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StumbleUpon Guide to Discovering NewSites
With millions of new pages being added to the web everyday how do you discover greatwebsites that interest you StumbleUpon is a free tool that discovers websites based onyour interests learns what you like and brings you more
Every time you click the Stumble button you are brought to a website that matches yourpersonal interests
Say you are really into art With StumbleUpon you can discover great web pages videosblogs and photos about art All personalised for you
Clicking the Stumble button will bring you to one new website after another Whetheryou are interested in humour photography cooking or astronomy StumbleUpon hasover 500 interests to choose from and tens of millions of websites all submitted andendorsed by StumbleUpon members
If you were trying to discover great websites on a particular topic using a search engineyou would be hunting and clicking through pages and pages of results most of whichwouldnt be of interest to you
The difference with StumbleUpon is that everything is tailored to your interests You getto rate the websites - thumbs up or thumbs down so that StumbleUpon learns what youlike And your Stumbles become more and more personalised and the more Stumblingyou do the better it gets
StumbleUpon uses your ratings along with the ratings of millions of others members todetermine which sites are best for you
All of your rated sites are saved for you in your profile page so that you can access themagain and again
StumbleUpon also makes it really easy to share websites you find with otherStumbleUpon members or to anyone with an email address so you can share yourdiscoveries with your friends
StumbleUpon
Getting Started
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Create an account verify it then sign-in to StumbleUpon
Setup your Preferences by clicking on Your Home --gt Preferences
Here you can upload a photo add your name email DOB communication settings etcall the basic stuff you do when setting up your profile Click on ltSave preferencesgt whenyou are done
Now click on ltCustomize Profilegt on the right hand side to further enhance your profile
Here you can add a link to your website add your interests change your theme etcclick on ltSave preferencesgt when you are done
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Manage your Interests
It is important to select all the topics that interest you so that StumbleUpon can deliveryou the best rated sites when you Stumble
Click on Manage Interests or ltStumblegt
Go through each of the main headings and select the topics that interest you When youare done click on ltSave now amp submitgt
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These interests can always be changed at any time by clicking on All Topics from thetoolbar then Edit
Toolbar
I highly recommend downloading the StumbleUpon toolbar from here and installing it Itmakes it so much easier when it comes to Stumbling upon new sites and managing them
If you dont want to install the toolbar you can use the WebToolbar from withinStumbleUpon
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This guide will be based on the installed toolbar
Stumbling Upon New Sites
The ltStumblegt button loads a new random site The contents of these random sites arebased on the interests you specified earlier
Click on the ltStumblegt button and a random site will be displayed every time you clickthis button a new site will be displayed
Thumbs Up Button
The ltI like itgt button aka thumbs up does three things
1 If the site displayed was reached via the ltStumblegt button (which means it is alreadyin the StumbleUpon directory) it will be added to your favourites
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It will also train the recommendation engine to learn what you like which will improvethe quality of your stumbles
2 If the site was reached independently of StumbleUpon it will open the Discovery panelallowing you to submit the site to the StumbleUpon directory
3 If a site has already been thumbed-up the thumb-up button changes colour from blueto green
Pressing the button a second time will undo the initial rating remove it from yourfavourites and change the colour back to blue
Thumbs Down Button
The ltThumbs downgt button shows that you dont like that site Your negative ratingswill help StumbleUpons recommendation engine learn what you donrsquot like so you arentshown similar sites again
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The ltThumbs downgt button has four options
1 Not-for-me = poor targeting Use this whenever you receive something that you dislikeor that does not match your interests
2 Report Spam = use this option whenever you receive content that provides no value Ifitrsquos something you personally donrsquot like use the option above This option can be usedfor unsolicited requests to register and sites that look suspicious or contain scams
3 Duplicate Content = content that has been copied from another page with no addedvalue from the original
4 Block Website = you can opt to block an entire domain which means you will nolonger receive any stumbles from that site again You can unblock the domain at any timelater if you change your mind
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Share Button
The ltSharegt button has a few options
1 Twitter Facebook StumbleUpon have released a URL shortening service called Suprwhich you can now easily share sites you like with your friends and followers on Twitteror Facebook All you need to do is sync up Supr (your StumbleUpon account) with yourFacebook andor Twitter accounts and you are one click away from posting yourfavourite sites
Please refer to the Supr section below on how to setup and configure Supr for posting toTwitter and Facebook
2 An email address you can share a site with someone who is not a registeredStumbleUpon member (family members co-workers etc) by sending them an email witha link to the site you shared
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Enter recipients email address then click ltOKgt
Enter the subject then click ltOKgt
The email recipient will receive an email with a link to the shared site
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3 Your StumbleUpon Friends Your friends will receive the site you sent in their Stumblequeue next time they click on their Stumble button A red numeric indicator will showthem that they have shares waiting in their Stumble queue
Info Button
The ltInfogt button shows reviews other members have made about the site you haveStumbled or if you want to make a review yourself
Firstly you may want to check if your own site is listed in StumbleUpon by visiting theStumbleUpon website reviews page
Enter your sites URL then click ltView Reviewsgt
If your site hasnt already been reviewed then review it add some tags then click ltAddReviewgt
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Clicking on the ltInfogt button when viewing a site allows you to review the site andassign tags to it all of your reviewed sites are saved
Categories
The categories across the top of the StumbleUpon page - News Photos Videos ArtBusiness Computers Health Fun Lifestyle Music Science Sports Technology contain sitesthat have content relevant to those categories
You can subscribe to sites within that category by clicking the ltSubscribegt button
Sites within this category are added to your interests which can be seen at Your Home --gtPreferences --gt Manage Interests
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You can unsubscribe any time by unselecting from the manage interests screen or byclicking on the ltUnsubscribegt button
Your Home
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The Your Home tab (far left hand side) contains everything relevant to you
Your Home --gt Your Favorites
This section contains
Reviews show all the sites that you have placed a review These reviews can beedited or deleted at any time from here
Favorites shows all of your favourite sites Any site that you have thumbed-upwill appear here Your favourites can be edited or deleted at any time from here
Photos shows sites tagged with photography
Video shows sites tagged with video
Discoveries shows all the sites that you have discovered These discoveries canbe edited or deleted at any time from here
Views
There are two views within StumbleUpon - List View and Grid View
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List view lists out your sites with a brief summary of each and allows you to easily edit ordelete
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Grid view displays your sites in rows of five with no summary displayed with just a pictureand the title of the page There is no option to edit of delete in this view
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Your Home --gt Whats New
This section shows new and recent reviews by people you have subscribed to andrecently rated sites from your subscriptions
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Your Home --gt Friends
This section shows your friends and people you have subscribed to
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Your Home --gt Inbox
The inbox is self explanatory
Your Home --gt Groups
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Your Home --gt Preferences
This was covered at the start of this guide
Supr URL
Supr is StumbleUpons URL shortening service that also helps your content getdiscovered Every Supr URL exposes your content to StumbleUpons 8 million users
Some of the notable features of Supr are
One-click posting andor URL-shortening to your Twitter and Facebook accounts Ability to schedule your posts at optimal times Suggestions for best posting times Reporting and graphs for your posts Exposure for your content to the entire StumbleUpon community Ability to highlight the best pages on your domain along with the main post Advanced options for your own custom short URLs
To be able to share Stumbled sites and post links to them on Twitter and Facebook youfirst need to authorise Supr to post to these services
Sign-in to Supr with your StumbleUpon details
Authorize on Twitter
Firstly click on ltAuthorize on Twittergt
Click ltAllowgt
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Authorize on Facebook
Now click on ltAuthorize on Facebookgt
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Click on ltAllowgt
Click on ltAllow Publishinggt
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Posting from Supr
When making a post you can either
Post immediately Just Shorten the URL (to be used elsewhere eg other social networks blogs etc) Schedule your post for later
I am going to post immediately to Twitter and Facebook
Successfully appears on Twitter (and the URL is automatically shortened)
Successfully appears on Facebook (and the URL is automatically shortened)
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Stats
As soon as yoursquove made a post you can immediately start checking stats in real time
You will be able to see how the post will appear to your recipients how many times theSupr link was clicked on (15 clicks) how many other views it got from the StumbleUponcommunity how many times it was retweeted and how many times it was reviewed (1review) by StumbleUpon members
Overview of StumbleUpon
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Friends and Subscribers
One of the best ways to Discover interesting sites is to connect with other members as aFriend or Subscriber
If you enjoy content another member has Shared or Discovered subscribe to their profileso you can follow their Stumbles while using the Toolbar If someone subscribes to yourcontent theyrsquoll see pages you rated and reviewed when Stumbling
Friends may not always share your interests so yoursquoll only see their reviews when youchoose to or if theyrsquove already shared content that matches your interests
Requests to become someonersquos Friend must be approved if yoursquove chosen to make yourStumble activity visible to others any member is free to Subscribe to your content
Building Relationships
Like with all other social communities connections are everything at StumbleUpon asthey determine
Authority the more friends you have the higher your authority as a member is Influence the more friends you have the more people you can share your
favourites to
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The most effective ways of building connections and making relationships are
Initiate friendship by sending friend requests Testimonials give generous reviews to other members profiles
Website Popularity
There are a number of factors that determine the popularity of a page on StumbleUpon
Every time a page or site or discovered it ranks on a 0-5 star scale which makes up thesubmission score This submission score is determined by
Reviewers and stumblers score all StumbleUpon members are ranked based ontheir authority which includes
o the number of thumbs-up given and reviews madeo the number of testimonials receivedo the number of subscribers and friendso age as a StumbleUpon membero the diversity and consistency of topics Stumbled
Rate at which the story is thumbed-up the more thumbs in a short amount oftime the hotter the story
Source of the thumb if a post is thumbed or review from the page itself thiswont rank as highly as if the post was randomly discovered or Stumbled
Diversity of Stumblers if the page is thumbed or review by a wide variety ofunrelated people this will also increase the popularity of the page
Finally
StumbleUpon is a fantastic way for targeted traffic to visit and learn more about yoursite as well as discovering new sites for yourself
Building up your friend-base and can help further expose your website to their friendsespecially if you have a good reputation and always thumb-up good sites The more sitesthat you thumb-up (that interest you) the more it will attract like-minded people to yoursite connections are made and referrals start to come in StumbleUpon works very wellas a brand and link building tool
Have fun Stumbling
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The Social Media Guide
The Social Media Guide provides helpful advice and tips on connecting you to othersthrough the use of social media and social networks
The Social Media Guide is an authoritative source on current and emerging social mediatools and platforms
The current explosion in social media technologies has made it easier than ever toconnect with friends groups customers and networks with similar interests from allaround the world
Businesses can benefit greatly by using social media to market their product strengthenbrand recognition and attract new customers
My aim is to show you how social media can be used to connect with more peoplefaster by providing clear and simple solutions
The Social Media Guide will show you how to extend your reach deeper into the socialweb and connect with more people
This material may be shared with everyone not sold for profit and not modified in anyway
Regards
Matthew Tommasi
www httpthesocialmediaguidecomau
email matthewthesocialmediaguidecomau
twitter socialguide
facebook httpfacebookcomTheSocialMediaGuide
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Create an account verify it then sign-in to StumbleUpon
Setup your Preferences by clicking on Your Home --gt Preferences
Here you can upload a photo add your name email DOB communication settings etcall the basic stuff you do when setting up your profile Click on ltSave preferencesgt whenyou are done
Now click on ltCustomize Profilegt on the right hand side to further enhance your profile
Here you can add a link to your website add your interests change your theme etcclick on ltSave preferencesgt when you are done
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Manage your Interests
It is important to select all the topics that interest you so that StumbleUpon can deliveryou the best rated sites when you Stumble
Click on Manage Interests or ltStumblegt
Go through each of the main headings and select the topics that interest you When youare done click on ltSave now amp submitgt
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These interests can always be changed at any time by clicking on All Topics from thetoolbar then Edit
Toolbar
I highly recommend downloading the StumbleUpon toolbar from here and installing it Itmakes it so much easier when it comes to Stumbling upon new sites and managing them
If you dont want to install the toolbar you can use the WebToolbar from withinStumbleUpon
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This guide will be based on the installed toolbar
Stumbling Upon New Sites
The ltStumblegt button loads a new random site The contents of these random sites arebased on the interests you specified earlier
Click on the ltStumblegt button and a random site will be displayed every time you clickthis button a new site will be displayed
Thumbs Up Button
The ltI like itgt button aka thumbs up does three things
1 If the site displayed was reached via the ltStumblegt button (which means it is alreadyin the StumbleUpon directory) it will be added to your favourites
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It will also train the recommendation engine to learn what you like which will improvethe quality of your stumbles
2 If the site was reached independently of StumbleUpon it will open the Discovery panelallowing you to submit the site to the StumbleUpon directory
3 If a site has already been thumbed-up the thumb-up button changes colour from blueto green
Pressing the button a second time will undo the initial rating remove it from yourfavourites and change the colour back to blue
Thumbs Down Button
The ltThumbs downgt button shows that you dont like that site Your negative ratingswill help StumbleUpons recommendation engine learn what you donrsquot like so you arentshown similar sites again
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The ltThumbs downgt button has four options
1 Not-for-me = poor targeting Use this whenever you receive something that you dislikeor that does not match your interests
2 Report Spam = use this option whenever you receive content that provides no value Ifitrsquos something you personally donrsquot like use the option above This option can be usedfor unsolicited requests to register and sites that look suspicious or contain scams
3 Duplicate Content = content that has been copied from another page with no addedvalue from the original
4 Block Website = you can opt to block an entire domain which means you will nolonger receive any stumbles from that site again You can unblock the domain at any timelater if you change your mind
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Share Button
The ltSharegt button has a few options
1 Twitter Facebook StumbleUpon have released a URL shortening service called Suprwhich you can now easily share sites you like with your friends and followers on Twitteror Facebook All you need to do is sync up Supr (your StumbleUpon account) with yourFacebook andor Twitter accounts and you are one click away from posting yourfavourite sites
Please refer to the Supr section below on how to setup and configure Supr for posting toTwitter and Facebook
2 An email address you can share a site with someone who is not a registeredStumbleUpon member (family members co-workers etc) by sending them an email witha link to the site you shared
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Enter recipients email address then click ltOKgt
Enter the subject then click ltOKgt
The email recipient will receive an email with a link to the shared site
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3 Your StumbleUpon Friends Your friends will receive the site you sent in their Stumblequeue next time they click on their Stumble button A red numeric indicator will showthem that they have shares waiting in their Stumble queue
Info Button
The ltInfogt button shows reviews other members have made about the site you haveStumbled or if you want to make a review yourself
Firstly you may want to check if your own site is listed in StumbleUpon by visiting theStumbleUpon website reviews page
Enter your sites URL then click ltView Reviewsgt
If your site hasnt already been reviewed then review it add some tags then click ltAddReviewgt
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Clicking on the ltInfogt button when viewing a site allows you to review the site andassign tags to it all of your reviewed sites are saved
Categories
The categories across the top of the StumbleUpon page - News Photos Videos ArtBusiness Computers Health Fun Lifestyle Music Science Sports Technology contain sitesthat have content relevant to those categories
You can subscribe to sites within that category by clicking the ltSubscribegt button
Sites within this category are added to your interests which can be seen at Your Home --gtPreferences --gt Manage Interests
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You can unsubscribe any time by unselecting from the manage interests screen or byclicking on the ltUnsubscribegt button
Your Home
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The Your Home tab (far left hand side) contains everything relevant to you
Your Home --gt Your Favorites
This section contains
Reviews show all the sites that you have placed a review These reviews can beedited or deleted at any time from here
Favorites shows all of your favourite sites Any site that you have thumbed-upwill appear here Your favourites can be edited or deleted at any time from here
Photos shows sites tagged with photography
Video shows sites tagged with video
Discoveries shows all the sites that you have discovered These discoveries canbe edited or deleted at any time from here
Views
There are two views within StumbleUpon - List View and Grid View
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List view lists out your sites with a brief summary of each and allows you to easily edit ordelete
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau16
Grid view displays your sites in rows of five with no summary displayed with just a pictureand the title of the page There is no option to edit of delete in this view
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Your Home --gt Whats New
This section shows new and recent reviews by people you have subscribed to andrecently rated sites from your subscriptions
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Your Home --gt Friends
This section shows your friends and people you have subscribed to
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau19
Your Home --gt Inbox
The inbox is self explanatory
Your Home --gt Groups
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Your Home --gt Preferences
