A Marketing Addiction

StumbleUpon is by far one of the most addictive social bookmarking websites I have ever fell pray to. Even one accidental click of the stumble button and it's all over but the clicking.

We have to be able to learn something about our businesses through StumbleUpon, but what? Here are some ways you can use StumbleUpon to help better understand what your market really wants.

1) Website Research

What are the most popular, interesting and informative websites

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Josh

I just came across a great post for all web designers. (This is for everyone from the extreme newbie to the seasoned pro)

If you are marketing online, these are just a few things that you need to absolutely make sure you avoid.

13 Ways To Generate Customer Hate | Internet Marketing Strategy: Conversation Marketing

My Favorites

#1. The Flash Intro (Even Google Hates These!)
#5. Animated Buttons
#13. See it and it will make sense.

Josh

Can Google users find my website?

So you just created, or had a website created and you want to know if Google searchers can find it. What would the point of having a website be if you don't have any viewers?

Well the only way Google searchers will find your website is if your website is listed in Google's search index. So let's cut to the chase and find out if any of our web pages are included in Google's index.

Here is what you do:

1) Go to Google
2)

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Josh

Social Network Traffic

So I was stumbling through some websites (can you tell this post may be a little bit biased? ) and I stumbled across: Social Networking: Digg vs. StumbleUpon | Best Rank Blog

DIGG

I find that the results are very similar for my own websites. Digg users tend to leave almost immediately (within 12 seconds), and rarely visit other pages on the site. (Though there is usually more discussion about my pages within the Digg network)

StumbleUpon...

Josh