This is going to be quick. Two sites have been suggested to me for some simple promotions. I’m testing both out to see how it goes.
The first is Reddit, which allows you to post a link to the site. Being new, I’ve had to wait for about 10-15 minutes between posts. That’s a downside, but it’s supposed to get easier the more attention I get. At least that’s what the message says. You may notice that there is a Reddit button at the bottom of some posts. You can click on this and send the post to your Reddit account. I need to remember to do this. So far, I’ve posted some book review links to this site and we’ll see what happens. Might take a while to get more on there and it could very well go the way of Pinterest where I barely pay attention to it after setting myself up.
The second is Stumbleupon, which has a button too. This is a lot easier to set up and moves a lot quicker with getting stuff on there. I’ve already posted 2 book reviews and a few of my poem posts on there. No delay and you can dive right in. It’s another site that you can set up and work from other sites without a problem. It’s very picture oriented from what I can see.
At this time, I’m still waiting for Reddit to let me post again, so I’ll go back to it in an hour. I guess you can use this one when you have time and patience. Simple set up, but long waiting time. Be nice if you could connect either of these to your blog for automatic posting like Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and LinkedIn. I can see Stumbleupon being great for this, but they run a NSFW rating system. I guess that explains only have a button.
Add-on: I’m going wild putting stuff on Stumbleupon. It’s really quick to get set up and running. Highly recommended even if it doesn’t bring in a ton of sales. At least it’s exposure on another medium.
2nd Add-on: There is a limit on Stumbleupon. 14 posts a day apparently. Oops.
Legends of Windemere 
Reblogged this on The Ranting Papizilla and commented:
A few more ways to reach Sir Charles! Check it out people!
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Great info. Thanks
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stumble upon is good reddit can be a headache depending what category you are posting in the moderators can get funny with outside links
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I don’t think I’m going to use Reddit much. It’s a pain to get stuff up there in general. How is a new person supposed to make a large portfolio when it keeps telling me to stop posting? I’m not sure if Stumble Upon is good for non-picture links or not.
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I share all my poetry on Stumbleupon, but it doesn’t result in many hits… one or two per post… I used reddit for a while to try to get peer review on my poetry but that only resulted in personal attacks that had nothing to do with the writing So I gave up Reddit…
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I think I’m going to let Reddit fall by the wayside or only post book reviews/interviews on it.
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Thanks for this.
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You’re welcome. Still playing around with them. Well, as best I can because they have posting limits. Stumble Upon is 14 a day and Reddit is 1 an hour or so.
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Stumbleupon seems to take a long time to load each new screen. I’ve just gotten a new computer which has four processors in it and I can’t figure out why it should take so long.>KB
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That’s bizarre. I didn’t have that issue when I was wandering, but one picture did show up pixelated. I thought it was supposed to look like that. Not sure now.
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I found that I had too many screens open. I can actually download, but isn’t it a bit like Tumblr as far as getting hits? Have you gotten any yet for your poetry?
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I put poetry and the reviews for my book up there. I see that I have a whopping . . . nada.
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It’s a lot of work for what the probabilities. At least with /Tumblr you just sign on and it automatically senmds your post. I over a year, I’ve never gotten a hit from there either, but then I don’t have to do anything either.>KB
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I think Stumble Upon would be great for WordPress to hook into like Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook. It is a lot like Tumblr, but I think it connects to the actual website instead of its own post.
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I got a huge jump in views in the hour I was loading.
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Check your stats to see if you got a jump. I did. PPerhaps that’s where it counts in the views on here.>KB
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Not seeing anything. Well, it’s there and that’s all I can do. Same thing happened with Wattpad.
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Stumbleupon has a 15 item link ceiling.>KB But my views must be from only three or four people because my visitors haven’t gone up that much.>KB
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So I can’t go higher than 15 overall or 15 per day?
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per day
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Better than 1 every hour or so. 🙂
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It seems to have leveled off. So much for the honeymoon. Smiles.>KB
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Guess it was a one-night stand. My book sales are leaping up though. Be interesting to see if I can hit 2,000 by midnight/end of my second book’s first month.
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Lucky you. I’m 61 and never had a poem even published. Congrats. I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you.>KB
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Thanks. Self-published, so I’m pushing it on my own.
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I just don’t want to go that route. I’m actually happy with the way the poems look on here.>KB
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That’s all that matters. Happiness is key to life.
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My views and visitoirs are still climbing at an incredible pace, well much better than anticipated for this time of day and fdor me. I don’t have all that many followers. But I’ve gone from 130 visits earlier to over 180 and that’s only since I checked 10 min. ago.>KB
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That’s awesome. I’m still not seeing anything, so I’m wondering if I’m looking in the wrong place.
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Check your WordPress stats.>KB
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Small boost. A few from the search engine term:
“email on “facts about bread” fact or fiction”
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?
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I have no idea. There’s a listing of ‘search engine terms’ that led people to your blog. It doesn’t always make sense.
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Have fun with Reddit. Stumbleupon, I’m still trying to figure that one out. It’s a great site, though.
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I’m having an easier time with Stumbleupon, but I’m just posting stuff to it when it lets me. Reddit is just driving me nuts.
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Isn’t Reddit a bit iffy about self-promotion? This is what I’ve heard, I don’t actually use it myself.
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It’s coming off that way. I think it falls under the ‘every little bit helps’ category.
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Helpful Information on promotional tools.
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I found Reddit very sniffy if I post more than once per week, no matter which category I try to post in.
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It was giving me a lot of trouble, so I haven’t touched it for a few days. Got my book sites on there and walked away.
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