Thanks much, Jupiter and Kirtanman:
And, yes, long time no see, Kirtanman! Don't know if you saw that we finally took your advice from way back when about RSS, thanks to Jupiter resurrecting it a few days ago. Still, I have been getting emails asking what RSS is, so we added a "help" link to bring folks along.
Regarding StumbleUpon, this is all new to me, but I can't help but notice the traffic when it occurs. There has been intermittent traffic from StumbleUpon for some time, like from a lot of places. To be honest, I never gave it much thought. Then there was a spike coming from the site a few weeks ago, which simmered down after a few days. And all of a sudden today it went through the roof with well over 2000 hits on the Tantra Lessons Directory page alone.
So it has my attention, and I can see these kinds of sites have a lot of potential for sharing the AYP writings.
Unfortunately, I have no time to be playing around with it due to the writing schedule and everything else that is going on here.
Would either or both of you be willing to do some work on it? Or anyone else? I am very interested in presenting AYP in all possible locations, but not in a way that will smack of excessive promotion. What we have here is pretty unique, so no hard sell is necessary or desired. We just want to put the info in places that will make it easier for yoga practitioners to find us. Our content and wonderful community here will do the rest.
On a related subject, we are getting a lot of play on the search engines these days, having finally gotten well optimized for that last year. About 45% of all the AYP website traffic is coming from the search engines now. That is up from about 30% a few months ago. The total traffic numbers have been growing all along, so the 45% is actually a much bigger number in hits.
The website content evaluation communities you have mentioned offer a chance to kick start the whole thing to the next level. Any help with that will be much appreciated (thanks, Jupiter, for adding the AYP mainpage at StumbleUpon). If there is anything I can do that will not eat up too much time here, I am more than willing. The RSS addition was certainly worth the effort. Thanks to you both for that.
I am also open to other ways of getting the word out on the web, as long as there is help available to do it. We are never short on ideas, but always short on doers.
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All the best!
The guru is in you.
PS: While we have a good presence on
MySpace, set up by Hunter, we are yet to get off the ground on
FaceBook (nice page set up by "Nika," but no traffic). Another FaceBook page was set up by Sadhak, but I can't find a working link for that one right now. I don't think much is happening there either.
