Part one was done when I first got this product, it is now a few days after using the tool Social Traffic Plugin.
My previous post was an introduction to the Social Traffic Plugin. This is a WordPress plugin, no one actually sees what it does. If you use wordpress you will like what this does, (you may even want it). You install like a normal plugin for a wordpress blog on self hosted wordpress, most web hosters will be able to host them at a reasonable price. Not more than a cuppa, (if more go to someone else).
If your not up with the play any tech or wordpress person will install it. (If you are a die hard DIY person Fabulicious is great to install for you). I personally like wordpress and like it how plugins like the one Bill Crosby is selling here can be inserted to give it more leverage.
Bill Crosby sent me the Beta Version to test, once installed it I found it really easy. The instructions were well documented, which shows their professional attitude to the project. (My experience has been Bill Crosby & Gabe Strom stand up people in social media advice). When I was using the set up, it was nice to see on twitter it all pointed back to my blog, which rang bells off for me. Back-links galore was my instant reaction using the technique. I was unable to test this part of the product as I could only test for two weeks, it would come down to how twitter use that data. (Actually Bill or Gabe if your reading this does it give us more backlinks, I will check but do you guys know?).
At this stage I felt a little disappointed it was only for twitter management. To be fair to the review process, I wrote to Bill and asked if their were plans for more social media venues to be synced with this tool.
This was Bill Cosby’s Answer.
Lisa,
We are adding LinkedIn this week and Facebook by the middle of January.
We will then look to probably add Ping.fm afterward. As well, we are working
on our new URL shortener which will show you how many clicks are on each one of
your messages so you will know which ones are the most effective.
Bill
So yes that was news I think made me feel very positive about this review. If you search for data on this item, it is positive feedback I have found no negatives at all.
I think the price is fair. The price was $97.00. There is a affiliate program (clickbank) used to promote the product, I am happy to do with a quality product like this. If you have something that saves you time then it is worth that much, especially if you value your time. Which if your in social media and around wordpress(blogging diehard fans) at all or a developer could be worth investigating a bit deeper. Also those of you that already have wordpress I could see you getting some ease with it and more links back to you.
The best part, I got more traffic to my blog yes it was crazy that doing it this way served me better than just posting to networks. I am yet to figure out why.
Negatives? It is not a free plugin. You do not get it with a free install of wordpress. The other components that are coming are not there yet, but by the time some people read this it maybe me just sounding off. Some of the extensions where not there yet. (Maybe by the time many read this though so thats a good thing).
Overall, good tool to create social traffic. Thank you to Bill Crosby for giving me permission to make this one of my first beta tests.
You could actually see it not being free as a good thing, that means not everyone will have it. So my negative could be a positive. I am saving up to get this one.