This was covered at the start of this guide
Supr URL
Supr is StumbleUpons URL shortening service that also helps your content getdiscovered Every Supr URL exposes your content to StumbleUpons 8 million users
Some of the notable features of Supr are
One-click posting andor URL-shortening to your Twitter and Facebook accounts Ability to schedule your posts at optimal times Suggestions for best posting times Reporting and graphs for your posts Exposure for your content to the entire StumbleUpon community Ability to highlight the best pages on your domain along with the main post Advanced options for your own custom short URLs
To be able to share Stumbled sites and post links to them on Twitter and Facebook youfirst need to authorise Supr to post to these services
Sign-in to Supr with your StumbleUpon details
Authorize on Twitter
Firstly click on ltAuthorize on Twittergt
Click ltAllowgt
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Authorize on Facebook
Now click on ltAuthorize on Facebookgt
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Click on ltAllowgt
Click on ltAllow Publishinggt
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Posting from Supr
When making a post you can either
Post immediately Just Shorten the URL (to be used elsewhere eg other social networks blogs etc) Schedule your post for later
I am going to post immediately to Twitter and Facebook
Successfully appears on Twitter (and the URL is automatically shortened)
Successfully appears on Facebook (and the URL is automatically shortened)
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau24
Stats
As soon as yoursquove made a post you can immediately start checking stats in real time
You will be able to see how the post will appear to your recipients how many times theSupr link was clicked on (15 clicks) how many other views it got from the StumbleUponcommunity how many times it was retweeted and how many times it was reviewed (1review) by StumbleUpon members
Overview of StumbleUpon
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Friends and Subscribers
One of the best ways to Discover interesting sites is to connect with other members as aFriend or Subscriber
If you enjoy content another member has Shared or Discovered subscribe to their profileso you can follow their Stumbles while using the Toolbar If someone subscribes to yourcontent theyrsquoll see pages you rated and reviewed when Stumbling
Friends may not always share your interests so yoursquoll only see their reviews when youchoose to or if theyrsquove already shared content that matches your interests
Requests to become someonersquos Friend must be approved if yoursquove chosen to make yourStumble activity visible to others any member is free to Subscribe to your content
Building Relationships
Like with all other social communities connections are everything at StumbleUpon asthey determine
Authority the more friends you have the higher your authority as a member is Influence the more friends you have the more people you can share your
favourites to
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The most effective ways of building connections and making relationships are
Initiate friendship by sending friend requests Testimonials give generous reviews to other members profiles
Website Popularity
There are a number of factors that determine the popularity of a page on StumbleUpon
Every time a page or site or discovered it ranks on a 0-5 star scale which makes up thesubmission score This submission score is determined by
Reviewers and stumblers score all StumbleUpon members are ranked based ontheir authority which includes
o the number of thumbs-up given and reviews madeo the number of testimonials receivedo the number of subscribers and friendso age as a StumbleUpon membero the diversity and consistency of topics Stumbled
Rate at which the story is thumbed-up the more thumbs in a short amount oftime the hotter the story
Source of the thumb if a post is thumbed or review from the page itself thiswont rank as highly as if the post was randomly discovered or Stumbled
Diversity of Stumblers if the page is thumbed or review by a wide variety ofunrelated people this will also increase the popularity of the page
Finally
StumbleUpon is a fantastic way for targeted traffic to visit and learn more about yoursite as well as discovering new sites for yourself
Building up your friend-base and can help further expose your website to their friendsespecially if you have a good reputation and always thumb-up good sites The more sitesthat you thumb-up (that interest you) the more it will attract like-minded people to yoursite connections are made and referrals start to come in StumbleUpon works very wellas a brand and link building tool
Have fun Stumbling
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The Social Media Guide
The Social Media Guide provides helpful advice and tips on connecting you to othersthrough the use of social media and social networks
The Social Media Guide is an authoritative source on current and emerging social mediatools and platforms
The current explosion in social media technologies has made it easier than ever toconnect with friends groups customers and networks with similar interests from allaround the world
Businesses can benefit greatly by using social media to market their product strengthenbrand recognition and attract new customers
My aim is to show you how social media can be used to connect with more peoplefaster by providing clear and simple solutions
The Social Media Guide will show you how to extend your reach deeper into the socialweb and connect with more people
This material may be shared with everyone not sold for profit and not modified in anyway
Regards
Matthew Tommasi
www httpthesocialmediaguidecomau
email matthewthesocialmediaguidecomau
twitter socialguide
facebook httpfacebookcomTheSocialMediaGuide
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Manage your Interests
It is important to select all the topics that interest you so that StumbleUpon can deliveryou the best rated sites when you Stumble
Click on Manage Interests or ltStumblegt
Go through each of the main headings and select the topics that interest you When youare done click on ltSave now amp submitgt
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These interests can always be changed at any time by clicking on All Topics from thetoolbar then Edit
Toolbar
I highly recommend downloading the StumbleUpon toolbar from here and installing it Itmakes it so much easier when it comes to Stumbling upon new sites and managing them
If you dont want to install the toolbar you can use the WebToolbar from withinStumbleUpon
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This guide will be based on the installed toolbar
Stumbling Upon New Sites
The ltStumblegt button loads a new random site The contents of these random sites arebased on the interests you specified earlier
Click on the ltStumblegt button and a random site will be displayed every time you clickthis button a new site will be displayed
Thumbs Up Button
The ltI like itgt button aka thumbs up does three things
1 If the site displayed was reached via the ltStumblegt button (which means it is alreadyin the StumbleUpon directory) it will be added to your favourites
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It will also train the recommendation engine to learn what you like which will improvethe quality of your stumbles
2 If the site was reached independently of StumbleUpon it will open the Discovery panelallowing you to submit the site to the StumbleUpon directory
3 If a site has already been thumbed-up the thumb-up button changes colour from blueto green
Pressing the button a second time will undo the initial rating remove it from yourfavourites and change the colour back to blue
Thumbs Down Button
The ltThumbs downgt button shows that you dont like that site Your negative ratingswill help StumbleUpons recommendation engine learn what you donrsquot like so you arentshown similar sites again
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The ltThumbs downgt button has four options
1 Not-for-me = poor targeting Use this whenever you receive something that you dislikeor that does not match your interests
2 Report Spam = use this option whenever you receive content that provides no value Ifitrsquos something you personally donrsquot like use the option above This option can be usedfor unsolicited requests to register and sites that look suspicious or contain scams
3 Duplicate Content = content that has been copied from another page with no addedvalue from the original
4 Block Website = you can opt to block an entire domain which means you will nolonger receive any stumbles from that site again You can unblock the domain at any timelater if you change your mind
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Share Button
The ltSharegt button has a few options
1 Twitter Facebook StumbleUpon have released a URL shortening service called Suprwhich you can now easily share sites you like with your friends and followers on Twitteror Facebook All you need to do is sync up Supr (your StumbleUpon account) with yourFacebook andor Twitter accounts and you are one click away from posting yourfavourite sites
Please refer to the Supr section below on how to setup and configure Supr for posting toTwitter and Facebook
2 An email address you can share a site with someone who is not a registeredStumbleUpon member (family members co-workers etc) by sending them an email witha link to the site you shared
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Enter recipients email address then click ltOKgt
Enter the subject then click ltOKgt
The email recipient will receive an email with a link to the shared site
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3 Your StumbleUpon Friends Your friends will receive the site you sent in their Stumblequeue next time they click on their Stumble button A red numeric indicator will showthem that they have shares waiting in their Stumble queue
Info Button
The ltInfogt button shows reviews other members have made about the site you haveStumbled or if you want to make a review yourself
Firstly you may want to check if your own site is listed in StumbleUpon by visiting theStumbleUpon website reviews page
Enter your sites URL then click ltView Reviewsgt
If your site hasnt already been reviewed then review it add some tags then click ltAddReviewgt
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Clicking on the ltInfogt button when viewing a site allows you to review the site andassign tags to it all of your reviewed sites are saved
Categories
The categories across the top of the StumbleUpon page - News Photos Videos ArtBusiness Computers Health Fun Lifestyle Music Science Sports Technology contain sitesthat have content relevant to those categories
You can subscribe to sites within that category by clicking the ltSubscribegt button
Sites within this category are added to your interests which can be seen at Your Home --gtPreferences --gt Manage Interests
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You can unsubscribe any time by unselecting from the manage interests screen or byclicking on the ltUnsubscribegt button
Your Home
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The Your Home tab (far left hand side) contains everything relevant to you
Your Home --gt Your Favorites
This section contains
Reviews show all the sites that you have placed a review These reviews can beedited or deleted at any time from here
Favorites shows all of your favourite sites Any site that you have thumbed-upwill appear here Your favourites can be edited or deleted at any time from here
Photos shows sites tagged with photography
Video shows sites tagged with video
Discoveries shows all the sites that you have discovered These discoveries canbe edited or deleted at any time from here
Views
There are two views within StumbleUpon - List View and Grid View
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List view lists out your sites with a brief summary of each and allows you to easily edit ordelete
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau16
Grid view displays your sites in rows of five with no summary displayed with just a pictureand the title of the page There is no option to edit of delete in this view
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau17
Your Home --gt Whats New
This section shows new and recent reviews by people you have subscribed to andrecently rated sites from your subscriptions
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau18
Your Home --gt Friends
This section shows your friends and people you have subscribed to
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau19
Your Home --gt Inbox
The inbox is self explanatory
Your Home --gt Groups
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau20
Your Home --gt Preferences
This was covered at the start of this guide
Supr URL
Supr is StumbleUpons URL shortening service that also helps your content getdiscovered Every Supr URL exposes your content to StumbleUpons 8 million users
Some of the notable features of Supr are
One-click posting andor URL-shortening to your Twitter and Facebook accounts Ability to schedule your posts at optimal times Suggestions for best posting times Reporting and graphs for your posts Exposure for your content to the entire StumbleUpon community Ability to highlight the best pages on your domain along with the main post Advanced options for your own custom short URLs
To be able to share Stumbled sites and post links to them on Twitter and Facebook youfirst need to authorise Supr to post to these services
Sign-in to Supr with your StumbleUpon details
Authorize on Twitter
Firstly click on ltAuthorize on Twittergt
Click ltAllowgt
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Authorize on Facebook
Now click on ltAuthorize on Facebookgt
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Click on ltAllowgt
Click on ltAllow Publishinggt
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Posting from Supr
When making a post you can either
Post immediately Just Shorten the URL (to be used elsewhere eg other social networks blogs etc) Schedule your post for later
I am going to post immediately to Twitter and Facebook
Successfully appears on Twitter (and the URL is automatically shortened)
Successfully appears on Facebook (and the URL is automatically shortened)
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Stats
As soon as yoursquove made a post you can immediately start checking stats in real time
You will be able to see how the post will appear to your recipients how many times theSupr link was clicked on (15 clicks) how many other views it got from the StumbleUponcommunity how many times it was retweeted and how many times it was reviewed (1review) by StumbleUpon members
Overview of StumbleUpon
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Friends and Subscribers
One of the best ways to Discover interesting sites is to connect with other members as aFriend or Subscriber
If you enjoy content another member has Shared or Discovered subscribe to their profileso you can follow their Stumbles while using the Toolbar If someone subscribes to yourcontent theyrsquoll see pages you rated and reviewed when Stumbling
Friends may not always share your interests so yoursquoll only see their reviews when youchoose to or if theyrsquove already shared content that matches your interests
Requests to become someonersquos Friend must be approved if yoursquove chosen to make yourStumble activity visible to others any member is free to Subscribe to your content
Building Relationships
Like with all other social communities connections are everything at StumbleUpon asthey determine
Authority the more friends you have the higher your authority as a member is Influence the more friends you have the more people you can share your
favourites to
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The most effective ways of building connections and making relationships are
Initiate friendship by sending friend requests Testimonials give generous reviews to other members profiles
Website Popularity
There are a number of factors that determine the popularity of a page on StumbleUpon
Every time a page or site or discovered it ranks on a 0-5 star scale which makes up thesubmission score This submission score is determined by
Reviewers and stumblers score all StumbleUpon members are ranked based ontheir authority which includes
o the number of thumbs-up given and reviews madeo the number of testimonials receivedo the number of subscribers and friendso age as a StumbleUpon membero the diversity and consistency of topics Stumbled
Rate at which the story is thumbed-up the more thumbs in a short amount oftime the hotter the story
Source of the thumb if a post is thumbed or review from the page itself thiswont rank as highly as if the post was randomly discovered or Stumbled
Diversity of Stumblers if the page is thumbed or review by a wide variety ofunrelated people this will also increase the popularity of the page
Finally
StumbleUpon is a fantastic way for targeted traffic to visit and learn more about yoursite as well as discovering new sites for yourself
Building up your friend-base and can help further expose your website to their friendsespecially if you have a good reputation and always thumb-up good sites The more sitesthat you thumb-up (that interest you) the more it will attract like-minded people to yoursite connections are made and referrals start to come in StumbleUpon works very wellas a brand and link building tool
Have fun Stumbling
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The Social Media Guide
The Social Media Guide provides helpful advice and tips on connecting you to othersthrough the use of social media and social networks
The Social Media Guide is an authoritative source on current and emerging social mediatools and platforms
The current explosion in social media technologies has made it easier than ever toconnect with friends groups customers and networks with similar interests from allaround the world
Businesses can benefit greatly by using social media to market their product strengthenbrand recognition and attract new customers
My aim is to show you how social media can be used to connect with more peoplefaster by providing clear and simple solutions
The Social Media Guide will show you how to extend your reach deeper into the socialweb and connect with more people
This material may be shared with everyone not sold for profit and not modified in anyway
Regards
Matthew Tommasi
www httpthesocialmediaguidecomau
email matthewthesocialmediaguidecomau
twitter socialguide
facebook httpfacebookcomTheSocialMediaGuide
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Manage your Interests
It is important to select all the topics that interest you so that StumbleUpon can deliveryou the best rated sites when you Stumble
Click on Manage Interests or ltStumblegt
Go through each of the main headings and select the topics that interest you When youare done click on ltSave now amp submitgt
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These interests can always be changed at any time by clicking on All Topics from thetoolbar then Edit
Toolbar
I highly recommend downloading the StumbleUpon toolbar from here and installing it Itmakes it so much easier when it comes to Stumbling upon new sites and managing them
If you dont want to install the toolbar you can use the WebToolbar from withinStumbleUpon
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This guide will be based on the installed toolbar
Stumbling Upon New Sites
The ltStumblegt button loads a new random site The contents of these random sites arebased on the interests you specified earlier
Click on the ltStumblegt button and a random site will be displayed every time you clickthis button a new site will be displayed
Thumbs Up Button
The ltI like itgt button aka thumbs up does three things
1 If the site displayed was reached via the ltStumblegt button (which means it is alreadyin the StumbleUpon directory) it will be added to your favourites
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It will also train the recommendation engine to learn what you like which will improvethe quality of your stumbles
2 If the site was reached independently of StumbleUpon it will open the Discovery panelallowing you to submit the site to the StumbleUpon directory
3 If a site has already been thumbed-up the thumb-up button changes colour from blueto green
Pressing the button a second time will undo the initial rating remove it from yourfavourites and change the colour back to blue
Thumbs Down Button
The ltThumbs downgt button shows that you dont like that site Your negative ratingswill help StumbleUpons recommendation engine learn what you donrsquot like so you arentshown similar sites again
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The ltThumbs downgt button has four options
1 Not-for-me = poor targeting Use this whenever you receive something that you dislikeor that does not match your interests
2 Report Spam = use this option whenever you receive content that provides no value Ifitrsquos something you personally donrsquot like use the option above This option can be usedfor unsolicited requests to register and sites that look suspicious or contain scams
3 Duplicate Content = content that has been copied from another page with no addedvalue from the original
4 Block Website = you can opt to block an entire domain which means you will nolonger receive any stumbles from that site again You can unblock the domain at any timelater if you change your mind
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Share Button
The ltSharegt button has a few options
1 Twitter Facebook StumbleUpon have released a URL shortening service called Suprwhich you can now easily share sites you like with your friends and followers on Twitteror Facebook All you need to do is sync up Supr (your StumbleUpon account) with yourFacebook andor Twitter accounts and you are one click away from posting yourfavourite sites
Please refer to the Supr section below on how to setup and configure Supr for posting toTwitter and Facebook
2 An email address you can share a site with someone who is not a registeredStumbleUpon member (family members co-workers etc) by sending them an email witha link to the site you shared
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Enter recipients email address then click ltOKgt
Enter the subject then click ltOKgt
The email recipient will receive an email with a link to the shared site
