August 27th, 2007 admin
As I mentioned in a previous post, the number of fans you have in your profile plays a crucial role in getting more exposure for your new story, and no matter why you are using Stumbleupon, getting more exposure for your story should be one of your goals.
So more exposure for your profile page has two benefits:
1- People may add you to their friend list and eventually that will help you to get more traffic for your stories.
2- Your favorites will have more exposure which means more traffic for your story.
Before telling you the trick I need to tell you a reality; the buzz page of Stumbleupon gets the highest traffic on the website, the reason behind that is very simple : “Each stumbler has a direct button to the buzz page through his own profile”
If you checked this page carefully you will see a clickable avatar beside each of the top stories, and if you look inside the story’s page you will find that this avatar doesn’t belong necessarily to the story discoverer, if you carefully review those avatars and match them with the story page you will find that this avatar belongs to one of those written a reviesion on the story page (not just stumble the story).
The question now is how does stumble decide which avatar to have beside each story between those written a reveiosn .. As mentioned before you need to write a revision about the story, but the second important factor is to have a long reveision
So go to the buzz page and write a reveisio, try to make it as long as possible with less spam, taking in account that stumbleupon has a button to evaluate each review.
I hope guys you will use this trick to add more value to Stumbleupon not to increase the spam load on Stumbleupon
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August 8th, 2007 admin
Who is the most popular Stumbler? The most popular stumbler is simply the one that has the largest number of fans. While I’m browsing profiles, I find some stumblers with over one thousand fans and others with over two thousand. I will list some profiles that I think are the most poplar stumblers
1- http://etcetera.stumbleupon.com/ 5023 Fans
2- http://caile-girl.stumbleupon.com/ 3172
3- http://nacmacfeagle.stumbleupon.com/ 3152
4- http://blondieluvsthis.stumbleupon.com/ 2565
5- http://fna.stumbleupon.com/ 2544
6- http://fenix.stumbleupon.com/ 2303
7 - http://gmc.stumbleupon.com/ 2273
8- http://bonbell.stumbleupon.com/ 2227
9 - http://klassy.stumbleupon.com/ 2015
10- http://starspirit.stumbleupon.com/ 1853
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http://clovia.stumbleupon.com/ 1760
http://yola.stumbleupon.com/ 1741
http://blessedone.stumbleupon.com/ 1531
http://anitabath.stumbleupon.com/ 1536
http://pepsea.stumbleupon.com/ 1027
I am sure that I may have missed some good stumblers, so please feel free to use the comment box to add to my list.
If you are one of the most popular stumblers, I would be more than happy to have you as a guest in my blog to write about your success with Stumbleupon.
Stumble it!
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August 7th, 2007 admin
The first question may be should be how can your website get traffic from Stumbleupon, the first step for that is to be stumbled (thumbs up) by a member, but is that enough ? let me tell you where is the possibilities for your website to get traffic from stumble and then we can discuss how to increase this traffic
- The best way to get massive traffic from stumble upon it to make it to the buzz page http://buzz.stumbleupon.com/ this page enjoy a lot of traffic since it has a direct button from each member page, so being their means getting a lot of visitors. There are many factors to be on this page, but the most important of them is getting big thumbs up from the stumblers (the history of the stumblers play role in that – How much time they have been stumbling, number of websites in their favorite)
- What is new tab: each member has a tab called “What’s new”, this tab shows the latest stumbled website by your friend, so even if you couldn’t make it to the buzz page you still have a chance to get some traffic through this page in the first 24 hours
- People browsing your page/favorite/blog may be getting to them using their friends profile, or Stumbleupon directory or search etc.
- The search box in stumble upon drives good traffic, so make sure always that you are using the proper tags.
So number 1-2-3 which are the massive source of traffic are totally depends on the number of friends those you have on your profile, and amount of popularity that you have in this community.
Just to let you know, you can’t have more than 200 friends with stumble upon (friends mean people those you added them to your friend list from your page), but you can get unlimited number of fans (fans are people those added you as a friend but you didn’t reciprocate)
So the question now how can I make fans/friends in Stumbleupon, unlike www.myspace.com where there are many software help you to that, it is not the same in Stumbleupon, you need to work for it, and as I don’t have a huge number of fans/friends, so I will try to have a super stumblers with thousands of fans blog about that very soon, so stay tuned
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August 4th, 2007 admin
Stumble Upon has changed the look/functions/metrics for the personal pages today, in a first glance you will feel more comfortable with this new page, more information on the same page, you will not need a lot of navigation to get the information those you need.
The sponsored icon has been change to another one (shield)
Now you can know the gender of your friend through their avatar even if you don’t have custom one:
Let me stop telling you more and let you find out more about the new page, I hope you will enjoy it like me
Here is my page, I would like to have you on it as a friend .. please feel free to add me
http://thewis.stumbleupon.com/
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August 2nd, 2007 admin
I think anybody reading blogs these days has notices that most bloggers have social bookmark button installed, I will try to cover the most popular plugin/buttons those do that.
I will start with www.addthis.com social bookmark button since it has stumbleupon button included beside many other popular social media websites .. I would go for this cause it is risk free one on your blog, you will not need to install it as a separate plug in, it is simply doing some changes to your theme files and that is it (they offer now a plug in for word press you can download it here http://s3.addthis.com/plugins/wordpress/v10/addthis_social_widget.zip and here is the dropdown version http://s3.addthis.com/plugins/wordpress/v12/addthis_social_widget_drop.zip )
First thing you need to do is sign up an account with www.addthis.com when you finish login to your account and then go to “Get the code for your widget!”
Which kind of widget? Bookmarking weidget
Which wedget ? it is up to you but I would go with the second one
Where ? on blog
Blogging platform ? Wordpress
Want Stats ? I would say yes
Then press get your wedget
You will have two choices but I would go for Blog Post Button .. that’s will make your visitors able to tag each blog separately
If you want to include the button below each post, simply copy-and-paste the code below into the ‘Main Index Template’ template, right before the end of the ‘< div class=”entry”>’ tag. Then save the changes.
If you have not set your file permissions to 666 for your themes file, simply download the index.php file from your main theme directory and do your changes using any text editor
Stumble it!
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August 2nd, 2007 admin
Stumbleupon is more than social bookmarking website but to make it easier for you as non Stumbler to understand what does really Stumbleupon is, let us explain it
1- As a social bookmarking website. If you have already used www.digg.com or www.reddit.com you will stumbleupoin social book marketing section here:
http://buzz.stumbleupon.com/
Basically, nothing much different at the first glance, a list of news sorted by reviews and time and many other factors. But I like their tags cloud to the right it is really handy and makes navigation much easier upon the visitor interest
2- Stumbleupon also has other www.myspace.com type features where you can associate your account with other “friends” via the stumbleupon.com site. This allows you to see updates they make to their webpage, you can see also what they are stumpling.
3- Stumbleupon toolbar is may be what makes Stumbleupon really different form other social bookmarking website, stumbleupon users have the ability to give websites a thumbs up or a thumbs down as they surf the internet.
Stumbleupon.com tracks the votes and then uses that information later when a user clicks on a stumble button on that same toolbar, stumble also This will take them to random webpages that other users have given a thumbs ups for.
The stumble button in Stumble toolbar doesn’t actually randomly take you to a webpage, it uses:
- The preference in your profiles especially your interests
- The interests of your friends
- What kind of websites your are stumbling (tags are important)
- The behavior of your friends will play a role in what page Stumbleupon will take you the next time you click the stumble button in the tool bar
Stumble it!
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My StumbleUpon Page
