Okay, I’ll admit up front that this might sound a bit self serving, and it is because it’s about me. But, I’m only showing you what can happen so that you can see where you might be in 10 months if you start a social media optimization plan today.
I didn’t even know I was tracking results until yesterday when I opened a file marked “to do” that I wrote back in May 2008. It contained a pretty good social media optimization plan that I forgot I wrote. Of course I didn’t follow it. It was in the teaching file as an example for my some day students. What I found was where I ranked on that day about ten months ago. For proof, check out this image that shows the file properties and the original search engine results numbers.
So, I decided to see how my current stats compared. As you can see, I’ve gained a lot in some search engines thanks to twitter, this blog, LinkedIn and Facebook. A qualifier: higher numbers look so impressive, but can be collapsed into a much smaller number based on similar results. Still, it’s good to know that I can share a personal social media optimization success story with you and my soon-to-be students. Do you want to be one of them?
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May 2008 |
March 2009 |
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Yahoo! |
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“Barbara Rozgonyi” |
19,900 |
68,200 |
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“CoryWest Media” |
1140 |
13,200 |
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“Wired PR Works” |
4440 |
55,700 |
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Twitter wiredprworks |
797 |
21,110 |
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MSN |
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“Barbara Rozgonyi” |
2120 |
6540 |
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Barbara Rozgonyi |
6300 |
10,700 |
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“CoryWest Media” |
1140 |
13,200 |
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“Wired PR Works” |
4640 |
30,100,000???? |
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Twitter wiredprworks |
8 |
2620 |
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“Barbara Rozgonyi” |
2120 |
6540 – 655 images |
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Barbara Rozgonyi |
6300 |
10,700 |
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“CoryWest Media” |
407 |
330 |
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“Wired PR Works” |
3770 |
5280 – 530 images |
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Wired PR Works |
406,000 |
9,670,000 |
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Twitter wiredprworks |
1710 |
702,000- 292 images |
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Facebook + “Barbara Rozgonyi” |
4180 – 465 images |
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LinkedIn + “Barbara Rozgonyi” |
2930 – 312 images |
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Twitter + “Barbara Rozgonyi” |
10,500 – 560 images |
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Social Media + “Barbara Rozgonyi” |
6170 – 590 images |
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Public Relations + “Barbara Rozgonyi” |
3800 |
Next step: start working on top social bookmarking sites strategies.
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6 thoughts on “Social Media Optimization Success Story – Results”
Those are some encouraging results, thanks for sharing… it is so hard to be patient with seo/links/etc but it certainly pays off if you put in hard work.
Those are some encouraging results, thanks for sharing… it is so hard to be patient with seo/links/etc but it certainly pays off if you put in hard work.
Barbara,
You seem to be very effective in your online presence without being too intrusive (i.e., too many twitter postings and other updates clogging things up).
How do you strike the balance between posting and updating your gentle readers and correspondents frequently enough and posting too much, too often?
How do you tailor your postings to each channel that you use? And is there one central “launching point” where you post all your updates so all your channels broadcast them per your settings?
Thanks very much,
Jon
Barbara,
You seem to be very effective in your online presence without being too intrusive (i.e., too many twitter postings and other updates clogging things up).
How do you strike the balance between posting and updating your gentle readers and correspondents frequently enough and posting too much, too often?
How do you tailor your postings to each channel that you use? And is there one central “launching point” where you post all your updates so all your channels broadcast them per your settings?
Thanks very much,
Jon