(please excuse this slightly off-topic post)
The Buzz About PF Buzz
I know a boat load of you pf bloggers are already using PF Buzz (around 200 at publish) but I thought I would try and convince those last remaining few out there to get with the program. As well as re-ignite some who may have signed up and never really used the service. You know who you are.
In case you didn’t already know, PF Buzz is a “social bookmarking site that focuses on sharing the best personal finance and money articles…made by a personal finance blogger (Pinyo from Moolanomy) for personal finance bloggers (You and Me).” Forget Digg. We’ve got our own social site now. Bottom line: It’s a fun site if you’re into personal finance and it has positive benefits for most everyone that gets involved. Check out the PF Buzz Blog and Forums for a little extra buzz.
PF Buzz Major Players
As of this article, the top three users of PF Buzz (besides Pinyo) are GBlogger, freefrombroke, and biblemoneymatters. They’ve all risen to the top by submitting posts, commenting on posts, and voting on posts. All activities that will get you karma points toward increasing your user ranking. Not only do they get their user names plastered all over PF Buzz, they get to experience the returned goodwill from bloggers who’s posts they’re submitting. It’s still early in the game too, so you can get in on the action. Join PF Buzz today and make your way to the top.
Does PF Buzz Bring You Traffic?
Okay, now the reason I wrote this post. I was checking my stats in Analytics for the umpteenth time the other day and I noticed several incoming links from pfbuzz.com. I dug a little further an was pleased by what I saw. Check out my traffic stats showing the day a couple of my posts went to top buzz on PF Buzz:
Those numbers represent around 5% of my normal daily traffic. I don’t know about you but I’d take 5% more traffic every few days. And I’d really love it if that 5% increase were people who are searching for personal finance information, likely to read the entire post, and more likely to subscribe. Keep in mind, the above all happened with very little input from me. I think I submitted one of these myself. Prior to that date I hadn’t done much with PF Buzz. I’m by no means a power user.
PF Buzz can and will bring you quality traffic. Obviously not Digg / StumbleUpon volume traffic at this point. Still, it’s the kind of traffic you really want: people that are more likely to fully engage in your blog once they get there.
My subscriber number jumped up a few notches shortly after this happened as well. I’m sure others can report an even greater amount of traffic and benefit from PF Buzz.
Increase Your PF Buzz Traffic
I’ve put together a few tips that might help you get more PF Buzz traffic. No big secrets here. Just the basics. Things I’m going to try and start doing to increase my PF Buzz traffic:
- Get into a habit of submitting your best post to PF Buzz right after you publish it. Submitting your own post isn’t looked down upon in this stage of PF Buzz. Just make sure you limit it to one or two a day, as requested by PF Buzz. Anyone working on a PF Buzz auto-submit Wordpress Plugin?
- Educate your readers on PF Buzz. Ask them to check it out for themselves and vote up your posts that they like.
- Increase your PF Buzz karma by submitting more posts, commenting on posts, and voting up more posts. It will come back to you in the form of traffic and connections. I’m sure GBlogger can attest to this.
- Place a PF Buzz Bookmarklet (see below) on your blog to make it easier for people to submit your posts to PF Buzz.
- PF Buzz also has a feed aggregator, the PF Buzz Planet. You can add your rss feed to this for free. That’s more potential traffic each time you post something to your own blog.
That’s all I have for now. If you’ve got a tip be sure and leave it in the comments below. And if you haven’t already…
Join PF Buzz today.
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I love using PF Buzz. I still check out Digg, but this is something that I can use and read 5 fantastic personal finance articles just by looking at the first page.
Alright alright! I signed up but haven’t had a chance to go back. I’ll do better, I promise!
It is a pretty cool tool and has introduced me to a few new blogs along the way. I’ve never used anything like digg before, so all this social media stuff is kind of new for me – it still has that new car smell.
@Momma – Let’s keep each other accountable.
I haven’t seen a huge bump from PFBuzz, although it is in my top 30 traffic referrers. It is a fun site to use, and I suppose if I get more of my articles actually submitted and to the top of the buzz list I might get a bit more traffic. Off to buzz some stuff!
Great post and I agree 100% with your sentiments. Definetly a quality source of traffic and best to get in now (build up Karma) before it gets big.
I like your last tips, didn’t know about the aggregator. Will add my feed there now.
You can add another reader to your list – me.
@Pete – Just submitted your post from today!
@AndyS – Thanks for swinging by and for subscribing.
Yup, i agree – it’s a great tool out there! I actually came up as #6 on it’s referrer base, but i should really pump more out and write a little somethin’ somethin’ on it
Glad to see you have!
What’s great about PF Buzz is it’s still new and it’s for us personal finance and frugal folks. Digg is so big now you only catch the biggest sites. With PF Buzz we all have a shot at being on the front page.