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By far, one of the coolest ways to explore the internet these days is StumbleUpon.

From Wikipedia:

StumbleUpon is an Internet community that allows its users to discover and rate Web pages, photos, and videos. It is a personalized recommendation engine which uses peer and social-networking principles.

Web pages are presented when the user clicks the “Stumble!” button on the browser’s toolbar. StumbleUpon chooses which Web page to display based on the user’s ratings of previous pages, ratings by his/her friends, and by the ratings of users with similar interests. Users can rate or choose not to rate any Web page with a thumbs up or thumbs down, and clicking the Stumble button resembles “channel-surfing” the Web. StumbleUpon also allows their users to indicate their interests from a list of nearly 500 topics to produce relevant content for the user. There is also one-click blogging built in as well.

Help other users ‘stumble‘ to backpage, and your ads, by giving us a thumbs-up. Click here to submit us to StumbleUpon!

2010 has gotten off to a great start! We’ve set new records for ad postings and traffic. Alexa seems to be the most reliable and accurate public reporting site recording our increases in traffic.

The bottom line: we continue to deliver more response for your postings each and every week.

Graph representing Backpage's substantial traffic increases courtesy Alexa.com

I’m proud to announce that we’ve finally crossed the 400 site threshold. Backpage.com is now available to users from New York to Los Angeles, Tijuana to Toronto, Washington D.C. to Washington State, Hawaii to Nova Scotia, the deserts of the Southwest to the marshes of the Southeast and everything in between.

We’re not stopping there, though. We already have hundreds of more sites planned, including more international sites! It’s a big world out there, so we still have a long way to go. Try telling me that you can’t get rid of that piece of crap couch now, pal.

Stay tuned and, of course, feel free to let me know where you’d like to see the next Backpage site pop up!

- Carl