Failure To Attract

Another interesting traffic opportunity is the “Reputation Management” service that Naymz offers.  Naymz is a social networking service that specializes in managing your reputation as well as connecting you to people who do similar things, could help you in your field, or vise versa.  You gain RepScore points for various things - completing your profile and building your Reputation Network, for example.  The higher your RepScore gets, the more perks you accumulate.  When you get to a certain level (The levels change depending on the average of all Naymz profiles), they will get you listed on Google at the top of the listings for your name.

That’s impressive!

There are two levels of membership - Free and Premium.  The Free account will work well for most people just starting out, but it’s limited in it’s functions.  The Premium account unlocks everything, including a reporting function that lets you see who’s visiting your profile, among other things the Free account is restricted in.

I suggest checking it out highly!

-David

Okay, here’s a cool idea for the new year:

Use something fun and interesting as a way of driving traffic to a product, blog, or other website.

Now, obviously this isn’t a new idea, but ways of implementing this idea continue to sprout up, almost daily, it seems.  This one, MyMiniCity.com, is pretty cool.  You give your town a name, pick the country you want it to be in - I picked Fiji Fiji - and it’ll create this little town, typically starting with just a building or two, and over time growing and adding infrastructure - kind of like the old SimCity games.  The kicker is, each visit to your city (one action per person per day) will increase and grow your population, which allows you to do more.  When you put it out there, and more people visit and it grows more and more, the higher in the rankings it goes.  It gets high enough, and thousands of people - at least - would see it.

There’s also a message board there, where you can put a link to a product or page there, and trade messages with your visitors.  It’s a totally free service, too!

Go check out my city, the Isle de Fuego!

-David

I seem to be writing these things in the early, early hours of the morning, don’t I?

As I’ve been setting this blog up over the past 24 hours or so,  I’ve discovered an amazing resource.  If you have a blog, or are thinking about setting up a blog, you need to try using this service.  It’s called FeedBurner, and apparently it helps you promote your blog, podcasts, etc.  It’s very web 2.0, and it does a ton of awesome things, like give you a dynamic signature for your email programs, like Outlook, that has a link to whatever your latest blog post is.

The best part is, it’s apparently totally free.  I’ve been playing with it since I set the blog up last night, and I haven’t encountered anything asking for money or to set up anything for billing, which is surprising for all that it does.

If you email me at david@davidpettit.org,  I’ll send you a response and you’ll get to see what I mean.