Your Ultimate StumbleUpon Resource
February 10, 2008
StumbleUpon is arguably one of the most popular social media web-sites on the Internet. Its success and popularity are largely due to its unique combination of social discovery, social networking and social bookmarking.
If you are a web surfer it is a fun and fantastic way to discover new websites. And, If you are a publisher it is a great way to get exposure for your content.
There has been a tremendous number of really great articles written on just about every aspect of StumbleUpon. Instead of rehashing what others have already written about StumbleUpon, I have compiled a list of the best articles that I could find.
I hope that these articles will give you a real feel for what StumbleUpon is, how to participate and how to be successful using it. If I have missed any great articles, please let me know about them and I will add them.
StumbleUpon For Beginners: The Basics of StumbleUpon
- How to Use StumbleUpon Like a Pro
Author: Julia, Sara and Andy of Mahalo.com
Don’t let the name of this article fool you. If you are new to StumbleUpon this is where to start. It is a really good in-depth overview of every aspect of how to use the StumbleUpon toolbar. - Beginners Guide to StumbleUpon
Author: Meg of BlogPond.com.au
This is another fantastic Beginner’s Guide for StumbleUpon. It is a real complementry article to "How To Use StumbleUpon Like A Pro" because it goes beyond introducing the piece parts of the StumbleUpon toolbar to include the basic concepts of stumbling and how to stumble. - A Comprehensive Guide to StumbleUpon: How to Build Massive Traffic…
Author: Maki of DoshDosh.com
This is truly a comprehensive guide to StumbleUpon. It includes overviews of the type of traffic you can expect from StumbleUpon, how to convert stumblers to blog readers, how to increase RSS subscriptions using stumble traffic. Maki is known for his long information packed articles. This article is no exception. So, before you start reading it, set aside a little time.
StumbleUpon Networking: Making Friends With Other Stumblers
- StumbleUpon Networking: How To Easily Share Content and Build Relationships
Author: Maki of DoshDosh.com
Looks at the various ways you can share content on StumbleUpon with other stumblers primarily stumblers you have listed as your friends. - Five Ways to Grow Your StumbleUpon Network:…
Author: Maki of DoshDosh.com
Outlines 5 ways to properly build your StumbleUpon Network, the right way, for long term growth and use. - StumbleUpon Strategy - A review a day sends traffic your way
Author: Steve Atchison of steveatchison.com
Looks at the various ways you can share content on StumbleUpon with other stumblers primarily stumblers you have listed as your friends. - The Ultimate Guide To Leveraging Stumble Upon
Author: Dev Basu of DailyMoolah.com
This is truly an ultimate guide. It outlines the best tactics for building your StumbleUpon network of friends. - How To Become a Top Stumble User (Or Why You Shouldn’t Bother)
Author: Maki of DoshDosh.com
Is it truly worth becoming a top Stumbler. For a blogger what is the true ROI. - How To Boost Your StumbleUpon Friends List
Author: Douglas Brown of InformativePost.com
5 very good tips on how to boost your friends list. He outlines a very interesting strategy as well.
StumbleUpon Traffic: How To Build It And Its Effects
- StumbleUpon: Exposure That Lasts
Author: Muhammad Saleem of muhammed.saleem.com for PronetAdvertising.com
Analyzes traffic received from different social media sites comparing to StumbleUpon. - 3 StumbleUpon Traffic Myths Debunked
Author: Nick of seo2.0.onreact.com
Looks at three ideas of traffic from StumbleUpon and how they are more myth than fact. - Boost Your StumbleUpon Traffic with Outbound Links
Author: Caroline Middlebrook of Caroline-Middlebrook.com
Makes the case that because many people stumble blogs that link to to their blog, you should advantagiously create outbound links. - How To Draw StumbleUpon Users Into Your Blog
Author: Skellie of Skelliewag.org as a guest post for Problogger
4 excellent tips on how to draw stumblers further into your blog before they leave to stumble another site. - Digg vs. Reddit vs. StumbleUpon vs. del.icio.us
Author: Vivien of InspirationBit.com
This is one of the best comparative traffic analysis that I have read. - StumbleUpon: Interesting Results Examined
Author: VandelayDesign.com
Compars traffic from StumbleUpon with several other social media sites. - The Aftermath - Studying the Results of StumbleUpon’s Buzz Effect
Author: SUComments.com
A unique view from a top stumbler on the on traffic frm being on StumbleUpon’s Buzz page and the effect of Recent Reviews on going viral. - Stumbleupon traffic surge Caught on video..
