Was to examine different aspects of Internet Marketing. Some of the techniques I used to get visitors were

• Submit content to social media websites such as , ,
• Mentioning my blog in comments on other blogs
• Mentioning my blog to classmates

The techniques I DIDN’T use (but could have, if the class was longer)

• SEO

What worked?

Search engines and Facebook were the major driving force of traffic. StumbleUpon, the most traffic driving social network in the world, did not work for my blog. I regard this to the short period of time I gave it to operate considering the nature of this website.

In total, I had 352 visits in 6 weeks for an average of 58 people per week or just above 8 visits per day. Visitors spent 3 minuets and 52 seconds on average on my blog. I regard this to the easy to read, viral content I created in the beginning.

What I learned

• If you want to draw visitors through social media, use “light” content like jokes or riddles. Nobody wants to read walls of text.
• Pictures travel faster than words. I added a URL stamp to the images on this blog which resulted in some direct traffic. 9 visitors from the U.S typed in my blog URL directly, yet I did not tell anyone in the U.S. about this website.
• Long wordy posts are useful only for search engine traffic. Having more words on your blog means you become more relevant in various Google search terms. This is why I got visits from people searching for “Freelance writers from India”. As our instructor Prof. Paul Cubbon said : “If you’re going to write a long post, you better be world class interesting”. Sadly I don’t fall under that category.

I had fun editing the blog and reading others and the Pulse is still active. Overall satisfaction? 10/10