Call To Arms: The Results Show

Around 10 days or so ago, I wrote a pleading/begging/grovelling/whatever you want to call it post about trying to bring bloggers together. More specifically, trying to get us to work with each other and share our hard-earned posts to a potentially wider audience. Just to wrap up this little series, I’m going to share my findings and see how we can continue this long-term, in the hope of us all benefiting from it.

The response to the previous two parts of this Call To Arms has been amazing, and if you missed them they can be found here:

Call To Arms

Call To Arms: Part 2

I won’t then retread old ground, and I hope anyone reading this will by now know what I’m actually going on about. I have had a lot of fun talking about all this, and so many people have sent kind messages and supported me with it. As much as I have taken some stick for going on about this ‘sharing is caring‘ message (all from a loving place I hope!!), it really has been great to see people not only on my site trying to share, but also on other people’s sites I have seen fellow bloggers talking about it. Even when they were saying ‘I’ve seen Tyson banging on about this sharing thing so I’ve shared your stuff‘ that can only be a positive thing, and it’s great to see our little community pulling in the same direction.

Long term, I’m sure you will pleased to know I’m not going to keep posting about this and begging people to share. I just wanted to do my bit and raise some awareness, and if it gets just 1 person working with me and sharing my work and me sharing theirs, it’s all been worth it. I have had mixed results in terms of improvements in visitors, both in my results and some of you who have told me what happened with your site. For 4 days in a row after I made the initial post, I had my best ever days views wise, and that is no coincidence. Thank you to anyone who shared my work, and I know me sharing yours worked for some of you. Apologies to those it didn’t, but I will keep on trying!

Results wise, I have to say Reddit has been the best for bringing in views. Not just for my site, I know others have had great success putting your posts on there. It seems such a strange site though (I know one person has been banned already LOL) and it’s probably in your own best interest to share your own work on there and mix it up with other site links, just to avoid being classed as a spammer. Worth it when you can get your links on, but a little hit and miss.

StumbleUpon again was good, but not really setting the world alight. I would get around 10-15 views per link, so again it is something I will keep using. If you want to leave your StumbleUpon ID in the comments, I will add you (hopefully others will too) and we can see if we can make a difference that way.

So how do I want this to continue in a way where I’m not constantly asking people to share? Two ways really. First of all, if you are friends with me on Facebook, and have liked my site page there, I am going to try and share as many of your reviews as I can over there. So if I see you post a review on Facebook, I’ll hit the share button and share it with my friends/likers. I hope that if I do this to you, you will maybe want to return the favour. It’s a really easy way to see who is sharing your work (since it tells us!) and I figure it’s a simple, quick and easy way to spread our work round.

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Secondly, Twitter is a great way to share our work. I know some people do this already, and it is so easy clicking that button below our posts and it does all the work for you! I want to use this more, but in trying to extend it I have created a list on Twitter. The link is below, and if you want to join it, please just head on over. Once there you can see the other members of the list (if there are any!) and then get re-tweeting! As with Facebook, this will notify the person whose work you shared, and then the aim is they will then return the favour. It is purely a re-tweet list. It takes no time at all really to look at the other members in the list, and work down and re-tweet a few of them. This is very much an experimental thing, and if you can’t just join the list, please let me know and I’ll send an invite. I think that’s maybe how it has to work, and I try and invite people to the group. Apologies in advance if you start getting invites! I want this one to be useful but purely about sharing, and for the sake of a seconds work to re-tweet someone else’s work to all your followers, could really benefit us all. If one person joins, well hey, at least we can count on each other sharing! Plus, you might make some new twitter buddies and meet more movie lovers!!

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Well, that about does it for the Call To Arms series. Thank you all for reading and joining in, and I really hope this movement doesn’t stop now. Facebook & Twitter links above just need you to join in and we can keep this going, and I’m still going to try and post as many of your things on Reddit & StumbleUpon just so it keeps me off the spamming list! Thanks again for reading and making this worthwhile, and don’t forget to keep on sharing! 😛

Posted by Tysoncarter182 on February 16, 2013

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