21 Best StumbleUpon Tips
So you’re getting started with StumbleUpon, and you’d like to make the most of your Stumbling experience. Good for you, for being concerned with starting off on the right foot. There are definitely things that you can do to increase your chances of becoming popular through stumbling. Let’s take a look at 21 of the best all-time tips:
1. Remember that your mission is to be yourself. So only stumble sites that you are genuinely interested in.
2. If your website or blog is all about photography, make your photos big enough to stun people with their detail, contrast and fascinating subject matter. Don’t worry about bandwidth.
3. If your website or blog is all about photography or art, keep the background colors neutral – let the images speak loudly for themselves.
4. If your website or blog is about information, make sure the visuals don’t distract. Focus on your headlines and first paragraphs instead.
5. Use the Related Posts plug-in to provide readers with more valuable content – from you.
6. Make sure you submit your own site pages, or new ones from others you’ve discovered, with accurate tags.
7. Send your own pages, via StumbleUpon, to your friends.
8. Submit your best work (i.e., specific pages, perhaps not highlighted on your site but buried deep within) to StumbleUpon
9. Don’t submit your own stuff daily – that’s a sure-fire way to send up a red flag and possibly get your site banned.
10. Be selective about who you add: Quantity is not better than quality.
11. Don’t befriend someone and then ignore them. Remember, all relationships need to be nurtured!
12. Thank people who compliment you or stumble your sites. Everyone appreciates courtesy.
13. Don’t neglect your other social marketing – but why not do it via StumbleUpon (it’s one-click easy!)
14. When checking out another Stumbler’s profile, pay attention to your Similarity Meter (located in the right-hand sidebar)
15. Use your "info" toolbar button to see site reviews – and leave your own
16. Subscribe to people who you are really compatible with via content – click the green "Subscribe" button in the upper right corner or send them a message
17. Create a StumbleUpon group and stumble each other’s best links.
18. Stumble people who stumble you – if you find their content valuable, give it a thumbs up (but don’t be indiscriminate!)
19. Review StumbleUpon profiles of those whose sites you’re interested in
20. Stumblers love dynamic photos. Occasionally include one (relevant to your blog subject, of course) – even if normally you focus only on text information.
21. Don’t forget to add a StumbleUpon button to your blog or website!
Finally remember that most of all, StumbleUpon is all about entertainment. Keep your heavy-duty business report for your LinkedIn contacts… and let StumbleUpon help you develop your "lighter" side. It’s a bit of an art form to learn to mix business with personal in a way that feels natural to both you and your reader – but letting that spark of personality shine through is ultimately your biggest social networking advantage.
Don’t forget that there are many other social media outlets to get exposure for your websites.
Bruno
Twitter Me this, Twitter Me That
We all know that Twitter is a fast-growing social network that allows you to send short messages about yourself or what you are doing. For instance, you may decide to share that you "just saw the movie He’s Just Not That Into You - Check it out." Or…you may want to say something like "Just got off the phone with Joel Comm and had a very insightful conversation."
As twitter grows and adapts their rules to accomodate the new user and people adding to their network the demand get more. I have noticed in the last few days that twitter times out quite frequently when you are trying to edit something on the website. I guess with all the demand on the server it is hard to keep up.
I also noticed that there seems to be a new twitter application or ebook on twitter that is released every other week. I have tested a few of the applications and found they work ok but I went back to what I normally use. As for the ebook’s that come out, free or paid ones, I feel that it is a lot of recycled information. I personally don’t know about the all the paid ones but free ones all read similar to me in my opinion.
There is one thing I can say about twitter. Since the launch of The $5 Twitter Trick I have noticed a lot of new subscribers to my twitter account. I seem to be getting like 30 new request per day but who is counting. I know if I applied using the trick myself, I’d probably get 10 times more follower to my twitter account. I did buy the book because it was only $5 and wanted to see if it was anything I haven’t learned already from previous books.
I’m not going to put down twitter, but is it such a great tool as everyone says it is for marketing? Do people make the sales they really say by using twitter? I think its just a fad that will last a year maybe or less in my opinion. I also think that lots of people spam on there. I know you can control who’s tweets you want to see if you use applications like Tweetdeck.
I guess the irony is that I use twitter too. Although I don’t have 13000 follower because my other account got flagged for so called spam like so many others. What is a reasonable amount of tweets you should shoot out there a day? Do you use it too keep the important people on you fav list so you catch their tweets?
Please tell me what you think of Twitter
Add me to twitter http://twitter.com/BrAuger