Day 6: Email Signature, Blog Carnival, StumbleUpon

In: Education| Marketing| Uncategorized By: Brian Armstrong

23 Jun 2007

Email signature in GmailIt’s day 6 of my 30 day challenge to bring more traffic to this website.

Here is what I did today:

1. Added an email signature to my outgoing emails. (see picture) I send a lot of emails each day, so hopefully this will reach some new people. As will all good marketing, I tried to include a benefit to the reader to get them to take action (in this case, click the link).

2. I submitted an article to BlogCarnival so that it could be included in one of their pages. BlogCarnival is a website where people compile lists of related blog posts into more useful collections.

3. I submitted a link to this post series on building traffic to StumbleUpon, which is another Web2.0 site with lots of traffic. Once they approve my link, I’ll probably spend $50 to drive 1000 hits to the site (5 cents per click) and see how many convert to subscribers.

This post is part of a series on Website Marketing

Table of Contents:

  1. Building Website Traffic – Three Items Per Day For A Month
  2. Day 1: FeedBlitz, SEO, and Post Series
  3. Day 2: New Article, Amazon Cover Upload, and Digg Comments
  4. Day 3: LinkMachine, Google Website Optimizer, and ProBlogger
  5. Day 4: Interviews, SEOMoz, and Technorati
  6. Day 5: First Page of Google, Bugs, Article Marketing Lifehack.org
  7. Day 6: Email Signature, Blog Carnival, StumbleUpon
  8. Day 7: Link Structure, Pings, MyBlogLog
  9. Day 8: FeedFlares, Reciprocal Links, Broken Links
  10. Day 9: Page Cache, 301 Redirects, and Submitting to Blog Search Engines
  11. Day 10: Removed Bad Links, Earning $5639 Per Year, Tracking RSS Subscribers
  12. Day 11: Article for ProBlogger.net, StumbleUpon campaign, and Longer Domain Registration (attempt)
  13. Day 12: Extended Domain Registration, More Incoming Links, Article Submission
  14. Day 13: Successful and Outstanding Bloggers list, Backlinks Advice from Yaro Starak, and DMOZ
  15. Day 14: MindPetals Article, Slow Server, Google vs. Yahoo indexing
  16. Day 15: Submitted MindPetals Article, Conversation with Liz Strauss, and LifeHack.org Article
  17. Day 16: Engaging readers in conversation, Interview on Calling All Authors, and a Research Tip from John Reese
  18. Day 17: Posted Interview Audio, Faster Server, and New Business Cards
  19. Day 18: Article for LifeHack.org, Contacted About.com Contributer, Updated my LinkIn profile
  20. Day 19: Barnes & Noble, Froogle, and Shopping.com
  21. Day 20: Meta Keywords and Descriptions, New Article, 37Signals Blog
  22. Day 21: New Video On YouTube, Creating a Personal Balance Sheet, and Article Marketer
  23. Day 22: Purchased a Water Buffalo, Apple’s Marketing, and RSS Confusion
  24. Day 23: A New About Page, ProBlogger Article Finished, and More Comments
  25. Day 24: Keyword Research, more Links Exchanged, Article Distribution
  26. Day 25: Translated into 8 Languages, A Version For Mobile Devices, and Submitted To Dozens of Blog Directories
  27. Day 26: More RSS Directories, Alumni Networking, Alexa Screenshot Update
  28. Day 27: New Article on Audio Books, Removed Translation, and Networking Tips
  29. Day 28: Amazon, Amazon, Amazon!
  30. Day 29: Zero Million, Yahoo Answers, Wikipedia
  31. Day 30: Wrapping Up With A Few Final Links
  32. Conclusion

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