Author: Andy Bailey of FiddyP.co.uk
Watch the wave of stumble format. Video. - Tips For StumbleUpon
Author: Neil Patel of WebProNews
Very Interesting tip to drive more traffic to your blog. Video.
Tips For Becoming A Better Stumbler
- Building Your Blog With StumbleUpon
Author: Skellie of Skelliewag.org as a guest post for Problogger
10 Excellent tips for building your blogs presence at StumbleUpon. - Secret to Massive Digg / StumbleUpon Traffic Without Spamming
Author: Liz Straus of Successful-Blog.com
The most important secret, according to Liz Straus, to getting massive StumbleUpon and Digg traffic and the best ways to implement that secret - I Wouldn’t Submit That to StumbleUpon
Author: Muhammad Saleem of muhammed.saleem.com for PronetAdvertising.com
Compares successful stories from Digg and StumbleUpon and draws and draws a contrasting conclusion between what is successful on Digg and what is successful on StumbleUpon. - The Comprehensive Secrets to Receiving Massive Traffic from Stumbling
Author: Etienne Teo of EtienneTeo.com
25 tips on how to obtain more stumbles. - 7 Reasons Why I Thumbed You Down On Stumbleupon
Author: Muhammad Saleem of muhammed.saleem.com
7 things not to do if you do not want to be thumbed down. - Top 5 StumbleUpon Buzzkills
Author: Dana Wallert of DanaWallert.com
Avoid being thumbed down, dont do these five things. - 8 Places Where You Can Find Great Content To Stumble
Author: Alexandru ShylockBlogging.com
8 Places that you may never have thought of to find quality content to stumble. - Five Tips For Getting Traffic From Stumble
Author: Lucia of BigBucksBlogger.com
Five excellent tips for interacting with Stumblers that have stumbled your blog and how to develop a recipricol stumbling relationship. - Help Me Stumble You: Add Your URL To Your Profile
Author: Lucia of BigBucksBlogger.com
How and why you should claim your URL in your StumbleUpon profile. - How To Become A Top Stumbler In Less Than A Week
Author: Many Karthik of DailySEOBlog.com
5 basic tips for becoming a more proficient stumbler. - 25 Reasons You Get Thumbs Up
Author: Andy Beard of AndyBeard.eu
Compares and contrasts successful stories from Digg and StumbleUpon and draws and draws a contrasting conclusion between what is successful on Digg and what is successful on StumbleUpon. - StumbleUpon Series Part 1 - A Commitment To Mastering StumbleUpon
Author: Robert Priolo of RobDogg.com
This is part 1 of a 7 part series looking at every aspect of StumbleUpon.
Miscelanious StumbleUpon Tips:
- Claim Your StumbleUpon Blog through Technorati
Author: Bill Hartzer of BillHartzer.com
Walks you through claiming your StumbleUpon blog at Technorati. I believe this was the first article that came out discussing cross blog promotion through Technorati. - Build Super Links And Traffic With StumbleUpon
Author: Loren Baker of SearchEngineJournal.com
Outlines the strategy of cross promoting blogs or websites, that link to you, on StumbleUpon. The theory is that Stumblers will follow the link back to your blog. - The Serendipity Of StumbleUpon - an interview with Garrett Camp, Chief Architect
Author: Richard MacManus of ReadWriteWeb.com
This interview gives alot of insight into StumbleUpon. - Revealed: the 16 different personality types of StumbleUpon users
Author: Brian Wallace of NowSourcing.com
25 tips on how to obtain more stumbles. - Five Reasons Why You Might Not Want to be a Top Stumbler
Author: Teeg of SUComments.com
Insight from a top stumbler on why you may not want to be a top stumbler. - All Thumbs are Not Created Equal
Author: Teeg of SUComments.com
Ever wonder why StumbleUpon seems so Bi-Polar. One day liking you and the next not. Nothing has changed. Well this post by Teeg is an excellent explanation for this phenomenon. - StumbleUpon Graveyard
Author: Tim Nash of BlogVentureSkills.co.uk
Outlines the ways that web pages can end up in the StumbleUpon Graveyard and how to avoid it.
