Two months ago I added the Tweetmeme button to my blog. Two weeks after that, I wrote about how it appeared to be doubling my Twitter Traffic. In that post I started out by saying that I may be jumping the gun on this subject. Apparently, I did.
Two weeks after I added the button, my Twitter traffic did indeed double. Since that point though, it really hasn’t done much, and has actually returned to normal. I believe the increase was only really due to the fact that when you post about Twitter, Twitter people like to look at it.
Why isn’t the button truly helping my viral efforts? I’m think this could be the case of my site doesn’t get enough traffic yet. I have seen one positive effect though, and it is why I am keeping it a little longer.
I do believe it has a strong viral effect if you can get the ball initially rolling, and I have seen this a little on this site. When I write a new post on this site it automatically posts to my Twitter account. Those tweets are slowly getting more retweets on average. Retweets are increasing, and sooner or later that Twitter traffic will coming rolling in.
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Thanks for sharing your experiences with us. No doubt many are looking into this new trend to make it work positively for them. As long as it does no harm, better to keep making little gains from it whenever possible.
Till then,
Jean
Thank Jean! Couldn’t hurt to have my regulars click that button once in a while either…hint hint.
Haha, you got it.
Till then,
Jean
Tweetme button is good to get the traffic for your site. Quite Sound Information for me.
I just added tweetmeme to my blog, not only for the hope of retweets but because I saw that tweetmeme tweets were appearing in the organic SEO results, so it’s another potential gateway for free traffic to a website.
The site has over 62 million pages indexed by Google.
Seen traffic from tweetmeme.com in your logs, Robert?
Guy.
Since the button has been up, I have had one hit from tweetmeme.
Hmm, ok, maybe it’s not going to set our hitcounters on fire!
Just an update… I got two tweetmeme visitors yesterday, according to Google Analytics. I think it may need ultra-long-tail keywords to work.
Guy.
I just started using this tweetmeme button. I think it should boost traffic…
Update… I’ve now received 28 visits from tweetmeme.com. I think I’ll keep the plugin. I like it’s functionality and the traffic is a bonus.
Guy.
Whats the difference between the tweetmeme and the official twitter button ? Seeems they do the excat same tbing to me so why use tweetmeme
For a business, at what point does using Twitter cross the line from being informative to being too much?
For a business, at what point does using Twitter cross the line from being informative to being too much??
It serves as a social proof; people have a tendency to click more on re-tweet button when they see that other people have done it already.
when it helps it helps. button or no button
Is a tweet button worth having on every page of a website? or is there certain pages only that should have one thanks.