I am not qualified to make careful SEO estimations, at least yet. :) I will get to it eventually…

I also believe ‘you get better by providing better content’ but you may be writing Shakespeare, Millersque works but if no-one knows about them it is useless.

Re: you point about delicious…it not about the direct or immediate traffic form it.

I propose a small experiment in your next post DO NOT submit it to delicious.

Check your serp ranking for the posts main keyword; 24hrs later check it again (to eliminate wordpress initial boost.)

THEN submit it to delicious using your keyword in the description and tags and check your serp rankings 12hrs or so after this (to eliminate initial boost).

You SHOULD see a boost in the serp rankings; it may be one it may be a few places different.

Extrapolate from this the possible effects to submitting it to other Social sites that will help boost SERP ranking and therefore Search engine traffic…which is the targeted money making traffic and NOT the social traffic you COULD/WILL receive.

Clearly I am no expert. I just follow “never ask barber if you need a haircut”.

There are a lot of stuff that claims to be so much value for bloggers. Somehow I don’t see any of my high-profile blogger acquaintances using such stuff.

I just think you don’t get better by searching for shortcuts, you get better by providing better content and getting better community that is thankful to you.

PS I have my post auto-submitted to delicious. Brought me whole of 5 (five) visitors in last three months. :)

1) Its not evil! any ‘socialite’ will submit their stuff to their favourite social engines, this just helps do it a bit faster!

2) its not about PR! its never been about PR…PR is just a number…

3)…its all about serps and this is not limited to google but yahoo msn and ask also.

4) Not wanting to requote my last months post but not all links are equal there are all weighed differently and domain authority is one of the many key factors which social sites have.

5) PLUS with the new adsense roll out of ‘behavioural adds’ your conversion rates form social trafiic in theory should increase….

I’ll add more points later on msn!

Yeah, automated software to gather PR-less links is sure sounds like a good plan to gain favor of single dominant search engine. Not. :)

I have also been considering setting up a more robust posting schedule as a I see a 35% increase of traffic on post days but I am in fact way to swamped with work!

and yes the best SEO recommendation once you have done all the implicit things is to garner links; I would ofc recommend my own post on the best link that I wrote last month! and my latest favourite software traffic android ;)

Well, I don’t consider this design great but it’s not ugly (already a lot as for me), fits my taste and works for my readers (it seems). :) I just need to finish tweaks at last and let it cook for a few months.

On stats my best advice is to ignore what other blogs post about those. :) At least until you start encountering blogs that are smaller than yours and believe me that takes time, lol.

Thanks for being around!

Some really good stats there, you’re putting me to shame……must write some more stuff :( Well Done!

Yep online is no freaking different. Except that social is additionally perverted when stupid things like running around different services and amassing thousands “friends” for the only sake of pitching them your links to visit or “promote”.

I like to know that there are real people gathering here little by little. Not thousands of them but they know that they can always leave a comment here and get reply. :)

That’s better “social” than spinning followera counter on Twitter. :)