Maximize Exposure with StumbleUpon
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Written by admin on August 18, 2008 – 12:09 pm
StumbleUpon is a peer and social networking technology that includes a toolbar that you install in your Web browser. The StumbleUpon toolbar allows you to discover and rate Web pages, videos, photos, and news articles.
Getting your Web pages, videos, photos, and news articles submitted to StumbleUpon is an effective way to generate buzz and traffic, and to build backlinks to your Web site. StumbleUpon is a great resource to locate interesting Web sites and videos. Using StumbleUpon regularly provides countless examples of the kind of content that most users find interesting interesting content that people like is what you want to produce to maximize your exposure on StumbleUpon and other social networks.
StumbleUpon is a peer and social networking technology that includes a toolbar that you install in your Web browser; you can use this toolbar to discover and rate Web pages, videos, photos, and news articles. The StumbleUpon service also allows you to submit your own Web pages, videos, photos, and news articles, all of which can help you generate buzz and traffic, and build backlinks to your Web site.
As an Internet user you surf the Web and encounter countless Web sites throughout the day that you like and dislike. By installing and using the StumbleUpon toolbar, you can vote for Web sites you like and dislike simply by clicking the Thumbs Up button on the toolbar when you are on a Web site you like, and clicking the Thumbs Down button when you see a Web site you dislike. In addition to voting on Web sites you come across on your own, the StumbleUpon toolbar allows you to randomly visit other Web sites by clicking the Stumble button. When you click the Stumble button, the StumbleUpon algorithm displays Web sites that you may find interesting based upon your personal interests and previous voting behavior. The Stumble button allows you to find cool Web sites and vote on whether you like them or not.
The key to generating buzz, traffic, and links from StumbleUpon is to make sure that your content is submitted and available to other StumbleUpon users. You may want to have other people submit your content so that you can vote positively on it and not come across to other StumbleUpon users as partial. The best kind of content to submit to StumbleUpon is entertaining, informative, or unique.
StumbleUpon has an online video service called StumbleVideo that can provide a large amount of traffic to your videos. StumbleVideo shows users online videos based upon user preferences along with popularity as determined by votes from other members of the StumbleUpon community. Unlike StumbleUpon, StumbleVideo does not require registration, and you are not required to download the StumbleUpon toolbar to watch videos.
Instead, you simply go to the video.stumbleupon.com Web site, select a video, and then click the Stumble button whenever you want to watch another video. StumbleVideo offers users several useful features including the ability to search for other popular videos and to share videos with friends via e-mail. You do not submit videos to StumbleVideo. Instead, StumbleVideo gets videos from sources such as YouTube, Metacafe, MySpace TV, Google Video, and other popular video sites. Therefore, if you want to get into StumbleVideo, upload your video to one of the sites listed above. StumbleVideo is a great source for you to generate ideas for creating your own videos that you can submit to the popular video Web sites, as well as host on your own Web site.
