POST UPDATE: Visibli is now SharedBy.co.
For all intents and purposes, besides the name, everything else remained the same.
My to-do list for today:
1. Find an ultimate traffic guide to something.
2. Skim through it.
3. Feel guilty that I haven’t given it the due attention and slowly skim through it again.
4. Leave a long-winded comment telling the blogger how incredibly helpful the guide was.
5. Click the “Save it for Later” button.
6. Feel guilty that I don’t have all the time in the world to give those ideas a shot.
7. Go back to my blog and lament that I haven’t done much today to directly impact my business.
My to-do list for tomorrow:
1. Save my to-do list from yesterday; rinse and repeat.
OR…
Increase Your Website Traffic with Visibli
Take the next 5 minutes*** to put into practice a simple traffic generation technique that will have a very quick and positive effect on your traffic generation TODAY.
***The results were tested by a professional blogger under pressure to produce epic content and are in no way a guarantee of the results.
How does that sound?
Let’s get to work!
By the way, this video is pioneering my new “Skinny Notes” series.
Skinny Notes are all about efficiency and results - precise and to the point traffic generation ideas that will increase your website traffic - TODAY.
Get the skinny, cut the fluff, in other words.
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More about Visibli
It seems like some folks, like my friend James Hussey :), are not ready for the life in the fast lane of Skinny Notes and need some hand-holding.
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What Is Visibli Toolbar?
Your Visibli Engagement Bar provides a way to retain readers after sharing external links; both through social media and on your blog.
And no, it’s not at all like Hello bar.
Let’s say you want to quote another blogger in your post. Naturally you link to the source, i.e. the other blog.
If any of your readers clicks on that external link, you might be losing them.
If you use Visibli, then your reader who clicked on the external link from your blog will see a personalized toolbar with YOUR information on it.
They basically take your site with them. Sort of like StumbleUpon toolbar.
How to Set up Visibli
1. Watch the video.
2. Link to the free version: http://sharedby.co/register/.
3. Make sure the bar looks like an extension of your blog. Personalize it with your blog colors, picture, etc - make it recognizable.
4. Go through the Visibli bookmarklet (watch the video) whenever you want to share anyone’s post on social media.
It’s that simple.
And it’s my #4 referral traffic source.
Nearly hands-free and that good.
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PS Would love to hear your take on my new series and the video specifically.
Thumbs up? Thumbs down?
What about the music?
Is the pace too fast?
And please, do give my new YouTube channel thumbs up: SUBSCRIBE HERE
Hi, firdt I would like to say that I love your information. The reason that I am posting this comment is that when I click on the register link. I get “this page cannot be found”, I would really like to sign up for this but can’t find the registration page.
Thanks.
My bad: the company has recently changed hands and I forgot to change the links. Fixed now.
I’m confused. How does this get you traffic? It just gives you a chance to re-engage traffic that you’ve already sent away. How is this better than having out going links open in a new window?
When it’s embedded on your site, then yes, it simply acts as a tool to bring your traffic back.
However, you can use Visibli bar to code the links to other blogs; for instance, when you share a friend’s post on Twitter, the link your Twitter followers click on to go to your friend’s site will be coded to show your Visibli bar at the top. So from there, the followers can come to your site by clicking on the bar.
I enjoyed this post as well as the creative way in which your ‘Skinny Notes’ video was put together.
I think I will begin using this strategy myself.
And if it works out I might just have to do a blog post review on it…
Thank you for the tip and the inspiration.
By the way, this is about the dumbest tool I have ever seen. This is nothing but a time waster. How much did they pay you to review this? lol
Wow, Wade - SERIOUSLY?
I think there are tons of different ways to get traffic to your blog or site. Along with a lot of different tools to use to bring traffic fast. Personally, I will use the old faithful of selling myself and creating relationships to build my blog’s traffic.
I don’t think these type of bars do really help in increasing the traffic. If a person is interested in a article means he/she is definitely gonna come and read it again even if they are redirected to some other article by clicking on links in the post which they are currently reading.
You don’t THINK it does, Fardeen, but I KNOW it does, as shown by stats in my post.
Not so useful to me. Tried for a week. Tough luck 🙁
It does help to have some traffic to begin with, Anchit; this is not the right tool to generate traffic from scratch, of course.
OK, downloaded (I think) everything, put in the API key, but when I try to go to a different site from my blog I don’t see the bar:(
Perhaps I need to ask them…
Was looking for something similar (not impressed with Halobar). Thanks for the recommendation.
As for the video, if the speed is decreased, I think it’s an excellent way to show the “how to’s” without fluff
Thanks for the tip on visibli, I will check it out. I’m always interested in trying out new plugins for our blog.
Ana,
I wanted to check back in see how you’re feeling about the Visibli bar? You’ve been running it for awhile now and probably have a pretty firm idea of its overall effectiveness.
I’m curious - have you run any tests as to how it impacts the speed of your site…?
I did get a slight bump in Visibli traffic since I started using their script for outgoing links, Michael. Overall quality of traffic is phenomenal: low bounce rate, high visit duration, etc.
