Secrets To Stumbleupon - Fresh Content

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Before I start on the fresh content portion of the series on the Secrets To Stumbleupon, I want to talk about my credentials and qualifications. I am a Computer Scientist. I am not a geek! OK, yes I am. Ever watch a youngster, or an oldster, play on the XBox or Playstation? They have to figure it out, don't they? That has been my approach for over 25 years. That is what computer geeks do. They have to figure it out, solve the problem, fix it, take care of business, and make other people happy doing it. A year doing this on one subject, like Stumbleupon, is like others that take much longer to learn it. Not saying that anyone is stupid, it is just our areas of expertise differs. I could never be a nurse or doctor or a housewife. I have one of those and I know. I am a geek and I have learned how to make Stumbleupon work. I have simply decided to publish and share what I think I know. Comments are very welcome, and, please remember moderated.

So, fresh content...sounds like Google. It is not. The fundamental difference between fresh content in Google and Stumbleupon is that Google is an algorithm, Stumbleupon is made up of people. If you want to keep people coming back to your Stumbleupon blog, you must provide them with a variety of fresh content DAILY.

How do you get this content? Here is the good news, you do not have to write any of it at all if you do not want to.

I use Blog Explosion, a FREE traffic generation service for blogs. There are NO hidden or future costs. They make their income through third party ads. It tells me when one of my favorite writers has posted something new. You add an RSS or ATOM feed to your Blog Explosion Reader, which is free from BE in the above link, and it will show up in a list that looks like this:

Blog Explosion List

When anyone in your list posts a new blog, publish a new article in a news RSS, or an article in an article directory that you may have added, you will be notified in the lower right hand corner of your computer screen. This is very important because you want to be the first to review whatever is posted. This will generate the most traffic with all of the Stumbleupon methods you are about to learn.

Notice I said the word "REVIEW", not vote, not thumbs up and not thumbs down. Reviews show up in the blog section of your Stumbleupon page.

Now the reason you want to collect all the different posts from different bloggers, authors and news sites outside of your own domain. All of the different major Social Media sites work like this. If you do not mix your own posts and writings from your own domain with the domain of others, Stumbleupon will block your ability to post from your domain until you do. The other major Social Media sites will just ban you for spamming.

People will read your reviews on these other domains from your Stumbleupon page if you make the review interesting and include a photo, linking to the original post, article, or news article.

The best example of this in practice is my own stumbleupon blog page which can be viewed at http://bartthebear.stumbleupon.com/

Now, if you take my RSS feed from my blog, which is http://feeds.feedburner.com/TurnkeyBusinessBlog, and add it to your BE Reader, you will know the exact moment that I, or anyone else, writes a new post to my blog, the Turnkey Business Blog. You can also subscribe from the blog itself.

Now, how do you add a review? Look at the following screen shot:

Stumbleupon Review

After bringing up the post that you want to REVIEW, go ahead and hit the thumbs up on the Stumbleupon toolbar. If you are the first, after the login screen if there is one, you will get the review page from Stumbleupon. If you are not the first the thumb will turn green. That is ok, if you really want to review the post, you still can. Look at the bubble next to the send to text in the Stumbleupon toolbar. This will bring up a Stumbleupon page that shows you who voted and who reviewed the post. There is an option for you to review the page as well. It looks like this:

Stumbleupon Review Page

On that page you will see a green rectangular button.

Your homework assignment is to press this button with a post of your choice, and fill in the review section with a sentence or two of relevant text. If you want me to review your work, please comment on this post with your Stumbleupon link and I will look at it.

I am going to talk about the review text and the keywords in the next part of the series.

Thanks for reading!