Jason Unger

StumbleUpon: A Completely Underrated Traffic Source

Posted by junger - 01/30/07 at 12:01:04 pm

One of my goals in my online content consulting is to help publications best use social networking and community-type sites to let users promote and spread content.

Most of the time, you hear about the effect of digg and del.icio.us on traffic, but lost in the shuffle of the various social sites is a tremendous traffic driver: StumbleUpon.

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10 Tips to Retain Visitors from a Digg, del.icio.us, Slashdot Traffic Boost

Posted by junger - 07/21/06 at 06:07:16 pm

One of the biggest days for any Web publisher/blogger/whatever is when you publish that one story that either makes it to the Digg front page, gets tagged by loads of del.icio.us users, or even makes it to the holy halls of Slashdot. The feeling is great — traffic goes through the roof (probably so much that your server goes down), comments (and flames) come in hoards and your RSS subscriber feed jumps big time.

But if you aren't prepared for that day, then a one-to-two day traffic boost will be just that. Now, obviously you will not continue to get record numbers from one or two main sources for an extended period of time, but you can keep some of those visitors around. You just have to make them want to stay.

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Why Good Blogs Don't Get Comments

Posted by junger - 07/11/06 at 09:07:15 pm

You're a good blogger. You've got good content. You've started to get some traffic. But you can't get anyone to leave a comment on your blog posts. What are you doing wrong?

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