Drive Free Traffic to Your Site or Blog with Stumble Upon

[InterfaceLeader]

Hi guys! I signed up to SU yesterday, and I'd be delighted if someone could stumble this article:
The Top Ten Tips For Improving Your Writing

Plus any others you might find worthwhile on my website

Cheers!

[believegecko]

I stumbled your article on writing. It was right on the mark.

[Jenny]

I just registered for Stumble Upon and when I went to view my public profile page it has my user name as my blog. I've checked help but can't figure out how to change this. Can anyone advise me??

[Stu]

Maybe just reregister with the name you want?

I have a problem too actually, the first time one of my posts was stumbled it went like crazy for a bit (about 150 hits) and then stopped very suddenly, which I found kind of strange, and then I tried to stumble one of my own posts and after almost 12 hours exactly 0 hits from stumbleupon.

Anyone have any ideas about what went wrong or is this normal?

[Chet]

My stumbles seem to go like that too, a bunch soon after I post a new article then it falls right off.

I am a bit behind stumbling you guys articles I'll catch up some today.

[ZZTech]

InterfaceLeader, I stumbled your article. (Nice job by the way).

If anyone would care to review
this with a thumbs-up I would really appreciate it.

[JimC]

Yeah this is weird... I usually get between 500-2000 hits from Stumble for each article I post, but for some reason my last 2 articles have gotten 0.

(Stumbled yours ZZTech)

[Chet]

Stu: your blog showed up as a brand new stumble for some reason.

BTW folks on blogs the page may show as stumbled when you have put up a new article because the url doesn't change, need to stumble the permalink.

I think I caught up with stumbles, my current article is at
We the Sheeple

[InterfaceLeader]

I like your article Chet!

Thanks for the stumbles guys, I appreciate it

[Kiba]

My latest article:

Liberty Gaming: The Ultimate Resource List for the Game Hackers

And no, it is not about hacking games to cheat. It is about the various game development resource.

Thanks for stumbling my article, guys. I still havn't see traffic boom yet, maybe later. I'll stumble some of your some more.

[Chet]

Thanks much

[Stu]

Originally Posted by JimC

Yeah this is weird... I usually get between 500-2000 hits from Stumble for each article I post, but for some reason my last 2 articles have gotten 0.

(Stumbled yours ZZTech)

Maybe stumbleupon is on to us

Anyway thanks chet, it worked that time, and where in the hell did you find that half man / half sheep picture for your 'We the Sheeple' article?

[Chet]

lol
Was a teaser picture on an article about injecting sheep with human stem cells to create transplantable organs. (the actual sheep just looked like sheep this was the 'attention getter')

[JimC]

Originally Posted by Stu

Maybe stumbleupon is on to us

Anyway thanks chet, it worked that time, and where in the hell did you find that half man / half sheep picture for your 'We the Sheeple' article?

We aren't exchanging stumbles like you think. We are just sharing each other's websites. As long as people actually read the articles and rate them if they like them, then it's ok.

Maybe because I am submitting my own articles?

[Chet]

I submit my articles when I post a new one ... want to get the tags right

[JimC]

I usually don't even add tags... maybe that's why.


Anyway, I made a post that will hopefully be of value to fellow bloggers:
Things to blog about. | Small-town Big-shot

If you find it useful, +stumble it, and I will add to the list in the future.

[Peter S C]

Chet: I had a problem using the stumbleupon button in your socialable plugin (it took me to a invalid url). Its a problem I have heard of before, you may want to test it and see if the info on this page applies. I still managed to stumble your article though another way

Interfaceleader and JimC I also stumbled your articles.

I'm going to bed soon... I'll read some more of the articles in this thread tomorrow and see if I can stumble some.

2 recent articles of mine that could use some love are:

8 Ways to Make Routine Tasks Interesting
10 Dumb Banking Mistakes I See Everyday That Cost You Money

[InterfaceLeader]

Everyone above this message stumbled There are some quality writers on the site!

Words Words Words » Writing Nonfiction: Getting the Facts Right (Part I)

Another one from me that might be worth a Stumble

[Ihavenoidea]

Hello, my name is Mike.

I'll have a new SU account after this post. I have a web site I am trying to learn to develop with hardly any success. I have ideas but have trouble learning how to code.

[jasonivers]

Originally Posted by Ihavenoidea

Hello, my name is Mike.

I'll have a new SU account after this post. I have a web site I am trying to learn to develop with hardly any success. I have ideas but have trouble learning how to code.

I'm a web developer by trade, and love to help people. If you have any questions, feel free to ask, and I'll help all that I can.

[Ihavenoidea]

Thank you.

If you want, please contact me by email at doesntstayinvegas@yahoo.com for more details. SU ID is doesntstayinvega.

