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You should have a good selection of posts to Stumbleupon in your collection by now. It is time to learn about how to tag the reviews on your own material so you literally drive traffic to your web pages. Here is an example of one of my posts that I posted to Stumbleupon:  The tag field is always available when you are the first to review any site including yours and when you edit a site you may have already reviewed. So, where do you get the keyword tags from? Remember, this is not Google. Long tail keywords are not necessary. Let's use the keyword "Yahoo" for instance. On your main Stumbleupon, and linked Stumbleupon pages, you will find a search box. Put the word "Yahoo" in it. If it is still there, you will see my profile picture. The name under the picture is "BartTheBear". This is what happens when you become a top stumbler for a keyword. That is why it is important for you to tag your own posts with relevant, short keywords. People are curious about other people, and dolphins in this case. Click the green button in the top right hand of the page for the keyword, in this case "Yahoo" and when you stumble, Stumbleupon will bring you to other pages about Yahoo. Vote on these pages with your Stumbleupon thumbs up button/I like it and you will be building the juice to place your picture at the top of that keywords page. You may notice that I use more than one keyword for my own material that I post to Stumbleupon. You may find my face at the top of the page for a number of these keywords. The keywords for a post should be RELATED! Finding other keywords in Stumblupon is an easy feat. You will find a section to the right of a keyword page that says "See Related Sites about". I may decide that "google", "internet", and "search" are also good keywords for my post and I want people to know that I like them as well. Make sure you press the green button at the top right hand corner when you dedide that you like a keyword. It will turn white and tell you "You like this (click to remove)". Enough of these well chosen, and short, keywords and you will soon develop a niche for the pages you are interested. Then start stumbling and voting. You will stumble to pages related to the keywords you have marked as your favorites. As you get used to Stumbleupon, it will become second nature what keywords to use and "like". Don't forget to keep your Stumbleupon blog posting up as well, blog posts and articles of others in your niche, which you will now easily find in Stumbleupon since you have added keywords that "you like" and your own materials as well. At this point in time, I have over a thousand and it only took me a few months to do it! Your homework assignment is to find 10 keywords in Stumbleupon that are popular, but not too popular. The keywords "business" and "Internet" can be used, but they are very popular and it may take some time for your picture to show up at the top of their pages. Then use the "Stumble!" icon in your Stumbleupon toolbar and VOTE on the webpage you stumble to. You do not review these votes. Note: you are creating real traffic to the webpages you stumble to. Your posts are being stumbled in the same fashion. If they are not, they will soon. You can see plenty of examples of how I tag my posts, and mix it up, at http://bartthebear.stumbleupon.com/ This is #3 in the series. #1 and #2 can be found at Secrets To Stumbleupon - Introduction and Secrets To Stumbleupon - Fresh Content Labels: stumbleupon
 
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Just a post note for the evening before I shut my computer off.
It has been a good day for traffic. I submitted this blog post and one other article from Moxie Drive Expressions to stumbleupon, tagging them appropriately and performing one other thing that I do in about 30 minutes.
So far both of these articles have been read over 650 times each.
9:06 PM
The numbers are in. Almost 2,000 unique visitors in one day. Amazing!
9:55 PM
What determines how an article gets distributed? I still can't figure that part of Stumble Upon out. Some of my posts don't break 100 while others go crazy. One post drove a lot of traffic for a day, took a day off, then drove more traffic!
Love your article. Thanks!
3:52 PM
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