Social Media Email Alerts for WordPress
Have you ever noticed that your site was submitted to social media sites, but only days after the submission? Ever wished you had known about the submission so you take measures to increase the visibility of the submission?
By settng up rules that are specific to the traffic patterns of your site, you can be notified of a new social media submission when the initial visitors from that submission come trickling in. For social media sites like Digg.com where your window of opportunity to act is just 24 hours, this early notification can be the difference between thousands of visitors and next to none.
Installation
1. Upload the social-media-email-alerts folder to the '/wp-content/plugins/' directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
3. Set up the rules for triggering an alert on the admin page. Rules can be based on referring domain e.g. Digg.com or by parameters in the querystring e.g. source=twitter.com.
Example 1:
These settings will send an e-mail if your site receives 5 visitor from Digg.com to any one page on your site within a 60 minute window.
Value to Match: digg.com
Min. Visits: 5
Reset (minutes): 60
Example 2:
These settings will send an e-mail if your site receives 10 visits to any one page, within a 2 hour window, and the querystring includes source=twitter.com. In this case, the referring site doesn't matter.
Value to Match: source=twitter.com
Min. Visits: 10
Reset (minutes): 120
You can download the latest version of this plugin from the WordPress repository.
Is there a way to track spikes from ANY traffic? Since this plugin notifies quicker than GA, it'd be useful to know any large spikes that maybe due to a site that is not one of the usual suspects (Digg/Reddit/StumbleUpon/HackerNews).
Useful plugin, thanks!
Sorry, but there's no way to track everything. I'm sure as soon as it's added, Google Analytics will become real-time
I love this plugin, thanks alot Marios!!
Is it also possible to block visits when they come via these social media website(s)?
Hi Marcel,
This plugin just tracks visits. It can't block them. I'm guessing there's a plugin out there that does what you want. There's a plugin for everything
I installed the plugin and now wondering about query. Do I put them into the "Value To Match" field. Also, can you point me to a list of queries or information about them anywhere on the net?
Two examples for what you can put in the Value to Match field are given above. Basically you want to match a referring domain e.g. digg.com or a parameter/value pair in the URL such as source=twitter.
This is an invaluable plugin for WordPress and is bound to be a favorite of many bloggers. Personally, I have found traffic from SM sites such as StumbleUpon and Digg to be some of the best readers and often times accounting for crushing traffic. Thanks Mario!