Comments on: 7 Tips for Finding and Submitting Great Content to StumbleUpon

By: jim

jim — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:19:29 +0000

I don’t game Stumble – what’s the point? You might get a blip but pretty much no longer term readers.

I prefer to simply Stumble stuff I like, including my own. For example I stumbled a piece I’d pulled together on Sir John Harvey Jones a few days ago. But before that I’d not Stumbled my own blog for months.

By: Utah SEO

Utah SEO — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 05:12:09 +0000

Good post. The social media Firefox plugin rocks and makes things easy.

By: Michael Lodispoto

Michael Lodispoto — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 05:35:21 +0000

Everything about StumbleUpon is great to me. I think it’s funny how though the posts that I submit that I think will go over well don’t do quite as well as the ones that are a joke or fun and that I never expected anything from. There’s one on my site about college and sex and virginity that for 3 days now is running over 2000 visitors a day from Stumbleupon. Who’d have thought? (p18 at the blog)
Try Drudge report too for news that others don’t see. If you go to the sites linked there is usually at least one of two gems that you would love to submit that others have not done so yet.

By: Matt Ridout

Matt Ridout — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:59:05 +0000

Great post Jeff, like the idea of being a reporter too! To be honest I find news from stumble that I wouldn’t usually find!

By: Chris Estes

Chris Estes — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:24:54 +0000

I haven’t found the key to stumbled upon success as you. I do use stumbled upon but for some reason a while back the different add it programs I was using at different blogs was registering. I like digg better because the “scoop” does seem to happen there first. Google news is also good.

By: Pinny Cohen

Pinny Cohen — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:45:42 +0000

These are some great tips. I also would stress sending the right message at the right time:

http://www.pinnycohen.com/2007/12/26/marketing-wisdom/how-to-deliver-the-right-message-at-the-right-time/

By: Shana Albert

Shana Albert — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:14:32 +0000

Jeff, it seems like this approach to finding content to stumble would be incredibly time consuming. How do you find the time? You are already aware of my struggle with Time Management and Social Media…. if this post is how you find content to stumble how do you find the time? Do you follow any type of structure/schedule between work, play and social media?

Great post and thank you for the mention. 😉

Shana

By: theGypsy

theGypsy — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:21:16 +0000

Well Mista Jeff, being a technical search junkie I started using SU as a mere mortal and thought only to have some quality control over what I had to ‘stumble upon’… looking at a potential new contact’s stumbles was nearly mandatory. To this day I only have a mere 30 or so friends, but I am pretty sure to have good quality (for the most part) when I do go a stumbling.

I don’t enjoy the excitement you do from having a scoop, as such highs are temporary and fleeting. I do though enjoy it as I would reading a newspaper or magazine, the element of finding something I may not have otherwise is great.

Dave