Name Impact

"Dont judge a book from its cover". I do agree with this statement but the problem is, most of us judge a book from its cover. Lol.

This is the trend of 'facebook likes' I am using for one of my thing. At the beginning and at the middle, you can see a plateau. Later at the back, you can see a 45 degree increasing trend.

Here's what had happened.

1. At the beginning, I use some sort of funky name for my Like title

2. Then I try to promote the Like by updating status, that why you can see an increase.

3. But then, it cam back to plateau trend.

4. Later, I make the title more simple and straight to the point.

5. As a result, more Like per day.

Why did it returned to plateau at 3? That's what we call the appealing factor. You see, I just changed the title, not the content and you can see a tremendous change in Likes per day. Next time, make sure your title rocks.

I dont expect August will end this way

I thought I can at least my earnings for this month by 20 - 30% percent compared to last month but it seems it is impossible.

Despite having the same percentage of click, my ecpm drops.

Better luck next month.

Facebook Like Optimization (FLO) - 1 month after

As I said, I dont update my website, I just leave it there. After 1 year, I found that although this website works, it is losing steam day by day, which you can see from the graph below.

The culprit? I don't know but this is what I am think of.

1. Supposed that 10 person just got to know about my website. 8 (80%) are interested, 2 will ignore.

2. Supposed that these 8 person want to tell their friends about my website. But due to poor virilizing technique, each person will be able to pass down to 1 friend only.

3. From this 8 friends, only 80% (says 6) are interested. So there will be only 6 new friends to start again the chain.

4. And as time goes by, people get bored. So that 8 person (from 2) will leave, decreasing the number of visitor per day.

In simple words, more people are leaving than people staying and joining combined.

So by using facebook like button, this will enchance the spreading of the news at (2.). Supposed now 1 person able to pass the news to 3 person. So that will increase to 20 (80% of 24) instead of 6, and this will make the website grow.

Conclusion : FLO works right now and I hope this will last (although nothing last forever)!

Myspace is the new facebook?

Logged in to myspace and myspace offered me the new two column look. Love it but it much more of Facebook. So the old myspace, which was booming in 2003 something, is now dead.

*I was addicted to myspace log time ago. Lol.

Straight Forward in Names and Titles

I have this one website which I made (which I think quite useful) but did not managed to viral. Tried a lot of methods, including putting Facebook 'Like' but none seem to work, until 2 days ago, when I changed the name (as well as how it will appear when someone click Like).

Guess what, after months of failure, it managed to viral (via Facebook's 'Like' button).

Lesson : Whatever you do, your title should be straight forward to what you are offering. Don't choose funky name, unless you are doing movies or games ('A Shooting Enemy Game' would not do in this case)

Same goes as your blog name. And this blog name is bad example but never mind, this is like a diary which I won't monetize from it. :D

Straight forward people!

*Today I deleted quite a number of blogs I made 4 years back, when I was 17 and very naive in Adsense. I delete them coz I feel stupid having them around LOL. Previously, I thought making money from Adsense was piece of cake. Just make a lot of blogs and money will flow (I never make a dime from this method :D). Anyway, I snap all of them in jpeg format so that I can laugh back when I look at my previous stupidity later.

Why Facebook Like Optimization (FLO) rocks!

1. Rapid viralization

2. When someone click like, it is more of personal recommendation. *Do you know that mouth to mouth advertisement is the best advertisement on earth? It's the best because it is free and the response rate is good.

3. You dont need to wait for search engine to crawl your site

4. No competition and no slashing others on search engine rank building (SEO, backlinks etc). It is purely natural. So you won't get mad your rank drop etc coz someone used link farming etc.

5. Promote creativity. Good contents = more likes.

6. You dont have to wait for people to search the keywords

*However, SEO is still important. Do both and you'll get synergistic effect on your contents. :)

Facebook Like Optimization (FLO) can beat SEO

Facebook Like Optimization (FLO) can really beat SEO. Look at facebook ranking below from Alexa.com . At some countries, Facebook even beat giant search engines and at most countries, come out 2nd.

People do seo coz number one source for traffic is search engine. But since Facebook has changed this landscape, Facebook Like Optimization (FLO) is the alternative. Currently, the only FLO I can think of are these:

1. Content is power! And your title for Like should be tempting! Remember, in FLO, backlinks don't matter, how many people like your content is the main ingredient. Besides, you need constant Like. When 1 person click Like, he or she must able to get at least 1 of his friends to click Like too. If not, the cycle stops.

2. For blog, article etc, place your like at the end of your post. Dont put on top coz people read from top to bottom.

3. Dont't use dark color scheme when you are generating your button at http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like . Make is as natural and as intuitive as possible.

July 2010 Post Mortem

More or less the same page views as last month but not that lucky :(

However, past 2 days I am getting good traffic from Facebook's 'Like' :)

Bright side ahead? Good contents people!

*Happy 1st anniversary to this blog XD