Need Some Beta Testers - Automatically Get More Traffic and Track It

by LMC
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Mayo
    Wow!
    I'm game!

    Would be crazy not to at least try this!

    Thanks,
    Michael
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  • Profile picture of the author George Wright
    I'd like to be in on this too. How long do I have to set up a dedicated test site for this.

    George Wright
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    • Profile picture of the author Terry Loving
      Sign up went easily - I like being able to shorten links and track hits. I have worked with another similar site and it became ever so slow as more folks signed up and links were generated. Do you have a solution for this "potential problem"?


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  • Profile picture of the author SageSound
    What methods do you guys use to promote the links?

    Can the link target URLs be edited?


    -David
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  • Profile picture of the author LMC
    Terry, two servers should do the trick once we are launching the service
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  • Profile picture of the author LMC
    Sage,

    As for as promotion, automatic social bookmarking, and then our secret sauce, ( a type of article marketing method)
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  • Profile picture of the author LMC
    Suzanne,

    If you register you should be able to create as many as you want?

    Might be a bug?
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    • Profile picture of the author Susan Hope
      Originally Posted by LMC View Post

      Suzanne,

      If you register you should be able to create as many as you want?

      Might be a bug?
      Yeah I did register first but then tried adding the same link but using the custom link field and that didn't work but it could be I was adding the same link? I could not see where to delete the first one so I could then add it again. Perhaps you need a delete or edit button for the links (or is it there and I can't see it?).

      Anyway, I will leave that link as it is for now as there have been a couple of hits already

      Cheers
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  • Profile picture of the author GoGetta
    Im in, I give it a go!

    GoGetta
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  • Profile picture of the author LMC
    Sweet Guys,

    I would say over the weekend would provide a reasonable test to see the quality of traffic produced.
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  • Profile picture of the author LMC
    Sue,

    I believe we put a restriction on duplicate links from the same user, this cold be the case, I will take note of the deleting and have that added, thanks for the input!

    I can manually change the link if you would like? Just shoot me what you want it to say after the /
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    • Profile picture of the author Susan Hope
      Originally Posted by LMC View Post

      Sue,

      I believe we put a restriction on duplicate links from the same user, this cold be the case, I will take note of the deleting and have that added, thanks for the input!

      I can manually change the link if you would like? Just shoot me what you want it to say after the /
      Your welcome and yes that would make sense and yes please, if you could change it to "wordpress" thanks.

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  • Profile picture of the author LMC
    A Bit About Promotion:

    Just those that are wondering... basically after you submit a link, over 48 hours the link will receive promotion via social bookmarking, and then placed into a keyword density article, released over a network of article sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
    Found something you might want to fix...sending PM/
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  • Profile picture of the author mina2020
    Thank you
    I put my link but no any traffic !!!
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  • Profile picture of the author LMC
    mina,

    It's not instant, you will see traffic over the next 48 hours.

    Allen,

    Got your PM. Definite need. Already made a phone call for it. Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author Zeus66
    Thank you, Steve! Very interesting concept. I bet it takes off nicely for you.

    John
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  • Profile picture of the author JonnyCash
    The ability for me to be able to create my own title rather then just pulling the one from the linked page, would be nice.
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  • Profile picture of the author silvervixen
    Thank you! I signed up today and submitted my links. It should record all traffic that comes in, whether it's from your service our own promotional efforts, right? If so, its great to have an individual link tracking tool.
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  • Profile picture of the author SageSound
    I wasn't asking about custom tags, but changing the target URL.

    For example, if you enter a link and mis-type the URL, you're stuck. Somebody adds the tag 'wordpress' then enters a url 'http://wordpresss.orgg', it can't be changed. That's my biggest beef with most link shrinkers -- you can't edit the target URLs.

    As a suggestion, it would be nice to have some kind of checks done so if a redirect ever gets a 404 error, then whomever created that link would be sent an email with a note saying they need to update that link. You could also allow a list of "default" URLs that someone could list with their account so any 404 errors would be replaced with a random selection from that list. At least it wouldn't be a totally dead link that way. Not necessarily useful, but better than nothing, eh?

    -David
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  • Profile picture of the author LMC
    Jonny,

    Good Suggestion. Will look into it.

    silver,

    It tracks all traffic that goes through the link

    David,

    I get what your saying now, and I never thought of that. I'll ask my programmers about it, and see what they say, I appreciate your input.
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    • Profile picture of the author SageSound
      If you want something for premium members, collect click stats and let people get charts and graphs from them. Allow multiple links for the same target URLs and then compare stats for them side-by-side.

