Advice Regarding Using Flipboard

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   Rock_njposted 6 years ago

   Has anyone had success using Flipboard?  I've used it in a limited way and once had a nice spike in views when someone added one of my article links to their magazine on Flipboard.  Does anyone have any tips regarding using Flipboard effectively?

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      CYong74posted 6 years agoin reply to this

      I started using Flipboard in early 2016 and for a while, it was effective for me. I followed the usual rules for such sites, ensured I don't only bookmark my own sites, read those of others, follow-and-follow, comment, etc. In mid 2016, I actually had quite a few spikes thanks to them.
      
      And then, beginning from 2017, the service became some sort of anti-Trump, left wing lobbyist. Every day it would notify me of some anti-Trump write-up, when politics is but one of my topics. (I have travel, Singapore, photography too. Nada from those genres nearly the whole year). On examining, I notice Flipboard is now only displaying pages from major magazines and such, personal blog pages and lesser sites that used to appear no longer do so. Frankly, I had not one hit from them for over six months. In fact I just uninstalled the app from my phone before Christmas.

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      TIMETRAVELER2posted 6 years agoin reply to this

      Not worth your time.  It was outstanding the first few weeks and then became stagnant.  I stopped using it quite awhile ago.  Ironically, they would not let me delete my account even though I tried to do so several times...so I simply removed my own articles

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   letstalkabouteducposted 6 years ago

   I stopped using it as well. I was getting nothing.

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   Lovelli Fuadposted 6 years ago

   I have been using Flipboard for around 2 years, but GA never recorded any views whatsoever from the network. I don't know why. I didn't have the app installed on my mobile at first, but then I used it. And frankly, it does not improve my reading experience at all. The images take forever to load and nobody seem to be using a flip button anywhere on their website.

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   CYong74posted 6 years ago

   Within HP, the referrals section previously recorded hits from Flipboard for me.
   
   And then it went stagnant. Completely stagnant.

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   Natalie Frankposted 6 years ago

   I've had similar experiences.  I used it for a while with some decent results which then tapered off.  Every month or so I'd go back and add something, bookmark a few others, make a few comments etc and get a quick uptick which would level off.  It became more effort than it was worth.  I also seem to remember something kind of shady going on but don't remember exactly what that was - some peoples articles being flipped by others but the bylines left off or something like that?  Anyone else remember?

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   Kenna McHughposted 6 years ago

   I used Flipboard for it bit. My articles peaked a bit then nothing. Then, the app's format changed and nothing. I uninstalled it. Regarding bylines issue, I vaguely remember that thread. Yes. I believe bylines were dropped.

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   Rock_njposted 6 years ago

   Thanks everyone for your input regarding your experience using Flipboard. I also had a flash in the pan success, which was quite impressive, even though it only lasted a few days.  I see that is much less likely these days and there are better places to spend my time.

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   Glenn Stokposted 6 years ago

   I removed most of my flips when they started attributing our articles to the wrong authors. I warned about that a year ago in my hub on Flipboard.

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