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The wet dream of all webmasters is to get to the frontpage of Digg or Reddit. After reading how Cracked.com did it on Digg (hit the frontpage) I decided to write a follow up for StumbleUpon. That’s how it works:
- Switch on your browser, no, not Internet Exploder, a browser and type in “stumbleupon.com” in the address bar, then hit “enter”. Congratulations! Done, you already hit the homepage!
- Review StumbleUpon as “ingenious” for the NYT. Your review will be added below the BBC and The Wall Street Journal.
- The last page to hit the Frontpage of StumbleUpon did it in May 2007. Travel back in time one day before it was submitted and submit it instead of the original submitter.
OK. So you don’t actually want to hit the frontpage of StumbleUpon? You rather want to get hugely popular there?
- Check out a highly popular submission of an artist, steal the images and resubmit them on you own site 20 per scrollable page. StumbleUpon users love to stumble the same stuff over and over even if it’s content theft. I told them again and again to vote for the originals instead but they prefer the ad packed “fun” blogs with easily understandable headlines like “Funny Images” or “Creative Art”.
- Create an extremely sophisticated animation to waste time with. More ideas here.
- Pimp your cat but don’t electrocute it!
- Fight racism by making two different races meet and get friendly with each other.
- Meet your meat.
- Submit something about weather or money, two of the most popular topics on SU!
- Torture and document it you evil bastard!
So these 7 or 10 ways of getting popular or to hit the frontpage of StumbleUpon (depending on the perspective) should suffice by now. I understand that now most stumblers will hate me for giving away the trade secrets but hey what do you expect from a dirty low down SEO spammer? Everybody knows that SEO is much worse than terrorism!
SEO bloggers are barred from both major social news sites as users of Digg and Reddit correctly assume that all submissions regarding SEO are spam and nobody can prove otherwise.
- So what’s left for us poor souls?
- No social news site for stories about SEO?
- Sphinn? Mixx?
No, both offer only a traffic trickle instead of the flood! There is only one viable alternative: StumbleUpon!
Tragically I don’t
- do Flash programming
- have a pet
- steal
so I have no way to get popular on StumbleUpon.
I’m glad more than 90%+ of StumbleUpon users leave a landing page in an instant so they don’t read this revelation about me being an evil SEO!
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Evil SEOer linkbaiter! :)
You actually forgot the #1 way to get something popular on StumbleUpon. Write a post about how to get something popular on StumbleUpon! Good tips… although the truth is do you really want stumble traffic anyway? The conversion rate of it has to be something like .000001% or something?
I’ll have to try some of these tips. You just got to love SU. It is by far a better community that Digg.
Haha, that’s evil. But I thanks anyway, I now know to just skip stumbleupon and get on with the next social bookmarking site.
PS. I just pressed the thumb up thingy in the left upper corner, use the traffic wisely!
Wow. Great post. Not a trace of misplaced bitterness.
I’m not too familiar with SU myself, but apparently I need to jump on the bandwagon.
SU is brilliant for torrents of traffic but as mentioned above; the conversion rate; hell even the click rate of the stumble page is very low.
So really IMHO only good for metrics purposes
I try social bookmarking but it does not convert much for me.
But it is part of the seo that is for sure.
I have been experimenting with stumbleupon. I read several different stratagies. I stumbled one of my own websites and made a friend, they gave me a thumbs up on my website and a review. A week later, 0 traffic to my website still. I’m boggled because supposedly this should have started at least some traffic. I’m moving on to my next experiment, I’m going to make another friend on stumbleupon.
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