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3 Your StumbleUpon Friends Your friends will receive the site you sent in their Stumblequeue next time they click on their Stumble button A red numeric indicator will showthem that they have shares waiting in their Stumble queue
Info Button
The ltInfogt button shows reviews other members have made about the site you haveStumbled or if you want to make a review yourself
Firstly you may want to check if your own site is listed in StumbleUpon by visiting theStumbleUpon website reviews page
Enter your sites URL then click ltView Reviewsgt
If your site hasnt already been reviewed then review it add some tags then click ltAddReviewgt
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Clicking on the ltInfogt button when viewing a site allows you to review the site andassign tags to it all of your reviewed sites are saved
Categories
The categories across the top of the StumbleUpon page - News Photos Videos ArtBusiness Computers Health Fun Lifestyle Music Science Sports Technology contain sitesthat have content relevant to those categories
You can subscribe to sites within that category by clicking the ltSubscribegt button
Sites within this category are added to your interests which can be seen at Your Home --gtPreferences --gt Manage Interests
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You can unsubscribe any time by unselecting from the manage interests screen or byclicking on the ltUnsubscribegt button
Your Home
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The Your Home tab (far left hand side) contains everything relevant to you
Your Home --gt Your Favorites
This section contains
Reviews show all the sites that you have placed a review These reviews can beedited or deleted at any time from here
Favorites shows all of your favourite sites Any site that you have thumbed-upwill appear here Your favourites can be edited or deleted at any time from here
Photos shows sites tagged with photography
Video shows sites tagged with video
Discoveries shows all the sites that you have discovered These discoveries canbe edited or deleted at any time from here
Views
There are two views within StumbleUpon - List View and Grid View
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List view lists out your sites with a brief summary of each and allows you to easily edit ordelete
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Grid view displays your sites in rows of five with no summary displayed with just a pictureand the title of the page There is no option to edit of delete in this view
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Your Home --gt Whats New
This section shows new and recent reviews by people you have subscribed to andrecently rated sites from your subscriptions
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Your Home --gt Friends
This section shows your friends and people you have subscribed to
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Your Home --gt Inbox
The inbox is self explanatory
Your Home --gt Groups
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Your Home --gt Preferences
This was covered at the start of this guide
Supr URL
Supr is StumbleUpons URL shortening service that also helps your content getdiscovered Every Supr URL exposes your content to StumbleUpons 8 million users
Some of the notable features of Supr are
One-click posting andor URL-shortening to your Twitter and Facebook accounts Ability to schedule your posts at optimal times Suggestions for best posting times Reporting and graphs for your posts Exposure for your content to the entire StumbleUpon community Ability to highlight the best pages on your domain along with the main post Advanced options for your own custom short URLs
To be able to share Stumbled sites and post links to them on Twitter and Facebook youfirst need to authorise Supr to post to these services
Sign-in to Supr with your StumbleUpon details
Authorize on Twitter
Firstly click on ltAuthorize on Twittergt
Click ltAllowgt
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Authorize on Facebook
Now click on ltAuthorize on Facebookgt
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Click on ltAllowgt
Click on ltAllow Publishinggt
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Posting from Supr
When making a post you can either
Post immediately Just Shorten the URL (to be used elsewhere eg other social networks blogs etc) Schedule your post for later
I am going to post immediately to Twitter and Facebook
Successfully appears on Twitter (and the URL is automatically shortened)
Successfully appears on Facebook (and the URL is automatically shortened)
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Stats
As soon as yoursquove made a post you can immediately start checking stats in real time
You will be able to see how the post will appear to your recipients how many times theSupr link was clicked on (15 clicks) how many other views it got from the StumbleUponcommunity how many times it was retweeted and how many times it was reviewed (1review) by StumbleUpon members
Overview of StumbleUpon
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Friends and Subscribers
One of the best ways to Discover interesting sites is to connect with other members as aFriend or Subscriber
If you enjoy content another member has Shared or Discovered subscribe to their profileso you can follow their Stumbles while using the Toolbar If someone subscribes to yourcontent theyrsquoll see pages you rated and reviewed when Stumbling
Friends may not always share your interests so yoursquoll only see their reviews when youchoose to or if theyrsquove already shared content that matches your interests
Requests to become someonersquos Friend must be approved if yoursquove chosen to make yourStumble activity visible to others any member is free to Subscribe to your content
Building Relationships
Like with all other social communities connections are everything at StumbleUpon asthey determine
Authority the more friends you have the higher your authority as a member is Influence the more friends you have the more people you can share your
favourites to
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The most effective ways of building connections and making relationships are
Initiate friendship by sending friend requests Testimonials give generous reviews to other members profiles
Website Popularity
There are a number of factors that determine the popularity of a page on StumbleUpon
Every time a page or site or discovered it ranks on a 0-5 star scale which makes up thesubmission score This submission score is determined by
Reviewers and stumblers score all StumbleUpon members are ranked based ontheir authority which includes
o the number of thumbs-up given and reviews madeo the number of testimonials receivedo the number of subscribers and friendso age as a StumbleUpon membero the diversity and consistency of topics Stumbled
Rate at which the story is thumbed-up the more thumbs in a short amount oftime the hotter the story
Source of the thumb if a post is thumbed or review from the page itself thiswont rank as highly as if the post was randomly discovered or Stumbled
Diversity of Stumblers if the page is thumbed or review by a wide variety ofunrelated people this will also increase the popularity of the page
Finally
StumbleUpon is a fantastic way for targeted traffic to visit and learn more about yoursite as well as discovering new sites for yourself
Building up your friend-base and can help further expose your website to their friendsespecially if you have a good reputation and always thumb-up good sites The more sitesthat you thumb-up (that interest you) the more it will attract like-minded people to yoursite connections are made and referrals start to come in StumbleUpon works very wellas a brand and link building tool
Have fun Stumbling
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The Social Media Guide
The Social Media Guide provides helpful advice and tips on connecting you to othersthrough the use of social media and social networks
The Social Media Guide is an authoritative source on current and emerging social mediatools and platforms
The current explosion in social media technologies has made it easier than ever toconnect with friends groups customers and networks with similar interests from allaround the world
Businesses can benefit greatly by using social media to market their product strengthenbrand recognition and attract new customers
My aim is to show you how social media can be used to connect with more peoplefaster by providing clear and simple solutions
The Social Media Guide will show you how to extend your reach deeper into the socialweb and connect with more people
This material may be shared with everyone not sold for profit and not modified in anyway
Regards
Matthew Tommasi
www httpthesocialmediaguidecomau
email matthewthesocialmediaguidecomau
twitter socialguide
facebook httpfacebookcomTheSocialMediaGuide
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau5
These interests can always be changed at any time by clicking on All Topics from thetoolbar then Edit
Toolbar
I highly recommend downloading the StumbleUpon toolbar from here and installing it Itmakes it so much easier when it comes to Stumbling upon new sites and managing them
If you dont want to install the toolbar you can use the WebToolbar from withinStumbleUpon
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This guide will be based on the installed toolbar
Stumbling Upon New Sites
The ltStumblegt button loads a new random site The contents of these random sites arebased on the interests you specified earlier
Click on the ltStumblegt button and a random site will be displayed every time you clickthis button a new site will be displayed
Thumbs Up Button
The ltI like itgt button aka thumbs up does three things
1 If the site displayed was reached via the ltStumblegt button (which means it is alreadyin the StumbleUpon directory) it will be added to your favourites
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It will also train the recommendation engine to learn what you like which will improvethe quality of your stumbles
2 If the site was reached independently of StumbleUpon it will open the Discovery panelallowing you to submit the site to the StumbleUpon directory
3 If a site has already been thumbed-up the thumb-up button changes colour from blueto green
Pressing the button a second time will undo the initial rating remove it from yourfavourites and change the colour back to blue
Thumbs Down Button
The ltThumbs downgt button shows that you dont like that site Your negative ratingswill help StumbleUpons recommendation engine learn what you donrsquot like so you arentshown similar sites again
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The ltThumbs downgt button has four options
1 Not-for-me = poor targeting Use this whenever you receive something that you dislikeor that does not match your interests
2 Report Spam = use this option whenever you receive content that provides no value Ifitrsquos something you personally donrsquot like use the option above This option can be usedfor unsolicited requests to register and sites that look suspicious or contain scams
3 Duplicate Content = content that has been copied from another page with no addedvalue from the original
4 Block Website = you can opt to block an entire domain which means you will nolonger receive any stumbles from that site again You can unblock the domain at any timelater if you change your mind
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Share Button
The ltSharegt button has a few options
1 Twitter Facebook StumbleUpon have released a URL shortening service called Suprwhich you can now easily share sites you like with your friends and followers on Twitteror Facebook All you need to do is sync up Supr (your StumbleUpon account) with yourFacebook andor Twitter accounts and you are one click away from posting yourfavourite sites
Please refer to the Supr section below on how to setup and configure Supr for posting toTwitter and Facebook
2 An email address you can share a site with someone who is not a registeredStumbleUpon member (family members co-workers etc) by sending them an email witha link to the site you shared
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Enter recipients email address then click ltOKgt
Enter the subject then click ltOKgt
The email recipient will receive an email with a link to the shared site
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3 Your StumbleUpon Friends Your friends will receive the site you sent in their Stumblequeue next time they click on their Stumble button A red numeric indicator will showthem that they have shares waiting in their Stumble queue
Info Button
The ltInfogt button shows reviews other members have made about the site you haveStumbled or if you want to make a review yourself
Firstly you may want to check if your own site is listed in StumbleUpon by visiting theStumbleUpon website reviews page
Enter your sites URL then click ltView Reviewsgt
If your site hasnt already been reviewed then review it add some tags then click ltAddReviewgt
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Clicking on the ltInfogt button when viewing a site allows you to review the site andassign tags to it all of your reviewed sites are saved
Categories
The categories across the top of the StumbleUpon page - News Photos Videos ArtBusiness Computers Health Fun Lifestyle Music Science Sports Technology contain sitesthat have content relevant to those categories
You can subscribe to sites within that category by clicking the ltSubscribegt button
Sites within this category are added to your interests which can be seen at Your Home --gtPreferences --gt Manage Interests
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You can unsubscribe any time by unselecting from the manage interests screen or byclicking on the ltUnsubscribegt button
Your Home
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The Your Home tab (far left hand side) contains everything relevant to you
Your Home --gt Your Favorites
This section contains
Reviews show all the sites that you have placed a review These reviews can beedited or deleted at any time from here
Favorites shows all of your favourite sites Any site that you have thumbed-upwill appear here Your favourites can be edited or deleted at any time from here
Photos shows sites tagged with photography
Video shows sites tagged with video
Discoveries shows all the sites that you have discovered These discoveries canbe edited or deleted at any time from here
Views
There are two views within StumbleUpon - List View and Grid View
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List view lists out your sites with a brief summary of each and allows you to easily edit ordelete
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau16
Grid view displays your sites in rows of five with no summary displayed with just a pictureand the title of the page There is no option to edit of delete in this view
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau17
Your Home --gt Whats New
This section shows new and recent reviews by people you have subscribed to andrecently rated sites from your subscriptions
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Your Home --gt Friends
This section shows your friends and people you have subscribed to
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Your Home --gt Inbox
The inbox is self explanatory
Your Home --gt Groups
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Your Home --gt Preferences
This was covered at the start of this guide
Supr URL
Supr is StumbleUpons URL shortening service that also helps your content getdiscovered Every Supr URL exposes your content to StumbleUpons 8 million users
Some of the notable features of Supr are
One-click posting andor URL-shortening to your Twitter and Facebook accounts Ability to schedule your posts at optimal times Suggestions for best posting times Reporting and graphs for your posts Exposure for your content to the entire StumbleUpon community Ability to highlight the best pages on your domain along with the main post Advanced options for your own custom short URLs
To be able to share Stumbled sites and post links to them on Twitter and Facebook youfirst need to authorise Supr to post to these services
Sign-in to Supr with your StumbleUpon details
Authorize on Twitter
Firstly click on ltAuthorize on Twittergt
Click ltAllowgt
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Authorize on Facebook
Now click on ltAuthorize on Facebookgt
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Click on ltAllowgt
Click on ltAllow Publishinggt
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau23
Posting from Supr
When making a post you can either
Post immediately Just Shorten the URL (to be used elsewhere eg other social networks blogs etc) Schedule your post for later
I am going to post immediately to Twitter and Facebook
Successfully appears on Twitter (and the URL is automatically shortened)
Successfully appears on Facebook (and the URL is automatically shortened)
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau24
Stats
As soon as yoursquove made a post you can immediately start checking stats in real time
You will be able to see how the post will appear to your recipients how many times theSupr link was clicked on (15 clicks) how many other views it got from the StumbleUponcommunity how many times it was retweeted and how many times it was reviewed (1review) by StumbleUpon members
Overview of StumbleUpon
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Friends and Subscribers
One of the best ways to Discover interesting sites is to connect with other members as aFriend or Subscriber
If you enjoy content another member has Shared or Discovered subscribe to their profileso you can follow their Stumbles while using the Toolbar If someone subscribes to yourcontent theyrsquoll see pages you rated and reviewed when Stumbling
Friends may not always share your interests so yoursquoll only see their reviews when youchoose to or if theyrsquove already shared content that matches your interests
Requests to become someonersquos Friend must be approved if yoursquove chosen to make yourStumble activity visible to others any member is free to Subscribe to your content
Building Relationships
Like with all other social communities connections are everything at StumbleUpon asthey determine
Authority the more friends you have the higher your authority as a member is Influence the more friends you have the more people you can share your
favourites to
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The most effective ways of building connections and making relationships are
Initiate friendship by sending friend requests Testimonials give generous reviews to other members profiles
Website Popularity
There are a number of factors that determine the popularity of a page on StumbleUpon
Every time a page or site or discovered it ranks on a 0-5 star scale which makes up thesubmission score This submission score is determined by
Reviewers and stumblers score all StumbleUpon members are ranked based ontheir authority which includes
o the number of thumbs-up given and reviews madeo the number of testimonials receivedo the number of subscribers and friendso age as a StumbleUpon membero the diversity and consistency of topics Stumbled
Rate at which the story is thumbed-up the more thumbs in a short amount oftime the hotter the story
Source of the thumb if a post is thumbed or review from the page itself thiswont rank as highly as if the post was randomly discovered or Stumbled
Diversity of Stumblers if the page is thumbed or review by a wide variety ofunrelated people this will also increase the popularity of the page
Finally
StumbleUpon is a fantastic way for targeted traffic to visit and learn more about yoursite as well as discovering new sites for yourself
Building up your friend-base and can help further expose your website to their friendsespecially if you have a good reputation and always thumb-up good sites The more sitesthat you thumb-up (that interest you) the more it will attract like-minded people to yoursite connections are made and referrals start to come in StumbleUpon works very wellas a brand and link building tool
Have fun Stumbling
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau27
The Social Media Guide
The Social Media Guide provides helpful advice and tips on connecting you to othersthrough the use of social media and social networks
The Social Media Guide is an authoritative source on current and emerging social mediatools and platforms
The current explosion in social media technologies has made it easier than ever toconnect with friends groups customers and networks with similar interests from allaround the world
Businesses can benefit greatly by using social media to market their product strengthenbrand recognition and attract new customers
My aim is to show you how social media can be used to connect with more peoplefaster by providing clear and simple solutions
The Social Media Guide will show you how to extend your reach deeper into the socialweb and connect with more people
This material may be shared with everyone not sold for profit and not modified in anyway
Regards
Matthew Tommasi
www httpthesocialmediaguidecomau
email matthewthesocialmediaguidecomau
twitter socialguide
facebook httpfacebookcomTheSocialMediaGuide
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau6
This guide will be based on the installed toolbar
Stumbling Upon New Sites
The ltStumblegt button loads a new random site The contents of these random sites arebased on the interests you specified earlier
Click on the ltStumblegt button and a random site will be displayed every time you clickthis button a new site will be displayed
Thumbs Up Button
The ltI like itgt button aka thumbs up does three things
1 If the site displayed was reached via the ltStumblegt button (which means it is alreadyin the StumbleUpon directory) it will be added to your favourites
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It will also train the recommendation engine to learn what you like which will improvethe quality of your stumbles
2 If the site was reached independently of StumbleUpon it will open the Discovery panelallowing you to submit the site to the StumbleUpon directory
3 If a site has already been thumbed-up the thumb-up button changes colour from blueto green
Pressing the button a second time will undo the initial rating remove it from yourfavourites and change the colour back to blue
Thumbs Down Button
The ltThumbs downgt button shows that you dont like that site Your negative ratingswill help StumbleUpons recommendation engine learn what you donrsquot like so you arentshown similar sites again
