Oct
Everyone Thinks They Are the StumbleUpon Expert
You’re not cool unless you know everything about StumbleUpon.
Which could be why everyone is writing about it, trying to convince everyone else that they are the StumbleUpon Expert. Pretty much every blog I’ve ever read has their own “This Is How To Use StumbleUpon” kind of guide.
Seriously, here’s a freakin list of the posts I’ve read:
- 10/01/2006: How to increase StumbleUpon traffic?
- 12/12/2006: Interview with Garrett Camp, StumbleUpon Co-Founder
- 1/31/2007: Build Super Links and Traffic With StumbleUpon
- 2/12/2007: Understanding StumbleUpon (Yes, even I posed as a StumbleUpon expert…)
- 2/23/2007: How to Use StumbleUpon for Your Business: The Definitive Guide
- 3/1/2007: The Why, How and Who of Marketing in StumbleUpon
- 3/7/2007: A Comprehensive Guide to StumbleUpon: How to Build Massive Traffic to Your Website
- 4/2/2007: Building a Large Audience For Your StumbleUpon Account
- 4/4/2007: Advanced Stumbling: How to Make a Stumblable Page
- 5/1/2007: Increase Your Website Traffic and Make More Money With StumbleUpon
- 5/10/2007: Five Ways to Grow Your StumbleUpon Network: An Ode to Altruistic Stumbling
- 6/29/2007: How to Use StumbleUpon to Promote
- 7/2/2007: Effective advertising strategy using StumbleUpon
- 7/7/2007: Stumbleupon can get your AdSense Account Banned for Invalid Impressions Fraud
- 7/19/2007: StumbleUpon Optimization: Leveraging Photo Stumbles for More Web Traffic
- 8/9/2007: Don’t Buy Traffic, Use StumbleUpon
- 8/14/2007: How to Draw StumbleUpon Users Into Your Blog
- 8/26/2007: Making A Power Account On StumbleUpon
- 8/29/2007: Analysis: StumbleUpon’s Top 50 Stumblers
- 8/30/2007: The Secret Features of StumbleUpon
- 9/3/2007: Interview with a Top StumbleUpon User
- 9/4/2007: A Definitive StumbleUpon Guide: Driving Traffic To Websites
- 9/7/2007: How to Become a Top StumbleUpon User (or Why You Really Shouldn’t Bother)
- 9/8/2007: Even More Traffic With StumbleUpon
- 9/9/2007: Ultimate Guide to Using StumbleUpon
- 9/13/2007: Writing for StumbleUpon: High Impact Content “Above the Scroll” in Four Easy Steps
- 9/18/2007: The Unspoken Secrets to Long Lasting Traffic With StumbleUpon
- 9/18/2007: Top 5 StumbleUpon Buzzkills
- 9/19/2007: Stumbleupon mathematics for stumblers
- 9/21/2007: Stumbleupon Math Followup
- 9/25/2007: Everything you need to know about promoting your own website on StumbleUpon
- 9/26/2007: Building Your Blog With StumbleUpon
- 9/26/2007: 7 reasons why i thumbed you down on stumbleupon
Looks like a good list…
But you know what sucks? As I’m in the process of organizing my list, this list gets posted. Can you believe that?
And not only did that list rain on my parade, it was a total kick in the nuts because my article wasn’t included!
Argh. I guess I’ll have to let this post sit for a few days before publishing it (so everyone can forget about Cornwall.) Then I’ll add some more links to make this more up-to-date, and when this debuts in October (i.e. today,) people can concentrate solely on it 
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My list was a list of lists, rather than just a list. Someone even listed my list of lists, but if you did not have a list then it was difficult to add you to my list of lists. However, now you have a list yourself I may add your list to my list of lists.
lol
Thanks for including me
Lists are beautiful, even when you don’t like SU 
Now the problem is whether to add to the list of lists, start a new list of lists, or perhaps list all the lists of lists?
I guess the first step is to list all our options for the list
Haha am I supposed to be happy I made this list? thanks for including my article…i guesss.
Hi Sucker and thanks for a linkback even if my blog is presented here in a negative way.
