Social Networking Pays Off
With the World Cup finished, no Grand Prix and my skin a little tender from being out in the sun all day Friday ... Instead of relaxing on Sunday I worked for sixteen hours.
Posting over thirty articles and then promoting them on social networks.
If I needed reminding of the power of social networking I was amazed to see visitor totals soar as I used our Twitter accounts to tweet and re-tweet links to the articles.
Over the last year I've also compiled a list of people who are likely to re-tweet if they are on-line. So I made sure I sent them directly a random selection of links. Then I re-tweeted their re-tweets ...
I always use lots of #tags.
It only takes a few seconds to tag your tweets and you get many more visitors who are genuinely interested in that particular subject.
Fortunately our articles have good content (most have a video embedded). This really helps getting re-tweeted. Content is King.
Twelve hours later and a little tired of copying and pasting. The previous record was smashed and we had 23,477 visitors yesterday.
Around 13,000 up on expected totals!
Hopefully some liked the website and have bookmarked the web-site and will be converted into regular visitors.
We also increased the number of people following our Twitter accounts.
We have made over 10,400 "tweets" on our @the-rock-of-gib account over the last year.
To get results from social networking you must put in the time on a daily basis.
But the odd "blitz" can pay big dividends once you've built up a base of followers.
If you like an article or video on our site and you have a Twitter or Facebook account. Please tweet/share the article to your followers.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Please bookmark the site and pay us another visit.
Merry Christmas To You!
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New Website Design
We've just launched the "New Look" website. 20:00 CET Monday 29th November.
The design is a lot 'cleaner' and loads faster.
A lot of the external content - Videos, Weather reports and Airport information now load in "Lightbox" windows.
A bit of work still to do on the way individual posts look and graphics for the right hand column need uploading (later this week).
We hope you like the new look and it's got to be good that the page load time has been slashed by 8-12 seconds!
It's been a long week rewriting the site but worth it.
Apologies to our Costa del Sol websites for having the Gibraltar logo at the top of the page. We will get round to changing this asap.
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