Yesterday I noticed a bunch of visits from StumbleUpon.com. Weird because I had never gotten any before. Then all the sudden about 30 visits in the last 24 hours.
I checked the referring link and it was from someone who bookmarked me and people were checking out his bookmark. Simple as that.
So I signed up for a StumbleUpon account and started bookmarking some stuff myself.
Now more traffic is coming in from people “stumbling” upon my site.
Pretty good for about 20 minutes worth of checking my stats, tracking the referrer, and getting involved.
AnooX.com
Once in awhile I check to see what’s going on in the paid link directories. Many of them aren’t worth dealing with if they don’t have real visitors using them to find stuff.
AnooX caught my eye because they have recently added a twist to the tired old “list yourself in our directory” thing.
They now have a system where readers can rate the links they find. This adds the social, interactive element people are starting to see pop up all over the place, and it lends a lot of respect and credibility to the engine because it is user-rated content.
The engines will like them more for it, send them more traffic, and trickle some of that traffic to you and me by being listed and rated highly.