I Make Checklists
I don’t have a photographic memory. In fact some people may say that I can be a little absent-minded at times.
So to help me to stay organized I make checklists.
Whenever I post something new on my blog or upload a new video I have a checklist of things to do to maximize the traffic I get.
Each item on the list is a simple yes or no question.
New Blog Post Checklist
- Does it have a good title?
- Does it have good tags & categories?
- Does the actual post show up correctly?
- Does a description and link to it show up on the home page?
- Did I submit it to StumbleUpon?
- Did I submit it to Digg.com?
- Did I tweet a link to it to my twitter account: http://twitter.com/nickstraffic and did I use good hashtags?
- Did I submit it to OnlyWire.com? (What’s OnlyWire.com?)
- Did I link to it from my blogspot blog?
- Did I submit my new blogspot post to StumbleUpon?
- Did I submit my new blogspot post to OnlyWire.com?
- Did I send a link out to my email list?
New Youtube video upload checklist
I sometimes will create a short video and place it on Youtube to drive traffic to my website.
Here is my checklist of things to do when I submit a new video (you may notice some similarities to the list above):
- Does it have a good title?
- Did I include the link to my site at the very top of the description?
- Does it have good tags?
- Does the actual video show up and play correctly?
- Does the link in the description work and go to the page I expect?
- Did I submit it to StumbleUpon?
- Did I submit it to Digg.com?
- Did I tweet a link to it to my twitter account and did I use good hashtags?
- Did I submit it to OnlyWire.com?
- Did I link to it from my blogspot blog?
- Did I submit my new blogspot post to StumbleUpon?
- Did I submit my new blogspot post to OnlyWire.com?
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thanks especially for the youtube list as i was going to start video promotions
If you want to drive more traffic nick use reddit i am getting 60% of my traffic from reddit lol. Anyways 30% comes from google other is from link bait and retweets.
Can steps 5 to 10 be automated with some plugins or services?
Or is it better do it by hand to better customize and tweek for different sites?
They can be mostly automated. I recommend doing it by hand though when you’re first starting out.
Thanks Nick
One thing I really like about your site is this kind of list step-by-step approach. organization as they say is the first step to expansion…
I’ll Be Back!
I look forward to you coming back.
Thanks for sharing your checklist! Most individuals will never share something like this or you have to opt-in for the list. I do have a question in the leave a comment area you have the required field, “Is that a pluggin?”
The little math question is a plugin. It’s something like num-captcha.
Hi Nick
When you use only wire are you submitting to every social networking site (as you have accounts at all of them) or just a few of the key ones?
Regards
Sean
I have accounts for 3/4 of them and it seems to work pretty well.
Thanks. I am going to use some of the stuff on your checklist.
Just a question regarding youtube: does viewing an embedded video also add to the number of views listed on youtube?
The more popular a video is, I think, the higher it comes up in the search results in youtube
My understanding is embedded videos from YouTube also contribute to the view count.
I have literally uploaded my first set of videos to YouTube, and never really thought of pushing them like this. I guess I’ve just done the first bit and stopped.
You’re using StumbleUpon a lot here. Is there any risk of over using it?
I don’t think there’s really a risk of over using it as long as you’re publishing quality content.
If you give thumbs up to lots of things on your website and everyone else gives them a thumbs down then that is going to raise red flags with stumble upon.
Hi Nick how is hash tag important in tweeter? and by the way what is a hash tag? I’m also looking for a particular topic on squeeze page in your blog because I’ve seen that many internet marketers use this tactics
The hash tag in twitter is just any word that begins with a #. For example #seo is a hash tag. I am still trying to figure out how important they really are.
I haven’t really written much about how to correctly set up a squeeze page. I will add that to my list of things to do.
Thanks for the list. There’s a good link building strategy inside it for someone reading between the lines.