This week, I was too busy with the day job to even download my email, let alone read the posts at Sphinn. So I ended up doing all of my reading on Saturday, which meant that it was easy to pick my favorite blog post of the week:
27 Secrets to Linking Like a Networking Master

I enjoy Stumbleupon, but I also use it to build traffic to some of my site

Yes, I do Stumble my own sites, but only if they’re related to the theme of my Stumble blog pages, and I don’t Stumble any site more than once a month. A typical stumble in niches related to my blog will bring 200 - 400 visits, and far more if some of those visitors review the page as well.

My Stumbleupon blog (Stoush) now has a pagerank of 4. OK, maybe that’s not mindblowing, until you realize that I only started it in March, and that even my oldest sites only have a page rank of 3.

So how does your Stumbleupon blog get its pagerank? From your friends and fans.

 Just read an interesting article about the 23 types of social media users.

I thought I’d just mention the types that a webmaster might want to be:
Smart Webmaster
Super User
Active User
Helpful Stranger
Average Joe
 

…and some of those you’d probably want to avoid:
Greedy Webmaster
Spammer
Gamer
Fake Hot Girl
Clueless Webmaster
Rick Roller
Moron

As a consumer, I thought I had my PayPal subscriptions figured out. I had set them to draw directly from my bank account, with my credit card as backup. I figured my bank account was more reliable than a credit card.

It would seem that PayPal disagrees.