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20085 Reasons Why I Used To Suck On StumbleUpon
Filed Under (Social Networking) by Manish on 09-01-2008
Tagged Under : stumbleupon
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Shana got herself mentioned on Problogger.net was one thing that any new blogger would love to want. What she was doing correctly, I failed to do a single one!
I am a hard core fan of Digg. So, didn’t looked much to any other place. Other than Sphinn and vIndianz. But one fine day I saw this post from Kalena which crashed her site, I decided to move on!
1. Profile Picture: I didn’t had my profile picture on, the one I use on other social media sites! This made difficult for my friends around in StumbleUpon to track me. The day I changed my profile picture I got 8 new friends.
2. About Page: I didn’t update my about page! Seriously I was so dumb that I didn’t get the time to update my about page, which is so important for new people to befriend me.
3. Review: I didn’t review any body! Ahh…this was again a big mistake made by me. People say give as many people what they want and they will give you what you want! I reviewed few people and in return got reviewed back. It was that simple.
4. Friends: I didn’t add anybody to my friend list! I didn’t know the power of StumbleUpon so didn’t bother to network. But now, I’ve setup a network of friends which is growing. Don’t forget to add me in your network.
5. Stumbles: Most of all, I didn’t Stumble many! I only used StumbleUpon to keep a few bookmarks and never looked at it as a social media giant, but now, I know the power of StumbleUpon and look forward to be more involved.
Don’t forget to add me on your friend list. Visit my StumbleUpon Profile!
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Manish Pandey is an internet marketing strategist and likes to write about tech, search engines and social media. To stay updated you can subscribe to the RSS Feed or follow him on twitter.


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Great post, Manish. I’m glad you made some positive changes with StumbleUpon…. it can be a great means of traffic for you. And, the changes you made can make all the difference in the world.
Great article man, I think I still stink at Stumble Upon but hey I’m still a newbie. I’m slowly learning about the great powers of SU and I love it, about 80% of my traffic comes from SU.
@Shana: The credits goes to you, thanks!
@JonB: Glad I could help.
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Very nice Article, I used to stink at Stumble Upon too but I unknowingly Added a few friends and watched their posts and added a few reviews and I forgot Stumble Upon completely, than I tried to check out stumble upon and I posted my upcoming website http://www.PakistanHousing.pk just to check out the Stumble Effect, and I got 182 visits in 24 hrs which I thought was great for me….
Guys please share your highest Visits from Stumble upon in 24 hrs, just curious to know how much Stumble Upon can Generate the Traffic for us.
Again, Manish, a really good Article, you are a very very good observer.
I agree stumble takes some time to get used too! but like anything else it is a lot of fun once you get going.
How about add #6 Reply: You need to be kindly enough to reply each message that send to your inbox to be more involved
i still suck at stumble….but wont be anymore
thankz manish
I think i got some thing to learn.
The power of Stumbleupon is awesome, and is very rewarding when executed nicely.
I’ll follow up on these tips, as hopefully I’ll get more folks to my blog with Stumble.
I agree that stumbleupon is a very powerful website. A post of mine just got stumbled and I got huge traffic from it. Not only was it just traffic, but quality traffic that brought some good readers to my site.