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[All usernames and URLs have been replaced by non-identifying information since I prefer not to make fun of bloggers outside the overcrowded 'make money online' niche.]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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