Complete Guide To StumbleUpon
Everton | Mar 08, 2007 | Comments 7
StumbleUpon just doesn’t get enough attention from bloggers in my view, as traffic from StumbleUpon is of much better quality than from Digg, and it also comes in a nice steady stream if you can get a few of your pages or even better your domain added.
Maki who has just joined Connected Internet as a guest author has written an amazing guide to StumbleUpon and how you use it to acquire additional traffic. It’s a huge guide but definitely worth reading.
What I really want is a badge that I can add to my sidebar that users can click to add this site to their StumbleUpon favourites. Anyone want to volunteer to make one that we can all use? It’ll provide a much better payback than the technorati favourite badges I see everywhere that I think as totally useless, as trying to get Technorati favourites only pays off if you can get into the Top 100.
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I second on the quality of hits between SU vs Diggs. As the matter of fact, I’m thinking of a badge or something for my blog too. I can give you a hand on creating a badge, if you want to. Just fill me with the details :)
Ideally it would allow one-click stumbling of the page that it is located on – with a nice logo or call to action
I might actually make a SU badge if it’d be useful for everyone? It’s easy enough to easily submit the site but I don’t know if there’s a way to see how many thumbs a site has gotten; does anyone else?
Maybe email stumbleupon or check in a forum? It’s worthwhile doing as you’ll get a lot of traffic linking to your site if you release it
Hmmm, we have a “Stumble this post” link under each post, but I agree something more prominent (read: blingage) would be a good thing. ProBlogger has been putting a little icon next to his sub-post StumbleUpon “add this” link.
We’ve also had great results with it.
Not a big fan of Digg traffic to date, but Netscape has been very good for us.
Have an awesome day!
Dan
Oh, right on with Technorati Favorites.
We got into the Top 100 back in October (Top 50 actually I think). I see we’re still there today at #62.
http://www.technorati.com/pop/blogs/?faves=1
But we only get a coule of hits a day from it. It’s flattering and nice street cred’, but StumbleUpon is way more traffic.
Have an awesome day!
Dan
I noticed from one of my traffic sources that it was due to SU that I made it into the top 100k at Alexa the other day. Which was neat.
Also, based on this article I went and checked out there site and found lot’s of great items which are causing me to think about different articles and content to write about at Bloglyne