StumbleUpon Strategy - A review a day sends traffic your way

December 8th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

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I am one of Stumbleupon’s biggest fans and it is only recently that I have developed a strategy for my stumbleupon page. I am not going to regurgitate a lot of the information already out there, as you will be able to find these yourselves.

I would like to speak about one specific strategy which I have used effectively and that is reviewing other stumblers page. Currently I have 144 fans on Stumbleupon, not a big number but by no means a small number, and I have had to work hard to get these fans. You will know that the more fans, and reviews you have the better it is when you stumble your own page. Nobody knows the algorithms used for Stumbleupon but rest assured the more fans and the more reviews you have the better.

How to get your page reviewed

If you want to get your stumbleupon page reviewed, you have to review other stumblers pages. Easy enough you might think, but if you are an ethical stumbler you will only give reviews to those who deserve it. The good thing about stumbleupon is that thousands of stumblers deserve a good review.

To find someone deserving of your review is another simple strategy. Simply stumble pages until you find an interesting article, image or video and find out who stumbled it. You will be able to see who stumbled it by looking in your stumble upon toolbar and looking at the stumbler as shown in the picture below:

You click on the image on the toolbar to find out who has discovered the particular site you like and you then check out the other stumbles that person has made. If you like a few of their stumbles then you have a candidate to write a review on. Check out their profile, their stumbles their likes, their discoveries and their blog, if they have one. If you still like what they are doing, then leave them a review.

What to say in your review

Whatever you like. However if you are looking for a reciprocal review or to be befriended then write something meaningful and interesting. Please please please don’t write; “Cool stumbles, Man!”

Ask yourself why you liked their stumbles, ask yourself why you like their blog, and ask yourself why they deserve your review. Incidentally when you do a review use the person’s first name and not their stumbleupon user name, personalise it. You will find their name on their main stumbleupon page for example My Main Stumbleupon Page has my details on it. Therefore, if you were writing a review for me you would use my first name.

A sample review could be:

Hi Steve, I came across some of your stumbles and thought you had a great mix of articles. I especially liked the personal development articles and in particular the one by Steven Aitchison on Reverse Engineering. Thanks for the stumbles and the images, I look forward to discovering more great sites through your page. All the best, Lori.

What happens after the review?

The person you have reviewed will get an email advising they have just been reviewed. That person will then check out the review, click on your photo and do one of four things:

Befriend you (great)
Review you back (even better)
Write a message to thank you for the review (great)
Do nothing (not so good, but you have at least found a few good sites).

Your stumbleupon standing will also go up when you write reviews, again I don’t know the algorithms for this on stumbleupon but it is better for your SU standing.

5 Minutes a day

All of the above might seem a bit convoluted but it literally only takes 5 minutes or less to do this. If you do this once or twice a day you will start to see results within a few weeks and the next time you go to stumble one of your own articles you will find you get more traffic.

Stumbleupon truly beats every other social media site hands down for it’s ease of use, for the social aspect and for the friendly bunch you find there, none of the bitchiness you find at Digg.

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Comment by Damon on 8 December 2007:

This is a great article, and it’s a strategy that I’m going to start working on myself.

Comment by Alex on 9 December 2007:

I love Stumble as well and I think you nailed it on reviews I see it too often when people leave review just for the sake of leaving it …

BTW, “Cool Stumbles, man!”

Cheers.

Comment by Steven Aitchison on 9 December 2007:

Hi Avinash, Thanks for the link and a great follow up article on Stumbleupon and getting more traffic.

Hi Damon, thanks for your comments. You’ll find SU is a fantastic place for traffic as long as you contribute you’ll always get back more.

Hi Alex, I wondered who would be the first,

Comment by Living Life Abundantly on 9 December 2007:

My resolution is to get more acquainted with Stumbleupon this is a great post to get me started thanks for sharing these tips I’ll put them to use

Comment by Edie on 9 December 2007:

I liked this article. Gave it both a digg and a stumble. I’m still trying to figure stumble out and this helped a lot. Thanks!

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Comment by Matt Ellsworth on 10 December 2007:

nice article- great idea. I will be doing that.

Comment by Jennifer Mannion on 10 December 2007:

Hey Steve,
You are wise in the ways of StumbleUpon! I knew having fans increased it but did not know reviews did. I have seen a big jump in traffic 24 hours after stumbling a newly submitted post and it has been larger the more fans I get. True about Digg too — I have found really mean comments allowed on Digg and have had my membership stopped twice with no explanation. I guess writing about healing pain naturally and recommending non-violent kids computer games is controversial! ; )
Thanks Steve! Gratefully, Jenny — BTW — you’re stumbled!

Comment by Albert | UrbanMonk.Net on 11 December 2007:

Good stuff Steve - tags and reviews make a huge difference, found that out too late =( hehe!

Cheers,
Albert | UrbanMonk.Net
Modern personal development, entwined with ancient spirituality.

Comment by Suzann on 11 December 2007:

Thanks for the great ideas. I’m going to try this. I’ve given up on Stumbleupon in the past because I just couldn’t figure out how to work it, but your post explained things - so thanks!

Comment by Vinay on 17 December 2007:

Hey Steve,

Me and my Partner have a blog and she has a stumble upon page. Do you think we should use one account or each of us should have an individual account as we both have different feeds?

But my basic aim is to get feedback/comments for our website.

Thanks for a good post

Comment by Tim Hollis on 22 December 2007:

Thanks for this advice. When I first posted to Stumbleupon I got a great spike in traffic and then nothing. This gives us a way to revive it.

Comment by Martin Saenz on 23 December 2007:

Haven’t tried Stumbleupon but will check it out.

Martin

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Comment by Tip Diva on 5 January 2008:

Thank you for submitting your post to Carnival Of Tips. I think this post is a good reminder of the usefulness of StumbleUpon - I think a lot of people only press the “SU” button!

Comment by Ebay Motors Classic Cars on 6 January 2008:

I have been struggling to get better with stumble upon, I think this will help me get in the right direction.

Thanks,

Comment by Steve on 9 January 2008:

Very interested in SU. Just started with this yesterday so I am really new. Thanks for helping with some good background information. I have no idea where to start with this but Im hearing a lot of good things. Visit us and SU the site if you get a chance. Thanks.

Comment by Eric Hurczak on 13 January 2008:

Steve, thanks for the great info and primer on using SU.
I had never heard of them before reading your article.
Very interesting and useful for sure, and something I’ll
definitely be checking out. Thanks dude.

Comment by Parimal on 14 January 2008:

Nice infor.
I was also struggling with traffic to my website until I started using this strategy. It is helping me bring lots of traffic as before.
Stumbleupon is the best social bookmarking developed so far that brings traffic.
I recommend stumbleupon to everyone

Comment by etavitom on 18 January 2008:

thanks for the wisdom! i love stumbleupon…

Comment by Alex Liu on 2 February 2008:

This is one of the most generous and awesome way I have read after going through all kinds of stumble upon strategies. I love it and I promise to put it on practice. Thanks for your generosity!

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Comment by Felix Nolasco on 22 March 2008:

Good information.
I’ll try this strategy. I belive my site has good information, but the traffic is still low.

Thank you.

Comment by jhesqi on 5 January 2009:

I am just new in StumbleUpon and was searching for google for tips. I’m glad I came by your site. Learn something new on how to increase traffic in SU. Thanks!

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Comment by hip hop on 9 June 2009:

great post
thanks for the tips

I am new to stumbleupon I will try what you said and hopefully get some stumble traffic

Thanks again