I never claimed I’m a StumbleUpon expert, everything I write is based on my own experience so my two posts about SU are just a confirmation that SU works for me (I posted stats screenshot) and a tip about how it can work for you too.
I truly hope you have read my post because it looks like you’ve just searched for “stumbleupon + howto” in Google and pasted first twenty and something links among which mine could be found.
Take it easy Daniel, you gotta read between the lines!
See what you’ve done now, Sucker!! lol
I think a more up to date list is needed. Let me know when you post it. I don’t really have a stumble upon how to guide, but when I make mine, please include me too.
Cheers!
Nice list. I’m no expert, but I need to learn how to leverage SU more.
The drivel you guys have written bout lists warrants a total boycotting of your sites and there content. Is this the best you can contribute/
Just try to write something inspiring that viewers relly want to know about. This SEO, Viral Marketing and selling others stuff just stinks. You will NEVER make any money getting stuck doing what all the other mugs are doing.
Move on and get really smart. Take a look at thebaldchemist.com and see how to work the web.
Yeah, because no one wants to read about SEO and viral marketing…
that chemist guy is funny. The site has been on line since October 2006 and Alexa rank of over 2.9 Million. No one goes there and he sees himself an expert.
Oh crikey, don’t let Caroline Middlebrook’s readers read this list otherwise no one will buy her ebook LOL.
@ A Friend
I keep laughing at your comment each time I see it!
@April
I think this list is tame compared to some of the reviews of her ebook that are out there! I’ve seen a few people rip it apart.
The thing I’ve noticed about traffic from SU is that they spend a whole eighth of a second viewing your site… they’re just clickers, not readers or buyers.
Stumble Upon and Digg have the lowest CTR just enter stumble and so on. Digg is worst, people look at Digg headline for the story and Digg. Everyone is just looking to become a top Digger or Stumbler. Have you noticed that a lot of top diggers Digg more than 100 storied or more daily? I bet that they didn’t even read 10 of those.
what you guys think about linkedin.com ? i think that’s also a good soical network of marketing..
Hey, everyone runs out of idea from time to time. They need a post filler and since nobody on earth knows exactly what stumbleupon is they can call it anyway they see fit and no one will challenge them for that. Not since you came along though……
I personally think Stumbleupon is a waste of time and effort. Yes you may get a lot of visitors but they will never buy anything from you or click on any Adsense ads. The best you can hope for is to get a few more RSS readers.
Jason wallace:
I am on LinkedIn but just found http://www.perfectbusiness.com which I like better because it is set up for entrepreneurs…
Ha Ha – can you believe that !!
Stumble is like a rash…..
Traffic qualiy is average though.
I don’t get stumbleupon anyway, like as a user. I didn’t like it at all. Digg I am a fan of yes.
What a list… I always thought StumbleUpon was the friendliest bookmarking service online. Don’t think too much and it will be easy to attain the traffic from stumbling. – Rif Chia
I used to purchase stumbling traffic in the past but currently it does not seem to work and worse it gets the account banned.
This is ridiculous. Perhaps they really are experts? xD
Nice links. Maybe they are really experts…
haha
Great research and collection also…
As the number of SEO’s are increasing I found that there is lot of spamming going on tons of social bookmarking and networking site.
I used stumble a few times, it was great at first but then the traffic spiked, and it was no more.
Hello,
Lists are awesome.I personally think that Stumble upon is a very good effort.Great research and collection also.Thank you for it.
These days it s very had to find authentic information on the internet. There are so many articles on every topic, every tool and each explained from a different angle. I had to do a research few days back but couldn’t get one reasonable pack of information for long. I’m not against internet marketing, of course you want people to know about your product but people who write this stuff, must at least learn about the thing in right way first.
Fantastic list of SU resources…. thanks for compiling them (even if you were slow)
I think more up to date list is required. I don’t really have a stumble upon how to guide. But nice list. I’m no expert, but I need to learn how to leverage SU more.
Thanks!
Everyone runs out of idea from time to time. There are so many articles on every topic, every tool and each explained from a different angle.
StumbleUpon is one of my top traffic generators. Besides the visitors that come directly to your domain, most traffic is generated by search engine results or some other type of search….