I just read Tom Gerace's article number five in his mini series on How to Earn More Points . So far, I'm still a tad confused, but on a mission to dig up more information to help us all in our quest for more gather points. I am wondering about what my gather friends may already know or employ to help with their page views.
While Tom is working on his next posts ..........
Tom Gerace - CEO of gather said: In the next several posts in this series, we will look at how to promote your experiences, growing your readership by reaching people interested in what you share across the Internet. Up next: promoting your group in blog search engines across the web.
I have some specific questions on how and where to promote my articles and photos.
Have you submitted your articles to ping-o-matic?
Do you think it has resulted in more views to your articles?
How does ping-o-matic compare to googles search engine?
Gather Page Views
For me, it's hit and miss - I'm happy to see a couple go past 6000 and 7000 in views, but I want to know why that article was picked up and how it got there. Most of all, of course I'd like to know how I can repeat those successes.
I don't see myself suddenly writing celebrity smut, that's not my thing except for the rare occasion and honestly, the couple of times I've picked up on something of interest to me, it still did not receive more than maybe 60 views. So obviously that will never become my forte.
- What is average - is 300 views a good basic number?
- Is there a way to market my article to specific sites - like a travel or recipe or photo site?
- On photos - can I and should I link my photos to another site? Which one? I am about to join flickr.com - can I link my gather photos to them?
- How does posting to groups impact my exposure to the search engines on the web?
One last note, Stacey *Mama Said* has written an article about Earning More Gather Points in particular how she reaches near 100 points each day. I found it very informative, as it reflects what was just posted by Lisa W. ......... A Quick Guide to Earning Gather Points
For right now I will endeavour to post more often and cut down on the amount of long photo tour posts that take several hours to put together.
Let's discuss:
What works for you? Have you found a new way to improve your gather points?
Have you submitted any of your posts to Ping-o-matic? If so, do you think it was successful?
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Comments: 38
highest artilce is 1248
highest photo is 165
higest video is 536
Now I have a few favorite photos that are much better than the one with 165. Maybe I should bookmark them. Food for thought.
Thanks for the links in your article. I plan to go check them out.
I've never received 600-700 views, much less 6000-7000. You are doing amazing! However, with the fine quality of your photos, I am not surprised. You might consider submitting some of your photos to your local tourist board for sale. I get email messages from the St. Pete's Tourist board on a regular basis. It might be a venue for your work!
My top three articles are 7063 and 6042 and 1847 - there are lots in the 300 category and a few in the 400 to 700 category. It just seems to me there is something I'm missing and all I need is a little push in the right direction.
I think summer is generally a low point and I really wish gather would come up with something for us.
I can't say my points crawl, but I can tell a huge difference when I'm posting and when I'm not posting.
Wow... that's a lot of views!
I never really paid attention to how many views my articles got... I guess I should look?
The second highest was on Frankenstein Castle and it still gets views - 8 - 15 per week, sometimes more.
The one post that really surprised me is a poem I wrote. I do like the poem, don't get me wrong, but it's at over 700 views and I always thought nobody looks at my poetry:) go figure:)
You can check your own views or any ones views on gather yourself. Click on post - once you have the list in front of you - click up top slightly to the right of center - there is a drop down menu - choose highest views and it will sort it for you.
.....and you know what, recipes are popular - the rest is all a mystery to me.
On Gather, I don't pay any attention to how many page views something gets. I still think when Gather took away the points for original comments things went down the tubes.
When I had my own website, I submitted different pages to many different search engines, as well as when I wrote for other sites, same thing and several years later, I'm still getting emails about this article or that one, and I always write back and ask the person how and where they found it. So, the searches do help, but I'm not sure about other places like Facebook, etc's., maybe a little and ping-o-matic, I've never heard of.
I think I'd use the search engines a lot more (and they're free to submit to, generally), if I owned the site I was promoting, as that's an entirely different thing.
Good article,
Marilyn
I've e-mailed privately with gather friends who've done their own experimenting and the consensus is that the search engines do help.
http://pingomatic.com/
And here is their explanation of what they do:
"Ping-O-Matic is a service to update different search engines that your blog has updated.
We regularly check downstream services to make sure that they're legit and still work. So while it may appear like we have fewer services, they're the most important ones.
Make sure to only ping specialized services if they're relevant to your blog, otherwise you'll cause an undue burden on them."
I submitted 2 of my groups that only I post to in to them. Once you submit it, it takes you to a page that you bookmark. You just click on that link when you add new posts, and they automatically send it out for you. Sounds neat.