Week 3: Getting Traffic Social Network Buttons Installed

November 14, 2007

Stumble it!

Week 3 of Make Money Online case study with Amazon and others affiliate programs.

This week I will write about how to get traffic installing Social Network buttons in your blog. I realized that while CouponCodesMall.com will be indexed and rated very well in Google, Yahoo and MSN. I have to build traffic and see if I can make some sales from Social network traffic. I know that many people say that Social network traffic is useless, but the truth is that I can’t say that before I test it. My main focuss in Digg and Stumbleupon (and see which one wins). For that reason I have installed some buttons and here is the steps that I did:

Installing Social Network buttons at the top of each article:

As you can see the buttons at the top of each article when you are at the main site of amazonwall (not reading the article, but the main page) you see two buttons “Digg it” and “Stumble upon”. The reason that I have added those two in the main page is because in case I write an article without the “more” tag readers are able to submit to those 2 social network without clicking on the article, the process is the following:

1. Open index.php in your template wordpress
2. Find The Calendar and the permanent link code. Check this figure:

3. After (In the AmazonWall template) the h4 tag add the following:

and you are done, you have added Digg and Stumbleupon buttons at the top of each article (in the main blog and not article).

Installing Social Network buttons at the on each article:

The difference here, is in case someone come to your article directly from search engines or another source of traffic they will be able also to submit your article to those social network. In this case I have added the same 3 buttons at the top and many other social networks at the end of the article. This is the process:

1. Open this time, single.php
2. The same process as above. Find the Calendar and permanent link and add the code which is in the figure.
3. Find the content code which is similar to : < . ?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry »'); ? .> (depends on your wordpress theme.
4. Add the buttons that you want, I have added:

Subscribe To CouponCodesMall: Which is the RSS in case someone wants to subscribe and receive daily updates.
Digg It: We all know how popular is digg.
Save This Page: In case someone wants to save the article to their del.icio.us account
Stumble it!: I love this social network and is one of my favorites, so I have added in case someone wants to add it into their account (Which in the first day someone did it)
Favorite This Post : If they want to add the article into technorati favorite.

There are many social networks that can be added and I will find and add more, if you have more social networks you can attract more visitors through social network.

How You Can Add those buttons, what are the codes?

Digg: < . a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=<. ?php the_permalink();? .>&title=< . ?php the_title();? .>" rel="nofollow" type="application/rss+xml" .> Digg It < . /a .> (remove the dot’s and the spaces. see the nofollow tag? )

del.icio.us: < . a href="http://del.icio.us/post?v=4&noui&jump=close&url=< .?php the_permalink();? .>&title=< . ?php the_title();? .>" rel="nofollow" type="application/rss+xml" .>Save This Page< . /a .> (remove the dot’s and the spaces. see the nofollow tag? )

StumbleUpon: < . a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=< .?php the_permalink();? .>&title=< . ?php the_title();? .>" rel="nofollow" type="application/rss+xml". >Stumble it!< . /a .> (remove the dot’s and the spaces. see the nofollow tag? )

Technorati Favorites: < . a href="http://www.technorati.com/faves?add=<. ?php the_permalink();? .>" rel="nofollow" type="application/rss+xml". > Favorite This Post< . /a .> (remove the dot’s and the spaces. see the nofollow tag? )

What I have learned from all my years working online is not to follow what others said. I mean, when someone write about Social networks and said that their traffic is useless. Do not stop there this can be a reason to test it and see if it is true or if it works with you. Why you think I choosed Amazon affiliate? Because there are many people and big bloggers that said “Amazon is not worth”, so why not testing it with this case study and may be it can work with me. I am sure if it works with me it will work with anyone, because I am not hidding anything and I am writting every (I MEAN IT) step that I am making with this case study.

Statistics

Started Budget: $100
Total Spent: $65 (Week 1)
Amazon Earnings: $72.88
Comission Juction Earnings: $0
Total Budget: $72.88

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What's Next?

 Subscribe To GoogleLady

 Digg It

 Save This Page

 Sphinn It

 Stumble it!

 Favorite This Post

 

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