I have talked to Becky from preblogging.com a while back when she was coming up with the concept of her increase sociability plugin. The concept was seemed to make sense. When users come to your site from a social voting site offer them a quick option to digg/stumble/etc your site to continue the traffic love.
I had some concerns though. Social voters can be really fickle and I wondered if it would annoy them to be reminded to vote for your site… or if the pop up might annoy them to auto vote against your site.. The good news is people that are running it say its a great success and are quantifying it.
I will be implementing this plugin soon and will report back on what I am seeing.
You can download the plug in here
I am interested to hear your thoughts on a plugin like this?
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haven’t used it yet.
Interesting I will have to look into this. as long as it does mroe good than announce.
if a people come to your web site from a social voting web site he or she is probably like being a part of sharing. And because of this situation his or he next action after seeing your pop that wants you to vote for that page the reaction will be good.
But you know pop up windows are annoying. Maybe be this is a negative side but if this plugin have a speciality which gives you a chance to choose for the next visit you dont want to see that window again.
Hope i am a little bit clear. Because i am not really good at English yet:)
Shoe – thanks for the tip on the plugin. I will have to see if I did it…
Do you use a lot of plugins or do you keep WP pretty basic?
Yeah that would annoy me but I am probably not the target market for it. Should be a interesting experiment for sure.
Tried it and it works just like the WWSGD plugin with the addition of sniffin the referrer to see if they come from a Social voting site.
For a site that doesn’t have a social media audience it’s a distraction and hadn’t seemed to work for my sites.
I like the proactive thinking though.
I don’t run any out of the box plugins. There is about 9 or so that were written by us to do misc stuff then brians threaded comments which I heavily modified to use gravatars . Even akismet is modified for white/blacklisting.
I’d be interested to see what some SEO’s running this on their site have to say before I give it a go. (I don’t submit any of my articles to Shpinn / digg / etc…) I figure the ppl I write those for are going to find them… I don’t mind stumbling / digging / sphinning / etc… for friends but it’s not something that I really want popping up in front of me when I try to read a post.
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it looks good, but it wont serve any benefit if everyone starts to use it
Look forward to seeing what you have to say letter when you get it going Jeremy!
wow that is really great concept – she is definitely leveraging the traffic from those specific sites since those users are already stumblers/ diggers etc and may even just digg the post because they found it through a social network
great concept!
It doesn’t look like it does a popup. It looks like it adds an inline message either before and/or after the post which seems relatively harmless.
She should add some code to automatically have it put the vote up/vote down buttons from the social site you came from right before/after the message.
I wish WordPresswould include some of these plugins directly into the core program.
Also, I have used buttons to encourage stumbling, digging, etc. I don’t think people will mind it.
If it only tracks your referrers, 99% of us won’t see it. I think it can only benefit a blog.
it is a wordpress plugin, so it would be for blogs. and i wouldn’t see shoes either as i don’t stumble to his site.
Interesting idea. I’ll give it a try.
Did you write the programs Shoe? Since now you are a php. guru!
haha no and i suck as a programmer
OMG – I’ve never been more shocked by a blog in all my life! Did anyone else subscribe to prebloggings feed or see this post about Feedburner?
Notice the picture used? I tried to figure out how this could of happened and either this guy’s uploads folder got hacked or he uploaded this himself. Which is very disturbing.
Anyway, totally stunned… to say the least. My post on it here
yes it was a mistake Jeff. I’ve sent you an email explanation and I’ve left a comment on the blog. I just wished you would have contacted me first before publishing this to the world.
Thanks for the mention Jeremy !
The plugin inserts a user defined HTML either before/after or both, of your post. It checks for know SU and digg referrers.
Of course this is still very much a work in progress, so feed back and user experience would be great.
Thanks,
Becky
Hacked! Goatsee FTW!
Ouch! Sorry for that hack Becky. And about the plugin, it looks nice, I’ll wait Shoe’s impressions but probably I’ll give it a chance
I just installed this plugin yesterday, I’m also interested if it will annoy the visitors, also it has a cool feature which is to say a custom message to people that come from any site of your choice. Anyone got any cool ideas of what you could use that for?
I have been thinking along the lines of similar plugins, thanks for that information.
This was the plugin i was looking for a while Thanks a lot!!!
I personally think it will be a bit annoying. I like having the buttons on the side, easily found.
I think it should be useful for a blogger like me. I need more traffics !!
–blog for dream–
Reminds me of all the warez sites years ago that would pop-up “Vote for me!”…
I havent use it yet.
Never tried it..hoho
It seems that the best way to work with WordPress is to do your own development on top of the basics. Thanks for the affirmation from your side, Jeremy.
Kudos to you for trying, petnos. Practice makes perfect, and you’re practising all right. Your english will improve, I assure you. More on-topic though I have to agree with you that pop-ups are annoying and I personally tend to disregard them. Becky’s analytics tell a story of much improved traffic (we’ve all seen what StumbleUpon can send our way via traffic spikes….) and anything to try capitalise on this is a valid tactic.
OK, this makes the functioning of this plugin a bit clearer to me, so it is only for traffic driven to your blog via social media, and not for recurring visitors like us. No wonder I didn’t see it pop up, it was confusing me just a tad!
Them hackers sure make the world of the web an interesting place! It would be much nicer without them, as we all can do without the surprises they dish up!
Your site is cool, I can’t see any reason why you shouldn’t get social media attention, and I’ve given you a del.icio.us and stumbleupon tag to add to your social media traffic a bit. Keep up the good work!
I usually find all pop ups irritating. Unless its omething I specifically ask for I don’t like them popping up.
You never know until you try. It may work well and send you lots of traffic.
Socialability ? Nice plugin…
Great one, just installed it at a few blogs of mine!