Most of you all know about StumbleUpon and most of you also know that it’s hard to get the first few Sumbles to get some attention to your newly posted article. Now there’s a new way to get the first Stumbles to get some extra boost to your Stumble campaign. It’s called StumbleUdon and is an automated free Stumble exchange where you exchange a few stumbles with other members. You get somewhere between 5 to 15 free Stumbles each day (depending on how many visitors you’ve referred ) and you can buy some extra too if you want to.

To get really good results with this exchange you need to remember to submit quality content (and not spammy affiliate pages). One of my more successful articles got over 1000 visitors from Stumble by just using five free credits from StumbleUdon. That’s about 200% up!

I started testing StumbleUdon in the end of February and could see an increase in the visitors count already taht month. Compare March and January in this graph and you’ll see that it’s possible to make some really good traffic if you got quality content:

You can sign up for your own StumbleUdon account here.

Some suggestions to succeed with Stumbles

To get good results you need to submit quality content. A few things I’ve learnt is that Stumble users like content without “expiration dates” (i.e. content that’s valid today, tomorrow and maybe even next year) like for example Fun stuff from Google. News, contests, sweepstakes and time limited articles are not doing well at all. Numbered lists seems to be wroking well too

This month the Site of the month is a really useful Entrecard (read more about Entrecard here) related site I visit (almost) daily: Powerdropping.com. The site is simply just a list of Entrecard blogs sorted by loading time with the fastest loading site at the top.

So what’s so special about a site with just links to other sites? If you like me are trying to earn as many Entrecard credits per day as possible while you have a lot of other things to do, then you can’t spend 1 or 2 hours dropping Entrecards . The solution is simply to visit Powerdropping.com where you got 250-280 of the fastest loading Entrecard sites with the widget at the top of the site. This way you can drop 250 Entrecards in just 20 minutes instead of spending hours. I even got a few minutes to spare so I have time to find new exciting blogs to add to my RSS reader.

If you’re an Entrecard member, but haven’t checked out Powerdropping.com yet: Check it out now!

If you’re a blogger, but haven’t joined Entrecard yet: Do it! Visit Entrecard.com here.

Site of the month sites
Do you know of a good quality web site or blog that should be mentioned as Site of the month in this blog? Contact me and we’ll see if I also think the site is useful

This months Site of the Month site is a really useful service for all bloggers, everyone with a forum or any other kind of feed people can subscribe to. If you haven’t guessed from the title of this post I’m writing about FeedBurner.com.

FeedBurner.com is mainly used by bloggers who would like to offer their readers a possibility to subscribe to new posts in a feed reader or via email. The easier for your visitors to subscribe to your blog, the more subscribers you will get, the more readers you will get, the more money you will earn . If you ask me FeedBurner.com is doing a good job at letting your visitors subscribe to your blog, just have a look at the link and the form to the left of this post.

For blog owners FeedBurner.com offers a lot of fantastic services like statistics, animated banners with your headlines and many more cool features. The stats can be displayed in many different ways like this picture for example:

You can also get a small button that show your visitors how many subscribers you got:

Some time ago Google acquired FeedBurner.com, but I don’t think that will be any negative at all. Since the Google take over we’ve seen a few new features like AdSense integration in your feed so you can earn even more money from your blog and I think we will see many more cool features in the near future

Check out FeedBurner.com your too.

/Andreas

I have just found an amazing way to promote your blog and to find new cool blogs to read. It’s called EntreCard and it’s a web 2.0 business card in cyberspace

In our blog at blog.xaviermedia.com you’ll find two videos explaining how it all works. One of the many good things with this service is that you don’t have to pay anything: It’s free!

To join Entrecards you too, simply visit our blog at blog.xaviermedia.com and click on the Entrecard logo Yes, it’s that easy!

Another cool thing with Entrecards is that you can setup advertising campaigns to promote your own blog in blogs similar to yours All you have to pay for the ads are a few credits you’ve earned while reading interesting blogs.

/Andreas

Site of the month for October is v7n.com, a webmaster community with tons of fun stuff for all webmasters. They also got a good forum at www.v7n.com/forums/. What I really like about the forum is that you can add your blog feed so that the title of your latest blog post show up under your avatar when you post in the forum. That way you get some more readers for your blog

Check it out, you will like it

/Andreas