Tip: Increase your blog’s chances to get Stumbled(Upon)

leave comment 
Posted in » Blogging Tips, SEO & Promotion, Social Bookmarking - by Ades on April 11th, 2008

Remember the post that I wrote “How to redirect traffic that comes from certain URL to another“? If you have missed that post, it was a post about redirecting users to a certain page on your blog (or to other website altogether) that came from certain URL e.g stumbleupon.com

How you can increase your stumbles, that is - thumbs up’s with this? Well, the idea is simple.iliked.png Sometimes, if you are lucky some people will mention your blog in their stumbleupon blogs. Which means free traffic to your blog from StumbleUpon. It also works when your blog’s main URL gets stumbled, instead of the particular post that the user actually wanted to stumble.

Since your blog’s main page is always changing, you want the users from StumbleUpon to see your best content. Therefore, if you redirect the users that come from stumbleupon to your best article, your blog will have a better chance to get stumbled again.

Please note that when someone stumbles your particular post, it works just fine i.e it won’t be redirected to another page. Here is an example where Caroline stumbled one of my post. If you click on the post title, you will be taken to that post.

On the other hand, if you go here and click on the link that takes to the main URL of my blog. You will see that instead of going to AdesBlog dot com you will be taken to this article.

So if you like the idea, you can see the steps here on how to set it up on your blog.

P.S I know that some of you are not familiar with .htaccess. I will write an introductory article on .htaccess soon, so stay tuned.

[Post to Twitter]  [Post to Delicious]  [Post to Digg]  [Post to StumbleUpon] 


Related Posts



21 Responses to “Tip: Increase your blog’s chances to get Stumbled(Upon)”

  1. By Jai on Apr 11, 2008

    First one to comment.. Yay!:D

    I think the best way to get stumbled is writing good and high quality content. For example, one of my posts here :-
    http://www.blogohblog.com/top-10-javascripts-for-image-manipulation/

    got stumbled away..so much .. that it got 1,00,000 visits in a day.

    So, good and unique content is the key I think.

  2. By PS3 on Apr 11, 2008

    I’ve had a similar problem where any links to a Blogger blog goes to the latest post, not the article itself. Very frustrating.

    Jai, how many visits is that?

  3. By Brian on Apr 11, 2008

    Yes I shared the same frustration.

    Do like the contents of the blog much.

  4. By Fitness Site on Apr 11, 2008

    Seems fine but I am not aware of .htaccess things.

    Please write the article soon. :(

  5. By SEOrious Results on Apr 11, 2008

    Aaah….tips and tricks to manipulate social media sites are my favourite. The traffic that StumbleUpon can generate is quite stupendous, and gems like this help to refine the process. Thanks Ades!

  6. By Rice Blogger on Apr 11, 2008

    good tips there….will give it a try when I write a good post which could be stumbled

  7. By Kim-SEO Results on Apr 11, 2008

    Thanks for the great tips for stumble upon

  8. By Make Money Online on Apr 11, 2008

    Sounds great, here’s waiting for the .htaccess tutorial ;o)

  9. By Elections photos on Apr 11, 2008

    I think people want to see what they expected.

  10. By Mikko on Apr 12, 2008

    I want to try it on my blog.

    I used to get a lot of SU traffic; but it’s declining as a correlative function of time.

  11. By Nicole Price on Apr 12, 2008

    Good idea. But I think its a little sneaky. Or is it? I’m not really sure. I’ll hold off for a while. Add your post to bookmarks just in case I decide to do it later.

  12. By Marketing Man on Apr 12, 2008

    Hi Ades

    Yeah it makes sense, thanks for that. I think the key to increase your blog’s chances is to write great posts and more importantly to get involved with the bloggers as they are your customers. And customers tell their friends, the internet. Like this blog I have added it to my favourites “I like it” (Stumble) on more then 1 occasion.

    Those sites that impress me are going to be shared with others.

    Well done Ades

  13. By chinedu on Apr 12, 2008

    Thanks for a nice tip to stumble on

  14. By Marketing Man on Apr 13, 2008

    Great post as usual Ades, noted.

    Bloggers are looking for friends, people that have something to say that makes sense.

    I have given this blog the “thumbs up” on multiple different posts as a way of telling the world come to this website, the articles are great, and so is the service.

    Thus I believe that, like any business, give a good product backed by great service and the people (customers) will come and they will spread the word.

  15. By chinedu on Apr 14, 2008

    CAn we havemore we can stumble upon?

  16. By PS3 on Apr 15, 2008

    How does SU compare to Digg….and are there any new kids on the block we ought to be aware of?

  17. By Television on Apr 16, 2008

    Great tip for getting more traffic for your blog. Thanks Ades!

  18. By Directory Site on Apr 21, 2008

    Ades, Thanks for sharing a nice tips to generate more traffic using stumble upon, I have stumbled this post :)

  19. By julien on Nov 7, 2008

    do you guys think my blog is worth stumbling?

    http://fruttadimare.blogspot.com/

  1. 2 Trackback(s)

  2. May 15, 2008: AdesBlog.com » .htaccess basics
  3. Jul 23, 2008: 81+ Enchanting Power StumbleUpon Destinations Waiting For Your Eyes Only From Personal Edge Insights - Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach

Post a Comment