Comments on: How to Grow a Young Blog With StumbleUpon

By: Rudi Lehnert

Rudi Lehnert — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:56:48 +0000

“You should expect this networking strategy to be successful because most bloggers feel guilty about sending their stuff to people for stumbles but really wish they could do it.”

“MOST BLOGGERS FEEL GUILTY” – True! I would feel guilty too if I followed your bad advice. That’s not honest at all what you recommend here. I stick to it: CONTENT IS KING! CONTENT! and not these tricky tricks you “recommend” here!

By: PennySeeds.com

PennySeeds.com — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:14:41 +0000

Great post, I’m working on social networking advertising now. This is pretty helpful, thanks.

By: James H

James H — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:53:03 +0000

This is great information for a newbie like me. Thanks!

James H
http://serviceafol.blogspot.com/

By: ParkRanger

ParkRanger — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:31:03 +0000

I’d like to clarify my comment above. Your blog should cover one of the following topics if you want to be Sumble Friends with VentPark: politics, lifestyle, relationships, family life, business, work, blogs

That way we will have something in common and be able to Stumble each other’s articles.

Thanks!

By: ParkRanger

ParkRanger — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:20:59 +0000

Anyone wanting to become Stumble Friends for this purpose with me should contact me through the Feedback tab at http://www.VentPark.com.

Thanks!

By: Nathan Hangen

Nathan Hangen — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:39:53 +0000

A lot of people like to preach about not abusing SU for boosting your own sites, but I disagree. You should be using whatever tools you have available.

Just make sure to stumble other stuff so you aren’t only stumbling your own and your friend’s sites.

By: Surender

Surender — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:21:04 +0000

I can’t believe.

By: dave

dave — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:19:36 +0000

This post is great but… this way stumble will sonn lose value?

By: George

George — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:43:36 +0000

This is a great post. Stumbleupon is my best source of traffic outside of the Search Engines.

I tend to be a little conservative on my promotion process. I only send friends stumble requests if they have been sending me stumble requests. This keeps me from upsetting some of my friends who would rather not receive requests. On the other hand, being more aggressive with my requests would probably pay off.

By: Evan

Evan — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:42:23 +0000

For me the traffic doesn’t stick.

It may be just me of course. Or there may be a difference for different sorts of blogs (it is time we started talking about the differences I think).

By: Nate Moller

Nate Moller — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 02:33:28 +0000

I recently wrote an article about 5 Strategies to Maximize StumbleUpon.

One thing I’ve found is that, if you’re new to SU, you have to have a plan in place, be careful not to just add everyone who’s anyone to your favorites, and be consistent – add sites and posts that relate to your interests, be-friend people who are like you, and use the social tools for what they were meant to be – Social tools – not FAKE SEO tools or spam tactics.

Good post!

By: Pregnancy

Pregnancy — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:58:44 +0000

Stumbleupon helps any internet asset.

As a matter of fact.. If you own a blog you should attach Stumble upon to every asset on your site. Articles, Videos, Pictures. This will give a wide range of assets for people to stumble onto.

By: roentarre

roentarre — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:46:59 +0000

I see that your writing is very useful here.

I have an account in stunbleupon but never know how to do it properly there

Thanks for the heads up

By: SarahFairy

SarahFairy — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:47:24 +0000

I joined the stubmleupon and received a few hundreds of visitors a day. Its excellent way out to get free traffic.

Good article. Thank you.

By: Shafar

Shafar — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:24:26 +0000

I joined stumbleupon recently. Hope i can get ‘1000′ visitors daily..!

Great tips, thanks Skellie.

By: Greg Rollett

Greg Rollett — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:43:22 +0000

Wow, how silly to not even see the Send To button on the tool bar. Duh!?

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:26:18 +0000

I really liked your info about getting people to your blog. A very good way to get people to know you. I believe its about People Helping People
Thanks

By: alifahru

alifahru — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:15:43 +0000

stumbleupon is one of plenty socialbookmarking. I’m very enjoy play with it. I have beautiful traffics from this.

By: OwnBlogger

OwnBlogger — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:48:27 +0000

Certaintly a good way to start making traffic on a young blog, however it is difficult and tricky getting people attract to visit your blog.

By: Nate Moller

Nate Moller — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:15:37 +0000

Great ideas – I’ve definitely seen the power of SU traffic as I befriend to stumblers and take care of them with comments, reviews, and thumbs up.

Question that I already know one answer to but wonder what you all think: how do you avoid CPU errors when traffic gets high because of SU visitors?

I use Bluehost right now and that may be the problem. Media Temple is great I hear but also pricey. Any other recommendations?

One other thing I’ve been testing with StumbleUpon is using images in SU reviews to get more notice and click-throughs. Have any of you tried this? What results have you found?

Thanks for the great post about SU!