May 23, 2011
Thanks!