October 28th, 2007 admin
I am really thankful for social media and especially SU those make it easier for almost anybody to spread the word and deliver their message to the world for free and in no time.
Few years ago, the best you can do for your story is to syndicate a press release and cross your fingers hoping that some news paper correspondent pick it and republish it, or may be one of those big news websites give it the exposure that you want. Social media provides us with very good chance to have at least hundreds of people reading any story we write, up to thousands if we are lucky enough to hit some big social media website’s home page.
Why SU should be your first social media website to start promoting your story?
- Assuming you use digg, the best you can get if you don’t have a big network of friends or don’t have enough digs for your story is to get less than ten visitors to your story.
- Delicious, is almost the same, for average stories.
- Redit is a little better with 30 visits sometimes
But with SU, for almost any new story you will have a chance to get from 100-500 visits, SU has really very good mechanism in promoting new stories for even new low popularity members. Unlike other social media websites those don’t give your story any initial boost (unless you ask some friends help), SU will show your story for stumblers those are interested in your story topic in the next few hours followed your submission, so if your story is good enough, you will get more and more thumbs up and may be you will hit the buzz page and get amassing exposure, even though the worst scenario is having average story and get few hundreds visits. SU I love you..
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October 2nd, 2007 admin
I understand how much it is hard to handle millions of daily requests when you have a website with massive traffic like StumbleUpone, what also makes it harder is getting millions of automated requests by bots, spammers and some DOS attack, however that doesn’t justify the low performance of SU servers in the last week.
If you want to be one of the big web players like; “I wouldn’t say Google or Yahoo”, at least the social medial players like Digg or Facebook you need to have fast servers.
I n the internet sphere the hard part to get some success is to get the good idea, then spread it and eventually get the audiences, hardware problems should not be a reason to lose your audiences, especially we are living now in a days these you can easily get hundreds of servers with powerful T1 lines connected with affordable prices, even for small to medium companies.
I hope SU IT team will figure out as soon as possible how to handle the increased daily requests, and be prepared for more, keeping in mind that Facebook is having 150 000 new users daily.
Stumble it!
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September 27th, 2007 admin
Before stumbling your story make sure that you choose a popular category
I have clicked my stumble button 100 successive times in one session, and I have noticed that about 95% of the pages SU returns were added in categories of my interests. So if you want to write a Stumble worthy story make sure that it falls under a category with enough audiences or if you have a story that fits tow categories, make sure that you go for the more popular one.
How to know the most popular categories ? SU makes it easy for you through the tag cloud on the home page, simply the bigger is more popular.
You may ask yourself are not the popular categories getting more new stories and eventually my chance will be the same if I submit to a low popularity category will less new stories, theoretically that looks right but practically and after many experiments I find out that submitting to the popular categories is far better that low popularity ones. If you try this and find more to add on to this post please feel free to do
Best regards
Stumble it!
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August 8th, 2007 admin
Who is the most popular Stumbler? The most popular stumbler is simply the one that has the largest number of fans. While I’m browsing profiles, I find some stumblers with over one thousand fans and others with over two thousand. I will list some profiles that I think are the most poplar stumblers
1- http://etcetera.stumbleupon.com/ 5023 Fans
2- http://caile-girl.stumbleupon.com/ 3172
3- http://nacmacfeagle.stumbleupon.com/ 3152
4- http://blondieluvsthis.stumbleupon.com/ 2565
5- http://fna.stumbleupon.com/ 2544
6- http://fenix.stumbleupon.com/ 2303
7 - http://gmc.stumbleupon.com/ 2273
8- http://bonbell.stumbleupon.com/ 2227
9 - http://klassy.stumbleupon.com/ 2015
10- http://starspirit.stumbleupon.com/ 1853
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http://clovia.stumbleupon.com/ 1760
http://yola.stumbleupon.com/ 1741
http://blessedone.stumbleupon.com/ 1531
http://anitabath.stumbleupon.com/ 1536
http://pepsea.stumbleupon.com/ 1027
I am sure that I may have missed some good stumblers, so please feel free to use the comment box to add to my list.
If you are one of the most popular stumblers, I would be more than happy to have you as a guest in my blog to write about your success with Stumbleupon.
Stumble it!
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August 2nd, 2007 admin
I think anybody reading blogs these days has notices that most bloggers have social bookmark button installed, I will try to cover the most popular plugin/buttons those do that.
I will start with www.addthis.com social bookmark button since it has stumbleupon button included beside many other popular social media websites .. I would go for this cause it is risk free one on your blog, you will not need to install it as a separate plug in, it is simply doing some changes to your theme files and that is it (they offer now a plug in for word press you can download it here http://s3.addthis.com/plugins/wordpress/v10/addthis_social_widget.zip and here is the dropdown version http://s3.addthis.com/plugins/wordpress/v12/addthis_social_widget_drop.zip )
First thing you need to do is sign up an account with www.addthis.com when you finish login to your account and then go to “Get the code for your widget!”
Which kind of widget? Bookmarking weidget
Which wedget ? it is up to you but I would go with the second one
Where ? on blog
Blogging platform ? Wordpress
Want Stats ? I would say yes
Then press get your wedget
You will have two choices but I would go for Blog Post Button .. that’s will make your visitors able to tag each blog separately
If you want to include the button below each post, simply copy-and-paste the code below into the ‘Main Index Template’ template, right before the end of the ‘< div class=”entry”>’ tag. Then save the changes.
If you have not set your file permissions to 666 for your themes file, simply download the index.php file from your main theme directory and do your changes using any text editor
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