Mention Facebook get More Blog Traffic

As my quest continues to build a large and useful fake Facebook profile, one advantage I hadn't counted on was the amount of new traffic that posts about my Facebook experiment would bring to this blog.

My first post about my Facebook plans brought a 300 percent increase in traffic, it seems quite a bit of that new traffic came from the Blogrush widget. So as a link bait topic, Facebook certainly seems to do the trick. The rest of the traffic increase came from various social bookmarking services.

By the time I posted my second article and update on the Facebook experiment I was conducting, I had a handful of new RSS readers and this second article again brought another spike in traffic.

Very interesting.

Certainly a buzzword of the moment, mentioning Facebook won't do you any harm at all. In terms of my experiment, I have well surpassed 100 Facebook friends with my fake account and I have had 90% of people I approach accept my friendship request. While this is a good thing for me and my marketing plans, it does raise a few questions about Facebook security. Are people being too trusting, so much so that Facebook might head straight down the MySpace path? A path where spammers, stalkers and predators now lurk and thrive?

While what I am doing with Facebook isn't exactly abiding by the TOS, it can't be categorized as spamming. I am targeting a particular niche of users, they are then giving me their permission to interact with them and they can stop receiving correspondence from me at any time!

And finally I have registered the domain 30DayMan.com - much easier to remember and something I have been meaning to do for a while. With my RSS count going past 50, it seemed a perfect time to secure and setup the correct domain name!