Increasing traffic and What about that "Press This" button?

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  anonsmithe · Member · Apr 21, 2016 at 10:16 pm

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  I was just thinking about ways to encourage more readers to follow my blog or increase traffic a bit faster. (My traffic has increased from an average of 3 to 5 visits per day to 8 to 13 per day over the last two months (today is a bit slow, oh well). My blog has been up for several months.
  Anyway, I was thinking about adding some social network buttons, but I found that one has to have accounts at the networks and I want no part of that.
  Adding comments might increase traffic too, but it would be a major security problem and my site would be destroyed in a nano second.

  In my travels (which revealed no other way of increasing traffic or getting followers outside of what I am already doing by the way) I read again about the “Press This” button.
  I must be misunderstanding something because reading about what it does seems like plagiarism to me = taking content from other blogs and posting it on your own blog and calling it done. I want no part of that if that’s the case. Am I misunderstanding it?

  I refuse to use the function myself even if it’s ok. I’m not accustomed to taking the easy road (although it would be nice now and again, but…) or letting others speak for me.

  As for what folks do with my content, I could care less just as long as they don’t steal credit to any original content (which is most of my blog) or use it for negative purposes.

  Thank you

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  anonsmithe · Member · Apr 22, 2016 at 3:04 pm

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  I’m sticking with my original thought that it could be plagiarism, thus I will never use it.

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  blackbutterfly768 · Member · Apr 24, 2016 at 2:42 am

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  Of the several times that I’ve used Press This, the program automatically provides a link to the originating source. By providing the link back to the source, (even your blog), it makes visitors aware of your blog and they might visit it to read further content.

  If I’m not mistaken, you can also disable “Press This” from appearing under social media icons, and also disable the reblog function.