I’ve gotten as far as setting up a Twitter account and tracking a couple of people, but I really haven’t done much else. I tend to sign up for an account and then ignore it for a few weeks before finally getting around to doing anything with it.

I believe in SMM as far as link building and brand management is concerned, but the bounce rates and conversions are horrendously low…. Some one show me the ‘return on investment!!

I’m not sure what the numbers should be for 101 stumblers. Obviously they all wouldn’t subscribe and link. I would think a few of each is what you would reasonably expect.

I’ll have to look in Analytics and see if I notice the same thing as you about the page refreshes. Stumblers in general seem to leave a site with a lower bounce rate, but maybe there’s something else going on and the original numbers aren’t as good as it seems at first.

When I have a little time I’ll dig a little deeper and see if I notice anything.

@Jamie
Did you notice any increase in subscribers or links to the article after the traffic? From what I’ve seen most social media traffic visits and leaves, but then a few days later there are a few more subscribers here and possibly a few more links pointing at the page than usual.

@Tom
It was coincidence, but earlier in the week I actually did something similar to what you suggested. I had an idea for a blog post and decided to start a thread to get some opinions I was planning on using. Most of what I was going to put into the post I ended up saying in the thread so for now I’ll leave it there, but I think your idea is good one to generate some content.

Thanks for the links

I’d echo what jamie said – that’s a heck of a list of links! Better get reading