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Growing the community here on Virily has been a goal of mine for the past few months. One of the things that interested me originally was who influenced the other authors on the site. I shared the seven top influencers and a couple of call-outs for the positive commenters as well.  Today I am chasing guest views. First I am not asking for credit for guest views I am interested in how many guest views are happening. The reason for that is wholly economic, the more guest views we as authors drive to Virily, the more revenue the site will get from advertising. That benefits all of us, as the longer Verily remains economically viable, the longer we get paid. Guest views are generated when we share posts either our own or those other authors on social media.

Yes, the four buttons that appear after you publish a post, or when you are reading someone else’s posts, the four buttons right below the cover picture. Each of those represents a chance to expand the overall Virily audience to more people, i.e., guests. Guests don’t get you, as the “sharer” Vrils. They did when the site was first operating, but because of many issues, the overall to track guest views by the author was disabled. The admin team informed us that it, tracking guest views per author caused performance problems for the site. I can understand that The analogy I use for that is a highway. It is easy to track the number of cars on a highway. Simply count the passing cars as they go by.

It is much hard to track specific cars traveling on a highway throughout a day. It changes how and what you track. It can also be a lot more information, that has to be captured quickly. Does the question then become what we can do to increase guest views on the site? The more guest views, the more effective the click-through advertising is, the greater the revenue the site gets. Plus, you, as the author get credit for guests reading your posts as views. The poll questions are geared to begin understanding what social media sites are being leveraged by readers. As we change down the path of increasing guest views, it is important to understand where we are sharing first. Then we can determine where the effective sharing is going! A stronger Virily is a happier writer community!

  • Question of

    When you read a post do you share it on Twitter?

    • Yes
    • No
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    When you read a post do you share it on Facebook?

    • Yes
    • No
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    When you read a post do you pin it (Pinterest)?

    • Yes
    • No
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    When you read a post do you share it on Google+?

    • Yes
    • No
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    Are you curious how many views (guest) Virily is getting?

    • Yes
    • No

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  1. I admit your interest and motivation for growing this site are very positive and useful, and I really appreciate it.
    The issue about sharing is that I am not active or less active on almost all social media so if I share any posts there, I see there is generally no response there.

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  3. I normally use Twitter to share posts from Virily. I stopped using many platforms like Pinterest, Google+ and the like. And I wish you luck in your endeavor to increase traffic in Virily.

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