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Socialize Me! WordPress Plugin helps your blog interact with leading social networks

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

With the proliferation of social media networks, blogs have become only one tool in creating our online identity. The question is: how do we integrate all of the facets of our online identity so that we can actually have a life too? blah blah tech’s Socialize Me WordPress plugin is another step in this direction.

The Socialize Me WordPress plugin gives you another way to interact with visitors to your site who have come via other social networks:

Imagine one of your articles has been submitted to StumbleUpon. You’re getting a steady stream of visitors to your ‘blog. You could really connect with some of these guys — if you knew who they were.

Well here’s the thing, with Socialize Me! those visitors to your ‘blog will see a simple message when they arrive: “Hi, thanks for the visit! [I'm] on StumbleUpon, too!” with a link to your profile.

With the Socialize Me! Plugin for WordPress you can connect with people on services like: StumbleUpon, Facebook, Digg, Delicious, Pownce, Twitter, Bebo, MySpace and many, many more.

StumbleUpon is a great example of how the plugin can be used, since StumbleUpon can be a pretty good source of traffic, but the visitors are always unknown, and seem to just pass on through. This plugin can hopefully create a stronger connection with them and get them to stick around.

WordPress Plugin: Socialize Me!

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StumbleUpon: the search for meaning continues

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

As I mentioned in a previous post, StumbleUpon can be a sudden source of massive traffic to your blog. But how it works is a mystery to me.

Today I came across Dosh Dosh’s Comprehensive Guide to StumbleUpon. This guide helps to clarify some of the ways in which StumbleUpon works, but I am still mystified about a few things:

  1. There is a page on StumbleUpon that allows you to search for reviews of your site. First of all, why is this page impossible to find? It should be easier to find than having to read an external guide to StumbleUpon to discover it exists. Second, I am getting traffic from StumbleUpon, yet when I searched for my URL on that page, nothing came up! Explain that one.
  2. When I log in to StumbleUpon and do a search, I only get 10 results. Why? Where are the rest of the pages? Are these the top rated posts?
  3. Some searches result in a page of tags. Is it because there are no results?

So StumbleUpon is still a mystery, but I feel like we’re getting closer to the answers…

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StumbleUpon can bring you serious traffic

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

Take StumbleUpon seriously. It can bring you serious traffic.

A few days ago I wrote a post about protecting your WordPress site. It was, in my opinion, an average post. Well, someone out there must have thought it was something spectacular, because since then every few days the traffic to this blog spikes like crazy thanks to StumbleUpon! I’ve never seen anything like it before.

I still don’t get how StumbleUpon works. I mean, I know that you can “Stumble” pages on the web. But then what? Why is that particular post so popular? How are people finding it in StumbleUpon? Can I find out who Stumbled it and when? And why does the traffic spike every few days - what happens on those days that causes the spikes?

It’s all a mystery to me. But in the meantime I do understand one thing - StumbleUpon can be a serious source of traffic!

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