{"id":230,"date":"2011-12-06T14:59:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T22:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/?p=230"},"modified":"2011-12-06T14:59:50","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T22:59:50","slug":"stumbleupon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/stumbleupon\/","title":{"rendered":"StumbleUpon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most\u00a0fun ways of searching the web is through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\">StumbleUpon<\/a>. Create your profile, add a few interests, say photography and the results are spectacular. While I have little time for surfing, in my test I was stunned by the quality of returns. I never would&#8217;ve been able to search out these results in a short time span.<\/p>\n<p>A wonderful aspect is the option of giving a site a thumbs up &#8211; which is a huge help to any website or blogger. You can make a difference for someone&#8217;s work you admire or enjoyed.<\/p>\n<p>How does this help business owners (website owners)? Any social platform like this gives you interaction from website visitors. Anyone visiting your website, and liking it (giving you a thumbs up here)\u00a0has done you a favor by pulling you, in this case, into the StumbleUpon network. A few minutes of your time &#8211; add a badge to your website and you become part of another community.<\/p>\n<p>If your business is a service &#8211; this platform is a very good fit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most\u00a0fun ways of searching the web is through StumbleUpon. Create your profile, add a few interests, say photography and the results are spectacular. While I have little time for surfing, in my test I was stunned by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/stumbleupon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[138,136,137],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-smallbusinesswebsite","tag-search-engine","tag-stumbleupon","tag-thumbs-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}