CoPromote: Useful Or Useless?

bymerissawrite

237 followers

11 years ago

This month, I decided to try out a website I found called CoPromote. I have really only been using it for one month, but I think it would be good to write a quick review on it anyway.

CoPromote is a website where you ReTweet or share other peoples blog posts on Facebook and Twitter, and in exchange other people share your blog posts. When I first saw this, I thought it was a really great idea, so I decided to pay the extra $50 this month which allows me an extra reach of 200,000 people (that means that people with up to 200,000 Twitter or Facebook followers can share it for me).

I "promoted" two of my blog posts on it, and in the first day I had about a 10,000 person reach. I thought that would mean that I would have more people visiting my website. But it turns out I had the same amount of people visiting this month as any normal month. This was confusing, but then I started to think about how many links I tend to click on Twitter that are shared by those who I don't know, which is pretty close to zero. So after thinking about it, I can see why this system did not work for me.

Without a large following, I don't think CoPromote is the best way to get your blog seen. Maybe this will work better when I have a bigger following, I do not know, but as it stands right now, I see this as only slightly less shady than buying followers and likes, and I don't see this as a very good investment.

What was your experience with CoPromote or do you have any marketing investments you like, post a comment below.

-Merissa Hatch