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The ltThumbs downgt button has four options
1 Not-for-me = poor targeting Use this whenever you receive something that you dislikeor that does not match your interests
2 Report Spam = use this option whenever you receive content that provides no value Ifitrsquos something you personally donrsquot like use the option above This option can be usedfor unsolicited requests to register and sites that look suspicious or contain scams
3 Duplicate Content = content that has been copied from another page with no addedvalue from the original
4 Block Website = you can opt to block an entire domain which means you will nolonger receive any stumbles from that site again You can unblock the domain at any timelater if you change your mind
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Share Button
The ltSharegt button has a few options
1 Twitter Facebook StumbleUpon have released a URL shortening service called Suprwhich you can now easily share sites you like with your friends and followers on Twitteror Facebook All you need to do is sync up Supr (your StumbleUpon account) with yourFacebook andor Twitter accounts and you are one click away from posting yourfavourite sites
Please refer to the Supr section below on how to setup and configure Supr for posting toTwitter and Facebook
2 An email address you can share a site with someone who is not a registeredStumbleUpon member (family members co-workers etc) by sending them an email witha link to the site you shared
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Enter recipients email address then click ltOKgt
Enter the subject then click ltOKgt
The email recipient will receive an email with a link to the shared site
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3 Your StumbleUpon Friends Your friends will receive the site you sent in their Stumblequeue next time they click on their Stumble button A red numeric indicator will showthem that they have shares waiting in their Stumble queue
Info Button
The ltInfogt button shows reviews other members have made about the site you haveStumbled or if you want to make a review yourself
Firstly you may want to check if your own site is listed in StumbleUpon by visiting theStumbleUpon website reviews page
Enter your sites URL then click ltView Reviewsgt
If your site hasnt already been reviewed then review it add some tags then click ltAddReviewgt
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Clicking on the ltInfogt button when viewing a site allows you to review the site andassign tags to it all of your reviewed sites are saved
Categories
The categories across the top of the StumbleUpon page - News Photos Videos ArtBusiness Computers Health Fun Lifestyle Music Science Sports Technology contain sitesthat have content relevant to those categories
You can subscribe to sites within that category by clicking the ltSubscribegt button
Sites within this category are added to your interests which can be seen at Your Home --gtPreferences --gt Manage Interests
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You can unsubscribe any time by unselecting from the manage interests screen or byclicking on the ltUnsubscribegt button
Your Home
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau14
The Your Home tab (far left hand side) contains everything relevant to you
Your Home --gt Your Favorites
This section contains
Reviews show all the sites that you have placed a review These reviews can beedited or deleted at any time from here
Favorites shows all of your favourite sites Any site that you have thumbed-upwill appear here Your favourites can be edited or deleted at any time from here
Photos shows sites tagged with photography
Video shows sites tagged with video
Discoveries shows all the sites that you have discovered These discoveries canbe edited or deleted at any time from here
Views
There are two views within StumbleUpon - List View and Grid View
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List view lists out your sites with a brief summary of each and allows you to easily edit ordelete
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Grid view displays your sites in rows of five with no summary displayed with just a pictureand the title of the page There is no option to edit of delete in this view
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Your Home --gt Whats New
This section shows new and recent reviews by people you have subscribed to andrecently rated sites from your subscriptions
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Your Home --gt Friends
This section shows your friends and people you have subscribed to
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Your Home --gt Inbox
The inbox is self explanatory
Your Home --gt Groups
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Your Home --gt Preferences
This was covered at the start of this guide
Supr URL
Supr is StumbleUpons URL shortening service that also helps your content getdiscovered Every Supr URL exposes your content to StumbleUpons 8 million users
Some of the notable features of Supr are
One-click posting andor URL-shortening to your Twitter and Facebook accounts Ability to schedule your posts at optimal times Suggestions for best posting times Reporting and graphs for your posts Exposure for your content to the entire StumbleUpon community Ability to highlight the best pages on your domain along with the main post Advanced options for your own custom short URLs
To be able to share Stumbled sites and post links to them on Twitter and Facebook youfirst need to authorise Supr to post to these services
Sign-in to Supr with your StumbleUpon details
Authorize on Twitter
Firstly click on ltAuthorize on Twittergt
Click ltAllowgt
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Authorize on Facebook
Now click on ltAuthorize on Facebookgt
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Click on ltAllowgt
Click on ltAllow Publishinggt
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Posting from Supr
When making a post you can either
Post immediately Just Shorten the URL (to be used elsewhere eg other social networks blogs etc) Schedule your post for later
I am going to post immediately to Twitter and Facebook
Successfully appears on Twitter (and the URL is automatically shortened)
Successfully appears on Facebook (and the URL is automatically shortened)
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Stats
As soon as yoursquove made a post you can immediately start checking stats in real time
You will be able to see how the post will appear to your recipients how many times theSupr link was clicked on (15 clicks) how many other views it got from the StumbleUponcommunity how many times it was retweeted and how many times it was reviewed (1review) by StumbleUpon members
Overview of StumbleUpon
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Friends and Subscribers
One of the best ways to Discover interesting sites is to connect with other members as aFriend or Subscriber
If you enjoy content another member has Shared or Discovered subscribe to their profileso you can follow their Stumbles while using the Toolbar If someone subscribes to yourcontent theyrsquoll see pages you rated and reviewed when Stumbling
Friends may not always share your interests so yoursquoll only see their reviews when youchoose to or if theyrsquove already shared content that matches your interests
Requests to become someonersquos Friend must be approved if yoursquove chosen to make yourStumble activity visible to others any member is free to Subscribe to your content
Building Relationships
Like with all other social communities connections are everything at StumbleUpon asthey determine
Authority the more friends you have the higher your authority as a member is Influence the more friends you have the more people you can share your
favourites to
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The most effective ways of building connections and making relationships are
Initiate friendship by sending friend requests Testimonials give generous reviews to other members profiles
Website Popularity
There are a number of factors that determine the popularity of a page on StumbleUpon
Every time a page or site or discovered it ranks on a 0-5 star scale which makes up thesubmission score This submission score is determined by
Reviewers and stumblers score all StumbleUpon members are ranked based ontheir authority which includes
o the number of thumbs-up given and reviews madeo the number of testimonials receivedo the number of subscribers and friendso age as a StumbleUpon membero the diversity and consistency of topics Stumbled
Rate at which the story is thumbed-up the more thumbs in a short amount oftime the hotter the story
Source of the thumb if a post is thumbed or review from the page itself thiswont rank as highly as if the post was randomly discovered or Stumbled
Diversity of Stumblers if the page is thumbed or review by a wide variety ofunrelated people this will also increase the popularity of the page
Finally
StumbleUpon is a fantastic way for targeted traffic to visit and learn more about yoursite as well as discovering new sites for yourself
Building up your friend-base and can help further expose your website to their friendsespecially if you have a good reputation and always thumb-up good sites The more sitesthat you thumb-up (that interest you) the more it will attract like-minded people to yoursite connections are made and referrals start to come in StumbleUpon works very wellas a brand and link building tool
Have fun Stumbling
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The Social Media Guide
The Social Media Guide provides helpful advice and tips on connecting you to othersthrough the use of social media and social networks
The Social Media Guide is an authoritative source on current and emerging social mediatools and platforms
The current explosion in social media technologies has made it easier than ever toconnect with friends groups customers and networks with similar interests from allaround the world
Businesses can benefit greatly by using social media to market their product strengthenbrand recognition and attract new customers
My aim is to show you how social media can be used to connect with more peoplefaster by providing clear and simple solutions
The Social Media Guide will show you how to extend your reach deeper into the socialweb and connect with more people
This material may be shared with everyone not sold for profit and not modified in anyway
Regards
Matthew Tommasi
www httpthesocialmediaguidecomau
email matthewthesocialmediaguidecomau
twitter socialguide
facebook httpfacebookcomTheSocialMediaGuide
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It will also train the recommendation engine to learn what you like which will improvethe quality of your stumbles
2 If the site was reached independently of StumbleUpon it will open the Discovery panelallowing you to submit the site to the StumbleUpon directory
3 If a site has already been thumbed-up the thumb-up button changes colour from blueto green
Pressing the button a second time will undo the initial rating remove it from yourfavourites and change the colour back to blue
Thumbs Down Button
The ltThumbs downgt button shows that you dont like that site Your negative ratingswill help StumbleUpons recommendation engine learn what you donrsquot like so you arentshown similar sites again
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The ltThumbs downgt button has four options
1 Not-for-me = poor targeting Use this whenever you receive something that you dislikeor that does not match your interests
2 Report Spam = use this option whenever you receive content that provides no value Ifitrsquos something you personally donrsquot like use the option above This option can be usedfor unsolicited requests to register and sites that look suspicious or contain scams
3 Duplicate Content = content that has been copied from another page with no addedvalue from the original
4 Block Website = you can opt to block an entire domain which means you will nolonger receive any stumbles from that site again You can unblock the domain at any timelater if you change your mind
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Share Button
The ltSharegt button has a few options
1 Twitter Facebook StumbleUpon have released a URL shortening service called Suprwhich you can now easily share sites you like with your friends and followers on Twitteror Facebook All you need to do is sync up Supr (your StumbleUpon account) with yourFacebook andor Twitter accounts and you are one click away from posting yourfavourite sites
Please refer to the Supr section below on how to setup and configure Supr for posting toTwitter and Facebook
2 An email address you can share a site with someone who is not a registeredStumbleUpon member (family members co-workers etc) by sending them an email witha link to the site you shared
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Enter recipients email address then click ltOKgt
Enter the subject then click ltOKgt
The email recipient will receive an email with a link to the shared site
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3 Your StumbleUpon Friends Your friends will receive the site you sent in their Stumblequeue next time they click on their Stumble button A red numeric indicator will showthem that they have shares waiting in their Stumble queue
Info Button
The ltInfogt button shows reviews other members have made about the site you haveStumbled or if you want to make a review yourself
Firstly you may want to check if your own site is listed in StumbleUpon by visiting theStumbleUpon website reviews page
Enter your sites URL then click ltView Reviewsgt
If your site hasnt already been reviewed then review it add some tags then click ltAddReviewgt
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Clicking on the ltInfogt button when viewing a site allows you to review the site andassign tags to it all of your reviewed sites are saved
Categories
The categories across the top of the StumbleUpon page - News Photos Videos ArtBusiness Computers Health Fun Lifestyle Music Science Sports Technology contain sitesthat have content relevant to those categories
You can subscribe to sites within that category by clicking the ltSubscribegt button
Sites within this category are added to your interests which can be seen at Your Home --gtPreferences --gt Manage Interests
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You can unsubscribe any time by unselecting from the manage interests screen or byclicking on the ltUnsubscribegt button
Your Home
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The Your Home tab (far left hand side) contains everything relevant to you
Your Home --gt Your Favorites
This section contains
Reviews show all the sites that you have placed a review These reviews can beedited or deleted at any time from here
Favorites shows all of your favourite sites Any site that you have thumbed-upwill appear here Your favourites can be edited or deleted at any time from here
Photos shows sites tagged with photography
Video shows sites tagged with video
Discoveries shows all the sites that you have discovered These discoveries canbe edited or deleted at any time from here
Views
There are two views within StumbleUpon - List View and Grid View
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List view lists out your sites with a brief summary of each and allows you to easily edit ordelete
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Grid view displays your sites in rows of five with no summary displayed with just a pictureand the title of the page There is no option to edit of delete in this view
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Your Home --gt Whats New
This section shows new and recent reviews by people you have subscribed to andrecently rated sites from your subscriptions
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Your Home --gt Friends
This section shows your friends and people you have subscribed to
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Your Home --gt Inbox
The inbox is self explanatory
Your Home --gt Groups
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Your Home --gt Preferences
This was covered at the start of this guide
Supr URL
Supr is StumbleUpons URL shortening service that also helps your content getdiscovered Every Supr URL exposes your content to StumbleUpons 8 million users
Some of the notable features of Supr are
One-click posting andor URL-shortening to your Twitter and Facebook accounts Ability to schedule your posts at optimal times Suggestions for best posting times Reporting and graphs for your posts Exposure for your content to the entire StumbleUpon community Ability to highlight the best pages on your domain along with the main post Advanced options for your own custom short URLs
To be able to share Stumbled sites and post links to them on Twitter and Facebook youfirst need to authorise Supr to post to these services
Sign-in to Supr with your StumbleUpon details
Authorize on Twitter
Firstly click on ltAuthorize on Twittergt
Click ltAllowgt
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Authorize on Facebook
Now click on ltAuthorize on Facebookgt
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Click on ltAllowgt
Click on ltAllow Publishinggt
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Posting from Supr
When making a post you can either
Post immediately Just Shorten the URL (to be used elsewhere eg other social networks blogs etc) Schedule your post for later
I am going to post immediately to Twitter and Facebook
Successfully appears on Twitter (and the URL is automatically shortened)
Successfully appears on Facebook (and the URL is automatically shortened)
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Stats
As soon as yoursquove made a post you can immediately start checking stats in real time
You will be able to see how the post will appear to your recipients how many times theSupr link was clicked on (15 clicks) how many other views it got from the StumbleUponcommunity how many times it was retweeted and how many times it was reviewed (1review) by StumbleUpon members
Overview of StumbleUpon
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Friends and Subscribers
One of the best ways to Discover interesting sites is to connect with other members as aFriend or Subscriber
If you enjoy content another member has Shared or Discovered subscribe to their profileso you can follow their Stumbles while using the Toolbar If someone subscribes to yourcontent theyrsquoll see pages you rated and reviewed when Stumbling
Friends may not always share your interests so yoursquoll only see their reviews when youchoose to or if theyrsquove already shared content that matches your interests
Requests to become someonersquos Friend must be approved if yoursquove chosen to make yourStumble activity visible to others any member is free to Subscribe to your content
Building Relationships
Like with all other social communities connections are everything at StumbleUpon asthey determine
Authority the more friends you have the higher your authority as a member is Influence the more friends you have the more people you can share your
favourites to
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The most effective ways of building connections and making relationships are
Initiate friendship by sending friend requests Testimonials give generous reviews to other members profiles
Website Popularity
There are a number of factors that determine the popularity of a page on StumbleUpon
Every time a page or site or discovered it ranks on a 0-5 star scale which makes up thesubmission score This submission score is determined by
Reviewers and stumblers score all StumbleUpon members are ranked based ontheir authority which includes
o the number of thumbs-up given and reviews madeo the number of testimonials receivedo the number of subscribers and friendso age as a StumbleUpon membero the diversity and consistency of topics Stumbled
Rate at which the story is thumbed-up the more thumbs in a short amount oftime the hotter the story
Source of the thumb if a post is thumbed or review from the page itself thiswont rank as highly as if the post was randomly discovered or Stumbled
Diversity of Stumblers if the page is thumbed or review by a wide variety ofunrelated people this will also increase the popularity of the page
Finally
StumbleUpon is a fantastic way for targeted traffic to visit and learn more about yoursite as well as discovering new sites for yourself
Building up your friend-base and can help further expose your website to their friendsespecially if you have a good reputation and always thumb-up good sites The more sitesthat you thumb-up (that interest you) the more it will attract like-minded people to yoursite connections are made and referrals start to come in StumbleUpon works very wellas a brand and link building tool
Have fun Stumbling
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The Social Media Guide
The Social Media Guide provides helpful advice and tips on connecting you to othersthrough the use of social media and social networks
The Social Media Guide is an authoritative source on current and emerging social mediatools and platforms
The current explosion in social media technologies has made it easier than ever toconnect with friends groups customers and networks with similar interests from allaround the world
Businesses can benefit greatly by using social media to market their product strengthenbrand recognition and attract new customers
My aim is to show you how social media can be used to connect with more peoplefaster by providing clear and simple solutions
The Social Media Guide will show you how to extend your reach deeper into the socialweb and connect with more people
This material may be shared with everyone not sold for profit and not modified in anyway
Regards
Matthew Tommasi
www httpthesocialmediaguidecomau
email matthewthesocialmediaguidecomau
twitter socialguide
facebook httpfacebookcomTheSocialMediaGuide
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The ltThumbs downgt button has four options
1 Not-for-me = poor targeting Use this whenever you receive something that you dislikeor that does not match your interests
2 Report Spam = use this option whenever you receive content that provides no value Ifitrsquos something you personally donrsquot like use the option above This option can be usedfor unsolicited requests to register and sites that look suspicious or contain scams
3 Duplicate Content = content that has been copied from another page with no addedvalue from the original
