Standing Out

If you haven’t discovered one of the better social bookmarking tools out there - StumbleUpon.com, I have good news - it’s not too late.

There are two good reasons to use Stumble:

1. Find content worth reading. People “discover” web pages, thereby giving it an automatic thumbs up. That gets a web page into Stumble circulation. Then, when people “Stumble” (I’ll explain later), Stumble shows random pages that others have discovered. People either vote for the content or vote against it. Eventually, the page you “discovered” will be Stumbled upon, too.
2. Promote your stuff. On any given day, the highest number of unique hits to my blog are from posts that I’ve Stumbled. It’s almost instantaneous, too. One day (a weekend) my daily hits went from less than 20 to over 200 in a couple of hours because I Stumbled some content.
3. Get recognition and exposure. When someone has Stumble installed and they perform a Google search, next to the search result, a link to the user who discovered the page on Stumble is displayed. This is really nifty. Other Stumblers will check out your profile, and you might just get a few fans that way.

Are you “Stumbling” yet?

Tags: Stumble, Stumble Upon, StumbleUpon, StumbleUpon.com

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