Advertising On StumbleUpon:
- Advanced Stumbling: How to Make a Stumblable Page
Author: Mike bogo of MikeBogo.com
Advice on building a landing page for stumblers from StumbleUpon advertising campaign. - StumbleUpon Sponsored Stumbles vs. Google AdWords
Author: Allen Stern of CenterNetworks.com
An excellent analysis of the differences between site promotion using sponsored stumbles or Google Adwords - The Why How And Who Of Marketing On StumbleUpon
Author: Garret French of SearchEngineJournal.com
An excellent outline of using StumbleUpon formarketing. - The StumbleUpon Experiment
Author: Dan Grossman of DanGrossman.info
Experiments with Sponsored Stumbles and analyses the traffic and the CTR. - Stumble Ads Review. How Paid StumbleUpon Ads work
Author: Casey of Hornswaggled.com
An excellent walkthrough on creating a Sponsored Stumbles campaign. - Effective advertising strategy using StumbleUpon
Author: Ades of AdesBlog.com
A great overview of how to set up a sponsore stumbles campaign. A brief discussion on the multiplier effect of advertising on stumbleupon. - Run a StumbleUpon Advertising Campaign For Your Blog
Author: Darren Rowse of Problogger.net
This is one of the best articles that I have read about using Sponsored Stumbles to promote a blog article. - More On Advertising On StumbleUpon
Author: Darren Rowse of Problogger.net
A followup to Darren’s first article, on advertising through StumbleUpon, addressing some reader concerns. - Effective advertising strategy using StumbleUpon
Author: Ades of AdesBlog.com
A great overview of how to set up a sponsore stumbles campaign. A brief discussion on the multiplier effect of advertising on stumbleupon. - Running a stumble viral marketing campaign
Author: Tim Nash of BlogVentureSkills.co.uk
An excellent analysis of a sponsored stumble campaign.
StumbleUpon Success Stories:
- Stumbleupon, You’ve Stumbled into My Heart
Author: Fluxx of SEOMoz.org - 7,076 Unique Visitors! The Power of StumbleUpon.
Author: Matt Harzewski of Webmaster-Source.com - Highest Weekend Traffic : Del.icio.used, StumbleUponed, Digged
Author: QuickOnlineTips.com - StumbleUpon’s Fantastic Ability to Drive Traffic
Author: randfish of SEOMoz.org - StumbleUpon: Interesting Results Examined
Author: VandelayDesign.com - Stumbleupon, You’ve Stumbled into My Heart
Author: Fluxx of SEOMoz.org
StumbleUpon Websites: Both Official and Unofficial Websites Focusing on StumbleUpon
- StumbleRank: A dynamic list of the top stumblers. Sortable.
- SUComments: A blog that is focused primarily on StumbleUpon but also has content on other social media sites as well.
- StumbleUpon Buzz: Where the popular kids hangout.
- Unofficial StumbleUpon FAQ
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Thanks for including a link to my article.
Absolutely. It was one of the first articles I read about how StumbleUpon and other Social Media sites working in tandem can send a good bit of traffic to your site.
whoa … a long list of StumbleUpon articles .. nice one d-_-b
Amazing! You’ve compiled more than I ever could have. Bookmarked
Ultimate StumbleUpon Resource…
Learning to become a top StumbleUpon user. This is a resource article. 50+ articles covering every aspect of StumbleUpon; from just starting out, building your network of friends, to analyzing the type traffic you get, and running a sponsored stumble c…
I see that you’ve taken a lot of time to assemble this resource list. SU can work great as a free traffic source for certain types of sites. Thanks for sharing this list with us. I have been an occasional stumbler but I’m planning to focus more on how to maximize its impact.
I think StumbleUpon is one of the best ideas since sliced bread. It really provides you with a lot besides traffic. Currently, i am focusing on the networking possibilities. I am planning on adding a few new documents that I recently found. Keep me posted on your experience with StumbleUpon.
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On my niche blogs Stumbleupon has proven to the number one source of traffic, hands down. Sure at a given month it’s place may be taken by digg, but it’s infinitely harder to get any traffic as opposed to Stumbleupon, where sometimes traffic seems to come out of nowhere. I’ve written a Stumbleupon guide as well, you can find it here (http://www.lostartofblogging.com/a-guide-to-stumbleupon-understanding-and-beating-the-system), if you’re interested on my detailed view upon SU.
Tibi,
I am absolutely interested in your view of StumbleUpon. Thanks. I am putting together a list of additions. I’ll probably be adding them at the end of this up coming week.
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I am very impressed, I am a stumbler and I will actually give a thumbs up because you did NOT ask for one!!! Nothing ticks me off more than a beg for a thumbs up.
I know how stumbleupon works and hate blogs that beg!