StumbleUpon
With StumbleUpon the era of social browsing has begun
Are You After Traffic or Visitors?
A while ago I have written a post about how you should treat the people who visit your blog. My point was that treating them like an amorphous mass of "traffic" ...
How Social Networking Has Killed Digg and SEO 1.0
Three years ago I boldly predicted that social browsing services like StumbleUpon will kill Digg and SEO 1.0. Did they? No. I was wrong. Social networking did though. Let me explain. StumbleUpon ...
The Best StumbleUpon Resources Outside of SU
This is an updated post. To enhance your StumbleUpon experience there are great third party StumbleUpon resources. Resources made not by or outside of StumbleUpon itself. Here are the best: StumbleUpon ...
Stop Social Media Hopping Now to Save Your Business Later
Social Media: Paradise or prison? Are you social media hopping? Have you been on Friendster 5 years ago, on MySpace 3 years ago, on Facebook for a year or more ...
Image SEO for Photographers and Other Visual Artists
Photographing the Photographer by Naixn. Photographers and other visual artists have a magnificent tool to show off their work these days, the Internet. Everybody loves great photos and artworks ...
Death Threat by StumbleUpon Engineer
Just yesterday I published a post that bluntly criticizes the many shortcomings of StumbleUpon. A few hours ago I got the first ...
12 Reasons Why StumbleUpon is Dead
Dead End is a Creative Commons image by Benny Lin StumbleUpon is dead. Read my story first and then the 12 reasons. It was long ago, probably a year or more, ...
7 Social Sites Every Business and Professional Should Use
Update August 28th, 2009: Due to popular demand I added Facebook to the list. Also I put Friendfeed at the end of the list as not that important. Btw. it's ...
StumbleUpon: 7 Ways to Influence Stumble Traffic
Question mark is a CC image by Marco Belucci With the meteoric rise of Twitter and Facebook the social discovery service StumbleUpon got almost ...
3 Traits of True Social Media Experts
Expert by Pete Prodoehl is a Creative Commons image. In recent years and months the Web has been flooded by social media experts. They're everywhere you move, you ...
StumbleUpon Adds SEO Category
One of the greatest annoyances with StumbleUpon was the utter lack of an SEO category. You know SU is a social discovery service that ...
Top 10 Most Awesomely Amazing Creative & Funny Reasons Why Blogging for Social Media Sucks
CC: Eye am feeling silly by Cayusa. OK, I admit it, I'm part of the problem here. It all started with link baiting a few years ago. Then blogging for a ...
Social Media Refocus: What Site is Next?
Dear Readers, over the past 1.5 years I've spent a tremendous amount of time on my favorite 3 social sites, StumbleUpon, Sphinn and Mixx. ...
SEO 2.0 Reality Check: What’s True What Not?
CC: Reality Check by ScubaBear68. After 1.5 years of writing for this blog and popularizing SEO 2.0 it's time to review some of my theories and predictions. I have promised you ...
SearchWiki: Power to the People! Great News for SEO 2.0
These are the Google results for SEO I want to see, but Google SearchWiki doesn't want me to keep. Most of you have noticed by now, Google has introduced a new set ...
Quick Guide to StumbleUpon Categorization and Tagging
CC: Stumbling into happiness by szea. One of the most annoying issues on StumbleUpon, both from an user and a webmaster perspective is the ...
What Social Media Benefits for Business Can You Expect?
Many people in business and even marketers discount social media as worthless saying things like "social media traffic is low value". They are not completely wrong about that but they aren't right ...
Social Browsing Can Make the Web a Better Place
StumbleUpon has been covered here on this blog quite a lot. The decline of Digg seems unstoppable and many blogs by now have more ...
The Most Important Thing on StumbleUpon: Do Not Pose as, Be a Legit User
cc: Whiskeygonebad. The "Social Media Insider" over at the Invesp Blog recently wrote a post about StumbleUpon called "StumbleUpon: 3 Most Important Things To Keep In Mind" about promotion on SU. ...
7 SEO 2.0 Lessons: SEO for Humans Instead of Spiders is Not About Google and “Content is King”
Spider, really your preferred audience? Source. For years Google has been preaching building websites for humans not spiders. Nonetheless in reality