Web Traffic and Social Aggregators: Introducing Dosh Dosh’s Meme Tracker

This comes a little late but Dosh Dosh’s community meme tracker is finally up. I’ve recently compiled all the feeds I’ve received through my community feed tracking experiment and sent them to Megite, who set up the meme page pretty quickly.

All of the blogs listed on this page largely cover topics such as blogging, making money online, social media and affiliate/internet marketing.

There are 52 blogs listed in total and if you’re looking to read new and interesting articles, please feel free to visit Dosh Dosh’s Community Page on Megite and check out the links.

This is doubly important if you have a blog covering the same topics. Drop by the sites on this page, say hi and network with your fellow blogger. Leave a comment, stumble their blog post and send them a link if you find their article or site deserving a greater audience.

I will definitely be visiting this page quite often and I’m looking forward to read all the fantastic content available from everyone. If you own a blog and would like to be listed in this page, please visit my community feed tracking section to read the requirements and submission details.

The blogs listed on this Megite page will be updated regularly as and when I come across relevant new blogs or receive submissions through my Megite post.


Meme Trackers and The Art of Traffic Pooling

If you originally submitted your blog through my Megite post and am reading this, I would really appreciate it if you could inform your readers of this meme tracking page as well. Let me explain the reasons why.

I recently wrote about defensible traffic and suggested that developing other traffic sources outside of search engines is essential for any website’s long term growth or profitability. Megite is one such referral source for web traffic.

If each of the blogs involved in the community would blog about the Megite page, it would send the readers of each blog to the community page, which will then distribute traffic out to each of the blogs listed.

This pooling of traffic will lead to a far greater number of people reading the community page and hence, visiting your website. I’ve used this method once in my Technorati Favorites experiment, which acted as a funnel that attracted and re-directed traffic outwards to other similar blogs.

For this to succeed, one would also need to assume that visitors would actually keep track of the community webpage. I believe that a moderate number of them would, primarily because Megite has a clean interface and well organized headlines which make it quite easy for anyone to follow the news.

There’s also an RSS feed for the community page as well, in case visitors prefer to track all the blogs through their feed reader instead. All in all, a little effort will make the community page an excellent source of traffic for everyone involved.

I’ve made my pitch. Now go visit the page and have fun reading the new blogs!

Additional Information: How to Create Your Own Megite Meme Tracker

I’m aware that some of you might like to create your own Megite community page and pool traffic together from sites within your niche so here’s a short writeup on how you can do so. It only involves four simple steps:

1. Collect the feeds of all the blogs that you would like to include in your community page. You can either write a blog post and ask for feed submissions or you can just include feeds from blogs you are aware of and email the bloggers later to inform that that their feed has been included.

   They might just link to the page and send you some traffic. Remember of course, to include your own feed. Subscribe to all the blog feeds you’ve included in a feed reader of some sort.




2. Export your feeds in the form of an OPML file. If you are using Google Reader, you can easily do this by clicking on ‘Settings‘ and then the ‘Import/Export‘ option.




3. Upload the OPML file to the root of your blog directory. For example, Dosh Dosh’s OPML file can be found here. Doing this allows Megite’s crawler to fetch your feed from that location and sync with any future changes, should you want to add or remove any sites.




4. Send an email to Matthew Chen of Megite and let him know the URL of your OPML file. If you have no intention of changing your OPML file or don’t have a website, simply send Matthew the OPML file that you’ve exported in step 2.

And you’re done. Megite will usually get back to you quite quickly with the location of your meme tracking page. After which, you should spread the word about your community page (as I have done here) to do some traffic pooling.

This is not only a great way to set up a secondary referral traffic source, but a convenient method of tracking what other blogs in your niche are up to. Following the news consistently is an essential part of networking and this method just makes it easier for you to do so.