Is it acceptable to submit your own site to stumble?
I’ve read where some are under the impression that this violates some sort of blogging ethics. Bullsh$%!
Submitting your own site to stumble can get you some decent traffic. You have to ask yourself though; Is this post one I want to represent my site for a new viewer? I’ve made the mistake recently of stumbling 5 straight posts before asking myself the question. The first 2 got significant traffic from stumble, while the last 3 barely got any stumble love. My recommendation to you is this, don’t submit your post to stumble unless you think it can get someone to give it the thumbs up.
I haven’t researched Stumble enough to say definitively yet, but initially it looks as though they will send you less traffic if you don’t get some affirmative responses.
The moral to this story to only submit posts that you are extremely proud of to Stumble. Also, by all means, install the StumbleUpon toolbar to your firefox browser to get your favorite sites some extra traffic.
#1 by Jon Lee on June 23, 2007 - 11:05 pm
I have no idea how the stumble algorithm works, I know a lot of people are on a quest to collect the most number of friends on StumbleUpon… maybe it increases your stumbling power? I have no idea…
Either way… I’ve stumbled this post
#2 by Jason Spence on June 24, 2007 - 7:24 am
Thanks for that Jon. I think I may have to scour the Stumble faq’s to get a clue as to what helps your stumbling power.
#3 by Lady Rose on June 25, 2007 - 7:36 am
I’ll give you a thumbsup stumble when I get home, can’t from work. I know that stumble doesn’t allow you to submit too many of your pages or sites. And from the two I’ve done I haven’t gotten any traffic at all. But there is so much to don on the web and writing for my blog I don’t have that much time to stumble either so may be that affects it.