Is There Really A Stumble Upon Mafia?
Add-on to this post: Jason of Gorilla Sushi posted something on Stumble Upon. I saw it just now and I just needed to get it on this post because it showcases tips on how one can succeed in Stumble Upon. G.S. boasts a Google Pagerank of 5 and has received 21,000 unique visitors in one day, so we should listen.
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I’ve heard stories of how trolls abound at Stumble Upon. How they troll on people who stumble their own posts. I’ve always thought that self-promotion is a survival tool in the internet, and that in any way, you can promote yourself.
Now suddenly, in a social circle that can bridge the difference between no traffic and high traffic in a blog, it seems that self promotion will just bring you somewhere near the lowest reaches of the system. Or you can fight it, and they can still bring you down. They being the people who dislike self promoters.
So it seems the way to do it is to let another person stumble you. Like in entrecard, there’s a shop selling stumbles. Pay a certain amount of credits and the person will stumble a post on your blog. It makes sense. This way, someone else stumbled your post, and that person got compensated for it. What’s in a stumble, eh?
Maybe it pays to make a reputation in Stumble Upon first before selling your stumble power. Stumble worthy posts that other people will like, before selling your service to stumble posts that not everyone will like. They’d end up asking “why’d he stumble that post? maybe he got paid to do so?”… and lose your rep.
Things to think about.
2 Responses to “Is There Really A Stumble Upon Mafia?”
By Entrepreneur on Feb 25, 2008 | Reply
I’ve never had any luck with Stumble Upon … titles not catchy or misleading enough I guess ;D (sour grapes).
I would never pay someone to stumble (beg, yes)… never known for it to work either.
By girlfriend on Feb 25, 2008 | Reply
It does work, actually. And it helps with adsense earnings, too. I noticed that higher pageviews increases the value of click throughs.