StumbleUpon For SEO

How to optimize your StumbleUpon Shares For SEO

By Frederick Web Promotionshttp://www.frederickwebpromotions.com

How to save bookmarks to Stumbleupon for SEO Purposes

What is StumbleUpon?

It is a social bookmarking site that displays useful content that might not be shown in Google.

Believe it or not, there is great content that does not meet the criteria that Google requires to be at the top of Google search results.

Founded in 2001, sold to eBay for $75 Million, then sold back to StumbleUpon for $29 Million.

“StumbleUpon is a pretty cool social media site devoted to helping you discover great sites and blogs that are only matched to your interests” Source: BlogonBloggers.com

“…users “StumbleUpon” webpages recommended by friends. When a user discovers and rates a website by giving it a “thumbs up”, the website automatically becomes a favourite of that user. Conversely, if a user dislikes a site, he/she can give it a “thumbs down”. Additionally, users can “stumble” their personal interests and pastimes such as photos, videos and games.” Source: Blogsdesign.com

How To Use StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon assumes you will put its toolbar on your web browser, when you find something that you think would be useful to share with others, you give it a “Public Thumbs Up” vote.

Most marketers, however, add a site to their bookmarks from social sharing buttons such as AddThis or Sharethis or Shareaholic. This tutorial assumes you are using this option.

• StumbleUpon is website that helps you to “stumble upon” articles, posts and photographs that match your interests. After reading the article presented to you, you can choose whether or not to “like” it. The more likes an article receives, the more times it will be presented to future stumblers, which in turn means more pageviews for that website owner.

• Many website owners and bloggers encourage the sharing of their articles to StumbleUpon in hopes of driving traffic to their sites. StumbleUpon can be a very powerful tool; when used correctly, some stumblers have garnered up to several thousand hits on a single post, in a single day. Source: EliRose.com

Social Recommendations

Who do you trust more? Claims from an advertiser or a recommendation from a trustedFacebook or Twitter friend?

Chances are, even though your Facebook friends are “less than friends” they are “more than

acquaintances”… you do have a history of knowing what a FB friend’s slant on things are. Before you whip out your credit card to purchase something, most of us check to see if

anyone we know has had a good or bad experience with a similar product or service.

This is the idea behind social bookmarking sites, over time you will come to “trust” certain online connections more than others. If you peruse the bookmarks of someone you trust, that will give you an educated guess as to weather or not you want to buy a product or service.

StumbleUpon users assume you’re sharing links with a network of friends, which is why StumbleUpon asks you if you want to search to see if your Facebook, Twitter or Gmail friends are also using StumbleUpon

How To Add A Thumbs Up a Site on StumbleUpon

For this example we’re going to add Vickie Moore’s blog: Gourmet Gifts for Maryland as a “target”

Now Open a new tab, have the target site (Your website or blog) in one tab and StumbleUpon.com in the adjacent tab, with you

already logged into StumbleUpon

We want to copy and paste the target site into the StumbleUpon box

Grab the url from your browser

Copy the URL to your clipboard

Now What Are You Going To Add As Your Description?

Cut n Paste A Paragraph From the Site You’re Bookmarking

Text Is What Google Spiders, the graphic isn’t going to paste anyway so don’t worry about it

Copy A Portion From the Bookmarked Site

Paste it into StumbleUpon

Add the site to your Stumbles

Now Add YOUR Description

Finished Project, Now Get Some StumbleUpon Friends

Contact Frederick Web Promotions• Hopefully this will get you started, at a minimum you’ll have populated your

StumbleUpon with your blog posts and profile pages and so the rest of our Facebook for Business Cooperative Group can vote you up.

• Next installment: How to vote for other group members and how to use the AddThis Toolbar to automate this.

• Thanks • David Bruce Jr Frederick Web Promotions | Local SEO & Social Media Marketing

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