As far as speed is concerned, don’t see it affecting overall speed much.
I am actually newbee and this tips will definitely help me. Till now my blog traffic is zero. And i hope that with time ,i will be able to see some improvement using your tips.
Excellent post on visibli,
I just started over it and want to know some more information about it. Still learning how can I get benefited. Your video is too short but it is more informative, expecting more videos on visibli, Thanks…
Hi Ana,
Good to see you in Google when I was searching with few questions about Visibli!
I have installed the plugin on couple of site and all the guest bloggers are complaining that the links are not do follow. So does visibli.com turn all the do follow links to no follow? Some folks who are looking only for back links find this as an issue.
Another question is, links within the post are opened in the same window unless with a right click. Is their a way to make the links opened in a new window/tab? I see that the toolbar has a back button tho.
Sunish
I sent Visibli team a message asking them to add target=”_blank” tag to their links, Sunish.
As far as nofollow tag is concerned, I don’t see what you see. It looks like all my in-post outgoing links are still dofollow.
Hi Ana,
I was wondering if the visibli team have resolved this issue. I really like the concept but it would be great if they can sort out the ‘do follow’ issue.
Thanks
Ruth
There’s no “dofollow” issue, Ruth - the links are exactly what you meant for them to be in the post.
I did however check with Visibli team regarding opening the links in a new window; they confirmed they are still working on it.
I like the idea, but loathe the fact that it uses third party servers to load from. I’ve had similar issues with the likes of Google Analytics and in the past (during my ignorant phase) used third party plugins for a number of different functions, all of which were being pulled from servers way beyond my control. I think my key issue here is that both Google and Yahoo now incorporate page load times in their ranking factors and visitors now expect decent sites to load quickly. Relying on a third party server to provide an integral part of your site may not be such a great idea in the long term…
Very good point, Steven, and from everything I can see, Visibli hasn’t caused any problems with loading times on my site at the moment. Also, I think the potential benefit far outweighs all the mili-seconds it might shave off my site speed.
Ana it’s funny before writing this page I clicked to troublesometots.com from one of your posts and I noticed the toolbar while on that Blog and I thought it was cool. Even thought it was a premium plugin. It’s good to know its free.
I’ll test it out.
Thanks for the tip 🙂
P.S. I thought the video was too fast. I hardly got any of the steps out of it. But I’m sure I’ll figure it out when I’m ready to use it.
Hey Ana,
I’ve been using the Visibli bar since first seeing you mention it a while back. I don’t use it for links from my site, instead it appears when I share links on Twitter.
It’s my third biggest referrer. Thanks for the tip 🙂
James is right, you should use your voice for the video instead of the music. I think it would make it easier to follow the steps you’re showing.
But it’s a good idea to do short, snappy guides rather than the rambling walkthroughs you often see. It’s a great way of being different.
Thanks for the thumbs up, Caimin; always nice to know I am not talking into vacuum.
Great content as usual and I love the new series. I found the pace too rapid for me - like I have to go back and play it twice to get all the details.
Pleeeeese lose the music, I’d much prefer your voice.
🙂
Really cute videos, but a little to fast for people, like me, who are still learning and clueless! Liked the music, but have to agree with another poster…miss your voice!
Ana,
It’s weird… just this morning I spent some time evaluating the “Hello Bar” and had come to the conclusion that it seemed, at least to me, rather limited.
Next thing I know, swish, your email lands in my inbox discussing the virtues of Visibli. Perfect timing! Thanks for the heads up.
Visibli definitely solves one specific problem that no one else does, Michael.
So many ways of getting traffic out there, but only very few like Visibli proves faster than Normal, with positive results, I’m impressed Anna, Thanks for the Great Share and hope to come back for more 😉
Hi Ana,
Great post!
I wanted to draw attention to how much time, money and effort companies put into gaining traffic without focusing on converting that traffic.
Pluralis is a crowdsourced marketplace for conversion rate optimization that is on a pay for performance model.
So while you focus your efforts on traffic, let us focus efforts on converting that traffic.
Regards,
Elliot
Great video with wonderful music, thanks for sharing such a nice post for explaining Visibli & how it can be useful for a blogger, I had some rough idea about this but never used it, after watching the video I think It has a great potential & I will surely try the free version.
Thanks for the mention, Peter, and have a blessed week!
I always enjoy holding hands, Ana. 😀
Thanks for explaining. You are, as always, full of solid advice.
This is excellent. Actually a brilliant idea - It’s one of those ones which annoys me I didn’t think of it!
Thanks for sharing such a nice post for explaining Visibli & how it can be useful for a blogger. I was really looking for a tool where I can control my visitor when they click on external links. I used to provide useful links in my articles. I think Visibli can help me a lot.
I first noticed visibli here at TGC even before I found this post here. What I love about Visibli is letting you take advantage of promoting your site while promoting other people’s interesting post from your twitter and aside from that Visibli also gives you an overview of click analytics from your shared blog post which makes me love them more.
