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By: Stumble Rocks Presentation • Tim Nash UK SEO Blog

Stumble Rocks Presentation • Tim Nash UK SEO Blog — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 10:16:23 +0000

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By: Utah SEO Pro

Utah SEO Pro — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 06:18:42 +0000

Very interesting study. I guess the key take away from this is what we hear time and time again “just create/submit good content”. (and then IM a few of your BEST friends)

By: Interview: Tim Nash On Social Media, Digg, StumbleUpon & His New Membership Site | Search Engine Marketing, Social Media & Web Solutions | Squareoak - New York, NY » Blog Archive

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:25:57 +0000

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By: Tim Nash

Tim Nash — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:27:23 +0000

@jens - While we didn't cover private stumble me stumble you, or incentives direct from posts. But certainly the later would be a quick way to get buried on Digg though might do well on stumbleupon. We only covered a small number of possibilities as we need to use quite a large sample just for 3 methods and a norm. @mebuyan Social begging came from discussions with the rest of the Collective Thoughts team along with several variations which were less printable here.

By: mebuyan

mebuyan — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:06:41 +0000

great analysis. almost about to do “social begging” (what a great term by the way) but i “stumbled upon” this blog. mind if you link you up?

By: Jens P. Berget

Jens P. Berget — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:37:16 +0000

Great post! I think an interesting approach is to ask – what the reader will get in return? What if you tell them that, Digg my post and I will digg yours, Stumble it and I will Stumble yours?

By: StumbleUpon and Digg Begging « Hone Watson Bookmarks

StumbleUpon and Digg Begging « Hone Watson Bookmarks — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:19:23 +0000

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By: Tim Nash

Tim Nash — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 10:10:06 +0000

Hi Mike For Stumbleupon the key is not so much how many stumblers but who stumbled it and when, for very large stumbles the ideal is to get 2-3 thumbs up every few hours to continue to cause the number of stumbles to rise and rise. We did a fairly comprehensive study on Stumbleupon and its results a while ago. However on Digg you are right having 10-15 initial diggers really does help its also a good idea not to promote publicly your Digg till that point, which is why IM did "so well" but it comes at a risk a quickly moving story attracts attention, and so increases the chance of being buried.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 09:59:20 +0000

I believe every good post can become popular on Stumble/Digg with some initial boost. And by initial boost i mean: subscribed by a power user (weighs more on Digg) and a bounch of early stumbles/diggs (7-8 stumbles and 10-15 diggs would be enough). But, if the same story would lack these two start-up points, the chance of it becoming popular would drastically decrease. Don’t you think?

By: Tim Nash

Tim Nash — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 09:13:16 +0000

@ Meg point a post out to your friend is not quite the same thing but the wide scale begging. @Codswallop You have hit the nail on the head, we have tried to minimise any issues by taking as large a sample as we can, and we are very careful when we monitor the results but some posts will just not work, and like wise other posts would be popular regardless of what we did. @floppy thans