Hello, We have opened a new stumble exchange: www.avuw.com Fully automated (as long as SU is not down ) Easy registration, easy interface and automated stumble verifier PM me with any questions Thanks, Tim
probably not much. I first heard of SE yesterday and signed up to check it out ... sadly to say it didnt work and I haven't been back yet. additionally, we allow multiple links once you reach a certain level of participation. When it was originally coded and tested the exchange allowed up to but not more than 4 links. Most of the beta testers have 2 links in the exchange. I myself have 3 links. Don't know about the other site, but we are pretty on top of canning sites/users that can't read the TOS of avuw.com. Originally, the site was coded to flag all new users and their links until an admin could verify the site met our standards as laid out in the TOS. That has been removed but if we start seeing a influx of spammy sites we will turn it back on.
Looks ok, but I get an error when I click verify. Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a0005' Invalid procedure call or argument /verifystumbles.asp, line 121
I tried a couple stumbles each time and kept getting an error. Got the nice new error page last time though
www.avuw.com/images/stats3.gif www.avuw.com/images/stats4.gif new features have been added, you will now see the user last login date/time and the date/time of their last link visit active members have a new link slot now more members and their links have been expunged working on a minor forum to gather feature requests/faq/news working on users having the ability to share or not share their SU id
changes are nice ... new members can now tell if they are viewing an active member. deleted more accounts/links
www.stumbleXchange.com experienced problems due to a site we use to verify the stumbles changed their service. The problem has now been solved and it works fine.
some more users activated and links should now be showing ... up to 40 users with 1500+ stumbles and growing nicely. everyone keep up the good work. don't forget, you can add more links the more you are active in the system.
Nice, stumble upon is like the new blog traffic booster bar exchange systems that are out there only more like a community and easier to nav sites. Thanks for the info on the sites
44 actives with 1750+ stumbles and growing nicely. I would like to thank everyone who has helped avuw.com become a success. Next major user prunes will happen on Monday so login now and make sure your account is current
Not trying to spam here but I have posted my thoughts on the stumbleupon benefits and downsides that might be of interest below ; http://www.allcreatives.net/article/85/the-power-of-stumbleupon-recap
Avuw.com now has ability to pre-verify ... register/login and click "Verify" from the left nav and any links in our system that you might have stumbled in another exchange get marked and you receive "credit" as having stumbled the link. Mike, maybe your exchange didn't have enough or the right people involved. Did you take a look at any of the traffic links I posted above. Everyday there are detractors in the social bookmark space -- some of it is warranted (Digg for example). It's the same thing with the SEO industry back in the day and still today sometimes. Someone puts up a website, spams their links everywhere, traffic trickles in and they declare "SEO is a bunch of hogwash". While the "smart" person looks at what is actually happening "behind the scenes". A few quick things I did before putting my link into an exchange: looked through SU to find the content people have up and what they seem to like. looked through my site to find an interesting piece of content that has yet "made it big" on SU Wrote the first SU to my content with tags and a nice description/title Asked people I knew (whether live or internet) to SU that specific page and write a blurb about it Then I submitted to my exchange... a specific page (ie: not the homepage) As far as conversions go -> would you buy a site that claims 50% ctr at $1.00/click with 1000 visitors ($500 total)? why don't people look at it in reverse as well. 200 visitors (heck 5000 visitors) is not enough information to declare something as not worth the trouble. Are you tracking 2ndary conversions (people coming back to the site)? Is what you are selling something the SU crowd is actually interested in? I converted well ... not as well as I thought I would, but they did convert and it was worth an extra $xxx during that week I tracked BTW, writing "Not trying to spam but ... " is the equivalent of today's athletes telling people it's not about the money
I think I worded the "I'm not trying to spam" bit wrongly. What I meant to say is I didn't want to take the attention away from your tool. I'm not sure if you read the link but it was a valuation in my opinion of just how useful stumbleupon is for website owners. I noted that there were good things to be achieved for certain web sites via stumbleupon but for the most part it is unsuccessful promotional tool. The traffic stats you posted further proved this as they were from an arcade site ie. entertainment and something that generally is a bit of a time waster when bored not selling anything and generally tricking users to click through on adverts. I wasn't bashing or trying to trash stumbleupon, I still think it has its place as long as you have the right web site content. I tested my own exchange along with stumblexchange.com for three web sites all of different content and subject matters. Each received in excess of 15,000 stumbleupon visitors of which around 97% stayed less than 5 seconds. In all honesty I like your strategy and picking out indiviually pages as opposed to the homepage. The SU crowd thing is a whole can of worms I don't have the energy to open right now. This is a good read that goes more in depth ; http://www.seomoz.org/blog/why-it-doesnt-pay-to-game-digg-or-other-link-aggregation-sites Just to sum up know I am not saying don't promote your web site via stumbleupon I am saying educate yourself before you do so and don't get dragged in by somebody telling you about the thousands of visitors they have gotten since being stumbled.