WordPress Made Easy

There is no question that social media sites such as Digg and Stumbleupon can generate tons of traffic to your blog. If your blog appears on the first page of these site, it’s feasible that you can get thousands of visitors that day alone. That’s nice and all, but is your blog ready for the hit, sometimes referred as ‘the Digg’ effect?

Before you submit your post to social media sites, get your blog ready. Not only do we want a high hit count, we want a very low bounce rate and high subscriber rate. REPEAT VISITORS! Start with these few simple steps to make your day of fame worth while.

Speed! Make sure your site is fast and ready to handle the load. If your site is too slow, you can almost guarantee they will leave. Is your blog ready to handle 10,000 visitors? I wrote a post about simple things you can do to speed up WordPress. I highly recommend at least installing the WP Super Cache from the article. Do that before you submit it to the social media sites.

Minimize the ads. Too many will deter the visitor and many will ‘Stumble’ onto another blog. With the initial social media burst, you want to work on getting your visitor to subscribe or bookmark your blog. The money making part will come as you build a nice reader base.

Make it easy for them to subscribe. Again, we want repeat visitors from the initial burst. Add subscribe buttons, Digg buttons, bookmark options, link options. Don’t over crowd the page with buttons, but make it easy and accessible. Remind them to Digg your article. Just a little nudge to wake up the visitors who are day dreaming while they browse.

Verify all your links work. Nothing is worse than a dead link on your site. You finally got 10k visitors from Stumbleupon, and you finally got them to browse around your site. Don’t let them hit a bad link and think it’s a dead end. Check them all!

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