I noticed the Visibli a while back on your blog, and went to check it out immediately for use on my blogs. I did NOT, however, notice the bookmarklet tool while I was there. Thanks for pointing that out. 🙂
The positives of the bar are obvious, but I have noticed two things regarding the Visibli bar during my testing, however, that need to be pointed out:
First, it tends to conflict with a LOT of other plugins, especially caching and minifying plugins, so please test your site carefully after installing.
Secondly, Visibli’s servers tend to slow down a LOT, and when your bar doesn’t load fast, it slows down everything else, too.
That being said, I still love it. The benefits of not losing readers are well worth the extra bit of testing. Yet one more thing I’ve learned from your blog that I’ve been able to put to good use. Thank you once again.
Thanks for the heads-up, Bradley. I did notice a couple of things that need to be tweaked; my designer is currently working on them, and I am planning on contacting Visibli to ask a couple of questions.
I think Visibli has a great potential; I will try the free version but I can “feel” the power of sharing others content while you are showing…yours! Let see if it works (I think so).
Isn’t that bar gonna frustrate your visitors ….. visibli is a third-party at the end of the day …. an no one like third party, tell me if I’m wrong… and as a visitor i don’t want a bar when I surf the web..
I haven’t heard any negative feedback, Rahul.
Great work, Ana! I followed the all the steps but can’t see the bar when I click on an external link. Is it supposed to show on my site as well? Sorry, a little confused.
I love screen shot videos. They are very illustrative but I agree with Jason and James about the voice and make it a little slower for people like me…or send another fat report to me as well 🙂
This can be of a great help to drive traffic to my blog as I always link externally.
Thanks again!
Niveen
If you added the script/plugin correctly, all outgoing links within your posts should have the Visibli toolbar embedded, Niveen, and you should be able to see it at the top when clicking on those links. If you don’t see it, then something is not installed correctly.
Wow! I’d heard of Visibli before but at that price point - I knew there were more efficient tools. When I read your blog, I saw the free version and signed up immediately. I came back to say thanks!
You are very welcome!
Hi Ana! Best video and I’m looking forward to your skinny notes video series.
It’s been a while since I popped over and I’m really loving it
i wasn’t aware about visibli, but i am definitely going to give it a try….thanks for the share
I did it! Not tomorrow, but did it just now! Thanks for the prodding, Ana. I didn’t realize there was a free version.
I like the Skinny video. As feedback, I was ignoring the beginning as a musical intro, expecting to hear your voice or see some text pop up. When you circled the header, I realized this WAS the content. I think people will like the brevity once you get us trained to the format.
Yay for Beth! And thanks for the feedback.
Hi Ana,
Nice work on this. I would recommend doing a voice over to walk thru the steps (and ditch the music). Even it it’s fairly simple, I find it helpful to have discussion about the topic.
Thanks,
Jason
Agreed. Great musical intro, but I would prefer to hear a voice. I definitely enjoy the brevity, though. It’s the Cliff Notes of the internet! 😀
Hi,
I agree, ditch the music; too distracting (for me, anyway).
Otherwise great informative post, as usual.
Regards,
Michael
Wow, now that’s a rockin’ traffic tip. Thanks a bunch Ana! Oh and yes, I’ll try to make this one NOT appear of tomorrows “to do list” lol.
Ti
Thanks Ana for this great video. I am using Visibli but I was not using some features and your video helped me to use those features.
Great video, and interesting (ahem!) music. 😉 Seriously though, it’s why I love this website. Having access to tools like this to promote ones blog is a god send, and as you say, it could just be the catalyst which drives traffic to your site. Thanks Ana!
Ahem! good or bad, Chloe? I am just experimenting with this, so would love to hear honest feedback. I’ll still like you, I promise. 😉
If you try dubstep or Eminem, I’m your biggest fan. Otherwise I prefer your voice with the Russian accent. Sort of trademark you. 😀
You have made a visible video for Visibli which is actually very clear and can be followed smoothly. I’m looking forward for the skinny notes video series from your end.
Hey Ana! Great video and I’m looking forward to your skinny notes video series. and WOW I have to say what a great blog redesign you have here!
It’s been a while since I popped over and I’m really loving it 🙂
Good to see you, Joshua.
I’ve never heard of Visibli and I’m inherently lazy: what does it do exactly? I don’t see it on your blog (unless I missed it). Also - how much of a traffic boost has it given you?
Maybe I need a fat report. 😀
Wow, James; looks like you’ve been out of rotation for a while… I do need to update the post for “slower” people. 😉
Yes I have been - managing the SEO of a large company does that to you. So I’ll ask again - how much of a traffic boost has it given you?
At the time I shot the video, I had 380 visits from them (I think it was for the past month).
Interesting video Ana,
I noticed that Visibli stuff when you wrote a post about some of your friends income report because each of the link contains your logo on the header.
I think its a nice tool and I’m going to try it right away.
Thanks for sharing.
Let me know how it goes, Theodore. I think it’s one of those little things that could make a big difference.
Hello Ana! Thanks for sharing this with your readers. I’ll be looking into it and hopefully have it up on my website soon. By the way, loved your to-do list! It sounds a lot like mine!
Have a great day!
Corina Ramos
Thanks, Corina.