Friday’s Finds — 07/20/2007
July 20th, 2007 - - Filled in: Friday's Finds
Recently, I’ve been using StumbleUpon to increase my traffic. It has worked like a charm. But after using it on a daily basis for the last couple of weeks, I can tell you that it has much more value than simply generating traffic. Your eyes are opened up to the Internet like never before. I’ve made a couple of good friends, and it has proven to be yet another great way to take advantage of social marketing. To some of you, StumbleUpon is old news. To those of you that haven’t started using it yet, get over there. Here are some blog posts about StumbleUpon, one of my most recent stumbles, and a quick shot of sports.
- I’ve stumbled upon many different websites, pictures, and videos. Some grab my attention, others get the “thumbs down”. Jesus of the Week was one I stumbled yesterday. It shows images of Jesus on a variety of canvases from wheels to buildings to belt buckles. Goes to show…Jesus gets love on more than toast and tortillas.
- Apparently StumbleUpon has been busy making its mark on a variety of people. You won’t just find bloggers there. There is a whole new audience looking for specific things…and discovering new things. TechIndustryNews has posted an Alexa snapshot showing trends from StumbleUpon, Reddit, and Digg.
- The Web Urbanist has posted a list of the 8 funniest things ABOUT StumbleUpon. If you use it regularly, you’ll find that these are painfully true. I know a couple of people that Stumble all day and all night.
- If you’re wondering what the top stumblers look for, look no further than BloggingMix.com. Rocky has asked some of the top stumblers 2 questions: [1] What do you usually look for to stumble (article, video and podcast)? and [2] What do you advice bloggers to do in order to increase their chances of getting stumbled upon? To find out how to get stumbled by top stumblers, head over there now.
- In sports news, the FBI is investigating an NBA referee who allegedly was betting on basketball games. Nice. First the childish tirade by Joey Crawford and now this. Read the rest of the article by Murray Weiss over at the New York Post. I can’t wait until they announce his name. Sorry, Ookie. This takes zero attention off of that dogfighting indictment.
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July 20th, 2007 at 10:49 pm
I’m actually getting more traffic from StumbleUpon than any other social networking site.
July 20th, 2007 at 11:24 pm
Same here! Digg and Reddit are painfully hard to get on the front page of unless you know the right people. With StumbleUpon things feel much more egalitarian. That post you linked to on Web Urbanist has had nearly 25,000 unique visitors over the last few days! I’m starting to wonder if that isn’t some kind of a record
July 21st, 2007 at 9:06 am
That could be. That’s pretty strong. I think the best I’ve done was like 12,000 over a 3-day period. The last time I had that kind of traffic was when Gizmodo linked to me for the Bloggers Tournament.