Monthly Website Tips: Social March

Ok this area of work is kinda new for me. Never dugg into the social aspect of the web that much as a tech guy. But after some weeks of trying I booked some interesting results with it.

Forums

When looking into the other things (comments, digg(-clones)), and in particular looking through my access_logs. I found out that alot of people where checking out the sites I placed in my forum signature. After setting up a bit more advanced logging on this (phenomena). I found 2 different groups that where clicking. First the returning visitors (more then 1 visit) made out about 10 - 20% of the incoming hits from forums. The other 80 - 90% goes to the new visitor. So putting links in your forum signature is certainly worth the little effort.

Comments

Posting comments has the same effect as a forum signature. When posting a constructive (or just a positive) comment on a post/article/entry people tend to check out your site. This will have a positive effect on the number of visitors your getting.But again make sure to post something useful/constructive.