Sep 11 2008
Why I love StumbleUpon?
Stumble it!That’s the first reason it’s easy to use they give you loads of free tools for example buttons to add to your website for people to share your content with others other places that you can make kenny ritchie public.
Why do I have a sudden love of StumbleUpon?
Well I’m a bit of a stats junkie and I’d never miss a jump in traffic of any note now having a look at my cpanel and mybloglog stats there has been some recent spikes and the refering url’s have been stumbleupon.
Anything to do with me? - well yes I commented on some sites with some helpful remarks and their owners have come back to mine to see the value of the links back to them and low and behold submitted my blog post to 5,946,241 members wow.
What has the value been to me in the last few days I’ve had 26 unique visitors and 110 unique visitors to this site with no furter effort from myself. So the point of linking to other bloggers is not only the fact that they may link back toyou at some point in the future but also the fact that they might just understand how social networking works and drive some traffic to your site because it links to theirs.
What features does StumbleUpon Have?
It’s not a search engine like google it targets the content the veiwer has requested to veiw by tag. Anyone can suggest a site or a blog url to StumbleUpon and give it a classification or tag. I have tagged quite a few recently and will become a much more active on this site it is simply genius.
Stumble Upon will update the sites you are surfing through depending on what you have told it in the past making it a perfect research tool and an almost necessary addition to every student,marketer or information junkie on the planets arsenal of tools.
A peer to peer rating system that will make great stuff be veiwed by thousands without any input from the author.
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Welcome back!
Kenny, hi,
I absolutely agree - SU is nearly always the source of spikes in my traffic stats. Have you tried SU Advertising..?
It should be an effective advertising channel but they declined my ads on the only occasion I tried! I think it very much depends what you’re promoting and they didn’t like what I was promoting (a business opportunity).
Might be worth checking it out, though.
Cheers,
Martin.
Not tried advertising with Stumble either. To be honest I haven’t really thought about advertising on any web2.0 site.
Although I would love to see some stats from someone that has.
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