What is StumbleUpon? StumbleUpon

Using search engines to locate relevant content typically means hunting and pecking through pages of results. Rather than searching for quality web sites, StumbleUpon members are taken directly to web sites matching their personal interests and preferences.

Using a combination of human opinions and machine learning to immediately deliver relevant content, StumbleUpon presents only web sites which have been suggested by other like-minded Stumblers. Each time the ‘Stumble’ button is clicked, the user is presented with a high quality web site based on the collective opinions of other like-minded web surfers.

StumbleUpon offers nearly 500 topics which users may choose to indicate their interests and preferences so each Stumble produces only the most relevant content. StumbleUpon delivers increasingly relevant content as the Toolbar learns what the user has liked in the past and continues to present quality web sites in the future.

How Does it Work?

StumbleUpon uses / ratings to form collaborative opinions on website quality. When you stumble, you will only see pages which friends and like-minded stumblers have recommended. This helps you discover great content you probably wouldn’t find using a search engine.

How Can Social Media Helper Benefit You With StumbleUpon?

Oh, where to start.  StumbleUpon has jumpstarted thousands of blogs over the past year.  It’s immediate recognition of your site will start to send people your way once someone finds you.  So how do you get found?  Use the system!  Stumble, participate, comment, refer, find friends – repeat if desired.  They’ll, in turn do the same to you!

How many people visit your StumbleUpon page daily?  Don’t know how to check?  Click the “Favorites” button on your toolbar and it will take you to your StumbleUpon homepage.  Alternatively – just surf to:  http://[insert your username].stumbleupon.com.  Is that number everything you’re hoping for?  You’d be surprised how many people are out there looking to find friends and drive traffic as well.  StumbleUpon is a well-oiled-machine that only pays out when you contribute.

Don’t have the time to contribute, but still want to get a piece of the sweet pie they are dishing out?  We’ve been with StumbleUpon since the inception.  We know how it works, we know how to find people, we know how to attract people, and we can certainly start conversations around what you are writing about.

If you realize that StumbleUpon is not a site designed to send traffic to you, you’re going to have better luck with it. StumbleUpon is designed to keep you actively engaged in content.  If you’re writing actively engaging content on your site, StumbleUpon will keep the juice flowing for you.  We can help drive people to your SU page (and ultimately your homepage) while picking up some new friends and hundreds (or thousands) of Stumbles along the way.

If you’re not getting the folks you want to your StumbleUpon homepage (and ultimately your OWN domain by linking to it from that SU homepage) we can help.  Keeping people interested in your Stumbles and activity in the system is certainly going to boost the perception of how authoritative you are in the realm.

Did Your StumbleUpon Account Get Terminated Unexpectedly?

We’ve heard of this one before: “StumbleUpon banned me for promoting a specific site”. Were you sticking to just your site? That’s a definite faux pas in the StumbleUpon dictionary. Yes, it drives traffic (sometimes thousands of visitors) to your site, but if your site is the only site you thumb, they’re gonna catch you and put you in SU jail!

Even if you’ve built up a good Stumble list have have a few hundred sites under your belt, if you start to sway towards just using it for your own nefarious purposes, they’re likely to catch you – don’t do it.

Well, what does this mean? You’ve got to start all over. They don’t re-instate your account (nor get back to you if you’ve angered the SU gods in this way). The downside is that to get back to where you USED to be, you’re going to need to Stumble through the same set of hundreds of things you’ve already seen (we don’t think this is very friendly either) and Stumbled.

Well, in comes Social Media Helper! We’re happy to Stumble through those sites again for you to get you back to where you want to be. Heck, we’re happy to continue your path and Stumble for you, meet new friends, build relationships, drive traffic to your site, etc.

StumbleUpon in our opinion is the single biggest driver of traffic to new blogs. Google/Yahoo & Co. can take weeks and sometimes months to find your site and start sending traffic your way.  StumbleUpon finds it immediately and can really drive some good numbers if you’re using the toolbar in the way it was intended:
1. Stumble other sites, find new stuff.
2. Visit and comment on other peoples sites.
3. Visit other Stumblers blogs and make friends.
4. Those friends will then find you and start Stumbling your info and the circle completes.

Do You Want A New Profile But Don’t Want To Build Back Up The Credibility?

You wouldn’t think so, but this is one of our main questions we get and it usually goes something like this:

“I’ve been Stumbling for months now but I’ve apparently only gotten the attention of {insert group of people here that you don’t want the attention of] and I want to start over, but I don’t want to go through building a completely brand new profile.  I’ve got some authority with my profile I have now and the only reason I keep it is because when I click “I like it” it has magical powers that people like.  I can’t change now, can I?”

Well have we got news for you!  Yes you can change it.  We’ll get that Stumble power back up for you under a new secret identity (or non-secret, your choice).

But StumbleUpon Takes Time – I Want Traffic Now

Got fairly bad news for you on this one – it’s not instantaneous. But that doesn’t mean it won’t happen. Give us some time, we’ll get you some traffic you deserve while building your social media presence on one of the hippest new social networks around – StumbleUpon.