Update on rankings via social media

YapYapOK Alexa Ranking 2 219 916.

Since my last report we dropped a few thousand but we have now climbed back up again, oh to go below the elusive 2 million! Our new YapYapOK You tube video has had 134 views & they are not even friends and family.

We have had several new ads on the YapYapOK classified site which is fantastic. Soon we will start our email marketing campaign. We have a couple more things to implement then we can really press on.

One of the adverts yesterday was for a second hand book called The Time Travellers Wife, a best seller by Audrey Niffenegger ( spelling. I recently reviewed this book on the YapYapOK forum & agree with the seller. It is one of my favourite books ever. The seller has it priced at £3 which I think is a real bargain. I forget how much I paid for mine but it is now in the safe hands of my mum. We share our books!

Another advert is for a Water Home on Palm Jebel Ali in Dubai, the pictures are artist impressions as it is off plan but if the reality is 1/10th of the pictures then it will still have an enormous wow factor. The promotional video which has been taken from YouTube quite literally takes your breath away.

The buzz word is BUZZ. Google has entered the domain of Social networking, so I have another item on my to do list. I fear that I will be another lone bod in a crowded, albeit virtual room. You see the problem is I blog and create links via all the social networking channels to create as many inward links pointing to YapYapOK, most of them are unread and are probably of little value. Some of them are immediately rewarding such as Twitter which I measure on bit.ly. My analytics show me the next day where my traffic has come form. Oddly Stumble Upon has become a not inconsiderable referrer. I probably spend about 30 minutes a week on this particular networking site and yet it brings in more traffic than all my hours on Twitter put together. My time on SU is limited as any one person can't submit the same page twice. This has been a surprising result but endorses the facts that I cannot afford to dismiss any of the social tools that I use!

My picture choice today was the icon for DIY, it represents multiple tools which is kinda what I'm blogging about. Weak link I know, I'll never get a job on telly!

YapYapOK a new class of classifieds

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Would love to be in Dire Straits

I have once again become obsessed with Alexa Ranking. Clearly they
update more than once a week because....da da daaaaaa. We are now
ranked at 2,255,551 thats a jump of approx 62000 in 2 days!

We also have 5 sites linking in, bizarrely we have many more than
that. I have linked from Posturous and in turn, Blogger, Stumble etc
In fact I personally must create several links from at least 15
different social media on a daily basis, Twitter must be more like 30
plus every day!

Even more bizarre was the fact that 2 of the links were completely
unbeknown to me. So I wonder why they did and indeed how they found
us. Maybe all those links via the other social sites.

Today I have to report our new YapYapOK YouTube video featuring the song "Rich Girl" by Gwen Stefani went live yesterday!

We really wanted to put on Dire Straights "Money for Nothing". It
went brilliantly with the video, they are British & I am a huge
fan. One night in Sept 2009, a great friend & I spent several drunk hours
listening to Dire Straights on YouTube. I have always loved the Alchemy live version of Sultans of Swing, man can he play guitar. I also love Romeo & Juliet.
Tracy was telling me how sexy Mark Knopfler was. Well I had always
loved the music but really had never seen the sex appeal so it was
enlightening to watch him practically snogging the mic, singing in that
sexy drawl "I can't do anything but be in love" 'n strumming. Now I too
have a very grown up crush.

So, If there is anyone out there who knows Mark, and thinks he might
mellow to the idea of allowing us free use of his record then please do
get in touch. Who knows it might even bring him in some more record
sales! So Mark - You 'n me, how bout it

In the spirit of links YapYapOK free UK classifieds

OOh & I did at last publish my recipe for Scotch Eggs Gourmet a la Chates - Mark might like that, he was born in Scotland you know!

Up The Rankings

This is a super fast post on my Alexa rank.

YapYapOK free Uk classified went up over 100 000 pts since I last looked....... um yesterday. We are now ranked 2 317 391

Clearly Alexa does not upgrade on a daily basis, but I worked very hard on social media yesterday. I used most of the ones I am now familiar with. Blogger, Posturous (here Sir) Facebook, Twitter, Ning, Stumble, Bleetbox, stumble via Bleetbox, Digg, Digg via Bleetbox and My Space.

My tweeting for clicks was immensely successful due to the new investment threads courtesy of Investor Morse. I received over 300 views on this page alone. Bizarrely its not recorded so highly in my Google analysis, but the results are there to be seen.

So consequently, I am not sure what worked, if it was anyone thing or a combination of all of them. What I do know is that I am spurred on. I need to get below that elusive 2 000 000 rank.

Also I have now got over 1000 followers on Twitter. Hooray!