Cuando se produjeron las primeras batallas entre los libe- libe-rales de Ayutla y las fuerzas santanistas, muchos grupos se
sembraba 9 000 de maíz utilizando los procedimientos más primitivos, y con esto alimentaban a 2 000 reses
Earlier on I mentioned how you can only expect so much traffic from Twitter, Facebook, and similar sites. The reason for this is that people who are using such sites generally follow or befriend a great deal of people. They simply can’t keep up with the continuous stream of links, updates, jokes, pictures, etc. From time to time they’ll check their stream and click what interests them.
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So even if you have more than two thousand people following you on Twitter like I do, only a few of them will actually click or retweet your messages. You need massive followings, or retweets by those who have large followings, to originate even so much as a few hundred hits from your Twitter and Facebook accounts.
Delicious will bring you a few hundred hits—if you are lucky, even a couple of thousand—as long as you hit its popular list. This won’t happen naturally unless you manage to first catch the attention of users on other sites. In turn, a percentage of these viewers will bookmark the site on Delicious, therefore raising your position in the popular list for that day. The bulk of your traffic from Delicious will arrive on the same day you hit the popular page, but you may see a trail of smaller volumes of traffic continue to trickle in over the next several days.
StumbleUpon has the ability to send you what seems to be an unlimited amount of traffic. My blogs, as well as the blogs of many others, have received hundreds of thousands of visitors from StumbleUpon over the years. The beauty of StumbleUpon is that you’ll periodically receive waves of traffic from new users who discover and thumbs-up your content. Unlike the other sites mentioned in this section, StumbleUpon is not just an instant traffic generator but a long-term means of bringing new visitors to your site.
7.11 Promote on Technical Social News Sites
As a blogger who is focused on technical or business topics, promoting on the sites discussed in the previous section will only get you so far. You also need to promote your best articles where technical audiences gather the most. In particular, while I don’t know the details of your blog, I suggest that you sign up with the following sites:
• Reddit • Hacker News • DZone6
These three technical news sites should have you covered. I would recommend Slashdot as well, but only when you’ve just broken an important or immensely fascinating story. It’s not exactly the kind of place where you’ll routinely promote your blog.
Feel free to search for and explore more social news sites on your own. For example if you are into Ruby development and blog about it, you can promote your best articles on RubyFlow.7 If you are into Internet marketing, there is
Sphinn.8
Social news sites tend to operate by accepting stories that have been submitted by their users. Then they order them so that the “best” ones end up at the top of the home page—best as it’s used here is a very relative term, given that each site uses a different algorithm to determine what floats to the top and what never ends up seeing the light of day and is shown only to the few people who check the queue of new stories or check stories on page 2, 3, 4, 5, or beyond.
The most common factors that influence the popularity and visibility of your links on these sites are the numbers of upvotes you receive (as opposed to downvotes or other forms of negative flagging/reporting) and how quickly you receive them. Old submissions will not randomly make the front page of these sites, even if they receive a lot of votes all of a sudden. A story either receives a lot of votes shortly after being submitted or it’ll never stand a snowball’s chance.
The majority of stories will only attract one or two votes and never move from the new queue to the home page/popular one. This is simply the nature of such sites. Only the best stories are supposed to surface. The difference between your story hitting the front page of one of these sites or not can often be measured by the several thousand visitors you’ll likely receive. Your objective is definitely to hit the front page of as many of these sites as possible. Add the act of submitting your most relevant new articles to these three social news sites as part of your blogging workflow. If you have a blog already that has numerous articles in it, don’t submit past stories all at once (or your home page for that matter). You’ll be seen as a spammer. Instead, pick your three best articles and submit them over the course of a week. Then submit your best new posts as soon as you publish them from then on out. Always ask yourself, is my article really a good fit for these social news sites? Some- time the answer will be no, even if your article’s content will be loved by search engine users.
To speed up the submission process, install site specific bookmarklets.
7. rubyflow.com