Well it’s not often that I am really excited about a a new web service release but I really am about the SU.PR beta having seen Tim Ferriss from Four Hour Work Week introduce it on his blog a couple of days ago.
Stumbleupon has been amazing for driving traffic to people’s blogs, including my own, but unfortunately it has been hit and miss as to whether you get listed in the directory. This relied on people reviewing your site as you were not meant to submit your own. This new service allows you to auto publish your blog url’s along with a message to the Stumbleupon service. The URL is shortened and then the message and URL published directly to Twitter and Face Book.
It’s about 1.00 am here so I’ll come back later to explain why this will drive traffic, but seriously have a look at Tim’s cool intro above.
Unfortunately the service wasn’t automated so I made a WordPress Plugin
What I wanted was an easy way to publish my posts from WordPress, and as a plug-in didn’t exist, I wrote my own. I have published it, so it is now freely available and I will refine it over time.
If you want to drive web site traffic from Stumbleupon you can use this wordpress plugin for free. There is an video going on vimeo to explain soon. Sorry the one I just uploaded is not playing.
