Sunday, February 10, 2008

StumbleUdon, piqq.us sister project.

Dear reader, I'm really glad to present you new project, fresh and raw right from the creators of piqq.us
StumbleUdon.com
Sounds like StumbleUpon isn't it? Means it works with SU, but hey, piqq.us already works with SU and also with Digg and Propeller, what the catch of making StumbleUdon?
The thing is, to make a stumble credit on piqq.us, you have to load the page, "thumbs up", then wait couple of minutes to let SU update your profile and then Hit "I've stumbled" button to get credit.
With StumbleUdon you don't have to do it, you just need to click on the button to get credit, and server will do everything by itself, it requires your SU password to do it, not a problem, if you don't want to jeopardize your SU account, register a new one!
As long as it's in the beta right now, you will only be able to get 15 stumbles every day, and you won't be able to collect them, because they will reset in 24hours after you earned them.
But it is enough to make your website roll the SU system, you just need to come up with a quality content.

My personal experience with StumbleUpon, Digg, ShoutWire(digg-a-like).
I used to make a spammy articles and post them to digg/su/sw and exchange diggs on forums and with my friends, and i got nothing than my accounts and urls banned from the systems. I thought that having boost of 20 stumbles or diggs is not enough for website to get popular around the social networks, but turns out, it's more than enough. Because if you will serve quality content, in the appropriate topic, with relevant tags, then it will be seen by the people who are interested in seeing it, and if it's fresh and they found something new, they will thumbs up/digg/shout your page, and it will keep on rolling!
Now you probably will say, "cool, but what exactly social network should i use to get my website visited?"
My own experience shows that SU users are just average internet surfers with the basic internet knowledge, so they are interested in humor, comedy, fun, socializing, entertainment.
Digg users are more "advanced" internet users, they are mostly interested in fresh news, market events, innovations, software news, and web-development.

There are a lot of digg-a-like websites that are dedicated to something, here are few examples:
So mostly all you need is a fresh and quality content (or that wasn't seen yet), and an initial boost, if your article or site is not so innovative and fresh :D

StumbleUdon invites (i have only 2 right now)
# 160 http://stumbleudon.com/signup.php?r=40&c=cafz19onwb47ae4f7669
# 206 http://stumbleudon.com/signup.php?r=40&c=397h6pfdlb47af06a31a