How to make StumbleUpon work for you!

[HippieChicJewelz]

StumbleUpon is really great to use! Be sure that when you add Etsy pages, only add two at a time then add something that isnt ETSY related or they will freeze your adding ability! I will go and find recipes from my blog, or you could add movie reviews, motivational quotes or whatever else you like!

Here is how StumbleUpon works when you stumble an item:
When a site is first stumbled, it is put through both the Classification Engine and the Clustering Engine as shown above. The Classification Engine filters the page by topic and tags. Sometimes a user does this work, but sometimes it’s submitted without any of this information, so the engine has to determine where to put the content. This is a big job when you have over 30,000 pages each day being submitted, as StumbleUpon has.

The Clustering Engine sorts out the votes a site is getting so it can determine which sites are the quality ones that should be served. Again, this sounds simple enough until you realize that StumbleUpon has 5.6 million users. This engine is a key cog in what serves up over 10 million stumbles that take place every day.

How StumbleUpon works

When you come across something you like online you can vote for it with a button on your toolbar. The page is then shared with others who have similar interests.
When you’re bored, or looking for inspiration, click ‘Stumble!’ and great pages others have liked will be shared with you.

One tip: make sure your username and profile picture are branded in line with your Etsy Shop. Use yourshop name for your profile, and a photo or logo people will be familiar with.
Once you have your account and StumbleUpon homepage, make sure you customize your interests to suit your tastes. You can ‘manage your interests’ via the sidebar. This is important, as it will effect what kinds of pages you get when you Stumble. It will also change the kinds of people who take an interest in your votes.

Connect with other bloggers

To start connecting with other Etsians through StumbleUpon, all you need to do is vote up their content (when it’s good). The more traffic you send them, the more likely they are to go and investigate the source, or even add you as a friend. StumbleUpon can be a great networking tool.
On top of that, supporting Etsians you like is just good karma. Remember, what comes around goes around, and in StumbleUpon land that's what we want!

Drive traffic back to your blog with great stumbles:
When you vote up a site that hasn’t been voted up before, you ‘Discover’ it. This means that you write its first review and your profile information appears in the sidebar of the reviews page for that item.
Great content can drive a lot of (influential) stumblers to the page profiling you, as they rush to vote and review it. Some of them will be drawn into visiting your profile, simply because you have such great taste. But how can we encourage these visitors to check out our shop?

Highlight your blog in your StumbleUpon profile:
This is easy. Enter your blog URL as your website address, and this will be displayed above your image on the main page of your profile. You can also write a bit about yourself and add a link to your Etsy shop in your About blurb.

Connect with your readers:
When you start to see traffic coming from StumbleUpon, take the time to visit the reviews page for the blog post readers have voted up. The stumblers on this page have been enthusiastic enough about your content to want to Stumble it. If they’re not already loyal readers, this makes them great candidates for becoming one.
Take the time to thank them for their Stumble, and add them as a friend. Little acts of generosity like these leave an impression and may encourage the Stumbler to see what other types of great items your shop has to offer!

Make friends for a more powerful profile:
The StumbleUpon algorithm is a mysterious thing, but evidence seems to suggest that the most active and popular stumblers are rewarded with the ability to control large traffic-flows.
The ‘active’ part is up to you; how much time are you willing to put in? The ‘popular’ part of the equation, however, depends on how many fans you have. Fans are those stumblers who’ve added you as a friend in order to see the pages you stumble.
How do you get fans? Great, properly labeled stumbles will do it. Another successful strategy is to add those who vote up your content. If they took the time to explore your blog they might recognize you as the author of the content they liked and add you in return. The friendship will enhance both of your profiles and you’ll be connecting with more potential friends and clientele.

Create a profile people will visit for its own sake:

Treat your profile like a biography about your shop. If you make it a place people will want to visit for its own sake, the chance of visitors engaging with it and following the link back to your shop increases.
Take the time to play with the colors, add images to your reviews, and explore the functions on offer to create your ‘blog’ (StumbleUpon actually refers to it as such). Fill your profile with votes and reviews for great content your friends will want to visit, and tell others about. A great profile will naturally attract interested and admiring visitors, and raise your profile in the StumbleUpon community.