4 Block Website = you can opt to block an entire domain which means you will nolonger receive any stumbles from that site again You can unblock the domain at any timelater if you change your mind
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Share Button
The ltSharegt button has a few options
1 Twitter Facebook StumbleUpon have released a URL shortening service called Suprwhich you can now easily share sites you like with your friends and followers on Twitteror Facebook All you need to do is sync up Supr (your StumbleUpon account) with yourFacebook andor Twitter accounts and you are one click away from posting yourfavourite sites
Please refer to the Supr section below on how to setup and configure Supr for posting toTwitter and Facebook
2 An email address you can share a site with someone who is not a registeredStumbleUpon member (family members co-workers etc) by sending them an email witha link to the site you shared
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Enter recipients email address then click ltOKgt
Enter the subject then click ltOKgt
The email recipient will receive an email with a link to the shared site
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3 Your StumbleUpon Friends Your friends will receive the site you sent in their Stumblequeue next time they click on their Stumble button A red numeric indicator will showthem that they have shares waiting in their Stumble queue
Info Button
The ltInfogt button shows reviews other members have made about the site you haveStumbled or if you want to make a review yourself
Firstly you may want to check if your own site is listed in StumbleUpon by visiting theStumbleUpon website reviews page
Enter your sites URL then click ltView Reviewsgt
If your site hasnt already been reviewed then review it add some tags then click ltAddReviewgt
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Clicking on the ltInfogt button when viewing a site allows you to review the site andassign tags to it all of your reviewed sites are saved
Categories
The categories across the top of the StumbleUpon page - News Photos Videos ArtBusiness Computers Health Fun Lifestyle Music Science Sports Technology contain sitesthat have content relevant to those categories
You can subscribe to sites within that category by clicking the ltSubscribegt button
Sites within this category are added to your interests which can be seen at Your Home --gtPreferences --gt Manage Interests
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You can unsubscribe any time by unselecting from the manage interests screen or byclicking on the ltUnsubscribegt button
Your Home
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The Your Home tab (far left hand side) contains everything relevant to you
Your Home --gt Your Favorites
This section contains
Reviews show all the sites that you have placed a review These reviews can beedited or deleted at any time from here
Favorites shows all of your favourite sites Any site that you have thumbed-upwill appear here Your favourites can be edited or deleted at any time from here
Photos shows sites tagged with photography
Video shows sites tagged with video
Discoveries shows all the sites that you have discovered These discoveries canbe edited or deleted at any time from here
Views
There are two views within StumbleUpon - List View and Grid View
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List view lists out your sites with a brief summary of each and allows you to easily edit ordelete
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Grid view displays your sites in rows of five with no summary displayed with just a pictureand the title of the page There is no option to edit of delete in this view
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Your Home --gt Whats New
This section shows new and recent reviews by people you have subscribed to andrecently rated sites from your subscriptions
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Your Home --gt Friends
This section shows your friends and people you have subscribed to
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Your Home --gt Inbox
The inbox is self explanatory
Your Home --gt Groups
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Your Home --gt Preferences
This was covered at the start of this guide
Supr URL
Supr is StumbleUpons URL shortening service that also helps your content getdiscovered Every Supr URL exposes your content to StumbleUpons 8 million users
Some of the notable features of Supr are
One-click posting andor URL-shortening to your Twitter and Facebook accounts Ability to schedule your posts at optimal times Suggestions for best posting times Reporting and graphs for your posts Exposure for your content to the entire StumbleUpon community Ability to highlight the best pages on your domain along with the main post Advanced options for your own custom short URLs
To be able to share Stumbled sites and post links to them on Twitter and Facebook youfirst need to authorise Supr to post to these services
Sign-in to Supr with your StumbleUpon details
Authorize on Twitter
Firstly click on ltAuthorize on Twittergt
Click ltAllowgt
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Authorize on Facebook
Now click on ltAuthorize on Facebookgt
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Click on ltAllowgt
Click on ltAllow Publishinggt
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau23
Posting from Supr
When making a post you can either
Post immediately Just Shorten the URL (to be used elsewhere eg other social networks blogs etc) Schedule your post for later
I am going to post immediately to Twitter and Facebook
Successfully appears on Twitter (and the URL is automatically shortened)
Successfully appears on Facebook (and the URL is automatically shortened)
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Stats
As soon as yoursquove made a post you can immediately start checking stats in real time
You will be able to see how the post will appear to your recipients how many times theSupr link was clicked on (15 clicks) how many other views it got from the StumbleUponcommunity how many times it was retweeted and how many times it was reviewed (1review) by StumbleUpon members
Overview of StumbleUpon
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Friends and Subscribers
One of the best ways to Discover interesting sites is to connect with other members as aFriend or Subscriber
If you enjoy content another member has Shared or Discovered subscribe to their profileso you can follow their Stumbles while using the Toolbar If someone subscribes to yourcontent theyrsquoll see pages you rated and reviewed when Stumbling
Friends may not always share your interests so yoursquoll only see their reviews when youchoose to or if theyrsquove already shared content that matches your interests
Requests to become someonersquos Friend must be approved if yoursquove chosen to make yourStumble activity visible to others any member is free to Subscribe to your content
Building Relationships
Like with all other social communities connections are everything at StumbleUpon asthey determine
Authority the more friends you have the higher your authority as a member is Influence the more friends you have the more people you can share your
favourites to
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The most effective ways of building connections and making relationships are
Initiate friendship by sending friend requests Testimonials give generous reviews to other members profiles
Website Popularity
There are a number of factors that determine the popularity of a page on StumbleUpon
Every time a page or site or discovered it ranks on a 0-5 star scale which makes up thesubmission score This submission score is determined by
Reviewers and stumblers score all StumbleUpon members are ranked based ontheir authority which includes
o the number of thumbs-up given and reviews madeo the number of testimonials receivedo the number of subscribers and friendso age as a StumbleUpon membero the diversity and consistency of topics Stumbled
Rate at which the story is thumbed-up the more thumbs in a short amount oftime the hotter the story
Source of the thumb if a post is thumbed or review from the page itself thiswont rank as highly as if the post was randomly discovered or Stumbled
Diversity of Stumblers if the page is thumbed or review by a wide variety ofunrelated people this will also increase the popularity of the page
Finally
StumbleUpon is a fantastic way for targeted traffic to visit and learn more about yoursite as well as discovering new sites for yourself
Building up your friend-base and can help further expose your website to their friendsespecially if you have a good reputation and always thumb-up good sites The more sitesthat you thumb-up (that interest you) the more it will attract like-minded people to yoursite connections are made and referrals start to come in StumbleUpon works very wellas a brand and link building tool
Have fun Stumbling
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The Social Media Guide
The Social Media Guide provides helpful advice and tips on connecting you to othersthrough the use of social media and social networks
The Social Media Guide is an authoritative source on current and emerging social mediatools and platforms
The current explosion in social media technologies has made it easier than ever toconnect with friends groups customers and networks with similar interests from allaround the world
Businesses can benefit greatly by using social media to market their product strengthenbrand recognition and attract new customers
My aim is to show you how social media can be used to connect with more peoplefaster by providing clear and simple solutions
The Social Media Guide will show you how to extend your reach deeper into the socialweb and connect with more people
This material may be shared with everyone not sold for profit and not modified in anyway
Regards
Matthew Tommasi
www httpthesocialmediaguidecomau
email matthewthesocialmediaguidecomau
twitter socialguide
facebook httpfacebookcomTheSocialMediaGuide
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau9
Share Button
The ltSharegt button has a few options
1 Twitter Facebook StumbleUpon have released a URL shortening service called Suprwhich you can now easily share sites you like with your friends and followers on Twitteror Facebook All you need to do is sync up Supr (your StumbleUpon account) with yourFacebook andor Twitter accounts and you are one click away from posting yourfavourite sites
Please refer to the Supr section below on how to setup and configure Supr for posting toTwitter and Facebook
2 An email address you can share a site with someone who is not a registeredStumbleUpon member (family members co-workers etc) by sending them an email witha link to the site you shared
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Enter recipients email address then click ltOKgt
Enter the subject then click ltOKgt
The email recipient will receive an email with a link to the shared site
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3 Your StumbleUpon Friends Your friends will receive the site you sent in their Stumblequeue next time they click on their Stumble button A red numeric indicator will showthem that they have shares waiting in their Stumble queue
Info Button
The ltInfogt button shows reviews other members have made about the site you haveStumbled or if you want to make a review yourself
Firstly you may want to check if your own site is listed in StumbleUpon by visiting theStumbleUpon website reviews page
Enter your sites URL then click ltView Reviewsgt
If your site hasnt already been reviewed then review it add some tags then click ltAddReviewgt
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Clicking on the ltInfogt button when viewing a site allows you to review the site andassign tags to it all of your reviewed sites are saved
Categories
The categories across the top of the StumbleUpon page - News Photos Videos ArtBusiness Computers Health Fun Lifestyle Music Science Sports Technology contain sitesthat have content relevant to those categories
You can subscribe to sites within that category by clicking the ltSubscribegt button
Sites within this category are added to your interests which can be seen at Your Home --gtPreferences --gt Manage Interests
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You can unsubscribe any time by unselecting from the manage interests screen or byclicking on the ltUnsubscribegt button
Your Home
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The Your Home tab (far left hand side) contains everything relevant to you
Your Home --gt Your Favorites
This section contains
Reviews show all the sites that you have placed a review These reviews can beedited or deleted at any time from here
Favorites shows all of your favourite sites Any site that you have thumbed-upwill appear here Your favourites can be edited or deleted at any time from here
Photos shows sites tagged with photography
Video shows sites tagged with video
Discoveries shows all the sites that you have discovered These discoveries canbe edited or deleted at any time from here
Views
There are two views within StumbleUpon - List View and Grid View
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List view lists out your sites with a brief summary of each and allows you to easily edit ordelete
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau16
Grid view displays your sites in rows of five with no summary displayed with just a pictureand the title of the page There is no option to edit of delete in this view
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau17
Your Home --gt Whats New
This section shows new and recent reviews by people you have subscribed to andrecently rated sites from your subscriptions
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau18
Your Home --gt Friends
This section shows your friends and people you have subscribed to
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau19
Your Home --gt Inbox
The inbox is self explanatory
Your Home --gt Groups
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Your Home --gt Preferences
This was covered at the start of this guide
Supr URL
Supr is StumbleUpons URL shortening service that also helps your content getdiscovered Every Supr URL exposes your content to StumbleUpons 8 million users
Some of the notable features of Supr are
One-click posting andor URL-shortening to your Twitter and Facebook accounts Ability to schedule your posts at optimal times Suggestions for best posting times Reporting and graphs for your posts Exposure for your content to the entire StumbleUpon community Ability to highlight the best pages on your domain along with the main post Advanced options for your own custom short URLs
To be able to share Stumbled sites and post links to them on Twitter and Facebook youfirst need to authorise Supr to post to these services
Sign-in to Supr with your StumbleUpon details
Authorize on Twitter
Firstly click on ltAuthorize on Twittergt
Click ltAllowgt
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Authorize on Facebook
Now click on ltAuthorize on Facebookgt
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Click on ltAllowgt
Click on ltAllow Publishinggt
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau23
Posting from Supr
When making a post you can either
Post immediately Just Shorten the URL (to be used elsewhere eg other social networks blogs etc) Schedule your post for later
I am going to post immediately to Twitter and Facebook
Successfully appears on Twitter (and the URL is automatically shortened)
Successfully appears on Facebook (and the URL is automatically shortened)
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau24
Stats
As soon as yoursquove made a post you can immediately start checking stats in real time
You will be able to see how the post will appear to your recipients how many times theSupr link was clicked on (15 clicks) how many other views it got from the StumbleUponcommunity how many times it was retweeted and how many times it was reviewed (1review) by StumbleUpon members
Overview of StumbleUpon
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau25
Friends and Subscribers
One of the best ways to Discover interesting sites is to connect with other members as aFriend or Subscriber
If you enjoy content another member has Shared or Discovered subscribe to their profileso you can follow their Stumbles while using the Toolbar If someone subscribes to yourcontent theyrsquoll see pages you rated and reviewed when Stumbling
Friends may not always share your interests so yoursquoll only see their reviews when youchoose to or if theyrsquove already shared content that matches your interests
Requests to become someonersquos Friend must be approved if yoursquove chosen to make yourStumble activity visible to others any member is free to Subscribe to your content
Building Relationships
Like with all other social communities connections are everything at StumbleUpon asthey determine
Authority the more friends you have the higher your authority as a member is Influence the more friends you have the more people you can share your
favourites to
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The most effective ways of building connections and making relationships are
Initiate friendship by sending friend requests Testimonials give generous reviews to other members profiles
Website Popularity
There are a number of factors that determine the popularity of a page on StumbleUpon
Every time a page or site or discovered it ranks on a 0-5 star scale which makes up thesubmission score This submission score is determined by
Reviewers and stumblers score all StumbleUpon members are ranked based ontheir authority which includes
o the number of thumbs-up given and reviews madeo the number of testimonials receivedo the number of subscribers and friendso age as a StumbleUpon membero the diversity and consistency of topics Stumbled
Rate at which the story is thumbed-up the more thumbs in a short amount oftime the hotter the story
Source of the thumb if a post is thumbed or review from the page itself thiswont rank as highly as if the post was randomly discovered or Stumbled
Diversity of Stumblers if the page is thumbed or review by a wide variety ofunrelated people this will also increase the popularity of the page
Finally
StumbleUpon is a fantastic way for targeted traffic to visit and learn more about yoursite as well as discovering new sites for yourself
Building up your friend-base and can help further expose your website to their friendsespecially if you have a good reputation and always thumb-up good sites The more sitesthat you thumb-up (that interest you) the more it will attract like-minded people to yoursite connections are made and referrals start to come in StumbleUpon works very wellas a brand and link building tool
Have fun Stumbling
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The Social Media Guide
The Social Media Guide provides helpful advice and tips on connecting you to othersthrough the use of social media and social networks
The Social Media Guide is an authoritative source on current and emerging social mediatools and platforms
The current explosion in social media technologies has made it easier than ever toconnect with friends groups customers and networks with similar interests from allaround the world
Businesses can benefit greatly by using social media to market their product strengthenbrand recognition and attract new customers
My aim is to show you how social media can be used to connect with more peoplefaster by providing clear and simple solutions
The Social Media Guide will show you how to extend your reach deeper into the socialweb and connect with more people
This material may be shared with everyone not sold for profit and not modified in anyway
Regards
Matthew Tommasi
www httpthesocialmediaguidecomau
email matthewthesocialmediaguidecomau
twitter socialguide
facebook httpfacebookcomTheSocialMediaGuide
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Enter recipients email address then click ltOKgt
Enter the subject then click ltOKgt
The email recipient will receive an email with a link to the shared site
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3 Your StumbleUpon Friends Your friends will receive the site you sent in their Stumblequeue next time they click on their Stumble button A red numeric indicator will showthem that they have shares waiting in their Stumble queue
Info Button
The ltInfogt button shows reviews other members have made about the site you haveStumbled or if you want to make a review yourself
Firstly you may want to check if your own site is listed in StumbleUpon by visiting theStumbleUpon website reviews page
Enter your sites URL then click ltView Reviewsgt
If your site hasnt already been reviewed then review it add some tags then click ltAddReviewgt
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Clicking on the ltInfogt button when viewing a site allows you to review the site andassign tags to it all of your reviewed sites are saved
Categories
The categories across the top of the StumbleUpon page - News Photos Videos ArtBusiness Computers Health Fun Lifestyle Music Science Sports Technology contain sitesthat have content relevant to those categories
You can subscribe to sites within that category by clicking the ltSubscribegt button
Sites within this category are added to your interests which can be seen at Your Home --gtPreferences --gt Manage Interests
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You can unsubscribe any time by unselecting from the manage interests screen or byclicking on the ltUnsubscribegt button
Your Home
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The Your Home tab (far left hand side) contains everything relevant to you
Your Home --gt Your Favorites
This section contains
Reviews show all the sites that you have placed a review These reviews can beedited or deleted at any time from here
Favorites shows all of your favourite sites Any site that you have thumbed-upwill appear here Your favourites can be edited or deleted at any time from here
Photos shows sites tagged with photography
Video shows sites tagged with video
Discoveries shows all the sites that you have discovered These discoveries canbe edited or deleted at any time from here
Views
There are two views within StumbleUpon - List View and Grid View
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List view lists out your sites with a brief summary of each and allows you to easily edit ordelete
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Grid view displays your sites in rows of five with no summary displayed with just a pictureand the title of the page There is no option to edit of delete in this view
