AlphaInventions and Does it Work; A Great Question from another Blogger

A great question from another Blogger about Alpha Inventions and my response;

“I’ve also had this phenomenon – one day 8 hits, the next day, hundreds, thanks to alpha inventions. Now, there’s a certain thrill in knowing that so many people are tripping over your pages. It’s great fun and feels really cool, and I’m full of admiration for the clever programmer that thought it up. But what I’m wondering is how this actually adds value when most of them – almost all of them clock in as a “hit” without actually reading or interfacing with the content. I mean these are “hits” only in the sense that the thousands of people you pass on the street might be considered “meetings”. I don’t mean to undermine the piece of programming, which is certainly interesting. I want to know who’s finding it fruitful for more than a superficial hit boost, and how?”

“I agree with your thoughts via your comments made on my blog.  I use Icerocket.com to track data as well as my blog’s own tracker program because Icerocket breaks down hits and “visits” so that you know who is actually going to your site by the numbers.  The ratio of hits versus actual visits that I do attribute to people interfacing with my blog content is probably 4 to 1.  This traffic I am getting through Alpha Inventions has to look at the fact that these are “only” bloggers, meaning that those outside of being bloggers (the rest of the world) are not represented, so I also use Twitter to update what I am posting on my blog to assist in spreading my content around the net.  Try Icerocket though.  I think you will like it as a tool.  To sum up, I am getting a ton of hits, but my visits have increased many times over and over again.  That is what I look at more than anything.”

For that matter, one could use Google Analytics or any “site meter” to judge more fully how much traffic Alpha Inventions is directly responsible for on their site beyond that of BlogSpot, WordPress, and the like. One other comment to add to my response to my blogger reader friend would be that even if the traffic generated by Alpha Inventions is directed toward bloggers “only” I have received more links (back links) through Alpha Inventions in a couple of months than I had in the past year without Alpha Inventions.

This means that truly Alpha Inventions indirectly is spreading the word of my blog through other bloggers who have put my links and/or content on their blogs to non-bloggers across the blogosphere. This is huge too because backlinks, hits, and visits increase your blogs ability to be picked up on Google and other search engines more easily. Your search engine SEO will improve. The only other suggestion is to look at my Blog Roll for “Ping Google” and the Google Blog Service. You should Ping Google as you put new content on your site. This is something that every blogger should do religiously every post to ensure good SEO as well. I would say that the Twitter idea I have used is good. Has it increased my visits or hits? Not anywhere in the same ballpark as Alpha Inventions.

Trust me when I say that Alpha Inventions works. It is a marvelous, no a Glorious, invention.