I have a plan for the fine photo work of art done by JaxNative to achieve maximum exposure for it on Monday morning. I suggest everyone stumble it and give it a thumbs up and some good reviews. According to Deborah who pilots the wonderful Life In The Fast Lane it is important to focus on the post during the first hour. It is more important actually than some other things. Here is her message:
“I had a few very informative bookmarks to some posts which I’ve lost in a recent puter crash, but I’ll ask some friends if any of them had saved the links I sent them to share.
I’ve found Stumble to be one of the best ways to drive traffic. The key is to Stumble posts worthy for visitors once they get there so as not to disappoint … save it for some of your posts that you’ve worked hard at to create and you’ll receive future traffic from visitors.
How you USE Stumble to drive traffic is key.
Once of the most important factors is having multiple friends Stumble your post, and particularly shortly after the first Stumble. It’s not so much the first one that counts, but how many Stumble the post within the first hour in particular, and how much authority the Stumblers have. What had been stated in the post that recommended this procedure said that your first hour of Stumbles will will drive more traffic if you receive a number of them, which will work more to your benefit than receiving countless more hours later.
It was also recommended to not Stumble your own posts, but to have friends do it for you. Digg works much the same way.
I’ve tried this method and it really does work. I’ve received thousands of visitors doing it. Sites with low allotments for bandwidth can even find their site temporarily taken down, much in the same was as the ‘Digg Effect’ does from posts hitting front page, so be warned.
The great thing about the traffic you receive is that it doesn’t always bring traffic crashing thru your blog in a very short burst, rather, you’ll receive visitors over a series of several days. It’s also been said by those who’ve written posts where they’ve tracked the stats that Stumblers often click other pages on your site and you’ll receive return traffic to a much higher degree than you will from Digg visitors.
Another sie note is that you can only have a maximum of 200 friends, so be selective when adding friends.
You can gain authority by reviewing other sites i.e. Stumble the post, and take the time to write a review, select an apropriate category for it, and assign proper tags. The more reviews you receive for your own site also boosts your authority.
I’m a big fan of the site for these very reasons. It’s great to have a network of friends who will help one another to Stumble posts. I also have a number of friends whose sites I don’t often have time to visit (and vice versa), but we always take the time to help one another whenever anyone asks for a Stumble. Some use the comment box to ’send’ a page to friends … I don’t know about others, but attempting to open the function always crashes my browser.”
I will have the post up here and I don’t anticipate any problem with sites crashing. I would suggest spacing things out a little bit. I don’t know how you would do that. Maybe just make a comment noting the time here. But we could send this thing into the stratosphere. And it certainly deserves to be there. It’s a fine effort and one that Taylor would undoubtedly want to have enlarged and framed if he knew about it.
If this works out I would also suggest we try to do something during future Monday mornings. It might even become a ritual. I will need some good material. Like Deborah says it’s important to have something that lives up to SU standards. It could cover a wide range of topics. But that’s far down the road. For now let’s see how things go on Monday. I’m looking forward to it.
