Reviving the STUMBLEUPON thread...

[laurenw]

Hey everyone,

I'm just trying to get this thread going again--I joined when it was already 400 posts in (AWESOME post, by the way). Since I was one of the last people on, I learned alot about StumbleUpon and ended up Stumbling a ton of sites, but didn't get any Stumbles myself. I guess it doesn't work if you Stumble your own sites (or at least, it hasn't done anything for me yet).

Help! Anybody else get lost in the huge thread shuffle?

[Addict]

Are you sure you didn't get any stumbles? You could have received no traffic and still gotten stumbles from other people I think. It is frustrating to see your articles get lost in that thread; I've been there, showing up quite late, but I actually got a pretty huge traffic spike after posting a few articles in that thread. In any case, I don't know if starting a new thread (if that is what you're trying to do here) is any kind of a solution. This reminds me of starting a new pyramid scheme because the old one can no longer support those at the bottom.

This seems to be representative of the general problem in blogging to day: overcrowdedness and too many late adopters. I read an article today about how there really was no money to be made in the "long tail" of blogging and I had to agree.

[laurenw]

OK, no problem-- didn't mean to offend anyone! I was just trying to make sure that those of us who were at the very end of the thread still got noticed, since we came in late. I thought maybe people had stopped reading it.

[Tayrak]

You have to work a bit at Stumble in order for it to do you any good. There are a lot of folks here who got stumbled, I did a few too, then I couldn't even find them over at the stumble site. It's gotten absolutely huge and unless other folks over there pay attention to you, you're not going to benefit much. It's useful but to be truly effective folks have to stumble you because they think they found a great site, and great sites fall through the cracks all the time remember that. Time and patience, get involved in the stumble community and eventually you'll get noticed. Don't put all your hopes for traffic on Stumble or digg or any of the others, use them but use other methods as well.