To Stumble…or not!
Most bloggers have come across Stumbleupon It is, as I understand, a site for discovering new sites and sharing them. It is also an online community in itself. However, in some cases, it is also a confusing morass of dubious favours in search of another favour in return. A bit like, “scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours”…Or more to the point, “stumble my post and I’ll..” you get the drift. Not as much as the wretched Digg, but I do think some people think of it that way in some blog communities.
As a source of traffic, it has huge potential. However, after some playing around with the site, I would, in honesty, like someone to fill in the exact merits of the site. In terms of user friendly, I think it is all over the place. I am always getting referrals from Stumbleupon, yet I can never get to find out who has stumbled my sites. I am prompted to log in all the time.
I am therefore, inviting bloggers opinion. Is it just me, but why is it so damned confusing??
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackDor awhile I was being asked to give thumbs up and reviews for 30 or 40 sites and many of them were automobiles or tasers for sale–something I have zero interest in.
The reason I ventured into it–presumably I signed up first–is that three years ago one flash fiction piece started getting hundreds of hits a day. At first it was many hundreds a day.
For a pure fiction blog written by one no-name writer that’s amazing. Most of my posts are episodes for long in-progress stories and fifty or sixty hits is a triumph.
But this one story will not quit. It still, three years on, gets several hits a day. I managed to find two mediocre reviews and one that said it was terrible. But it’s titled “Guaranteed Happiness.” It’s a first person account of fewer than 500 words. People read it before they know what’s happening.
There’s a whole category on Goggle for “Guaranteed Happiness,” most of not fiction, but quick financial fixes. My story held top page rank for a long time until “Guaranteed Happiness Despite Bad Credit!” knocked it down a notch.
It was a fluke, that story. But it would certainly be sweet for this scarcely published writer of novels and novellas to hit the SU lottery a few more times.
I know people read it because it even gets comments and comments on a one-writer fiction blog, unless you’re rousing all your friends and family are one or two every now and then.
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