Social Media

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.

The good thing is that many Stumblers look at more than one page, and my Adsense income is definitely going up on the sites that I Stumble regularly. - It looks like some Stumblers are bookmarking the site, and returning later to browse.

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.

• The first page of a Stumbleupon blog shows a few people the Stumbler is a fan of, in the order in which they last came online.


• The first page links to the Friends page, which links to a number of people who the Stumble is a fan of, and a number of their own fans, again in the order in which they last came online.


• The friends page links to full lists of the Stumbler’s 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

For more information see Kyle Healy’s The 23 Types of Social Media Users

Of all of the Web 2.0 sites I’ve come across, so far I like Stumbleupon the best.

Why? Because it gives me the best surfing.

At Stumbleupon, I can indicate my interests, click on a button and see a random site that has been given a thumbs-up by people with the same interest. It shows lots of great sites that I’d probably never come across in the search engines.

When I see a site I really like, I can easily add it to my Stumble blog.

One of the interests that I’ve listed is ‘Stumblers’. I really enjoy checking out other people’s Stumble blogs, and its the best way to find Stumble friends