Free eBook Result On TrafficJam
A comment called my attention about the traffic I received when my article Free eBook made it #1 to TrafficJam last March 4. For the record, my blogrush widget is ten days old at that time.
The image above shows the times “free ebook” was syndicated, its a good number already for a new blogger and 10 days old widget. Hmnn… I thought, how many times should it be syndicated to make the readers click on it on others’ widget. By the way, the figures at the syndicated column is the times the article had shown to other widgets.
Too bad that I forgot to place the google analytics code on this blog when I moved to a new webhost. Well, lesson learned already, don’t condemned me for this. lol.
March 4, the article is on #1 and #16 last March 5. Based on my dashboard, I had incoming traffic of 126 (March 4) and 47 referrals the next day from TrafficJam. I’m not impressed with the figures, I’m expecting more than that. Other bloggers who made it on top 25 of TrafficJam received more than I did. On the other hand, new blogs need exposure and I did it somehow. I have some conclusion on my mind on how I made it happen, I will try it again…
Free eBook: #1 On Traffic Jam
Let me share the phrase I’ve taken from about page of TrafficJam. It sounds promising to new bloggers like me who doesn’t have enough exposure. Blogging is a never ending learning process for me, pardon me if I always consider myself as newbie.
TrafficJam.com was designed to give exposure to great blog posts regardless of the size (or current traffic level) of the blog. Some of the best blogs in the world are currently undiscovered and don’t have large advertising budgets to drive traffic — so many of them will never be found.
I installed again my blogrush widget last month, February 22 to be exact and hoping for a better traffic with TrafficJam. It was beyond my wildest imagination that my article Free eBook would hit the first rank at TrafficJam, see the image above. Actually, my blogrush widget is alive for 10 days only. I really got excited when itot54joni informed me about it. Since we are ahead of time GMT +8, I believed it is recently updated.
I guess, I’ll be making a follow up entry to the “traffic” I will receive from TrafficJam. I have also an idea in my case on how I made it happen in 10 days! Having my article on the #1 slot is really something.
Update (Nov. 13, 2008): I removed the links, Blogrush and TrafficJam was closed.
More Traffic With Traffic Jam
I’ve received an email from blogrush announcing the released of TrafficJam. I’m not using blogrush on this blog before. In case you didn’t know javascript doesn’t work on wordpress.com, and that’s my blog provider before I moved to my own host. Anyway, I’ve used blogrush to my other blog and eventually decided to delete my blog from blogrush and removed the widget from my blog. Take note, I’ve deleted my blog but not cancelled my account.
Many bloggers have post their disappointments with blogrush and I’ve read some of them. They have posted them when blogrush “cleaned” their community few months ago. Actually, I am among the bloggers that my widget still worked on my blog and I am proud with that. But the thing is, I had the widget on my blog for almost 1 1/2 month and can’t see any traffic coming from blogrush. I was really disappointed but I took off the widget “NOT” for that reason. I took it off because of the slow loading time when the widget was on my blog. Did you notice your blog’s loading time with or without the widget?
Mobile eBooks Etc is giving blogrush another try just because of Traffic Jam. I have added my blogs again to blogrush and use the widget hoping that TrafficJam would work. Let me share a part of their email.
Want your posts to appear on TrafficJam.com? If you have the BlogRush widget installed on your blog it will happen automatically when any of your posts ’score’ well with TJ’s algorithm.
A big ‘key’ for scoring well, which is the same key to get traffic from BlogRush, is to learn to write powerful, yet specific blog post TITLES. Poke around TJ and notice the titles. Almost all of them are very SPECIFIC.
For example, rather than having a post say, “Today Was A Really Bad Day” it’s more effective if it says, “Why I Almost Smacked My Boss Today” or “Ever Split Your Pants At Work?” etc. etc.
TJ’s Algorithm? I still don’t know how it works but looking forward to a much better traffic with Traffic Jam.
Update (Nov. 13, 2008): I removed the links, Blogrush and TrafficJam was closed.
