{"id":6759,"date":"2015-10-23T22:10:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T20:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/?p=6759"},"modified":"2015-10-24T19:18:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T17:18:54","slug":"referral-traffic-from-social-media-has-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/referral-traffic-from-social-media-has-dropped\/","title":{"rendered":"Referral traffic from social media has dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bufferapp.com\/lost-traffic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bufferapp article<\/a> on declining social media traffic. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bufferapp.com\/lost-traffic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">We&#8217;ve lost nearly half our social referral traffic in the last year<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I say. No wonder. Everybody is online, creating tonnes of content. Most people are too busy to read, let alone follow so many data streams. <\/p>\n<p>Many web pages don&#8217;t get any traffic at all. A few sites get all the traffic. <\/p>\n<p>Interesting read. I recommend reading it. <\/p>\n<p>My tip: don&#8217;t share or comment on articles that you haven&#8217;t read. Even bots can do that. Be human.<\/p>\n<p>And. If you do like an article? Comment, share and write a blog post on it.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re on Facebook and want to see better content, I recommend following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adweek.com\/news\/technology\/robert-scobles-22-tips-better-facebook-engagement-164995\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Scoble&#8217;s advice<\/a>. The filtering is improving. And this week&#8217;s announcement on <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.fb.com\/news\/2015\/10\/search-fyi-find-what-the-world-is-saying-with-facebook-search\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook Search<\/a> means we may have a viable alternative to Google Search. At some point in the future. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt turns out a ton of things that people share socially on the Web, they don&#39;t read at all.\u201d\u009d <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/Qmbv259oex\">http:\/\/t.co\/Qmbv259oex<\/a> &#8211;&gt; read b4 sharing!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u00e2\u0153\u0081___CollectThisTweet (@nchenga) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nchenga\/status\/650352974724730880\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 3, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Lucky <a href=\"http:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/\">chiperoni.ch<\/a>. It doesn&#8217;t need to grow traffic. <\/p>\n<p>Have a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chiperoni\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my photos on Flickr.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chiperoni\/22195471858\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"walk this way\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5783\/22195471858_022ceaa26d_z.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" alt=\"walk this way\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this Bufferapp article on declining social media traffic. We&#8217;ve lost nearly half our social referral traffic in the last year I say. No wonder. Everybody is online, creating tonnes of content. Most people are too busy to read, let alone follow so many data streams. Many web pages don&#8217;t get any traffic at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,24,9,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flickr","category-marketing","category-tech","category-tweet"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1LJxC-1L1","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}