Feb
Don’t Ask Your Readers To Stumble Your Site
If you’re reading this blog, chances are that you, at one point or another, asked someone to Digg or Stumble your site. No big deal, everyone does it.
However, while it’s common practice amongst internet marketers to ask visitors to submit your pages to various social media sites, I found a good example of why you shouldn’t transfer this practice to other niches:
First is an excerpt where the blogger openly asks visitors to stumble his site.
No big deal? Well it was to one user who got pretty pissed!! And he let the world know how he felt…
Let this be a warning for the bloggers who (thankfully) write about something besides making money online - don’t ask your readers to do your work for you!
[All usernames and URLs have been replaced by non-identifying information since I prefer not to make fun of bloggers outside the overcrowded 'make money online' niche.]
However, I always point out examples in the internet marketing niche. So I’ll point you to some experiments by AdTracker who did a marvelous study of Stumble Trolls!
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I think asking people to stumble… is a waste of effort but I don’t really see any reason to get upset at people for doing it. And so avoiding doing so because someone might get upset doesn’t seem like a great reason to me. But not doing it because it is a waste (if someone wants to stumble you they can, and if no-one that wants to can figure out how to do it themselves - well then it wasn’t meant to be) is a good reason. So we reach the same conclusion.
I also agree that it’s a waste of time, but with the possible outcome being worse than just some lost time.
Better use the photo of a cute cat! >> http://supaswag.blogspot.com/2008/02/quak-quak-meaoww.html
Can your kitty do the dog?
I am quite alarmed with the reader’s strong reaction from the request for help and wonder if reflects general sentiment.
Isn’t it common to ask for PR help in blogs and websites: link to us; email a friend and so on. Is it really that offensive?
I guess some people are just plain crazy, or just really uptight
StumbleUpon considerably reduces your CTR, and if you are using adsense, that means you are in the danger of getting smart priced.
So do you think it is wrong to stumble your own? I don’t ask people to stumble my site in the post but a couple of times I have messaged my “stumble friends” and asked them if they wouldn’t mind stumbling.
One of my biggest traffic days/months was from a stumble that I didn’t tell a sole about. I simply did it myself and forgot about it. Once day, about 2 weeks later, it hit and it hit big. I got over 32,000 uniques that month.
Stumble whatever you want- yours, your friends, or your enemies.
I agree with that, don’t “cheat” SU
good point. It’s like a parent asking their friends to pay for their child’s education. It’s your kid, you pay for them!!
It’s just so much noise. And you do sorta get the idea that bloggers who’re constantly begging for Stumbles, Diggs, or such really don’t get that getting blog “visitors” is not nearly the same thing as attracting blog “readers.”
Social site hits are like Internet junk food. Sure, they’re tasty and give you a little sugar rush, but the buzz fades quickly and offers little nutrition.
Sure, I’ve had a couple of posts Stumbled and the quick hit of traffic was a heady rush, but my subscriber count didn’t perk up any and within a day or two my traffic stats were back at essentially the same level as before.
Unless you’re only in this for the money - which, although common, is really sad - blogging isn’t a sprint. With any luck, it’s a long steady run.
I don’t seem to get much quality traffic from SU anyway. Normally its just a quick boost and thats it