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
Business in Social Networking
The internet is undoubtedly the new marketplace. Well of course, going to shopping malls personally is not yet an extinct activity, but then, business is almost as active via web especially for those who could not find time going out. Now that’s the power of technology, and social networking should take credit for such breakthrough as well.
More than their emergence, the growing popularity of social network sites has greatly contributed to the revolution of commerce, trade, and marketing. With almost everyone in all parts of the globe accessing the internet and consequently all being potential customers, companies have targeted social sites as sites for advertisements through links. This is not to mention that there are stores on the web selling and delivering items.
Social network sites become avenues for business minded individuals for the realization of their undertakings. There are some small time entrepreneurs (such as retailers of dry goods) who use their user profiles in social networks to display their items for sale with the necessary details and descriptions of each product.
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How to Advertise yourself through Social Networking
One of the most powerful tools you ought to have is a computer with and internet connection to market yourself, may it be for a new job, a new business that you want to start or simply to meet people that you might share similar interests with. How else are you going to promote your self but through social networking?
Make use of your website accounts to land to your dream work or be part of social group where your talents fit. The secrets there are actually no secret. Here are a few tips for you to effectively market yourself:
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Connecting through Social Networking
You could never go friendless now that social networking online makes meeting people around become less demanding for you. You would not have to worry about being a wallflower in a party if you are naturally a shy person, to free your busy schedules just to keep in touch with friends, or go crazy knocking every door on the street to find a business contact. With the internet, socializing could only be a matter of click and type saving your time, money, and effort but expanding your horizons or well, your choices.
Social networking refers to establishing connections, particularly to strangers, primarily because of a common interest for a skill, fascination to same celebrity, passion for new gizmos and gadgets, or interest to make business.
Now that the internet is becoming like a basic need to every person, the opportunity of meeting people from around the globe has also become popular among net users. This is through social network websites.
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Don’t be a Victim of Social Networking Online
Yes of course! Social networking through the internet has earned good reputation among internet users including businessmen. It might even be the reason why a lot of people get hooked with browsing the internet regardless of sleepless nights or straining eyes. Where else can you instantly find connections from the other end of the globe but through getting online? How else do you get to travel the world and know different cultures without having to fly? Big thanks to social networking you have friends of different races and you get to share the fun of dealing with differences!
But how much trust can you give, how far can you go, and how more sure can you get that these are real people you are contacting? Nope, this is definitely not talking about some extraterrestrials or paranormal creatures. Have you been careful enough in communicating with strangers? Sure you have heard of phonies from the internet but if you expect the dangers of getting involved with people you don’t know cannot hit you, think twice, thrice, and a thousand times more. Surely too, you yourself have not been very honest with your social network profiles. Worse if you are one of those abusive internet users who only mean harm to others.
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