Sunday, June 24, 2012

HELP ME OUT HERE PEEPS!!!



As i prepare to launch my website poalaof.com I am asking all my FRIENDS out there in the VIRTUAL WORLD to start sharing my links. This is very important. Don't just like the links on my Facebook page, START SHARING them.

https://www.facebook.com/linkuplindsay
https://www.facebook.com/portraitofalegendandotherfolks
http://poalaof.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/the-sound-of-progress/
http://lindsaydonaldrootsreggaephotographer.blogspot.com/

Social networks provide the means and the leverage to distribute the information to a potential audience of 2 billion internet users.
If you have a large Twitter following and 1,000′s of Facebook fans (WHICH I DO), then that will help your content marketing endeavours. Many of us tweet the post once and maybe share it also on Facebook with a singular news update with a link embedded and then expect traffic to come flooding in.
The cruel reality is that the web is crowded with hundreds of millions of blogs, websites and social media sites and the competition for attention in a sea of noise and buzz is so intense that most links drown before they are noticed.
Most clicks to your links in your tweets happen immediately after you have posted an update to Twitter. As time passes the retweets and Facebook likes and sharing of the links diminishes. As the link ages, the attention your links receive reduces.

Do Links Last Longer on Facebook, Twitter?
So how long is a link “alive” before people stop caring and does the type of content and where you shared it matter?
According to research by Bit.ly (the link shortening service used by millions of users), after the initial post to Facebook the half life of a link was 70 minutes (the amount of time at which this link will receive half of the clicks it will ever receive after it’s reached its peak)
A post to Twitter was shown to have a half life of only 5 minutes.
This shows the difference between Twitter (which is more a stream of links) and Facebook which is a destination where link life isconsiderably greater.
What was also noticeable is that the pattern of the clicks to a link essentially have the same pattern: a fast rise, and a more relaxed drop-off.
What is the Half Life of a YouTube Link?
In looking more closely at their 1,000 most popular links on Bit.ly they also discovered the following
  • Twitter has the average shortest half life at 2.8 hours
  • Facebook links half life averaged 3.2 hours
  • Direct sources (like email or IM links) came in at 3.4 hours
  • YouTube averaged 7.4 hours

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