If you are looking for an easy way to multiply your friends a hundred-fold, you are in the wrong place. However, if you are looking for a way to increase your friends total and have a good reputation on StumbleUpon, you are in the right place. You will not gain a hundred friends in a day, but you will over a course of several months.
Finding friends on StumbleUpon may seem like a daunting task at first, but once you find out how you’ll see it is one of the easier social networking sites to connect through. Here are 10 steps to take to multiply your friends.
Steps:
- Import contacts from another service. Once you join, you will be able to add friends from another service. You can do this by clicking “Send to” and scroll down to “Import Contacts…” You’ll then be able to import contacts through MSN Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, AOL, LinkedIn, Facebook, your address book, or you can enter an Email manually.
- Be active and Stumble. Many believe that they can join StumbleUpon and automatically become friends with everyone. This isn’t the case. In order to get friends you must be active. Stumble sites, tag them, review them, and add pretty photos to your SU blog (right click photo/click “StumbleUpon PhotoBlog it!”). After you have a significant amount of activity people will flock to your profile.
- Add your fans. You should have at least a few fans following you. Search through them and add those with the same interests as you and have a few hundred pages Stumbled–the more the better.
- Add those who have Stumbled your sites. If you own a website or blog, usually someone who submitted your pages is a good candidate for befriending.
- Add those who consistently enjoy pages you Stumble. If you notice someone consistently enjoying the same pages as you, add them. You’ll be surprised on the amount of friends you’ll find this way.
- “Meet people like you.” Click ‘friends’ within your profile, a list saying “Meet people like you” will be listed on the right side of the page. This list displays Stumblers with similar interests as you using an algorithm. View their profile and if they seem close, add them.
- “People Online Now Near You.” Click the ‘People’ tab within your profile. This displays a list titled, “People Online Now Near You.” Not all of them will have the same interests as you, so search through them and find those who do. Add them.
- “Find People Interested in.” You may have noticed that when you clicked ‘People’ a list on the right side is of your interests. Click a word and a list of “People Who Like” will show along with the featured sites. Here you can sift through your interests for those who have similar tastes as you. Add those who are most like you.
- Add these people with the same interests as you.
- Use the Stumble Stumblers feature. On the toolbar, click “All” and slide down to “Stumblers”. This will let you Stumble through other SU members profiles. Add those with similar interests as you with a good number of pages recently Stumbled and less than 200 mutual friends. Stumblers usually look at those who fan them, if they like what they see they will add you.
Bonus step: Add a link to your StumbleUpon profile on your blog/website or social networking profile.
Did I miss anything? Leave your tips for finding friends in the comments.
Written: Aug 4, 2008
Harish
August 4, 2008 @ 8:26 am
Stumble upon is cool.A blogger must take the advantage of this.
Mr. Javo
August 4, 2008 @ 1:04 pm
Good tips for stumblers… Also you could add the people who already are your friends on Blogcatalog or Mybloglog…
Scott Lackey
August 4, 2008 @ 9:57 pm
excellent stuff…really like the level of detail ini your posts. you’re not afraid of writing for length to fully answer the questions you pose.
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August 5, 2008 @ 6:09 pm
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August 6, 2008 @ 2:14 am
Great tips. I’ve never been active with SU. But this post made me realize what an important tool it is in my blogging.
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August 6, 2008 @ 4:12 pm
stumbleupon has been great for my traffic and it is generally good quality traffic. So far, I haven’t tried to maximize its potential. Thanks for the tips.
Cruzr
August 6, 2008 @ 6:52 pm
I have just started really trying to get involved with SU and I think it has good potential. I have noticed its not as easy to get friends as some of the other sites. That could be a good thing though in that those who do become your friends are going to be interested in what you have to offer.