Going from “Beautiful art sites” to Twitter and back again.
I don’t know whether there is any one around from the time I started this blog. But those who are will know that when I started with this blog I daily featured an art site.
There were two reasons to feature other sites. For one thing I liked it. Showing sites I like and sending them some traffic. The other reason was to promote my own site.
But after a while I run into a little problem. There are a lot of art sites and as my methods of finding them improved I found I had to make ever more painful decisions: Which sites to include in my feature and which ones to leave out.
It took me a while but in the end I decided that it would work better if I where to use my Stumble account to show art sites. Which at first worked perfectly.
But after using it for a few months I’ve found that StumbleUpon isn’t a very good fit for what I want. Stumble is a perfect place to show off the nice pictures you have found on the web. But it’s powers to promote my site are slowly dwindling.
The other problem is that there doesn’t seem to be an easy method of including my stumbles on my blog.
Last week I’ve found Twitter. Twitter seems to be the answer to all my prayers.
- It’s very easy to feature sites on Twitter. Even describing a site on Twitter seems easier then on Stumble. Only being able to use 140 characters means that you have to condense your description.
- It’s very easy to find people to follow your ramblings. Instead of just sitting and waiting whether anybody will come by, you can actively scout for followers. I like that a lot better.
- Twitter does seem to influence the amount of traffic I receive. The more people follow me, the more traffic I receive.
- And last but not least. With a little help from the Twitter tools plugin I can again post my art site feature on my blog.
The only strange thing I’ve found up till now is that all that traffic isn’t coming from Twitter but from Google. I’m sure there is a very logical explanation for that phenomenon but I have no idea what it might be.
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