[Workguy]

I’ve been with this site ever since December but I haven’t figure it out how can I use it to my advantage on blogging. I tried to submit my article but, I don’t’ know how to.
Anyone here who can help me?

Thanks in advance!

[puravida]

Workguy, on Jan 25 2008, 12:14 AM, said:

I’ve been with this site ever since December but I haven’t figure it out how can I use it to my advantage on blogging. I tried to submit my article but, I don’t’ know how to.
Anyone here who can help me?

Thanks in advance!

Did you install their toolbar?

If not, they don't make it easy. You would have to know exactly what to type into the address bar OR you would have to install a customized StumbleUpon button on your blog itself --which is a good idea anyway.

So, I recommend to install the toolbar, if you haven't already. Once that's done, you visit the page to submit and click on 'I like it!' ...since you will probably be the first one to "discover" your page, it will ask you to enter in a title, description, and some tags.

Cheers,

Brandon

[Geenie]

Puravida gave some good advice.

First - install the toolbar. It isn't occupying too much space and it shouldn't bother you..

Then, after you are on our own site click the "thumbs up" icon on your toolbar (it says "I like it!"..
then you wait..

It hasn't really worked for me. It has it's own RSS features, meaning every article i write is already present on Stumble Upon, but i get no visits. Others get a lot of visits from SU.. i can't really explain how :D

[puravida]

Geenie, on Jan 25 2008, 05:11 PM, said:

It hasn't really worked for me. It has it's own RSS features, meaning every article i write is already present on Stumble Upon, but i get no visits. Others get a lot of visits from SU.. i can't really explain how :D

Put simply, it's all about the quality of your stumbles, the number of your stumbles, the concentration of your stumbles, and how many fans vs. friends you have.

So, if your likes/dislikes are roughly inline with everyone else's, then your "quality" score will probably go up. However, there has to be allowances for different people having different opinions, but in general, if you like something that everyone else hates, it's should be a red flag.

The number of stumbles shows how active you are and how much you have "given back" to the community. If you don't stumble (something I'm bad about having time to do), then your own stumbles aren't quite so important.

If most of your stumbles are for the same site, then they will dilute your "quality score" and hinder your ability to see traffic to any submitted pages.

Then, if you are being social and have fans/friends, then you become more "respected" and your "quality score goes up" a little bit. Think of a friend as a reciprocal link and a fan as an one-way inbound link.

When I first began submitting to StumbleUpon, I got very little traffic but I do have several fans due to my content/stumbles and now I get about 350-400 visitors each time I submit something of mine (or someone else's, I would guess).

It takes time and requires being social --the point of the site.

Sincerely,

Brandon
p.s. But keep in mind that eBay bought this company and they appear to be running it into the ground. If they don't start caring about StumbleUpon, it will become a $75 million dollar write-off

[Workguy]

puravida, on Jan 25 2008, 03:27 PM, said:

Did you install their toolbar?

If not, they don't make it easy. You would have to know exactly what to type into the address bar OR you would have to install a customized StumbleUpon button on your blog itself --which is a good idea anyway.

So, I recommend to install the toolbar, if you haven't already. Once that's done, you visit the page to submit and click on 'I like it!' ...since you will probably be the first one to "discover" your page, it will ask you to enter in a title, description, and some tags.

Cheers,

Brandon

I already installed their toolbar but I was force to reformat my hard drive because of Spy ware. I think that I will download it again and this time I will try to submit my article using the toolbar.
Thanks for helping me out!

[netguy]

The toolbar installation kinda put me off to before since I just don't like installing a lot of things on my PC. The system is now more complicated since the last time I used it (montsh ago), but still you can get a nice stumble from time to time

[Showerofmoneydotcom]

You can get good exposure if you submit your website to any bookmarking website.If you get more stumble upon,you will get more traffic.

[ThatAwesome1]

Yeah, it's smart if you submit your website/blog to as MANY of those sites as you can (Reddit, Digg, etc...), because there will be an increased chance that someone will view your website.