“It isn’t about reaching 50,000 readers in the first 24 hours, it’s about reaching maybe 10 key influencers with maybe 5,000 RSS readers each who will see the article over the course of a week.”

Yep, I couldn’t have had agreed more. Most visitors coming from social media sites are usually in casual surfing mode. Even though getting big in the social media realm is important to a blog, influencing the influencers is far more important. If your article is linked to by 10 blogs with 5,000 readers you might generate less traffic than a digg frontpage but the links will be tens of times more…