Kyle Bragger

• 2012-06-29

  Okay, this is interesting.

  We played with various promoted post mechanics at Forrst, with varying degrees of success. Our users’ best promoted posts were getting > 10% CTR for a well-done post. (That’s something folks holding the pursestrings don’t seem to realize: promoted crap is still crap.)

  Anyway, I’m curious how this converts, or not, so here’s an experiment*: Below is a link to my Twitter page. I’ve got ~3,500 followers on here, so let’s see what kind of click #s I can get with a pinned post. Okay, click the link! (Images don’t seem to be linkable in the dashboard.)

  Yes! I want to help you with your experiment.

  (*Yes, this is a completely unscientific “test”, if you can call it that, but I’m still curious.)

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  3. gbattle said: Kyle, you don’t need clicks, I’ve already read your experiment BECAUSE it’s promoted. What you really want is to know how many IMPRESSIONS you received - how many times was this pinned post served, # of unpins, etc. CTR is unnecessary.
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  5. mojaam said: I’m all for Tumblr monetizing but these experiments are starting to annoy me.
  6. benbrown said: I can’t really think of anything I’d want to see stuck to the top of my feed.
  7. retrophiliac said: I’m doing pretty well on all my platforms. facebook.com/retroph… twitter.com/artfulr… — & this is without the help of 3rd party apps
  8. jdryden said: Oops. Just clicked the pin, and put your post back into it’s original place in the timeline!
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  12. thegongshow said: If you used a clickable image in this post instead of a raw exposed URL, I think you’d quintuple your conversion, if not better.
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