Posted about 15 years ago

Improving traffic to your own site through BP

I've been running a silly little experiment in the last few days regarding my profile signature here on BP and traffic to a "put together" site to test it's abilities. I wanted to blog about my "out of the box" thinking when it came to this little experiment now that I think it's a proven success.

What I've done is used Twitter to drive traffic to BP, and more specifically a certain topic or a post that I've commented on. And then in return hoped that the visitor noticed my post that I mentioned in the tweet that I posted on Twitter and could see that I had a link posted in my Profile signature.

For instance, lets take this post . It speaks about my attempt to collectively create an amazing success story here on BP that we can all be involved in and watch.

What I would do is log into my Twitter account through Tweetdeck which I became familiar with from another BP member here. Once on TweetDeck I would copy the link from the URL that the post was on, place into the automatic shortening tool on TweetDeck and ask a simple question like, "would you be interested in a real life Truman Show" and the add the shortened URL link driving my followers to the post.

Then I would notice an increase or a spike in the number of viewers to that post and more importantly (to me that is for my experiment) was also a spike in my site visitors.

The site I'm having them sent to is really no big deal, just me messing around trying new things but I wanted to help increase traffic to that site.

Another thing I've done which I haven't seen anyone else do, and Josh might not be completely ok with is enter HTML code into my profile directing viewers of my profile to not only my twitter account to have follow me but also my "put together" site/page. The twitter HTML came from Twitbuttons.com It's a free site where you simply input your Twitter ID and it automatically creates the HTML code, it looks like this:

Then what I've done is also put my "put together" site/page in my Twitter profile. I've been watching the traffic increase and I've done very little outside of these things so not to obscure the results.

I'm by no means an expert on SEO, internet marketing or anything of the sort, but it has been fun learning about these fun little things even though they are elementary to most.

I've recently deleted all the info in my BP profile, I'm currently working on having a real website built and I'm going to start having some meaningfull and original blog posts and articles written, now that I know the use of BP has even more benefits, I'll use them to my advantage as much as possible.

I certainly hope this post has had some useful information in it and I'd like to see you experiment a little as well and post your comments/successes or failures so that we can all learn from eachother.

ps. I see no "spell checker" and my grammar super sucks so I apologize you felt like you're reading a blog post from a 10yr old :)

Improving traffic to your own site through BP

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