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What Makes Me Stumble and Digg Your Post

Deep thoughtsOr why is it that nobody stumbles your blog posts or articles? Or why is it that you don’t get a Digg? In this article, I will share with you what makes me stumble or digg a post when I visit a blog. By the time you complete reading this article, you will have an idea of what goes on the mind of a StumbleUpon stumbler or Digg digger.

 

What? You have a Blog?
Have you promoted your blog enough to get your blog noticed? Do I know your blog? Are you a reader here? Do you leave comments? If I don’t know of the existence of your blog, there is no way you will get a chance to impress me enough to give you a stumble or digg.

 

Is Your Blog Visually Impressive?
Let’s be frank. Men [can I say, women as well? ;) ] are turned on by visually attractive stuffs. It is no different with blogs. If you have a nicely designed blog, more so if it is custom-designed and not one of those common blog themes which you upload and use, the likelihood of me staying on longer to check out the contents of your blog is higher. And if I stay longer on your blog, the chances of me seeing something worth stumbling or digging would be higher.

 

Can I Find Your Blog Contents?
A stumbler or digger votes on the contents of a blog. Not on advertisements or social widgets. If you cramp and pack your site and pay way too much attention to advertisements and widgets compared to the contents, chances are I would be too frustrated to look around for something worthy of reading. I read the contents of a blog. Not come around looking for advertisements or fancy social widgets. I don’t really care about who was there in your blog and frankly, my eyes are now trained to ignore those widgets and advertisements when I go blog surfing. Read on »

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. 18 Dec 07 | About Social Media | Comments (16)

Experience The Power of Social Media

StumbleUponI have been promoting much about using social media to get your blog noticed. Of late, a couple of my posts have been given the thumbs up in StumbleUpon as well as Digg and this has brought me constant traffic, not to mention the additional exposure for this blog. I suspect it has to do with the type (and depth) of articles I have been writing here of late (compared to the time when this blog started).

 

However, I suspect that not all my readers actually use them for their own benefit as well as for the benefit of the blogs they are reading. I also think that not all bloggers are aware of the potential of social media in driving traffic and exposure to their blogs. With that in mind, this is a little project which I propose to do for readers and bloggers who are willing to participate. I would call this project “Experience The Power of Social Media“. I will be using StumbleUpon for this project.

 

First of all, sign up with StumbleUpon if you have not done so.

 

Next, if you are a blogger, leave your stumbleupon url (or ID) in the comment form below. By leaving your stumbleupon url (or ID) in the comment form, I would also know your web site / blog from your name. Read on »

. 14 Dec 07 | About Social Media | Comments (24)

My StumbleUpon Advertising Experience

Do you know that you can advertise your site through StumbleUpon? If nobody has stumbled your site before or the number of stumbles on your site has not been all that encouraging, you might want to consider paying for stumbles. That is what I did. Each stumble (page view) costs USD0.05. For the sake of those who are new, StumbleUpon is a form of social networking where members who have installed the required toolbar can vote / rate / review sites they like. When this is done, other members take notice and will probably visit the voted / rated / reviewed site. Traffic can come in droves as explained earlier in my post on how StumbleUpon brought me more traffic than Problogger.

 

I experimented with this advertising opportunity by placing 5 different recipes of mine from my Delicious Asian Food blog to be stumbled (my campaigns). I fixed a maximum of 100 views per day thus restricting my cost to USD5.00 per day per recipe / page. I did not launch all the 5 recipes to be stumbled on the same day. Rather, I staggered them over a period of about 6 weeks. I spent about USD30.00 in total over this experiment.

 

What I discovered was that some recipes are more popular than others. I also discovered that though some of the campaigns I created had long completed (as I did not top up with additional funds), I still get the said recipes being stumbled till today which means I still get traffic regularly. I was lucky at times when some of the stumblers even give a review to the recipes which resulted in a flood of traffic. Hence, the actual cost of advertising became less than USD0.05 per page view (due to the continuous stumbling). Read on »

. 02 Oct 07 | About Social Media | Comments (4)

Using Thoof To Drive In-Coming Traffic

Let me be frank here. This site did not get that much traffic until late July when by chance, I reviewed one of the opportunities made available through PayPerPost. I came across a site which gives personalized news based on your usage of their site. I still have not figured it out but according to the folks at Thoof.Com, the site uses some fierce sounding “personalization algorithm” which allows the users to access news and information based on individual likes and preferences on the very first visit.

Technological mumbo-jumbo aside, let me tell you what the Thoof experience has brought me. For starters, I submitted one of my posts which I think would garner the best attention amongst the other posts. This is none other than my post on 15 Beautiful Wordpress Themes You Must See (you will notice it on the right hand sidebar as the Most Popular Post here). After I submitted the post, I placed a ThoofRank badge on my post to see how it would fare. Read on »

. 09 Aug 07 | About Social Media, About Traffic | Comments (0)

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