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Your Home --gt Whats New
This section shows new and recent reviews by people you have subscribed to andrecently rated sites from your subscriptions
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Your Home --gt Friends
This section shows your friends and people you have subscribed to
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Your Home --gt Inbox
The inbox is self explanatory
Your Home --gt Groups
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Your Home --gt Preferences
This was covered at the start of this guide
Supr URL
Supr is StumbleUpons URL shortening service that also helps your content getdiscovered Every Supr URL exposes your content to StumbleUpons 8 million users
Some of the notable features of Supr are
One-click posting andor URL-shortening to your Twitter and Facebook accounts Ability to schedule your posts at optimal times Suggestions for best posting times Reporting and graphs for your posts Exposure for your content to the entire StumbleUpon community Ability to highlight the best pages on your domain along with the main post Advanced options for your own custom short URLs
To be able to share Stumbled sites and post links to them on Twitter and Facebook youfirst need to authorise Supr to post to these services
Sign-in to Supr with your StumbleUpon details
Authorize on Twitter
Firstly click on ltAuthorize on Twittergt
Click ltAllowgt
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Authorize on Facebook
Now click on ltAuthorize on Facebookgt
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Click on ltAllowgt
Click on ltAllow Publishinggt
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Posting from Supr
When making a post you can either
Post immediately Just Shorten the URL (to be used elsewhere eg other social networks blogs etc) Schedule your post for later
I am going to post immediately to Twitter and Facebook
Successfully appears on Twitter (and the URL is automatically shortened)
Successfully appears on Facebook (and the URL is automatically shortened)
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Stats
As soon as yoursquove made a post you can immediately start checking stats in real time
You will be able to see how the post will appear to your recipients how many times theSupr link was clicked on (15 clicks) how many other views it got from the StumbleUponcommunity how many times it was retweeted and how many times it was reviewed (1review) by StumbleUpon members
Overview of StumbleUpon
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Friends and Subscribers
One of the best ways to Discover interesting sites is to connect with other members as aFriend or Subscriber
If you enjoy content another member has Shared or Discovered subscribe to their profileso you can follow their Stumbles while using the Toolbar If someone subscribes to yourcontent theyrsquoll see pages you rated and reviewed when Stumbling
Friends may not always share your interests so yoursquoll only see their reviews when youchoose to or if theyrsquove already shared content that matches your interests
Requests to become someonersquos Friend must be approved if yoursquove chosen to make yourStumble activity visible to others any member is free to Subscribe to your content
Building Relationships
Like with all other social communities connections are everything at StumbleUpon asthey determine
Authority the more friends you have the higher your authority as a member is Influence the more friends you have the more people you can share your
favourites to
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The most effective ways of building connections and making relationships are
Initiate friendship by sending friend requests Testimonials give generous reviews to other members profiles
Website Popularity
There are a number of factors that determine the popularity of a page on StumbleUpon
Every time a page or site or discovered it ranks on a 0-5 star scale which makes up thesubmission score This submission score is determined by
Reviewers and stumblers score all StumbleUpon members are ranked based ontheir authority which includes
o the number of thumbs-up given and reviews madeo the number of testimonials receivedo the number of subscribers and friendso age as a StumbleUpon membero the diversity and consistency of topics Stumbled
Rate at which the story is thumbed-up the more thumbs in a short amount oftime the hotter the story
Source of the thumb if a post is thumbed or review from the page itself thiswont rank as highly as if the post was randomly discovered or Stumbled
Diversity of Stumblers if the page is thumbed or review by a wide variety ofunrelated people this will also increase the popularity of the page
Finally
StumbleUpon is a fantastic way for targeted traffic to visit and learn more about yoursite as well as discovering new sites for yourself
Building up your friend-base and can help further expose your website to their friendsespecially if you have a good reputation and always thumb-up good sites The more sitesthat you thumb-up (that interest you) the more it will attract like-minded people to yoursite connections are made and referrals start to come in StumbleUpon works very wellas a brand and link building tool
Have fun Stumbling
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The Social Media Guide
The Social Media Guide provides helpful advice and tips on connecting you to othersthrough the use of social media and social networks
The Social Media Guide is an authoritative source on current and emerging social mediatools and platforms
The current explosion in social media technologies has made it easier than ever toconnect with friends groups customers and networks with similar interests from allaround the world
Businesses can benefit greatly by using social media to market their product strengthenbrand recognition and attract new customers
My aim is to show you how social media can be used to connect with more peoplefaster by providing clear and simple solutions
The Social Media Guide will show you how to extend your reach deeper into the socialweb and connect with more people
This material may be shared with everyone not sold for profit and not modified in anyway
Regards
Matthew Tommasi
www httpthesocialmediaguidecomau
email matthewthesocialmediaguidecomau
twitter socialguide
facebook httpfacebookcomTheSocialMediaGuide
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3 Your StumbleUpon Friends Your friends will receive the site you sent in their Stumblequeue next time they click on their Stumble button A red numeric indicator will showthem that they have shares waiting in their Stumble queue
Info Button
The ltInfogt button shows reviews other members have made about the site you haveStumbled or if you want to make a review yourself
Firstly you may want to check if your own site is listed in StumbleUpon by visiting theStumbleUpon website reviews page
Enter your sites URL then click ltView Reviewsgt
If your site hasnt already been reviewed then review it add some tags then click ltAddReviewgt
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Clicking on the ltInfogt button when viewing a site allows you to review the site andassign tags to it all of your reviewed sites are saved
Categories
The categories across the top of the StumbleUpon page - News Photos Videos ArtBusiness Computers Health Fun Lifestyle Music Science Sports Technology contain sitesthat have content relevant to those categories
You can subscribe to sites within that category by clicking the ltSubscribegt button
Sites within this category are added to your interests which can be seen at Your Home --gtPreferences --gt Manage Interests
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You can unsubscribe any time by unselecting from the manage interests screen or byclicking on the ltUnsubscribegt button
Your Home
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The Your Home tab (far left hand side) contains everything relevant to you
Your Home --gt Your Favorites
This section contains
Reviews show all the sites that you have placed a review These reviews can beedited or deleted at any time from here
Favorites shows all of your favourite sites Any site that you have thumbed-upwill appear here Your favourites can be edited or deleted at any time from here
Photos shows sites tagged with photography
Video shows sites tagged with video
Discoveries shows all the sites that you have discovered These discoveries canbe edited or deleted at any time from here
Views
There are two views within StumbleUpon - List View and Grid View
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List view lists out your sites with a brief summary of each and allows you to easily edit ordelete
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Grid view displays your sites in rows of five with no summary displayed with just a pictureand the title of the page There is no option to edit of delete in this view
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Your Home --gt Whats New
This section shows new and recent reviews by people you have subscribed to andrecently rated sites from your subscriptions
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Your Home --gt Friends
This section shows your friends and people you have subscribed to
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Your Home --gt Inbox
The inbox is self explanatory
Your Home --gt Groups
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Your Home --gt Preferences
This was covered at the start of this guide
Supr URL
Supr is StumbleUpons URL shortening service that also helps your content getdiscovered Every Supr URL exposes your content to StumbleUpons 8 million users
Some of the notable features of Supr are
One-click posting andor URL-shortening to your Twitter and Facebook accounts Ability to schedule your posts at optimal times Suggestions for best posting times Reporting and graphs for your posts Exposure for your content to the entire StumbleUpon community Ability to highlight the best pages on your domain along with the main post Advanced options for your own custom short URLs
To be able to share Stumbled sites and post links to them on Twitter and Facebook youfirst need to authorise Supr to post to these services
Sign-in to Supr with your StumbleUpon details
Authorize on Twitter
Firstly click on ltAuthorize on Twittergt
Click ltAllowgt
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Authorize on Facebook
Now click on ltAuthorize on Facebookgt
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Click on ltAllowgt
Click on ltAllow Publishinggt
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Posting from Supr
When making a post you can either
Post immediately Just Shorten the URL (to be used elsewhere eg other social networks blogs etc) Schedule your post for later
I am going to post immediately to Twitter and Facebook
Successfully appears on Twitter (and the URL is automatically shortened)
Successfully appears on Facebook (and the URL is automatically shortened)
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Stats
As soon as yoursquove made a post you can immediately start checking stats in real time
You will be able to see how the post will appear to your recipients how many times theSupr link was clicked on (15 clicks) how many other views it got from the StumbleUponcommunity how many times it was retweeted and how many times it was reviewed (1review) by StumbleUpon members
Overview of StumbleUpon
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Friends and Subscribers
One of the best ways to Discover interesting sites is to connect with other members as aFriend or Subscriber
If you enjoy content another member has Shared or Discovered subscribe to their profileso you can follow their Stumbles while using the Toolbar If someone subscribes to yourcontent theyrsquoll see pages you rated and reviewed when Stumbling
Friends may not always share your interests so yoursquoll only see their reviews when youchoose to or if theyrsquove already shared content that matches your interests
Requests to become someonersquos Friend must be approved if yoursquove chosen to make yourStumble activity visible to others any member is free to Subscribe to your content
Building Relationships
Like with all other social communities connections are everything at StumbleUpon asthey determine
Authority the more friends you have the higher your authority as a member is Influence the more friends you have the more people you can share your
favourites to
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The most effective ways of building connections and making relationships are
Initiate friendship by sending friend requests Testimonials give generous reviews to other members profiles
Website Popularity
There are a number of factors that determine the popularity of a page on StumbleUpon
Every time a page or site or discovered it ranks on a 0-5 star scale which makes up thesubmission score This submission score is determined by
Reviewers and stumblers score all StumbleUpon members are ranked based ontheir authority which includes
o the number of thumbs-up given and reviews madeo the number of testimonials receivedo the number of subscribers and friendso age as a StumbleUpon membero the diversity and consistency of topics Stumbled
Rate at which the story is thumbed-up the more thumbs in a short amount oftime the hotter the story
Source of the thumb if a post is thumbed or review from the page itself thiswont rank as highly as if the post was randomly discovered or Stumbled
Diversity of Stumblers if the page is thumbed or review by a wide variety ofunrelated people this will also increase the popularity of the page
Finally
StumbleUpon is a fantastic way for targeted traffic to visit and learn more about yoursite as well as discovering new sites for yourself
Building up your friend-base and can help further expose your website to their friendsespecially if you have a good reputation and always thumb-up good sites The more sitesthat you thumb-up (that interest you) the more it will attract like-minded people to yoursite connections are made and referrals start to come in StumbleUpon works very wellas a brand and link building tool
Have fun Stumbling
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The Social Media Guide
The Social Media Guide provides helpful advice and tips on connecting you to othersthrough the use of social media and social networks
The Social Media Guide is an authoritative source on current and emerging social mediatools and platforms
The current explosion in social media technologies has made it easier than ever toconnect with friends groups customers and networks with similar interests from allaround the world
Businesses can benefit greatly by using social media to market their product strengthenbrand recognition and attract new customers
My aim is to show you how social media can be used to connect with more peoplefaster by providing clear and simple solutions
The Social Media Guide will show you how to extend your reach deeper into the socialweb and connect with more people
This material may be shared with everyone not sold for profit and not modified in anyway
Regards
Matthew Tommasi
www httpthesocialmediaguidecomau
email matthewthesocialmediaguidecomau
twitter socialguide
facebook httpfacebookcomTheSocialMediaGuide
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau12
Clicking on the ltInfogt button when viewing a site allows you to review the site andassign tags to it all of your reviewed sites are saved
Categories
The categories across the top of the StumbleUpon page - News Photos Videos ArtBusiness Computers Health Fun Lifestyle Music Science Sports Technology contain sitesthat have content relevant to those categories
You can subscribe to sites within that category by clicking the ltSubscribegt button
Sites within this category are added to your interests which can be seen at Your Home --gtPreferences --gt Manage Interests
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You can unsubscribe any time by unselecting from the manage interests screen or byclicking on the ltUnsubscribegt button
Your Home
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The Your Home tab (far left hand side) contains everything relevant to you
Your Home --gt Your Favorites
This section contains
Reviews show all the sites that you have placed a review These reviews can beedited or deleted at any time from here
Favorites shows all of your favourite sites Any site that you have thumbed-upwill appear here Your favourites can be edited or deleted at any time from here
Photos shows sites tagged with photography
Video shows sites tagged with video
Discoveries shows all the sites that you have discovered These discoveries canbe edited or deleted at any time from here
Views
There are two views within StumbleUpon - List View and Grid View
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List view lists out your sites with a brief summary of each and allows you to easily edit ordelete
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Grid view displays your sites in rows of five with no summary displayed with just a pictureand the title of the page There is no option to edit of delete in this view
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Your Home --gt Whats New
This section shows new and recent reviews by people you have subscribed to andrecently rated sites from your subscriptions
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Your Home --gt Friends
This section shows your friends and people you have subscribed to
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Your Home --gt Inbox
The inbox is self explanatory
Your Home --gt Groups
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Your Home --gt Preferences
This was covered at the start of this guide
Supr URL
Supr is StumbleUpons URL shortening service that also helps your content getdiscovered Every Supr URL exposes your content to StumbleUpons 8 million users
Some of the notable features of Supr are
One-click posting andor URL-shortening to your Twitter and Facebook accounts Ability to schedule your posts at optimal times Suggestions for best posting times Reporting and graphs for your posts Exposure for your content to the entire StumbleUpon community Ability to highlight the best pages on your domain along with the main post Advanced options for your own custom short URLs
To be able to share Stumbled sites and post links to them on Twitter and Facebook youfirst need to authorise Supr to post to these services
Sign-in to Supr with your StumbleUpon details
Authorize on Twitter
Firstly click on ltAuthorize on Twittergt
Click ltAllowgt
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Authorize on Facebook
Now click on ltAuthorize on Facebookgt
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Click on ltAllowgt
Click on ltAllow Publishinggt
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau23
Posting from Supr
When making a post you can either
Post immediately Just Shorten the URL (to be used elsewhere eg other social networks blogs etc) Schedule your post for later
I am going to post immediately to Twitter and Facebook
Successfully appears on Twitter (and the URL is automatically shortened)
Successfully appears on Facebook (and the URL is automatically shortened)
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau24
Stats
As soon as yoursquove made a post you can immediately start checking stats in real time
You will be able to see how the post will appear to your recipients how many times theSupr link was clicked on (15 clicks) how many other views it got from the StumbleUponcommunity how many times it was retweeted and how many times it was reviewed (1review) by StumbleUpon members
Overview of StumbleUpon
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Friends and Subscribers
One of the best ways to Discover interesting sites is to connect with other members as aFriend or Subscriber
If you enjoy content another member has Shared or Discovered subscribe to their profileso you can follow their Stumbles while using the Toolbar If someone subscribes to yourcontent theyrsquoll see pages you rated and reviewed when Stumbling
Friends may not always share your interests so yoursquoll only see their reviews when youchoose to or if theyrsquove already shared content that matches your interests
Requests to become someonersquos Friend must be approved if yoursquove chosen to make yourStumble activity visible to others any member is free to Subscribe to your content
Building Relationships
Like with all other social communities connections are everything at StumbleUpon asthey determine
Authority the more friends you have the higher your authority as a member is Influence the more friends you have the more people you can share your
favourites to
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau26
The most effective ways of building connections and making relationships are
Initiate friendship by sending friend requests Testimonials give generous reviews to other members profiles
Website Popularity
There are a number of factors that determine the popularity of a page on StumbleUpon
Every time a page or site or discovered it ranks on a 0-5 star scale which makes up thesubmission score This submission score is determined by
Reviewers and stumblers score all StumbleUpon members are ranked based ontheir authority which includes
o the number of thumbs-up given and reviews madeo the number of testimonials receivedo the number of subscribers and friendso age as a StumbleUpon membero the diversity and consistency of topics Stumbled
Rate at which the story is thumbed-up the more thumbs in a short amount oftime the hotter the story
Source of the thumb if a post is thumbed or review from the page itself thiswont rank as highly as if the post was randomly discovered or Stumbled
Diversity of Stumblers if the page is thumbed or review by a wide variety ofunrelated people this will also increase the popularity of the page
Finally
StumbleUpon is a fantastic way for targeted traffic to visit and learn more about yoursite as well as discovering new sites for yourself
Building up your friend-base and can help further expose your website to their friendsespecially if you have a good reputation and always thumb-up good sites The more sitesthat you thumb-up (that interest you) the more it will attract like-minded people to yoursite connections are made and referrals start to come in StumbleUpon works very wellas a brand and link building tool
Have fun Stumbling
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau27
The Social Media Guide
