Wineireland.com analytics & some background
Posted on August 19th, 2010
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I set up wineireland.com on June 26th, having sat on the domain name for a while.
My aim for the site
My aim for the site is to bring more traffic to the great and the good of the Irish online wine scene, whether commentators, critics or retailers.
How it works
RSS: Real simple syndication
I pick up the RSS feeds of the wine blogs in Ireland and publish a snippet or teaser for each one. This is all done automagically.
Feeding the Tweetie bird
Via my @smallsips account on twitter and an excellent tool called TwitterFeed, I pick up any posts and a tweet goes out in the following format. It’s also automagic.
I stuck with the smallsips account as I already had a bit of “brand equity” and it would be a lot easier than starting another twitter account.
How it works for you
The more you post, the greater the footprint you have – a trail leading to your site. This may or may not help your SEO (search engine optimisation) efforts. If it does, great.
Ultimately, I hope it brings you web traffic, readers, customers and good karma. If it is bringing you any of these, I’d be delighted to know.
I’ve been getting a welcome steady stream of clicks since it came on the scene.
I also find the site super handy for just logging onto every couple of days to see what’s new in the Irish wine blogosphere, without having to click on sites that may not have been added to since I was last on them.
Good site!
I generally clickthrough and have found out about a couple of interesting events coming up.
Given the automagic nature of the tweets it illustrates the importance of using descriptive titles for your blog posts.
Cheers.
Lar,
Any updates on how much traffic comes through that site?
@Will In terms of visitors, there hasn’t been a whole lot. 600 or so visitors in the first 54 days. That doesn’t include people who visit using an RSS reader.
However, the purpose of the site is to drive visitors away to the other sites, rather than get people to stay around.
Fair play to you Lar..Its a great idea..heard about it recently through Jean Smullens website news..
Its brilliant to have so many contributors from the Irish Wine Scene under the one umbrella..
And I believe some of your posts were the first on it, John, so keep up the blogging.