Category: Stumbleupon

Getting Traffic from StumbleUpon: Tips

David Cowling | August 8, 2011 | Comments (1)

StumbleUpon is the most popular Social Bookmarking website in Australia and over the years many webmasters have claimed to get lots of traffic from the site. Similar in ways to Digg and Reddit, users vote up and down articles and content they find interesting. The more Up votes you get, the more prominent your content [...]

Digg stops publishers posting content via RSS

David Cowling | February 14, 2011 | Comments (0)

Social Bookmarking service, Digg, has banned publishers and users from submitting their content via RSS. It is believe alot of spammers were using the RSS feature to post their content onto Digg, and in return was a drain on Digg’s resources to remove unsuitable/irrelevant content. Since Digg updated their site last year they have seen [...]

StumbleUpon Launches iPhone and Android Applications

David Cowling | October 3, 2010 | Comments (0)

StumbleUpon has launched iPhone and Android Applications so users are now able to ‘stumble’ content for them mobile devices. The application lets you: – Easily explore pages in your favorite topics and on top sites (Flickr, YouTube, Photos, News). – The pages you bookmark from your phone are automatically synced with your StumbleUpon account on [...]

Ultimate Social Media Demographic Statistics

David Cowling | June 12, 2010 | Comments (0)

I have found some very interesting data showing the demographical statistics of several social media sites including: Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Digg,Reddit, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Ning. The below infograph shows demographic data across these sites measuring: user age, gender, income level, and education level. Each dot on the graph represents 1% One area i have noticed [...]

StumbleUpon user numbers, Infograph

David Cowling | June 4, 2010 | Comments (0)

StumbleUpon is a social bookmarking site that allows users and publishers to submit their content and stories to the site for others to view and share. In terms of traffic coming from a social media site to external sites, StumbleUpon is ranked number 1 in the US and many other countries. See the below infograph [...]

StumbleUpon signs up 10 Million users

David Cowling | May 20, 2010 | Comments (0)

Yesterday StumbleUpon signed up its 10 Millionth user to their site. StumbleUpon was purchased by eBay in 2007, but then was purchased by independent investors a little while later. In April 2008 they had reached 5 million users, now a little over a year later have hit 10 million. StumbleUpon key facts: – 118% growth [...]

Social Media stats courtesy of Smash summit

David Cowling | May 13, 2010 | Comments (0)

Smash Summit was on yesterday, 12/5 in San Francisco- USA. The event discussed various social media marketing strategies, tools, campaigns and statistics used by online companies to find and retain customers on social, search, and mobile. While not directly related to Australian Social Media there have been some great stats worth noting. – Twitter has [...]