[jasonivers]

Two new articles... please read them, and comment/stumble if you feel motivated to do so. I would particularly appreciate feedback on the first (thank you Jenny and Mark).

How I Made My Website More Sticky

How To Make Your Life Happier In One Simple Change

[putu30]

Hello All

I have signed up at SU about a month ago without understanding fully how it system works. Since I read this thread, I learnt about it more and realise its potential of bringing traffic to websites.

Thanks.

And so I went back there today and complete my profile. My username is putu30 and my blog is about travelling; Bali Tour Guide: Everything About Traveling to The Paradise Island. But I am interested in personal development, anything funny articles or photos, so I will add you all here as my friends, if you don't mind.

[jasonivers]

First, I added a couple of new articles:

Being Distracted Is Your Own Fault
and
Self Development Free For All - What Do You Want To Know

Okay, that being said... I have stumbled a few of my articles myself, and then had them show up as not having been stumbled (this is recent... the last week maybe), even though my little "thumbs up" is showing that I rated it.

Does anyone know if there's some magical number of stumbles you're allowed to do on one domain name or something? Did I do something wrong to get my stumbles for my site marked as spam?

StumbleUpon is normally my primary source of traffic, so if my stumbles don't count to get people started looking at it, then I'll have very little traffic at all :P. I wish it wasn't my primary source, but it is... also, since my site redesign a couple days ago, my individual articles aren't showing up on google searches (they used to), though the main page shows up with them on it.

Anyone have any ideas on these things? I know they're sort of technical issues, more than about driving traffic, but since that's how I GET traffic, I need to figure it out.

[jasonivers]

So I experimented, and apparently there is some sort of limit, because I can stumble other sites (including my other sites hosted on the same server/IP address, but different domain names), but no longer A Miracle A Day.

That being the case, I can still post my new articles I think are good on here, and you guys can stumble them, but I'm curious if any of you have any other suggestions on how to draw traffic (by the way, there are a bunch of links at the bottom of each post on my site where you can submit the post to various places, or vote for it if it's already submitted, a la Digg, Reddit, Del.icio.us, etc.)? I keep reading from various sources (ProBlogger, CopyBlogger, even Steve Pavlina) that the way to get traffic is to post comments on other blogs, but I'm not really exactly certain how to find other blogs with enough readers to actually generate any traffic or links for me.

Do you guys have anywhere that you submit your articles to (an article directory or something), or other suggestions for places where I might be able to generate more visibility for my blog? I don't think there's a problem with my content (I hope not!), but it doesn't matter if content is the most fantastic in the world, if it never gets seen.

Also, on a side note, anyone have any suggestions for getting more comments from the people who DO come look? I really want to grow a community (I'm not EVEN doing this to generate money, though that's a happy potential side effect), people who will communicate with me through my blog and expand my knowledge and understanding. In order to do that, I need to generate traffic, and I understand how to do that for a different sort of site (I could have many readers easily if I started a blog on technology... I understand how to target Digg/Slashdot/whatever readers, and get people from those site to come look at tech stuff), but I really don't know where to go to get the visibility I need in the personal development space.

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Rising Darkness - My story

A Miracle A Day - My blog.

[Mark Lapierre]

Jason: I had the same issue with individual articles not showing up in google search results initially. That changed after I installed a plugin that generated a sitemap whenever I updated, in a format google supports. (http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2005/06/...rator-v2-final)

John previously mentioned the issue of stumbling your own articles and suggested not doing it, but not for technical reasons but because of flaming. But it does make sense that you can't "stumble" your own posts. The whole premise is, "Hey, I found this interesting page/site!"

Scott has some advice on getting people to give feedback. Hasn't worked for me yet (but to be honest I haven't wholeheartedly tried to implement the suggestions yet, mainly because I'm not yet happy with my style or the way I present my ideas. I figure perhaps when I'm happy I won't have to worry about trying to attract others.)

[JohnPlace]

Originally Posted by Stu

Maybe stumbleupon is on to us

Anyway thanks chet, it worked that time, and where in the hell did you find that half man / half sheep picture for your 'We the Sheeple' article?

I wouldn't be surprised of SU's algorithm is smart enough to detect if the same group of people keep stumbling each other's sites over and over. Wouldn't be surprised at all.

[jasonivers]

Well, it doesn't really even need to do that, if there is a set number of pages you can "stumble" from a given domain. We will, before too long, all hit that number on each of the other people's sites (assuming that we like their content).

By the way, I have a new article if you care to read it:

The Secret Of Killing Envy

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[CeciL]

I'm going through and thumbs upping what I come across in this forum. Please thumbs up my site as well... ResidualWebsites.com

[ZHereford]

Any help is appreciated. I will be happy to oblige everyone.

Thank you.

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