[UniqueSewingBoutique]

Thank you so much for taking the time to explain about Stumble Upon,

I am still new so there is so much to learn and understand, your article has made it easier, I will refer back to it as I go along and adjust my profile and biography.

Again thank you so much

www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/ellyvegas/

[Former_Member]

Thank you so much for this! I have been completely confused by the majority of Stumbleupon, you have cleared up alot!

[somadlyinlove]

Great info! Lets try to keep this near the top so that new members can read it also if you have learned something new about Stumbleupon please add it here. One thing I will mention is that items do not remain "stumbled" forever.
This photo was stumbled last year scroll down the page to LOOK AT THE VIEWS !

https://www.etsy.com/listing/83958146/alphabet-letter-f-photograph-digital

And the majority of them were from stumbleupon in one day!!!
yet now stumble says it has no review, no info, nada, so you will have to go back and stumble old items or make sure they keep getting those thumbs ups every now and then. And well, that is what this team is great for! GO TEAM! :)

[Former_Member]

Thank you Hippie ! your inner experience sharing and great tips is what I need for someone new to me on this amazing website !

[Former_Member]

Wow, thanks so much!

[VintageCarolina]

Thanks so much for the info, I'm still trying to figure this all out. It just doesn't seem to be as easy to figure out as some other social media sites.
Elise
http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/CarolinaKudzu

[WaveofLife]

Me too, brand new & still trying to figure it out :) This info was a huge help!

http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/WaveofLife

Off to follow you Elise :)

[Africancrab]

I just joined. Here is my Stumble

http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/Africancrab

[Africancrab]

I just followed everyone above me

[RitoOriginals]

Great info! Thank you!! I recently just joined stumbleupon and have been trying to figure out how it works lol. I have followed those above me who have left links and I plan to help promote some of your items :)

Here's mine: http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/amberdrito

[Former_Member]

Thanks for the info. This is all new to me. I did start a stumble account some time ago, but have never really used it.
It is time to put it to work!

http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/cprhds

[RubyRobinBoutique]

So does stumbleupon work like pinterest? Do you get a stumble button for your toolbar that you can click whenever you find something you want to share with others? I have an account but can't see how I can share pages!

[somadlyinlove]

Yes, you should have some new buttons on your tool bar One says"stumble!" and you click it and the site gives you a page that someone else has added. It is good to click this now and then and view their pages instead of always adding etsy shops. (thats what I do and I have never been blocked from adding links)
You should also have a thumbs up and a thumbs down. When you want to add a site all you have to do is click the thumbs up and a review box should pop up. If no review box pops up but the thumb turns green then "generally, but not always) it means the page has already been added but you are adding your thumbs up which is nice!
Wish I knew the link to the page at Stumbleupon where you download the buttons If anyone finds it please post it here!


There are other threads for posting your Stumbleupon page please post them there

[RubyRobinBoutique]

Thanks Michelle!

Can I just ask for someone to clarify something, here it was said:


To start connecting with other Etsians through StumbleUpon, all you need to do is vote up their content (when it’s good). The more traffic you send them, the more likely they are to go and investigate the source, or even add you as a friend. StumbleUpon can be a great networking tool.

One of my pairs of earrings was landed on 3 times today from Stumbleupon, I can't see how I can investigate it from my end? Is there some way I can track down the location on Stumbleupon and see who liked it?

[RubyRobinBoutique]

Also, how do I got about labeling stumbled pages to increase views?

[EmeraldWellspring]

just started my account!


http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/FruitofPhalanges

[EmeraldWellspring]

i've just added two pages of my own items to a list and when i click on the pages nothing happens. it's just a white screen. can anyone tell me what i've done wrong or why the link doesn't seem to work? i've clicked on other pages and they work fine. can anyone help?

[Former_Member]

Here is me I just followed everyone else :)

http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/ThisMerryLife

[Former_Member]

Following everyone

Here's mine:

http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/portuguesewonder

[Former_Member]

http://pinterest.com/didifox89/

[PatsysPatchwork]

Just started. Following all above

http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/PatsysPatchwork

[CountryCrafting]

Here is mine, I have followed everyone before me and stumbled their likes :)

http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/countrycrafting/likes

[TheSnapDragonsLair]

went thru and followed everyone.

[Former_Member]

http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/JWBoutique1

Went through and followed everyone and liked their page..hope it helps