Sturvs has just broken through the 200,000 mark on Alexa. Sturvs’ traffic rank is currently 175,050 in the whole world and 191 in Nigeria. This means Sturvs is now in the top 200,000 most visited websites in the world and in the 200 most visited websites in Nigeria. It’s good progress but isn’t good enough. We plan to do better than this, so please watch us from now till the end of the year and see what progress we make.

We know Alexa acts like it’s on crack sometimes but this is still a good estimate of how much traffic we get. The graphs don’t correspond to our site statistics at all.

You might be asking, “what’s my business?” or “how does this affect me?” Well, if you have anything you want to market or promote, this means Sturvs can help you expose it to 1000+ daily Nigerian visitors. Any link that makes it to the Sturvs home page gets guaranteed traffic for approximately 1 week before it falls to page 2.

Update

Sturvs breaks through the 100,000 mark on Alexa in July 2008.

Google gave Sturvs a very appropriate birthday gift sometime between yesterday and today by assigning Sitelinks. http://www.google.com/search?q=sturvs

Sturvs is one year old today. Sturvs.com was first launched on Sunday the 13th of May 2007 and has made quite a bit of progress over the last year. The website has undergone several feature upgrades and server upgrades, and is also ready for the next lap of additions lined up for the rest of the year 2008.

We also appreciate all the site visitors & users for their continued support. Sturvs will be nothing without our current 1000+ daily visitors and 400+ daily returning users. We will also keep working hard to improve the website experience for our users.

Here is a summary of our achievements over the last year:

• Sturvs Facebook Application
• MP3 uploads
• Addition of Nigerian Games (Ludo & Ayo) - Please note that these were not developed by us, but were existing free games online.
• MP3 Player of all uploaded MP3s
• Social bookmarking service & web tools
• Increase from 1 daily visitor to 1000 daily visitors (Update 07/2008 now 1700 daily visitors)

Finally, I’d like to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY STURVS!!!

The server upgrades that have been going on for over a week now have been completed. This will give users faster page loads and better streaming quality when listening to music. Users with slow internet connections can also access the website without difficulty now.

Sturvs has launched Website Tools you can use to promote your blog or website. These tools will make it easier for your content to reach the Sturvs audience and the rest of the world.

1. Sturvs Vote Button
   
   This button when placed on any web page displays the current number of votes the associated article has on Sturvs and a link for users to vote for the article from your website. If the article hasn’t been added to Sturvs yet, then a “Sturv It” link will be displayed which will submit the aricle to Sturvs when clicked.For a page which will have only one article and only one button use this code:

   <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.sturvs.com/button"></script>

   An example of this can be found here.

   For a page which will have more than one article and more than one button on it (e.g a blog’s home, category or archive pages) use this code:

   <script type="text/javascript">
submit_url = 'ARTICLE_URL';
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.sturvs.com/button"></script>

   An example of this can be found here.

   ARTICLE_URL is the url or permalink of the article that particular button belongs to. The equivalent codes for this on popular blogging platforms are:

   1. Blogger
      <$BlogItemPermalinkUrl$>
   2. Wordpress
      <?php the_permalink() ?>
   3. Typepad
      <$MTEntryPermalink$>
2. Sturvs Bookmarklet
   This is a tony bookmarklet to allow people to submit your blog posts or articles to Sturvs if you don’t need to show the number of votes your article has or you just want something small.

   <a href="http://www.sturvs.com/submit?url=ARTICLE_URL"><img src="http://www.sturvs.com/images/sturvs.png" alt="Sturvs Bookmarklet" width="16" height="16" border="0" /></a>

   ARTICLE_URL is described above.

3. Custom Link
   If you want to create your own custom link to allow your users to submit your articles to Sturvs or vote for existing articles, just give the link the url:

   http://www.sturvs.com/submit?url=ARTICLE_URL

4. Automatic Import
   Click here to apply to have your latest blog or website content imported automatically into Sturvs. Please put the folowing information in the contact form message:

   Regarding: Automatic Import

   Message:
   Blog/website url
   Sturvs Username (you have to be registered to use this feature)
   Category (based on Sturvs categories)

   Or you could just email the above information to imports.at.sturvs.com (not trade imports).