The Social Media Guide provides helpful advice and tips on connecting you to othersthrough the use of social media and social networks
The Social Media Guide is an authoritative source on current and emerging social mediatools and platforms
The current explosion in social media technologies has made it easier than ever toconnect with friends groups customers and networks with similar interests from allaround the world
Businesses can benefit greatly by using social media to market their product strengthenbrand recognition and attract new customers
My aim is to show you how social media can be used to connect with more peoplefaster by providing clear and simple solutions
The Social Media Guide will show you how to extend your reach deeper into the socialweb and connect with more people
This material may be shared with everyone not sold for profit and not modified in anyway
Regards
Matthew Tommasi
www httpthesocialmediaguidecomau
email matthewthesocialmediaguidecomau
twitter socialguide
facebook httpfacebookcomTheSocialMediaGuide
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau13
You can unsubscribe any time by unselecting from the manage interests screen or byclicking on the ltUnsubscribegt button
Your Home
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The Your Home tab (far left hand side) contains everything relevant to you
Your Home --gt Your Favorites
This section contains
Reviews show all the sites that you have placed a review These reviews can beedited or deleted at any time from here
Favorites shows all of your favourite sites Any site that you have thumbed-upwill appear here Your favourites can be edited or deleted at any time from here
Photos shows sites tagged with photography
Video shows sites tagged with video
Discoveries shows all the sites that you have discovered These discoveries canbe edited or deleted at any time from here
Views
There are two views within StumbleUpon - List View and Grid View
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List view lists out your sites with a brief summary of each and allows you to easily edit ordelete
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau16
Grid view displays your sites in rows of five with no summary displayed with just a pictureand the title of the page There is no option to edit of delete in this view
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau17
Your Home --gt Whats New
This section shows new and recent reviews by people you have subscribed to andrecently rated sites from your subscriptions
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau18
Your Home --gt Friends
This section shows your friends and people you have subscribed to
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau19
Your Home --gt Inbox
The inbox is self explanatory
Your Home --gt Groups
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Your Home --gt Preferences
This was covered at the start of this guide
Supr URL
Supr is StumbleUpons URL shortening service that also helps your content getdiscovered Every Supr URL exposes your content to StumbleUpons 8 million users
Some of the notable features of Supr are
One-click posting andor URL-shortening to your Twitter and Facebook accounts Ability to schedule your posts at optimal times Suggestions for best posting times Reporting and graphs for your posts Exposure for your content to the entire StumbleUpon community Ability to highlight the best pages on your domain along with the main post Advanced options for your own custom short URLs
To be able to share Stumbled sites and post links to them on Twitter and Facebook youfirst need to authorise Supr to post to these services
Sign-in to Supr with your StumbleUpon details
Authorize on Twitter
Firstly click on ltAuthorize on Twittergt
Click ltAllowgt
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Authorize on Facebook
Now click on ltAuthorize on Facebookgt
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Click on ltAllowgt
Click on ltAllow Publishinggt
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau23
Posting from Supr
When making a post you can either
Post immediately Just Shorten the URL (to be used elsewhere eg other social networks blogs etc) Schedule your post for later
I am going to post immediately to Twitter and Facebook
Successfully appears on Twitter (and the URL is automatically shortened)
Successfully appears on Facebook (and the URL is automatically shortened)
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau24
Stats
As soon as yoursquove made a post you can immediately start checking stats in real time
You will be able to see how the post will appear to your recipients how many times theSupr link was clicked on (15 clicks) how many other views it got from the StumbleUponcommunity how many times it was retweeted and how many times it was reviewed (1review) by StumbleUpon members
Overview of StumbleUpon
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau25
Friends and Subscribers
One of the best ways to Discover interesting sites is to connect with other members as aFriend or Subscriber
If you enjoy content another member has Shared or Discovered subscribe to their profileso you can follow their Stumbles while using the Toolbar If someone subscribes to yourcontent theyrsquoll see pages you rated and reviewed when Stumbling
Friends may not always share your interests so yoursquoll only see their reviews when youchoose to or if theyrsquove already shared content that matches your interests
Requests to become someonersquos Friend must be approved if yoursquove chosen to make yourStumble activity visible to others any member is free to Subscribe to your content
Building Relationships
Like with all other social communities connections are everything at StumbleUpon asthey determine
Authority the more friends you have the higher your authority as a member is Influence the more friends you have the more people you can share your
favourites to
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau26
The most effective ways of building connections and making relationships are
Initiate friendship by sending friend requests Testimonials give generous reviews to other members profiles
Website Popularity
There are a number of factors that determine the popularity of a page on StumbleUpon
Every time a page or site or discovered it ranks on a 0-5 star scale which makes up thesubmission score This submission score is determined by
Reviewers and stumblers score all StumbleUpon members are ranked based ontheir authority which includes
o the number of thumbs-up given and reviews madeo the number of testimonials receivedo the number of subscribers and friendso age as a StumbleUpon membero the diversity and consistency of topics Stumbled
Rate at which the story is thumbed-up the more thumbs in a short amount oftime the hotter the story
Source of the thumb if a post is thumbed or review from the page itself thiswont rank as highly as if the post was randomly discovered or Stumbled
Diversity of Stumblers if the page is thumbed or review by a wide variety ofunrelated people this will also increase the popularity of the page
Finally
StumbleUpon is a fantastic way for targeted traffic to visit and learn more about yoursite as well as discovering new sites for yourself
Building up your friend-base and can help further expose your website to their friendsespecially if you have a good reputation and always thumb-up good sites The more sitesthat you thumb-up (that interest you) the more it will attract like-minded people to yoursite connections are made and referrals start to come in StumbleUpon works very wellas a brand and link building tool
Have fun Stumbling
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The Social Media Guide
The Social Media Guide provides helpful advice and tips on connecting you to othersthrough the use of social media and social networks
The Social Media Guide is an authoritative source on current and emerging social mediatools and platforms
The current explosion in social media technologies has made it easier than ever toconnect with friends groups customers and networks with similar interests from allaround the world
Businesses can benefit greatly by using social media to market their product strengthenbrand recognition and attract new customers
My aim is to show you how social media can be used to connect with more peoplefaster by providing clear and simple solutions
The Social Media Guide will show you how to extend your reach deeper into the socialweb and connect with more people
This material may be shared with everyone not sold for profit and not modified in anyway
Regards
Matthew Tommasi
www httpthesocialmediaguidecomau
email matthewthesocialmediaguidecomau
twitter socialguide
facebook httpfacebookcomTheSocialMediaGuide
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The Your Home tab (far left hand side) contains everything relevant to you
Your Home --gt Your Favorites
This section contains
Reviews show all the sites that you have placed a review These reviews can beedited or deleted at any time from here
Favorites shows all of your favourite sites Any site that you have thumbed-upwill appear here Your favourites can be edited or deleted at any time from here
Photos shows sites tagged with photography
Video shows sites tagged with video
Discoveries shows all the sites that you have discovered These discoveries canbe edited or deleted at any time from here
Views
There are two views within StumbleUpon - List View and Grid View
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List view lists out your sites with a brief summary of each and allows you to easily edit ordelete
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Grid view displays your sites in rows of five with no summary displayed with just a pictureand the title of the page There is no option to edit of delete in this view
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Your Home --gt Whats New
This section shows new and recent reviews by people you have subscribed to andrecently rated sites from your subscriptions
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Your Home --gt Friends
This section shows your friends and people you have subscribed to
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Your Home --gt Inbox
The inbox is self explanatory
Your Home --gt Groups
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Your Home --gt Preferences
This was covered at the start of this guide
Supr URL
Supr is StumbleUpons URL shortening service that also helps your content getdiscovered Every Supr URL exposes your content to StumbleUpons 8 million users
Some of the notable features of Supr are
One-click posting andor URL-shortening to your Twitter and Facebook accounts Ability to schedule your posts at optimal times Suggestions for best posting times Reporting and graphs for your posts Exposure for your content to the entire StumbleUpon community Ability to highlight the best pages on your domain along with the main post Advanced options for your own custom short URLs
To be able to share Stumbled sites and post links to them on Twitter and Facebook youfirst need to authorise Supr to post to these services
Sign-in to Supr with your StumbleUpon details
Authorize on Twitter
Firstly click on ltAuthorize on Twittergt
Click ltAllowgt
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Authorize on Facebook
Now click on ltAuthorize on Facebookgt
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Click on ltAllowgt
Click on ltAllow Publishinggt
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Posting from Supr
When making a post you can either
Post immediately Just Shorten the URL (to be used elsewhere eg other social networks blogs etc) Schedule your post for later
I am going to post immediately to Twitter and Facebook
Successfully appears on Twitter (and the URL is automatically shortened)
Successfully appears on Facebook (and the URL is automatically shortened)
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Stats
As soon as yoursquove made a post you can immediately start checking stats in real time
You will be able to see how the post will appear to your recipients how many times theSupr link was clicked on (15 clicks) how many other views it got from the StumbleUponcommunity how many times it was retweeted and how many times it was reviewed (1review) by StumbleUpon members
Overview of StumbleUpon
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Friends and Subscribers
One of the best ways to Discover interesting sites is to connect with other members as aFriend or Subscriber
If you enjoy content another member has Shared or Discovered subscribe to their profileso you can follow their Stumbles while using the Toolbar If someone subscribes to yourcontent theyrsquoll see pages you rated and reviewed when Stumbling
Friends may not always share your interests so yoursquoll only see their reviews when youchoose to or if theyrsquove already shared content that matches your interests
Requests to become someonersquos Friend must be approved if yoursquove chosen to make yourStumble activity visible to others any member is free to Subscribe to your content
Building Relationships
Like with all other social communities connections are everything at StumbleUpon asthey determine
Authority the more friends you have the higher your authority as a member is Influence the more friends you have the more people you can share your
favourites to
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The most effective ways of building connections and making relationships are
Initiate friendship by sending friend requests Testimonials give generous reviews to other members profiles
Website Popularity
There are a number of factors that determine the popularity of a page on StumbleUpon
Every time a page or site or discovered it ranks on a 0-5 star scale which makes up thesubmission score This submission score is determined by
Reviewers and stumblers score all StumbleUpon members are ranked based ontheir authority which includes
o the number of thumbs-up given and reviews madeo the number of testimonials receivedo the number of subscribers and friendso age as a StumbleUpon membero the diversity and consistency of topics Stumbled
Rate at which the story is thumbed-up the more thumbs in a short amount oftime the hotter the story
Source of the thumb if a post is thumbed or review from the page itself thiswont rank as highly as if the post was randomly discovered or Stumbled
Diversity of Stumblers if the page is thumbed or review by a wide variety ofunrelated people this will also increase the popularity of the page
Finally
StumbleUpon is a fantastic way for targeted traffic to visit and learn more about yoursite as well as discovering new sites for yourself
Building up your friend-base and can help further expose your website to their friendsespecially if you have a good reputation and always thumb-up good sites The more sitesthat you thumb-up (that interest you) the more it will attract like-minded people to yoursite connections are made and referrals start to come in StumbleUpon works very wellas a brand and link building tool
Have fun Stumbling
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The Social Media Guide
The Social Media Guide provides helpful advice and tips on connecting you to othersthrough the use of social media and social networks
The Social Media Guide is an authoritative source on current and emerging social mediatools and platforms
The current explosion in social media technologies has made it easier than ever toconnect with friends groups customers and networks with similar interests from allaround the world
Businesses can benefit greatly by using social media to market their product strengthenbrand recognition and attract new customers
My aim is to show you how social media can be used to connect with more peoplefaster by providing clear and simple solutions
The Social Media Guide will show you how to extend your reach deeper into the socialweb and connect with more people
This material may be shared with everyone not sold for profit and not modified in anyway
Regards
Matthew Tommasi
www httpthesocialmediaguidecomau
email matthewthesocialmediaguidecomau
twitter socialguide
facebook httpfacebookcomTheSocialMediaGuide
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List view lists out your sites with a brief summary of each and allows you to easily edit ordelete
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Grid view displays your sites in rows of five with no summary displayed with just a pictureand the title of the page There is no option to edit of delete in this view
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Your Home --gt Whats New
This section shows new and recent reviews by people you have subscribed to andrecently rated sites from your subscriptions
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Your Home --gt Friends
This section shows your friends and people you have subscribed to
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Your Home --gt Inbox
The inbox is self explanatory
Your Home --gt Groups
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Your Home --gt Preferences
This was covered at the start of this guide
Supr URL
Supr is StumbleUpons URL shortening service that also helps your content getdiscovered Every Supr URL exposes your content to StumbleUpons 8 million users
Some of the notable features of Supr are
One-click posting andor URL-shortening to your Twitter and Facebook accounts Ability to schedule your posts at optimal times Suggestions for best posting times Reporting and graphs for your posts Exposure for your content to the entire StumbleUpon community Ability to highlight the best pages on your domain along with the main post Advanced options for your own custom short URLs
To be able to share Stumbled sites and post links to them on Twitter and Facebook youfirst need to authorise Supr to post to these services
Sign-in to Supr with your StumbleUpon details
Authorize on Twitter
Firstly click on ltAuthorize on Twittergt
Click ltAllowgt
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Authorize on Facebook
Now click on ltAuthorize on Facebookgt
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Click on ltAllowgt
Click on ltAllow Publishinggt
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Posting from Supr
When making a post you can either
Post immediately Just Shorten the URL (to be used elsewhere eg other social networks blogs etc) Schedule your post for later
I am going to post immediately to Twitter and Facebook
Successfully appears on Twitter (and the URL is automatically shortened)
Successfully appears on Facebook (and the URL is automatically shortened)
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Stats
As soon as yoursquove made a post you can immediately start checking stats in real time
You will be able to see how the post will appear to your recipients how many times theSupr link was clicked on (15 clicks) how many other views it got from the StumbleUponcommunity how many times it was retweeted and how many times it was reviewed (1review) by StumbleUpon members
Overview of StumbleUpon
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Friends and Subscribers
One of the best ways to Discover interesting sites is to connect with other members as aFriend or Subscriber
If you enjoy content another member has Shared or Discovered subscribe to their profileso you can follow their Stumbles while using the Toolbar If someone subscribes to yourcontent theyrsquoll see pages you rated and reviewed when Stumbling
Friends may not always share your interests so yoursquoll only see their reviews when youchoose to or if theyrsquove already shared content that matches your interests
Requests to become someonersquos Friend must be approved if yoursquove chosen to make yourStumble activity visible to others any member is free to Subscribe to your content
Building Relationships
Like with all other social communities connections are everything at StumbleUpon asthey determine
Authority the more friends you have the higher your authority as a member is Influence the more friends you have the more people you can share your
favourites to
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The most effective ways of building connections and making relationships are
Initiate friendship by sending friend requests Testimonials give generous reviews to other members profiles
Website Popularity
There are a number of factors that determine the popularity of a page on StumbleUpon
Every time a page or site or discovered it ranks on a 0-5 star scale which makes up thesubmission score This submission score is determined by
Reviewers and stumblers score all StumbleUpon members are ranked based ontheir authority which includes
o the number of thumbs-up given and reviews madeo the number of testimonials receivedo the number of subscribers and friendso age as a StumbleUpon membero the diversity and consistency of topics Stumbled
Rate at which the story is thumbed-up the more thumbs in a short amount oftime the hotter the story
Source of the thumb if a post is thumbed or review from the page itself thiswont rank as highly as if the post was randomly discovered or Stumbled
Diversity of Stumblers if the page is thumbed or review by a wide variety ofunrelated people this will also increase the popularity of the page
Finally
StumbleUpon is a fantastic way for targeted traffic to visit and learn more about yoursite as well as discovering new sites for yourself
Building up your friend-base and can help further expose your website to their friendsespecially if you have a good reputation and always thumb-up good sites The more sitesthat you thumb-up (that interest you) the more it will attract like-minded people to yoursite connections are made and referrals start to come in StumbleUpon works very wellas a brand and link building tool
Have fun Stumbling
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The Social Media Guide
The Social Media Guide provides helpful advice and tips on connecting you to othersthrough the use of social media and social networks
The Social Media Guide is an authoritative source on current and emerging social mediatools and platforms
The current explosion in social media technologies has made it easier than ever toconnect with friends groups customers and networks with similar interests from allaround the world
Businesses can benefit greatly by using social media to market their product strengthenbrand recognition and attract new customers
My aim is to show you how social media can be used to connect with more peoplefaster by providing clear and simple solutions
The Social Media Guide will show you how to extend your reach deeper into the socialweb and connect with more people