      -David
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  • Profile picture of the author dageniusmarketer
    are these new social bookmarking urls going to be rss aggregated as well?
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  • Profile picture of the author mywebwork
    Nice service, thank you.

    I'm curious - Is there any way NOT to count clicks from your own IP address?

    Thanks again LMC!

    Bill
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  • Profile picture of the author LMC
    Thanks for all the comments.

    Yea were going to make it so your clicks don't count.

    I'll check up on the rss aggregated question?
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  • Profile picture of the author TLTheLiberator
    Sounds very interesting!

    Creativity and innovation continue to run wild in the world of online business.

    All The Best!!

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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Mayo
    Hey Steve,

    It's been a whole 30 seconds since I added my link and haven't had any hits yet.
    What's up? J/K

    Thanks for allowing us the test drive!

    My links have been added so now we'll just wait and see what happens.

    Thanks,
    Have a Great Day!
    Michael
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  • Profile picture of the author TLTheLiberator
    Anyone have any thoughts on how we can easily & quickly add to the promotional mix - using this service???

    Can we do anything else to the link etc. ???

    TL
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  • Profile picture of the author mmurtha
    Hey Steve,

    Nice concept, and thanks for the opportunity.

    It looks like it will work a treat.
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  • Profile picture of the author LMC
    Hey thanks again for the comments,

    First time I'm working on a saturday lol but were adding features such as:

    Editing of links
    Demographic Results
    Title Tag Creation

    We want to work out all the functionality before we install the design, I believe the next update won't happen until Tuesday

    So if there are any other suggestions please shoot them at me so we can enhance the service as much as possible

    In regards to the traffic, in our initial tests traffic starts gradual and then proceeds to spike as all the automation kicks in, were hoping all is the same for you guys.

    Our tests showed 250-500 uniques after a two week period, the conversion on this traffic to free offers was about 4 percent hopefully the same will exist for everyone.

    Lastly when our secret sauce kicks in we saw targeted traffic from articles, direct mails, and ad networks. Approx 250 so far after a week.

    Basically we want this solution to produce traffic and high quality traffic or were not much of a service so watch ur stats let us know of any conversions it would be greatly appreciated.

    I got to help out with some web designs, but just want to say thanks again for all your comments
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    • Profile picture of the author Susan Hope
      All sounds good, looking forward to seeing how this all pans out

      Cheers
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    • Profile picture of the author TLTheLiberator
      Originally Posted by LMC View Post

      Hey thanks again for the comments,

      First time I'm working on a saturday lol but were adding features such as:

      Editing of links
      Demographic Results
      Title Tag Creation

      We want to work out all the functionality before we install the design, I believe the next update won't happen until Tuesday

      So if there are any other suggestions please shoot them at me so we can enhance the service as much as possible

      In regards to the traffic, in our initial tests traffic starts gradual and then proceeds to spike as all the automation kicks in, were hoping all is the same for you guys.

      Our tests showed 250-500 uniques after a two week period, the conversion on this traffic to free offers was about 4 percent hopefully the same will exist for everyone.

      Lastly when our secret sauce kicks in we saw targeted traffic from articles, direct mails, and ad networks. Approx 250 so far after a week.

      Basically we want this solution to produce traffic and high quality traffic or were not much of a service so watch ur stats let us know of any conversions it would be greatly appreciated.

      I got to help out with some web designs, but just want to say thanks again for all your comments
      Since you asked...

      how about some way for us to get a list of all the bookmarked links urls from our submission...

      ( some bookmarks have related RSS feeds )

      ...so that we can ping them also?

      Thanks!

      TL
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  • Profile picture of the author LMC
    TL,

    Can you explain this a little bit more, or point me to some more information, I'm not RSS knowledgeable really, and don't know how to ask my programmer?
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  • Profile picture of the author dageniusmarketer
    I added in some links about 4 days ago, have yet to see any sort of clicks or traffic from these links yet. Please advise.
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  • Profile picture of the author monitorit
    what will you charge for this when the beta tests are finished?
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  • Profile picture of the author LMC
    dagenius,

    Were beta testing, bookmarking took a little bit longer then expected, but if you google, you can see the bookmarks being made now, so traffic should be coming.

    monitorit,

    I'm not planning on monetizing the current features
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