Combining Technorati and StumbleUpon for more traffic
Everyone who has been blogging for any amount of time is aware of the power of Technorati for helping your blog placement throughout the Blogsphere. I’m sure you also realize the amount of traffic that StumbleUpon can bring your blog if you stumble your own posts and select the correct category. While Stumbled traffic is not great at converting, I have been able to utilize this service to add subscribers and readers to my blogs.
Since I’ve been thinking a lot about how to increase the number of readers to my blog, I’ve looking at both these services to see how I may could use them to help me out. Well something occurred to me while looking at my page on StumbleUpon, as long as I write a description about a page I’m Stumbling, then a corresponding entry is placed on my Stumble page with a link to the site. Which brings up another point about utilizing stumble.
If you are just stumbling your sites and just selecting a Category and tags, without writing a description then you are losing a backlink as well as losing some valuable exposure for your blogs. I used to never write a description and while I would get the increase in traffic from the stumble, I would lose out on the long term benefits of having he link on my StumleUpon page. The morale is to always write a couple of sentences in the description when you stumble as a teaser for longer term traffic.
Well back to the point of this post. It is possible for you to Claim your StumbleUpon blog on Technorati. You basically just use manual claim process where you go to Technorati, start the claim process and then when it asks you for proof, write post on your blog. You then post the code for Tecnhorati on your Stumble Upon blog and its claimed. Then everytime you stumble one of your blog posts you are actually helping your Technorati rank at the same time. I’m looking for other ways this can be utilized on other sites. I’m pretty sure the same thing should work for your personal page on other social bookmarking type sites where you are allowed to post HTML in the description. Have fun, but don’t spam as it does not help anyone.
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What an interesting idea. I have just set up the process you suggested and we’ll see what happens. Thanks for the idea.
I’ve claimed my SU blog ages ago, but it didn’t seem to actually do anything. My favorites were not listed in Technorati even after I pinged it multiple times. I wonder if I did something wrong…
I actually claimed my stumble page too and I too don’t know what the purpose of that was… Then again, I have never stumbled my post first. If someone stumbles it for me and I know about it, obviously I have to give myself a thumbs up too.
The reason why I don’t stumble my own post is that I think there’s something in the algorithm.
If you keep on stumbling your own, you might not have that much stumble juice. I noted this with various stumblers to my site (mostly blog friends). Some who had never stumbled me will generate 100+ visits. Those who had stumbled me before will barely generate a blip.
That’s why I keep my stumble record varied and make an effort to put down comments.
@sutco. I don’t see the posts as favorites, but ever indication that I’ve seen shows it does help with Authority. did you actually post to the SU blog. It does not work like a normal blog does, but once I stared doing this thne my Authority increases.
@mariam, Funny I’ve never had a problem and I stumble almost all my posts. I do stumble other posts from sites that I find interesting or like and I also spend time at least once a week just clicking the Stumble button to see what I find. One thing I’ve found that is very relevant to the amount of stumbles is the tags you enter as well as the area you select. Some topics have a lot more users with those topics as an interest in their profile.
Bruce