Tim O'Shea's Blog » twitter http://www.timoshea.co.uk Tim O'Shea's Blog - Helping web businesses become successful and sustainable Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:21:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How To Get More Stumbleupon Traffic Using Su.pr & Twitter http://www.timoshea.co.uk/marketing/how-to-get-more-stumbleupon-traffic-using-su-pr-twitter/ http://www.timoshea.co.uk/marketing/how-to-get-more-stumbleupon-traffic-using-su-pr-twitter/#comments Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:42:49 +0000 Tim http://www.timoshea.co.uk/?p=460 Su.pr (pronounced “super”) is a clever new service by Stumbleupon merging URL shortening functionality with Twitter and Facebook status updates to generate stumbles and hence traffic. It is currently in Beta, sign up codes can be found on Twitter @stumbleupon. The interface is clear, easy and simple to use, definitely a well crafted piece of work.

Su.pr home screen


I’ve used the service and it works really well. The benefits are:

- Post links direct to Twitter and Facebook status updates from Su.pr
- Get analytics data about these posts including optimum posting times for future posts
- The URL shortening service frames the page and put other popular content from your site alongside
- Get stumble opportunities from Tweets or Facebook updates
- SEO friendly and personal site URL shortening options (eg. http://yourdomain.com/a8kjk)

Unlike the Digg URL shortening where the benefit is only achieved if you get enough Diggs to reach the front page, Stumbleupon shorteners encourage stumbles, and a smaller number of stumbles equates to traffic from Stumbleupon.

The URL redirected page:

I’ve always been a fan of Stumbleupon although they are commonly forgotten as a social network. Su.pr should bring it back to the limelight. Using it for simple status updates on your blog via Twitter and Facebook will definately help the best content get more traffic, without any extra work.

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