Depending on what industry you’re in, or what country you’re from, you will find that a particular time of day drives more attention to the links that you have submitted to your favorite bookmarking site. There are also dead spots in the day, or certain days of the week where it’s harder to get noticed.
Experiment with the time of day that you share and take note of the effect. Extend that to the day of the week, or even the seasons.
Since the links you are submitting will be for other people, you can’t tell from the server logs which link is getting the most traffic, because of course, you can’t access that information. What you can do is look at other signs that might give you a clue that the site is busy at the time you’re online.
Here are some indicators that may help:
- Look to see if there’s any indication of how many people are online. This may be reflected by an increase in comments being made, or you may see an indicator next to the names of more of your friends names that show they are online.
- Go to the upcoming page and look at the times that the links are being submitted, or how often links roll of to the next page if there is no time stamp. There may be days when the top post and the last post are 12 hours apart, or don’t roll off the page the whole time you’re visiting the site, whereas on some high traffic sites, within ten minutes the page could be completely different.
- Keep track of the time of day that you visit each site, and vary it from time to time to test for a better “rush hour”. If you submit a link and get votes immediately one day, and on another, you don’t get many, it’s not always the story you’ve submitted.
- Search the blogosphere for posts about the site. For example, there have to be hundreds of posts about how to use StumbleUpon, as well as how to increase your exposure.
- Look on video and tutorial sites for information, too.
- Send a private message to your friends if you can. They may have tips they would be happy to share one on one, but not with the whole world.
