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25
Jul 10
I used to get a lot of traffic from StumbleUpon (15-30K a day) until something happened on Jul 14th 2010. All this random traffic went down and became a completely straight line with ~1600 visitors/day. It’s just so not like StumbleUpon! How can this absolutely varying traffic coming from SU become so fixed? Did they just impose some kind of traffic ceilings?
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Maybe it’s just a coincidence – but very unbelievable one, already lasting for 10 days.
When I tried contacting their support – I’ve learned that they use a random email generator to answer any question (which doesn’t involve reading my messages), however they never forget to tell me that I should “explore StumbleUpon Ads service”. Sounds like someone has a new business plan!
Have you experienced anything like that too?
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25
Jul 10
I’ve just learned that StumbleUpon support team uses a very powerful email answering technology – it’s a random text generator. To look more human-like they even include your name in the text. Not only they can answer any question, but they do it very quickly (I believe this unique technology doesn’t involve reading your message). And what’s best about this original technology is that after sending 2 answers – the one who questioned just looses any will to ask anything more. It so cost effective when you think of it!
P.S.: I’ll write about the problem I’m having with StumbleUpon in the next post, and maybe even cite my conversation with SU support
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09
Feb 10
I have seen lots of awfully looking websites, which have better content than some of my sites, but when I look at their PR – I’m always ahead.
The thing is, that people don’t like linking to a mess. Linking to a site with a messy design = making your own site less trusty.
Learn the basics of composition and then apply your knowledge to your sites – it must be the most underrated and overlooked SEO technique ever.
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31
Jan 10
Woohoo! I finally got rid of ~100 html code errors and validated my main project – boredpanda.com.
Wait, what does validation mean?
Well, this means that a site is error free and built in accordance with Web standards. It also provides one of the most reliable guarantee that future Web platforms will handle it as designed.
You can check your site here: http://validator.w3.org/
Why you should validate? Read here.
P.S. some inner pages are not validated because of one of WP plugins.
