Do You Use Stumbleupon?

I was just checking out my stats and was amazed to see that they included quite a few visits from StumbleUpon. I had heard before that the traffic that comes from sites like Digg and Stumbleupon is not high quality traffic.

Well yesterday, a comment was left by Debra Hammel, who has quite a few projects going on and is an example of the quality traffic that comes from Stumbleupon, which is how she came to be on Pixelheadonline.com. We actually spent the better part of the morning communicating via twitter, mybloglog.com, email, and two blogs; this one and her blog TheDeblog.com. I will be reviewing a couple of her projects in upcoming posts, but in the meantime, stop on by her blog or her mybloglog profile to check out her projects that have received quite a bit of notice from the Press.

Anyway, I recently started stumbling not only sites that I come across while surfing, but I also stumble posts after I publish them. On my last Top commentors post, I stumbled all the individually highlighted posts as well. I took this from David of Pureblogging.com who does a weekly post of all the top commentors on his blog.

I really am just starting to use sites like Stumbleupon and Digg, so if you have any suggestions for their use or disuse, please let me know.

Updates and other Stumbleupon Resources:

• I just came across Meg of Dipping into the Blog Pond’s post entitled Beginners Guide to StumbleUpon when doing research for my post about the new Social Networking SEO Site Sphinn. Be sure to read Aaron’s Comments below as well.
• Have You Checked Out StumbleUpon?
• Just came upon 17 POWER Tips for StumbleUpon Beginners and
• How To Get MORE StumbleUpon Traffic – A Guide For Beginners… And Experts

Written by Pixelhead on July 11th, 2007 with 33 comments.
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Suite 101 – a Success Story

With the link building mania in high gear for many SEO’s; and the emergence of new Web and article directories every hour of every day – the discovery of Suite 101 was a welcomed event. I’ve been working with and adding articles to eZineArticles on a regular basis, but there was still something lacking there. Then, one day while performing routine Google searches – I noticed that I kept coming across pages from Suite 101. I don’t know why I hadn’t noticed them before – but these articles were good and relevant to what I was searching for. They didn’t appear to be written solely for link opportunities.

So, I started to peruse the site. The articles were actually good. There was a good variety of categories – but, there weren’t hundreds of thousands of articles. So many article directories feel like link farms and spam generators. These articles were interesting, well-written and I wanted to read them rather than figure out how I could get links for clients. So, I dug a little deeper and found the “hiring freelance writers” link. It looked interesting and they even required a resume and two sample articles in the application form.

What was expected from freelance writers was a commitment to publish a minimum of 10 articles every three months and these articles had to be exclusive to Suite 101 – no regurgitating content from all over the web (another reason why this article site is extraordinary). The writers are also coached and guided by experienced writers on how to write effective articles for the web – making use of SEO techniques that will draw more traffic to each writers articles.

And what do the freelance writers get – a share of ad revenue from your articles as long as they remain on the site; media credibility; and references! It sounded like a great opportunity – so, I submitted my resume and sample articles.

Amazingly – I was excepted and I’ve been writing articles for Suite 101 since March 2007.

*** the ad revenue is 100% Google AdSense. I’ve made more from this shared revenue on Suite 101 than from all of my own sites combined with AdSense. Now that’s sweet, huh!

Update by Emperor Anton:

8/5/2007 – Lizzie is no longer writing for Suite101, due to creative differences. However, Lizzie has nothing negative to say about Suite101, but is saddened that the creative differences could not be overcome. However, Lizzie will be writing on other sites to include this site, TheAmazingShrinkingLadiest, and others that will be announced.

Written by lizziebean on July 11th, 2007 with 5 comments.
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