Welcome to Visitors From Stumbleupon

30 Jul

Posted by rdash as General

Welcome to visitors from Stumbleupon.com (and others, of course). I’ve had my articles socially bookmarked at other sites I write for, but this is the most vists I’ve had from a bookmark site for one of my own blogs.

What I’m noticing is that most of you are only visiting the homepage. Which means I’m not doing my job right. You obviously came here looking for something that caught your attention. So if you don’t mind, do me a favour and be honest: why did you not explore the site further? Is it because my posts are excerpted and you don’t feel like clicking the “more” links? Because the site is ugly and offends you? Not what you expected? Something else?

cheers

2 Responses

Jay

August 21st, 2006 at 12:39 am
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I can only speak for myself but most Stumblers are site junkies. We aren’t about making money from our pages but creating links to sites we like and hoping others will like as well. There is every type of page at S/U form politics to art to simply eclectic. As a guest most of us seldom dig deeper than the first page on Stumbler pages but some do check back often if they like your style, so just looking at your front page is about right.

I have often thought of blogging or site building to make money but haven’t had the time or the understanding. I joined Preformancing but never used it because I had no idea what professional blogging was. I thought it was some kind of corporate thing (I added because of a Firefox ext page saying it was a blogging tool). If you did nothing else you clued me in on what that was all about and now I know to look a little more at it
rdash

August 23rd, 2006 at 9:22 pm
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Jay,

Thanks for the the comment. It’s given me some insight about Stumbleupon. If you have questions about blogging, please do drop by Performancing.com and ask questions. If you’re a member, you can start a forum thread. There are over 17,000 members, so someone is likely to answer your question(s) before long. I would also recommend Darren Rowse’s Problogger.net as a great resource for bloggers.

I tend to focus on very new or intermediate bloggers, and you’re welcome to ask questions. I try to answer as soon as I actually see a comment - though sometimes that might be up to week a week after you leave it.