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5 things I learned about StumbleUpon

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I’m unsure as to whether this post is worth it ;) but I decided to publish it. Hope you’ll like it. StumbleUpon is a kind of a social bookmarking network that lets users visit a website randomly based on their interests. Bloggers can use StumbleUpon to get hits to their articles in minutes. Over the past few months, I’ve been using StumbleUpon and here are 5 things I learnt about it:

  • Stumblers prefer brief and upto-the-point articles (not all, though)
  • Tag articles correctly while giving a thumbs up. An incorrectly tagged post may end up in not getting the attention it deserves
  • There are some hot tags which will give you instant traffic: Ubuntu, blogging, and many others. But your post has to be good enough to receive long-term traffic.
  • StumbleUpon users love hidden tricks, for example check out this post. And check how many people have given a thumbs up to it.
  • Even an old post gets instant popularity if it’s given a thumbs up by a powerful stumbler

That’s all I wanted to share with you. Take these points into consideration if you’re a blogger. Shoot your views in the comments.

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June 12th, 2007 at 1:14 pm

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  • http://www.nirmaltv.com Nirmal

    One thing I noticed while stumbling is that if you use more tag to your posts, then the url will have something like more# and if you stumble this post and another person stumbles the actual post, think its considered as 2 different. I’m not sure though. Tell me your experience on this.

  • http://www.dailytweak.com Gili

    All we can do at this stage is speculate. In my opinnion, there’s no single cookbook to ensure your blog gets traffic, but a series of factors such as the topic, the hour in the day, who stumbles etc’.

  • http://daily-tech-news.blogspot.com/ Ramkarthik

    Great.The trick you posted is awesome.When asked few blogging experts,they said that StumbleUpon gets them traffic for a longer term.Great way.If used right,then you are going to get a huge traffic.Great post.

  • http://www.benh.org/techblog Benedict Herold

    Nicely observed. I have to agree with all of ‘em.

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    Nirmal: I’m not sure about whether this is happening.
    Ram, Benedict: I’m glad you found it useful. And Benedict, thanks for the stumble :)

  • http://techyantra.net Beta3

    Great post. I would advice bloggers to use Stumble Upon tool bar for convenience.

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    Beta3: I’m glad you liked it. BTW, all of us bloggers are hooked to StumbleUpon :D

  • http://tech4sure.blogspot.com/ Ashish Saini (Ashfame)

    Can you tell me where i can get a hack for blogger for (digg it, stumble etc all in one after the post)?

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    Ashfame: You can always get such buttons at http://www.addthis.com All instructions are available there. Check these> links too if you wish to hack the theme. Hope you’ll find them useful. :)

  • http://www.kuanhoong.com/ kuanhoong

    I was told it is better to tag your post with general tags e.g., blog, blogging than specific tags e.g, computer memory, firefox.

    However, I am sure what is the effectiveness of using general tags.

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    Kuanhoong: Yeah, that’s right. I guess it’s because stumblers might have set their interests as computers, technology rather than computer memory or so. :)

  • http://www.benh.org/techblog Benedict Herold

    Shankar, you’re welcome!

  • http://blogs.mysites-advisor.com Ken Xu

    Hmm… I never seriously to learn about Stumbled upon. I’ll just create a post and stumbled it myself! ;p
    I never looks deeper into it.
    Any good reference article for knowing SU more? :)

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    Ken Xu: Here you go.. A comprehensive SU guide by DoshDosh
    I strongly suggest you to follow the points listed there. You’ll get quite a lot of traffic. :)

  • http://blogs.mysites-advisor.com Ken Xu

    Nice! Thanks Shankar! Good reference! :wink:

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    I’m glad you liked it, Ken Xu :)

  • http://www.brownbaron.com/blog/ Brown Baron

    StumbleUpon is my favorite. You have a better chance of getting new readers from the StumbleUpon crowd compared to the others. Reddit is pretty good too.

  • http://tech4sure.blogspot.com/ Ashish Saini (Ashfame)

    Wht other social bookmarking sites do you prefer?

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    Brown Baron: You’re right. The traffic that SU sends is amazing. Thanks for stopping by! :)
    Ashfame: Well, though I use Digg, SU and some more, my all time favourite is del.icio.us. I can’t imagine my day without accessing my bookmarks on del.icio.us ;) You can find my shared bookmarks here

  • http://desinotes.com/ Blogging with Desi Baba

    Yeah StubleUpon users are good for blogs unlike Digg users.

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    Blogging with Desi Baba: You’re right Desi Baba.

  • http://www.technologyevangelist.com Ed Kohler

    I’ve been surprised by spikes in traffic from StumbleUpon where people would suddenly start flooding to old but good articles that got picked up. Cool stuff.

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    You’re right, Ed Kohler.

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  • http://thearticlewriter.com/blog/2007/05/21/stumbleupon-a-whole-lot-of-fun/ Matt Keegan

    Regular HTML pages can benefit too from StumbleUpon. I am amazed at just how popular this tool is — how did I ever survive without it?!

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