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..
Stumble it!
Posted in Stumble For Webmasters, Non Stumbler Yet, Intermediate Stumblers, Beginner Stumblers | 1 Comment »
September 23rd, 2007 admin
In a previous post I had provided a list of the most popular stumblers in terms of number of fans. Today I am providing the same list in a sort of auto updated interactive widget, what is the difference between the widget and the old static list?
add a popular stumbler
- Anybody can propose a stumbler name to be listed in the widget using the add a popular stumbler link (stumblers with less than 1000 fans will not be included in the database)
- The widget gets updated two times a day through cronjob, so the numbers are always fresh.
- You can include this widget in your blog, Facebook, Myspace and more, Just hover the widget and you will see a button says copy me, click it for inclusion options.I would link to thank yourminis for the nice widget, I think this is the best to view your RSS feed.
Enjoy
thewis.stumbleupon.com
Stumble it!
Posted in Stumble For Webmasters, Advanced Stumblers | 1 Comment »
August 7th, 2007 admin
The first question may be should be how can your website get traffic from Stumbleupon, the first step for that is to be stumbled (thumbs up) by a member, but is that enough ? let me tell you where is the possibilities for your website to get traffic from stumble and then we can discuss how to increase this traffic
- The best way to get massive traffic from stumble upon it to make it to the buzz page http://buzz.stumbleupon.com/ this page enjoy a lot of traffic since it has a direct button from each member page, so being their means getting a lot of visitors. There are many factors to be on this page, but the most important of them is getting big thumbs up from the stumblers (the history of the stumblers play role in that – How much time they have been stumbling, number of websites in their favorite)
- What is new tab: each member has a tab called “What’s new”, this tab shows the latest stumbled website by your friend, so even if you couldn’t make it to the buzz page you still have a chance to get some traffic through this page in the first 24 hours
- People browsing your page/favorite/blog may be getting to them using their friends profile, or Stumbleupon directory or search etc.
- The search box in stumble upon drives good traffic, so make sure always that you are using the proper tags.
So number 1-2-3 which are the massive source of traffic are totally depends on the number of friends those you have on your profile, and amount of popularity that you have in this community.
Just to let you know, you can’t have more than 200 friends with stumble upon (friends mean people those you added them to your friend list from your page), but you can get unlimited number of fans (fans are people those added you as a friend but you didn’t reciprocate)
So the question now how can I make fans/friends in Stumbleupon, unlike www.myspace.com where there are many software help you to that, it is not the same in Stumbleupon, you need to work for it, and as I don’t have a huge number of fans/friends, so I will try to have a super stumblers with thousands of fans blog about that very soon, so stay tuned
Stumble it!
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