Muhammad Saleem yesterday wrote a list of the reasons that he might thumb someone down whilst using Stumbleupon.
I thought it would be a good exercise to come up with as many creative reasons why someone might Stumble one of your articles.
- To say thanks, great post
- To test stumbleupon algorithm
- To be the first to discover a new site
- To build up the strength of a page linking to them
- To gain traffic both short and long term from the 3rd party
- To benefit from multiple tier referral programs
- To bookmark a future resource
- To build up content
- To strengthen good relationships with a power user
- To repair bad relationships
- Because you stroked their ego
- For reputation management and branding
- To share it because it is good content
- To build awareness in an issue
- To get them to come and visit their site (linked from profile)
- Because they are a client
- To build up followers
- To get a stumble or Digg on -!- an important story -!-
- Because someone asked
- Because they are just being nice
- To make a comment because they force you to register (just hope it is good)
- To Get Their Attention
- because they are polite
- Because they are just being funny
- They have auto stumble switched on, and it is just as fast as clicking Stumble
Please note:- this is just a list, and I am not advocating anyone does all, or even any of the above.
All links point to an assortment of quality articles from my recent browsing and stumbling for your enjoyment.
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Personally I Stumble articles for a variety of the reasons you noted such as it’s good article, I want to share it with others, to build relationships or to market or promote a site. StumbleUpon can be quite powerful if you have good content to share with others…like Andy Beard :)
Reason #26: Because they accidentally hit the thumbs up button instead of the “Disable Cookies” button on their jam-packed toolbar.
- Recipient of a Category #3 Stumble.
Very creative :-)
And thanks for all the recent Stumbles, how’s your Blogrush family doing? :-d
Hello Andy,
I’m very flattered to be on your list at #25 but I do not get the point. Maybe it’s because I’m not a native speaker in English: What’s “auto stumble”? Basically I would have preferred #24.
On the other hand, the two most frequented articles by SU users at SEO 2.0 are:
http://seo2.0.onreact.com/7-social-browsing-services-that-will-kill-digg-and-seo-10
and
http://seo2.0.onreact.com/mob-vs-smart-mob-7-reasons-why-stumbleupon-traffic-is-the-best-on-the-planet
For the Toolbar there is an options panel
Under configuration, there is an option to “Stumble After Rating”
In this way you don’t have to thumb up, and then hit Stumble, you can just use the up or down thumbs.
There are a few other options there, plus for the hardcore there is another tab for keyboard options.
The reference was nothing specific to your article, but vaguely related, and I haven’t really seen many people talk about it.
Andy,
I am curious as to which StumbleUpon channels you belong to. I write a blog about the latest trends online, currently focusing on blogging, social media and podcasting. I never know which channels to belong to. I also write a blog about massively multiplayer online role playing games, so I joined the Online Games channel. But I hate the flash games sites that I always stumbleupon.
Fred, I just use my friends suggestions most of the time
Hmmm… no link associated with “because they are a client”? ;)
Now that I am stumbling, I do so for all those reasons. I had that Stumble toolbar installed and never used it until I started reading Sphinn. What was wrong with me?
Well I don’t personally have any clients, well other than the very limited consultation with Blogcatalog (whose site is performing badly today, no idea why) – I also didn’t feel it was fair to link thrugh to someone with that term, or the “because they asked” because that might imply something.
I have never thumbed up something just because someone asked me, it would still have to meet other requirements.
@Andy: I sort of figured that you didn’t have a link on that reason because people might think you were suggesting something! I just got a kick out of that unique feature.
Thanks for the link too!
Andy, great list, especially liked no 4 :D 12 is a good reason too of course, but I confess to an ever so slight bias on that front.
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Hi Andy
Very nice list. Thanks for the inclusion :)
Hi many reasons why I stumble.
1) The website is relly so good that I wanna share with other stumblers.
2) Build up relationship and kharma
stumble’s network and concept is good..like minded people sharing same interests so unlike digg people are interested for what their friend stumbles.
But stumble upon visitors are like auto surfers who come read your post and in a second move to next site that they need to stumble.
I didn’t even know there was an auto stumble feature? In any case I give the thumbs up to stuff I like, or posts that look like people have worked hard on, or people that have been nice to me :P
So where are all ten links?
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Thanks Andy for your list. I am quite new to Stumbleupon, as well as the blogosphere, and am curious if you have compiled a list of how to get people to “stumble” onto your website?
I really enjoy reading pages like this one that are made by the SU community and are about StumbleUpon. Thumbs up from me for sure!
For me it’s mostly #1, #3 and #13.
I like it – I stumble it.
Relationships, followers and friends develop naturally anyway.
25 Thumbs Up for the post. I actually try to do all those steps when stumbling.
Nice poost!~ I usually thumbs up websites because of they are really nice for me.. :)
Nice post!~ I usually thumbs up a website because they are really nice for me..
I just stumbled this article thumbs up
I would never stumble a site down but i only give a thumbs up to a few.
Good article keep em coming
x. Because stumble users like to read stumble content…
Wow, great list! The stroking of the ego, haha. Some of these are painfully truthful…
I have seen people have active campaigns put together to have others stumble their site.
Great list though!
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