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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I was websurfing today and came across this page, where dreamcore has had the wonderful idea of turning the basic StumbleUpon icons into buttons that you can add to your Bookmarks (or Favorites). Simply drag each button that you [...]

I love reading all the different blogs about using StumbleUpon. By and large, most of them are written by business bloggers, people who hope to, or are already making a living by blogging. Some of these business people LOVE StumbleUpon. They think it’s the best thing since white bread. Others say they can’t see what the fuss is about. They’re getting the hits, but that’s it.

I’ve been using Adblock for so long that I don’t even think about it anymore. In fact, the only reason I’m talking about it now is that I’ve been studying the various types of web ads for a project I’m working on. So, I started talking to some friends who use Adsense and various other types of insta-ads on their sites.

While I was talking to them, I discovered something. Several were getting StumbleUpon traffic, but very little of the traffic was turning into sales. It wasn’t until one friend asked me to look at his site and tell me what I thought, that I started to realize what the problem was. I couldn’t see an ad on the whole site. Not one. Checking back over the other sites, I noticed the same “problem.” No ads.