What I’ve Learned About StumbleUpon

I love StumbleUpon. SU a great way to find new sites and photos, one of my favorite free-time activities. So as you might imagine, I’ve used it a ton in 2007—over 4,500 thumbs up, many thumbs down and hundreds of reviews.

With the great power StumbleUpon holds, it has played an important role in getting impNERD’s feet off the ground. One article alone received over 20,000 unique SU visitors and is still receiving more daily.

As a result, I have learned much about StumbleUpon over the past year

  • Stumblers love photographs – both the category and in user blogs.
  • The buzz pages aren’t used often.
  • The more fans and stumbles you have the more people will view a page you stumble.
  • Stumblers do subscribe to RSS feeds, usually from the address bar and not by clicking on-page graphics.
  • Tags (keywords) matter. The more general the better.
  • One article gone hot will give you more fans than visiting and rating users pages.
  • Saying “thank you” for a stumble will likely result in longer stays and the likelyhood of them doing so again.

Add to Del.cio.us RSS Feed Add to Technorati Favorites Stumble It!
   www.sajithmr.com

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Written: Jan 25, 2008
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9 Comments »

Comment by no imageJustin (Who am I?)
2008-01-26 19:15:50

Nice tips. Due to SU I can get about 300+ views per day.

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Comment by no imageMegan (Who am I?)
2008-01-28 03:20:14

I love stumbleupon. I am an avid stumbler, in fact I get addicted to the trend. I love to read post on stumbles. As I agree it is a great way to have others view your site, blog and great way to meet new people it is also a fantastic education tool. Many entrepreneurs, and bloggers offer real marketing solutions and lessons in general life that we can walk away with.

Thanks for this post. It will be a return site

MEGAN

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Comment by no imagetom (Who am I?)
2008-01-28 08:42:05

It’s addictive, but it is certainly worth it.

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Comment by no imageBas (Who am I?)
2008-01-31 18:20:25

Nice obervations.

A thumb up! ;-)

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Comment by no imageGriffin (Who am I?)
2008-02-01 15:22:10

Yes, most of the posts on my blog end up with about 1000 views on stumbleupon but we once got over 70,000 views on a single page over a month and it is still the most hit producing page.
(I have about 30 fans and over 5000 likes)

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Comment by no imagehans rosielle (Who am I?)
2008-02-01 20:48:15

It is mind boggling how SU and blogs can create an enormous amount of traffic. Ad to that the availability of interesting subjects, youwould never have thought of. Just great!!

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Comment by no imagejay1971jay (Who am I?)
2008-02-02 13:35:12

Im addicted to SU to be honest, take a look at my page and let me know what you think (im sure you guys will like) http://jay1971jay.stumbleupon.com/ If you like then add yourself as a friend and let me know and I’ll look at ur page and do the same back.

Does anyone know how Delicious works; ie, What is it good for please?

Goodluck all and Stumble awayyyy!!

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Comment by no imageRhonda (Who am I?)
2008-04-23 00:09:46

I am new to StmbleUpon and my experience with using the last tip (to say thank you) has resulted in repeat visitors and reviews.

My profile on StumbleUpon is:

http://inspirationforch.stumbleupon.com/

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Comment by no imagerevenue (Who am I?)
2008-07-13 07:33:15

I use Stumble Too, it quite give me some traffic, and it shows quick in google for the pages i have stumble, also they have a plugin for firefox so it make easy for me to stumble a page i like :)

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