If you use StumbleUpon to submit your own article, consider the following points to get better result.
Our job as writers is not done once the article is published. We still have a long list to do to get the word out on social bookmarking sites. StumbleUpon seems to be many writers’ favorite! The traffic you received for your article depends on a great deal of different aspects.
What Are They?
- The length of time you are a member of SU
- Who your friends are
- Who stumbles it
- How many thumbs up
- How many reviews
- The correct category when submit to SU
Why Are So Many Users Banned?
- Submit your own articles
- Support only your own friends
- Not showing a variety of different sites. (Yes, Triond has many different sites, but they are all linked back to the motherboard!)
- Use SU for promoting your own, and not actually enjoy the community or sharing world wide information with others
- Sending links of your own article submission to friends on SU, but never bother to stumble theirs
What Can You Do to Avoid Getting Banned, and Increase Views?
- Check out the people you’ve added as friend, not your Triond’s circle, stumble their favorites
- Stop sending links of your own work to SU friends. Do you know that when you do this, you do not get as much traffic?
- Let your article sits for a day or so, and allow a total stranger to pick it up. When this happens, your traffic is much higher.
- Occasionally, discover other internet giant sites such as Yahoo, MSN, National Geographic, or LiveScience according to your interest.
- SU has a spam patrol team. (I was told my account looked like spam by one of them, so I decided to delete it.) They do catch up to you!
What We Can Do to Help Each Other as Writers
- Stumble your friends’ work if you really like it, and if it’s fitted in with SU community
- Just stumble or review or submit it as strangers, no need to add as friend on SU
- No one needs to know who is who. It is more effective this way!
- Be selfless and consider it as an act of kindness
- Help others to help yourself. If everyone does this, it can be a win/win situation.
A Collection of StumbleUpon Articles
- StumbleUpon Do’s and Dont’s
- 5 Essential StumbleUpon Power Points
- Impact of StumbleUpon to Drive Targeted Traffic-This article alone had at least another 50 useful links to about SU
- To Send or Not to Send?
- A Comprehensive Guide to StumbleUpon
- StumbleUpon Updated-Explaining the newest change on SU
Let’s try this out to avoid getting banned from SU. Just be a part of this wonderful community to reap the fruit of your labor.
September 20th, 2008 at 5:36 am
Thanks for sharing this information. I learned some new points from this one.
September 20th, 2008 at 5:46 am
Very useful info, sister! Thanks and take care!
September 20th, 2008 at 5:49 am
BC, you have put a lot of valuable information in here. Thanks so much for sharing.
September 20th, 2008 at 6:22 am
Well Researched.
September 20th, 2008 at 7:13 am
Thanks for this info.
September 20th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Hi BC,
I’m still trying to figure out this whole social bookmarking thing. I am using all sorts of sites but, I haven’t really seen much of an increase. Any thoughts?
September 20th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Great information BC, thank you. I’m always willing to help others and accept any help I can get. I haven’t been using stumble upon a lot because I don’t really know how it works. I’ll give it another try now. Again my thanks.
September 20th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Great advice
September 20th, 2008 at 11:13 am
very informative,thanks,
September 20th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
A very helpful article here BC. So many people use SU, so this is a very topical article to write.
September 20th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Good information and well documented. Thank you for all the hints , some that I was not aware of to do and not to do. Well written.
September 20th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Fantastic article, just what I needed! I’ll follow all the links you provided also. Very informative article, well done! Thanks again.
-Ali
September 20th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
You did a really good job with this article. I think it will be helpful for everyone.
September 20th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
very nice article…
September 21st, 2008 at 5:58 pm
great info! You’re right… it always does look bad when you have to promote your own content.
September 21st, 2008 at 10:49 pm
I too have had trouble generating traffic with social bookmarking site. I am interested in Stumble Upon but I have yet to figure out how to use it. thank you for the tips, it was informative.
September 25th, 2008 at 11:11 am
interesting….i really have no clue how to go about all the other networks and how to get your work more noticed but i am trying very much so to learn….very helpful,thank you!
September 29th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
My second reading of this, so much to digest. Definitely a professional’s article. Thanks.
October 10th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Great article! Thanks for all the great advice! Hopefully I can improve my own viewership too.
October 20th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
I didn’t know all these rules regarding SU – thank you so kindly!
Blessings.
Sincerely,
-Liane Schmidt.
November 5th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Icy, this is great stuff! I don’t know how I missed it, but am glad to have found it tonight!
November 13th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
BC, great tips. My trouble is that I only knew one friend on SU when I signed up, and making new ones is difficult and time consuming. I can’t imagine I’ll ever have anyone stumble upon one of my articles…