There’s no lie, people like cars

A few days ago, before I came down with a horrible illness placing me in bed—albeit waking up every 45 minutes—from Friday to Monday evening, I posted a piece about an amazingly stylish Ferrari I stumbled across. I have an affinity for pretty-looking cars, and I like to share this appreciation. I think great design transcends any medium, and anyone should be able to appreciate any form of great design. That’s when you know it’s great.

Anyways, here’s what’s important: That entry, as simple as it is, brought my blog just shy of 10,000 visits, which translated into 16,000 page views. That’s heavy stuff, considering my blog had been getting barely 100 visits a day, purely thanks to this Nike image from the old version of my blog which is highly-linked. Problem is I edited the image to include my URL and it has been moved from its #1 spot to who knows where for image-search keywords like “nike slogan” or “nike just do it.” Woe is me.

Okay, so I obviously did something to drive this traffic, right? Absolutely I did: StumbleUpon. We all know what it is by now, and if you don’t, click the “SU” icon below my blog post to learn more. I submitted my post to the site under the car and design categories, and when I woke up the next morning, there was 4,000 visits to the page. That’s incredible, considering my blog is a born-again newbie on the web with zero real back-links. Moral of the story? Use StumbleUpon [with moderation].

Thanks to Dave and Thomas for the link love. Here’s a little link-action for ya’ guys.

Do you think StumbleUpon is worth the effort? Got any other great social applications to share your blogs on?

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