Social blogging through micro sites such as Twitter has become so popular that the sites themselves are struggling to cope with traffic. With the inclusion of plugins such as those available for WordPress, people can keep up to date with every singe action of their friends.
Conversations now get quite personal with every aspects of life covered. I am sure some people tweet while eating, bathing or engaged in any other activity such as playing sport – yep – I recently saw a softball player ‘tweeting’ on her phone whilst playing softball.
We went through this several years ago when everyone started messaging via cell phone. Before that everyone had ICQ or MS and spent half the day ‘chatting to others’.
Social blogging, or in this case micro blogging has become the ‘in’ thing. As a marketing tool it has its limitations, however it does have the power to suddenly increase traffic – often poor quality, to your site.
Do you twiiter – does it build your traffic? I would like to know – I cannot get in to it.
Facebook And Mini Feeds – Now With Comments
Facebook has a feature that I find interesting, yet limited. Perhaps I have not got the hang of it. The MiniFeeds are handy to grab feeds from your blog, del.icio.us, digg and SU accounts (there are others).
I have not been able to work out how to get the feed from more than one blog into my account. It seems it has a limitation in that respect.
What is interesting is the introduction of comments on these MiniFeeds. This will have one of two effects – one: it will decrease the number of visitors to your blog or website – let’s face it if I can comment on one of your posts in Facebook, why visit your blog in person. Not only that, I can see all your posts and view them in Facebook.
Two: you may find an interesting discussion starting that can be used on your blog as a new post – it can be great to receive inspiration from your readers. That’s value added content.
Of course you need to get viewers in to your profile first and that is where joining groups can be a great asset. Join the groups, add some value and your profile views will grow. The traffic to your site may not.
Whilst you can use url’s in the comments, they are ‘nofollow’ so there is little in the way of link value – however they do sneak through occasionally – if not then perhaps viewers to these comments will follow. Just make sure the comments add value and the link extends the conversation to a higher level. Facebook Minifeeds with comments – and interesting concept little utilized to date.