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Becoming a top stumbler is the ultimate goal when you use Stumbleupon. I have not reached it yet, but I know it's out there. I believe that if you follow just a few steps every day with Stumbleupon that you will reach this page. Yes "top stumbler" and "top stumblers" are keywords in Stumbleupon, but don't confuse them with becoming a top Stumbler. Top Stumblers are chosen by the Stumbleupon moderators or algorithm. My friend Brian from NowSourcing.com, wrote an exceptional article on the flocking behaviour and the effect that any social media site has. People are curious about other people, and like people flock together where there is good content. This is what makes Stumbleupon such a marvelous site. To get top stumbler means that 1. you are posting frequently, 2. tagging your posts with "top stumbler" and "top stumblers", 3. have close to if not over the 200 friend limit, and 4. using the stumble button to view other web pages from other Stumblers. The average number of votes for a top stumbler is around 18,000. These are the three basics that were written about previously plus the additional task of stumbling pages yourself. The mechanisms of Stumbleupon will take over and you will get top Stumbler on the basis of 1. Reviews and 2. votes. The links to the previous articles on Secrets of Stumbleupon are placed in this post for your convenience so you can read up on the basics: 1. Introduction 2. Fresh Content 3. Tagging Your Posts 4. Making And Keeping Friends Some clarification on #4: Reviewing their site and then "contact" them with a request to be your friends is the easiest way to make friends in Stumbleupon. There is a wide choice of friends in Stumbleupon, even though it may not be the largest social site around. There are 3,698,021 registered Stumblers, so this should not be much of a problem. I would not make them your friend until they show up as having subscribed to your pages in the friend tab, otherwise you end up with a lot that will just need to be deleted. Also, check their active date on their pages tab. I usually let them go for about a month and then "Remove friend". Anyone not interested in the pursuits that you are interested in is not going to be much help to you. Also, use the "Send to" button to "force stumble" your friends. Put in a brief message to get their attention. When they hit the stumbleupon button, your page will show up. Guaranteed traffic! Takes about 30 minutes. Eventually, you will also start getting pages sent to you from your friends. Help them out by voting! And remember this when you get a thumbs down. A thumbs down counts as a vote. It is a good thing, not to be taken badly. You expect others to take your thumbs down graciously when you give it out, don't you? You will not make many friends if you do the knee jerk reaction and get defensive. I appreciate the opportunity to share the information I have learned about Stumbleupon with you. This is by means not the last post on this subject as long as I am a Stumbleupon user even though, from a basics point of view, this may be considered the last of this series. The cumulative visit statistics for each of these posts: 1. Introduction - 291 (submitted on 10/1/07, 22 days) 2. Fresh Content - 692 (submitted on 10/2/07, 21 days) 3. Tagging Your Posts - 1702 (submitted on 10/13/07, 10 days) 4. Making And Keeping Friends - 1737(submitted yesterday 10/21/07, 1 day) Anyone else see a trend? Thanks for the traffic and happy Stumbling! Len internet internet+tools stumbleupon social+networking social+bookmarking, Labels: stumbleupon You can make friends in Stumbleupon, or any social media site for that matter, two ways. You can ask someone to be your friend or your friends can come to you.It is important that you have good content, presented in the first post to this series Secrets To Stumbleupon - Fresh Content. The kind of people who you want to ask are going to check out at least the first page of your Stumbleupon Blog. Make sure that you like it. It is your interpretation of what you really like. If you are seeking other people interested in Social Media, post articles that are mostly about Social Media and not Baseball or some other unrelated niche. You should certainly have checked the green button indicating that you like "Social Media, as well so when you press the Stumble! button you are presented with Social Media sites by Stumbleupon. This is how you build your Stumbleupon "personality". If you think that you have found a fellow stumbler that is interested in the same topics that you review, along with your own material of course, then use the contact link on their Stumbleupon page and ask them to be your friend. I did this with about 100 Stumblers at first. I then reviews their posts and voted on them as well as showed up on their Stumbleupon page frequently. They noticed I was hanging around and some of them finally reciprocated by making me their friend. After awhile, you will notice other Stumblers coming and hanging around your Stumbleupon page. People are curious about other people. They are showing your pages so why not reciprocate friendship and make it official? Press your new friends picture at the bottom of your friends page and then press the "Add As Friend" button in the top right hand corner of your new friends Stumbleupon page. Keep in mind that Stumbleupon only allows 200 friends. Check your friends Stumbleupon page by clicking on their picture under the friends tab occasionally to make sure they are active. If they have not been active for over a month or so, they are not pursuing the main purpose of Stumbleupon, which is many things including friendship, traffic, or maybe just a place to spend your time. When you reach the 200 limit, consider "de-friending" Stumblers who are not presenting material on their Stumbleupon Blog that is in the various topics (keywords) of your Stumbleupon blog. No hard feelings in doing this, some of your friend and you are just not interested in the same things, time to move on. You will find that you will draw solid, related subscribers with good quality content. They will want in your door also and are most likely to stick around and help you meet your goals in Stumbleupon. The main key to making friends in Stumbleupon is a very simple concept. When anyone reviews your material (distinguished from a vote) or adds you as a friend as mentioned either way in this article, say "thank you". A thank you in Stumbleupon acts just like it does in real life. Eventually you will get a very tight knit group of Stumbleupon friends all Stumbling on basically the same topic who are willing to take you to the next level of Stumbling, becoming a Stumbleupon Power User, which is going to be the topic of my next post, The Secrets Of Stumbleupon - Becoming A Stumbleupon Power User. Read the first three in the series by clicking on: 1. Secrets To Stumbleupon - Introduction. 2. Secrets To Stumbleupon - Fresh Content. 3. Secrets Of Stumbleupon - Tagging Your Posts For A BIG Traffic Boost internet internet+tools stumbleupon social+networking social+bookmarking, Labels: stumbleupon The last time I blogged on this topic we covered how to post to the blog section of Stumbleupon, how to get plenty of material for your Stumbleupon posts which included the need to mix your own posts with the posts of others using Bloglines, and how to review a page in Stumbleupon.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 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.   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:  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:  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! Labels: stumbleupon I was planning on publishing the information that I am going to share in an ebook and charge the pazoo for it. I had reservations about this because I have never published an ebook before. So, instead I am going to write about the subject in a series of blogposts and share the important hi-lites on how I make Stumbleupon work.First, a little history. People say I am a very smart guy. I never thought it was so much a matter of intellegence as it was in the application of the "grey matter". I do find some things to be easy, others to be hard. Writing is easy. Speaking is easy. Talk the talk, walk the walk, do the math, and all that. I like a good problem. Stumbleupon was that kind of problem for me. Before Stumbleupon, I used Digg and Netscape...and got banned from them both in a very short period of time for...misbehaving. It was not advertant as I was learning and I found Digg and Netscape to be very intolerant now that I am working with Stumbleupon. Stumbleupon seems to have a way of preventing abuse that Digg and Netscape do not practice. You cannot spam Stumbleupon for very long before running into barriers (More on that in my next post), and this can actually be used to your advantage. I am not certain if you can be banned from Stumbleupon. In the first chapter, to be written and published in the next couple of days, I will share what I think is the secret of not getting banned by any of the social media sites, including Stumbleupon. As a prerequisite to this series, if your are going to follow it, I ask that you install the Stumbleupon toolbar so you can follow what I am doing. If you don't have the Stumbleupon toolbar, you can get it at http://www.stumbleupon.com/. Labels: social media, social networking, stumbleupon
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