Twittley Whats the Deal

Twittley WordPress Plugin makes it easy for visitors to retweet your posts on the social network Twitter. In addition to making things a little easier for your visitors to retweet your posts Twittley also allows bloggers to submit blog articles for free to be listed in their article directory, this of course exposes the bloggers content to more viewers.

I have been using the Twittley WordPress plugin here on the Extreme John blog for a while now and I know that a lot of bloggers that come through here on a daily basis have also installed the plugin on their personal or business blogs based on my reviews and posts about Twittley. Most of you know that I like to call things as I see them without worrying so much about what everyone is going to think about it, it’s one of the main reasons that people choose to subscribe to my rss feed. This will serve as one of those times that I have an issue with something and it might seem as if I am going off the handle about it when in fact I am just looking to call attention to something and hopefully get an answer or get the issue resolved, because if this is happening to me chances are it’s happening to someone else.

When it comes to any of the article submission directories out there like Twittley, Blog Engage or Tweetmeme I have always recommended that bloggers take the time to submit their articles as soon as they are published, doing so ensures that your posts go in the right category and all of that good stuff. It also makes it easier for your visitors to vote up or click on the retweet button since they don’t have to take the extra time trying to figure out which category or description to use, they can just click and be done.

Just a little while ago I submitted my “630lbs of Food Donated by Extreme Tan and Smoothies” post to the Twittley directory, after submitting my post to any directory I always take the time to click through on the title to make sure it follows back to my post and doesn’t trap the traffic in their system. I like the free listing and free traffic, but it doesn’t mean I am willing to share my search terms with you and let you keep all of the traffic to yourself.

After completing my submission on Twittley for the post above I clicked on the title (circled in red), once I click the article or post title it should take me to the actual post that was submitted to Twittley in the first place, which means it should have taken me back to my blog and that specific post. Instead of Twittley sending me off to the correct article that was submitted it sent me off to some Mounted Wall Fountains blog, clearly a post and blog that had nothing to do with the article I submitted to them or clicked on.

I guess it’s safe to say that it’s a good idea to click on your articles after you submit them to any directory or blog network, because you never know where traffic that should be going to you might actually be going. Now before everyone starts getting all fired up and wants to say that I am just trying to toast Twittley on this, let me assure you that I have had this very same issue happen at least three times in the past and alerted Twittley to the issue on Twitter. I still have never heard back from Twittley on Twitter till this day about any of my previous tweets to them about this issue in the past, no sense on wasting my time tweeting the message there again.

I’m not going to go as far as to say that Twittley is stealing traffic or purposely redirecting random links in their directory to sites that have nothing to do with the actual content type, but I will say that TRAFFIC LEAKS SUCK. I have been pretty patient with Twittley in the past and appreciate them interacting with me here on my blog to address issues and questions in the past, hopefully hey can take the time to resolve this issue and respond here so that we know the problem is solved.

At this point I will hang tight for a response from Twittley and while I do that I will be taking a look at my Google Analytics to see how much traffic has come in from Twittley over the last 6 months, in the event I don’t have a response from Twittley you can expect that I will be pulling the button as I avoid traffic leaks at all levels.

If you have had a similar issue with Twittley take a second to leave a comment and share your experience with the Twittley button, do you click your submitted articles after you receive the submission confirmation?

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