This gig is a one time social sharing to all my connections on Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Google Plus.
Social promotion is about appealing to the masses, so if the majority of people don’t like the site, it probably won’t work.
I have gotten most of the traffic this site has received from Twitter. I had my Twitter accounts suspended recently, but I got back three of them, including the main one which has over 18,000 followers.
StumbleUpon is a great site for sharing pages with widespread appeal, I have at least twenty people out of my three hundred followers who accept shares to their toolbar, and vote up anything I send them.
These votes allow you to get into the random search on a topic, and there are hundreds of thousands of people who surf the site to stumble across good pages. If they like it, they vote it up too, and it gets seen more often in that category.
Some categories are more popular than others, for example: humor, bizzare/oddities, and recipes, although there are many other topics which have lots of surfers.
I have about three thousand Facebook friends, and while this doesn’t often result in a large amount of traffic, it will if your site provokes discussion, and there is the possibility they will share it with their friends.
I have a growing number of Google Plus connections, let’s say it’s around 1,500, although it will probably be more by the time you read this. I will also share your site twice to all my Google Plus connections, once in the morning, and once in the evening.
Social Sharing: Traffic Estimate?
The expected amount of traffic on a site I approve for social sharing is between 100 to 1,000,000 views, or higher, depending on how much people like it. It may take a while for those views to show up with StumbleUpon.
With a really funny page, or a really strange and interesting or useful site, people will vote it up, and share it with their friends, so it’s hard to put an exact figure on the traffic estimate for this social sharing gig, but I will guarantee that you will get cheaper views than you could possibly get from an advertising campaign on Google Adwords, or Facebook Ads.