This material may be shared with everyone not sold for profit and not modified in anyway
Regards
Matthew Tommasi
www httpthesocialmediaguidecomau
email matthewthesocialmediaguidecomau
twitter socialguide
facebook httpfacebookcomTheSocialMediaGuide
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Grid view displays your sites in rows of five with no summary displayed with just a pictureand the title of the page There is no option to edit of delete in this view
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Your Home --gt Whats New
This section shows new and recent reviews by people you have subscribed to andrecently rated sites from your subscriptions
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Your Home --gt Friends
This section shows your friends and people you have subscribed to
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Your Home --gt Inbox
The inbox is self explanatory
Your Home --gt Groups
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Your Home --gt Preferences
This was covered at the start of this guide
Supr URL
Supr is StumbleUpons URL shortening service that also helps your content getdiscovered Every Supr URL exposes your content to StumbleUpons 8 million users
Some of the notable features of Supr are
One-click posting andor URL-shortening to your Twitter and Facebook accounts Ability to schedule your posts at optimal times Suggestions for best posting times Reporting and graphs for your posts Exposure for your content to the entire StumbleUpon community Ability to highlight the best pages on your domain along with the main post Advanced options for your own custom short URLs
To be able to share Stumbled sites and post links to them on Twitter and Facebook youfirst need to authorise Supr to post to these services
Sign-in to Supr with your StumbleUpon details
Authorize on Twitter
Firstly click on ltAuthorize on Twittergt
Click ltAllowgt
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Authorize on Facebook
Now click on ltAuthorize on Facebookgt
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Click on ltAllowgt
Click on ltAllow Publishinggt
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Posting from Supr
When making a post you can either
Post immediately Just Shorten the URL (to be used elsewhere eg other social networks blogs etc) Schedule your post for later
I am going to post immediately to Twitter and Facebook
Successfully appears on Twitter (and the URL is automatically shortened)
Successfully appears on Facebook (and the URL is automatically shortened)
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Stats
As soon as yoursquove made a post you can immediately start checking stats in real time
You will be able to see how the post will appear to your recipients how many times theSupr link was clicked on (15 clicks) how many other views it got from the StumbleUponcommunity how many times it was retweeted and how many times it was reviewed (1review) by StumbleUpon members
Overview of StumbleUpon
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Friends and Subscribers
One of the best ways to Discover interesting sites is to connect with other members as aFriend or Subscriber
If you enjoy content another member has Shared or Discovered subscribe to their profileso you can follow their Stumbles while using the Toolbar If someone subscribes to yourcontent theyrsquoll see pages you rated and reviewed when Stumbling
Friends may not always share your interests so yoursquoll only see their reviews when youchoose to or if theyrsquove already shared content that matches your interests
Requests to become someonersquos Friend must be approved if yoursquove chosen to make yourStumble activity visible to others any member is free to Subscribe to your content
Building Relationships
Like with all other social communities connections are everything at StumbleUpon asthey determine
Authority the more friends you have the higher your authority as a member is Influence the more friends you have the more people you can share your
favourites to
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau26
The most effective ways of building connections and making relationships are
Initiate friendship by sending friend requests Testimonials give generous reviews to other members profiles
Website Popularity
There are a number of factors that determine the popularity of a page on StumbleUpon
Every time a page or site or discovered it ranks on a 0-5 star scale which makes up thesubmission score This submission score is determined by
Reviewers and stumblers score all StumbleUpon members are ranked based ontheir authority which includes
o the number of thumbs-up given and reviews madeo the number of testimonials receivedo the number of subscribers and friendso age as a StumbleUpon membero the diversity and consistency of topics Stumbled
Rate at which the story is thumbed-up the more thumbs in a short amount oftime the hotter the story
Source of the thumb if a post is thumbed or review from the page itself thiswont rank as highly as if the post was randomly discovered or Stumbled
Diversity of Stumblers if the page is thumbed or review by a wide variety ofunrelated people this will also increase the popularity of the page
Finally
StumbleUpon is a fantastic way for targeted traffic to visit and learn more about yoursite as well as discovering new sites for yourself
Building up your friend-base and can help further expose your website to their friendsespecially if you have a good reputation and always thumb-up good sites The more sitesthat you thumb-up (that interest you) the more it will attract like-minded people to yoursite connections are made and referrals start to come in StumbleUpon works very wellas a brand and link building tool
Have fun Stumbling
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau27
The Social Media Guide
The Social Media Guide provides helpful advice and tips on connecting you to othersthrough the use of social media and social networks
The Social Media Guide is an authoritative source on current and emerging social mediatools and platforms
The current explosion in social media technologies has made it easier than ever toconnect with friends groups customers and networks with similar interests from allaround the world
Businesses can benefit greatly by using social media to market their product strengthenbrand recognition and attract new customers
My aim is to show you how social media can be used to connect with more peoplefaster by providing clear and simple solutions
The Social Media Guide will show you how to extend your reach deeper into the socialweb and connect with more people
This material may be shared with everyone not sold for profit and not modified in anyway
Regards
Matthew Tommasi
www httpthesocialmediaguidecomau
email matthewthesocialmediaguidecomau
twitter socialguide
facebook httpfacebookcomTheSocialMediaGuide
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau17
Your Home --gt Whats New
This section shows new and recent reviews by people you have subscribed to andrecently rated sites from your subscriptions
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Your Home --gt Friends
This section shows your friends and people you have subscribed to
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Your Home --gt Inbox
The inbox is self explanatory
Your Home --gt Groups
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Your Home --gt Preferences
This was covered at the start of this guide
Supr URL
Supr is StumbleUpons URL shortening service that also helps your content getdiscovered Every Supr URL exposes your content to StumbleUpons 8 million users
Some of the notable features of Supr are
One-click posting andor URL-shortening to your Twitter and Facebook accounts Ability to schedule your posts at optimal times Suggestions for best posting times Reporting and graphs for your posts Exposure for your content to the entire StumbleUpon community Ability to highlight the best pages on your domain along with the main post Advanced options for your own custom short URLs
To be able to share Stumbled sites and post links to them on Twitter and Facebook youfirst need to authorise Supr to post to these services
Sign-in to Supr with your StumbleUpon details
Authorize on Twitter
Firstly click on ltAuthorize on Twittergt
Click ltAllowgt
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Authorize on Facebook
Now click on ltAuthorize on Facebookgt
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Click on ltAllowgt
Click on ltAllow Publishinggt
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Posting from Supr
When making a post you can either
Post immediately Just Shorten the URL (to be used elsewhere eg other social networks blogs etc) Schedule your post for later
I am going to post immediately to Twitter and Facebook
Successfully appears on Twitter (and the URL is automatically shortened)
Successfully appears on Facebook (and the URL is automatically shortened)
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau24
Stats
As soon as yoursquove made a post you can immediately start checking stats in real time
You will be able to see how the post will appear to your recipients how many times theSupr link was clicked on (15 clicks) how many other views it got from the StumbleUponcommunity how many times it was retweeted and how many times it was reviewed (1review) by StumbleUpon members
Overview of StumbleUpon
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Friends and Subscribers
One of the best ways to Discover interesting sites is to connect with other members as aFriend or Subscriber
If you enjoy content another member has Shared or Discovered subscribe to their profileso you can follow their Stumbles while using the Toolbar If someone subscribes to yourcontent theyrsquoll see pages you rated and reviewed when Stumbling
Friends may not always share your interests so yoursquoll only see their reviews when youchoose to or if theyrsquove already shared content that matches your interests
Requests to become someonersquos Friend must be approved if yoursquove chosen to make yourStumble activity visible to others any member is free to Subscribe to your content
Building Relationships
Like with all other social communities connections are everything at StumbleUpon asthey determine
Authority the more friends you have the higher your authority as a member is Influence the more friends you have the more people you can share your
favourites to
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau26
The most effective ways of building connections and making relationships are
Initiate friendship by sending friend requests Testimonials give generous reviews to other members profiles
Website Popularity
There are a number of factors that determine the popularity of a page on StumbleUpon
Every time a page or site or discovered it ranks on a 0-5 star scale which makes up thesubmission score This submission score is determined by
Reviewers and stumblers score all StumbleUpon members are ranked based ontheir authority which includes
o the number of thumbs-up given and reviews madeo the number of testimonials receivedo the number of subscribers and friendso age as a StumbleUpon membero the diversity and consistency of topics Stumbled
Rate at which the story is thumbed-up the more thumbs in a short amount oftime the hotter the story
Source of the thumb if a post is thumbed or review from the page itself thiswont rank as highly as if the post was randomly discovered or Stumbled
Diversity of Stumblers if the page is thumbed or review by a wide variety ofunrelated people this will also increase the popularity of the page
Finally
StumbleUpon is a fantastic way for targeted traffic to visit and learn more about yoursite as well as discovering new sites for yourself
Building up your friend-base and can help further expose your website to their friendsespecially if you have a good reputation and always thumb-up good sites The more sitesthat you thumb-up (that interest you) the more it will attract like-minded people to yoursite connections are made and referrals start to come in StumbleUpon works very wellas a brand and link building tool
Have fun Stumbling
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau27
The Social Media Guide
The Social Media Guide provides helpful advice and tips on connecting you to othersthrough the use of social media and social networks
The Social Media Guide is an authoritative source on current and emerging social mediatools and platforms
The current explosion in social media technologies has made it easier than ever toconnect with friends groups customers and networks with similar interests from allaround the world
Businesses can benefit greatly by using social media to market their product strengthenbrand recognition and attract new customers
My aim is to show you how social media can be used to connect with more peoplefaster by providing clear and simple solutions
The Social Media Guide will show you how to extend your reach deeper into the socialweb and connect with more people
This material may be shared with everyone not sold for profit and not modified in anyway
Regards
Matthew Tommasi
www httpthesocialmediaguidecomau
email matthewthesocialmediaguidecomau
twitter socialguide
facebook httpfacebookcomTheSocialMediaGuide
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau18
Your Home --gt Friends
This section shows your friends and people you have subscribed to
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Your Home --gt Inbox
The inbox is self explanatory
Your Home --gt Groups
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau20
Your Home --gt Preferences
This was covered at the start of this guide
Supr URL
Supr is StumbleUpons URL shortening service that also helps your content getdiscovered Every Supr URL exposes your content to StumbleUpons 8 million users
Some of the notable features of Supr are
One-click posting andor URL-shortening to your Twitter and Facebook accounts Ability to schedule your posts at optimal times Suggestions for best posting times Reporting and graphs for your posts Exposure for your content to the entire StumbleUpon community Ability to highlight the best pages on your domain along with the main post Advanced options for your own custom short URLs
To be able to share Stumbled sites and post links to them on Twitter and Facebook youfirst need to authorise Supr to post to these services
Sign-in to Supr with your StumbleUpon details
Authorize on Twitter
Firstly click on ltAuthorize on Twittergt
Click ltAllowgt
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Authorize on Facebook
Now click on ltAuthorize on Facebookgt
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Click on ltAllowgt
Click on ltAllow Publishinggt
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau23
Posting from Supr
When making a post you can either
Post immediately Just Shorten the URL (to be used elsewhere eg other social networks blogs etc) Schedule your post for later
I am going to post immediately to Twitter and Facebook
Successfully appears on Twitter (and the URL is automatically shortened)
Successfully appears on Facebook (and the URL is automatically shortened)
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau24
Stats
As soon as yoursquove made a post you can immediately start checking stats in real time
You will be able to see how the post will appear to your recipients how many times theSupr link was clicked on (15 clicks) how many other views it got from the StumbleUponcommunity how many times it was retweeted and how many times it was reviewed (1review) by StumbleUpon members
Overview of StumbleUpon
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau25
Friends and Subscribers
One of the best ways to Discover interesting sites is to connect with other members as aFriend or Subscriber
If you enjoy content another member has Shared or Discovered subscribe to their profileso you can follow their Stumbles while using the Toolbar If someone subscribes to yourcontent theyrsquoll see pages you rated and reviewed when Stumbling
Friends may not always share your interests so yoursquoll only see their reviews when youchoose to or if theyrsquove already shared content that matches your interests
Requests to become someonersquos Friend must be approved if yoursquove chosen to make yourStumble activity visible to others any member is free to Subscribe to your content
Building Relationships
Like with all other social communities connections are everything at StumbleUpon asthey determine
Authority the more friends you have the higher your authority as a member is Influence the more friends you have the more people you can share your
favourites to
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau26
The most effective ways of building connections and making relationships are
Initiate friendship by sending friend requests Testimonials give generous reviews to other members profiles
Website Popularity
There are a number of factors that determine the popularity of a page on StumbleUpon
Every time a page or site or discovered it ranks on a 0-5 star scale which makes up thesubmission score This submission score is determined by
Reviewers and stumblers score all StumbleUpon members are ranked based ontheir authority which includes
o the number of thumbs-up given and reviews madeo the number of testimonials receivedo the number of subscribers and friendso age as a StumbleUpon membero the diversity and consistency of topics Stumbled
Rate at which the story is thumbed-up the more thumbs in a short amount oftime the hotter the story
Source of the thumb if a post is thumbed or review from the page itself thiswont rank as highly as if the post was randomly discovered or Stumbled
Diversity of Stumblers if the page is thumbed or review by a wide variety ofunrelated people this will also increase the popularity of the page
Finally
StumbleUpon is a fantastic way for targeted traffic to visit and learn more about yoursite as well as discovering new sites for yourself
Building up your friend-base and can help further expose your website to their friendsespecially if you have a good reputation and always thumb-up good sites The more sitesthat you thumb-up (that interest you) the more it will attract like-minded people to yoursite connections are made and referrals start to come in StumbleUpon works very wellas a brand and link building tool
Have fun Stumbling
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau27
The Social Media Guide
The Social Media Guide provides helpful advice and tips on connecting you to othersthrough the use of social media and social networks
The Social Media Guide is an authoritative source on current and emerging social mediatools and platforms
The current explosion in social media technologies has made it easier than ever toconnect with friends groups customers and networks with similar interests from allaround the world
Businesses can benefit greatly by using social media to market their product strengthenbrand recognition and attract new customers
My aim is to show you how social media can be used to connect with more peoplefaster by providing clear and simple solutions
The Social Media Guide will show you how to extend your reach deeper into the socialweb and connect with more people
This material may be shared with everyone not sold for profit and not modified in anyway
Regards
Matthew Tommasi
www httpthesocialmediaguidecomau
email matthewthesocialmediaguidecomau
twitter socialguide
facebook httpfacebookcomTheSocialMediaGuide
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau19
Your Home --gt Inbox
The inbox is self explanatory
Your Home --gt Groups
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau20
Your Home --gt Preferences
This was covered at the start of this guide
Supr URL
Supr is StumbleUpons URL shortening service that also helps your content getdiscovered Every Supr URL exposes your content to StumbleUpons 8 million users
Some of the notable features of Supr are
One-click posting andor URL-shortening to your Twitter and Facebook accounts Ability to schedule your posts at optimal times Suggestions for best posting times Reporting and graphs for your posts Exposure for your content to the entire StumbleUpon community Ability to highlight the best pages on your domain along with the main post Advanced options for your own custom short URLs
To be able to share Stumbled sites and post links to them on Twitter and Facebook youfirst need to authorise Supr to post to these services
Sign-in to Supr with your StumbleUpon details
Authorize on Twitter
Firstly click on ltAuthorize on Twittergt
Click ltAllowgt
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Authorize on Facebook
Now click on ltAuthorize on Facebookgt
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau22
Click on ltAllowgt
Click on ltAllow Publishinggt
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau23
Posting from Supr
When making a post you can either
Post immediately Just Shorten the URL (to be used elsewhere eg other social networks blogs etc) Schedule your post for later
I am going to post immediately to Twitter and Facebook
Successfully appears on Twitter (and the URL is automatically shortened)
Successfully appears on Facebook (and the URL is automatically shortened)
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Stats
As soon as yoursquove made a post you can immediately start checking stats in real time
You will be able to see how the post will appear to your recipients how many times theSupr link was clicked on (15 clicks) how many other views it got from the StumbleUponcommunity how many times it was retweeted and how many times it was reviewed (1review) by StumbleUpon members
Overview of StumbleUpon
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Friends and Subscribers
One of the best ways to Discover interesting sites is to connect with other members as aFriend or Subscriber
If you enjoy content another member has Shared or Discovered subscribe to their profileso you can follow their Stumbles while using the Toolbar If someone subscribes to yourcontent theyrsquoll see pages you rated and reviewed when Stumbling
Friends may not always share your interests so yoursquoll only see their reviews when youchoose to or if theyrsquove already shared content that matches your interests
Requests to become someonersquos Friend must be approved if yoursquove chosen to make yourStumble activity visible to others any member is free to Subscribe to your content
Building Relationships
Like with all other social communities connections are everything at StumbleUpon asthey determine
Authority the more friends you have the higher your authority as a member is Influence the more friends you have the more people you can share your
favourites to
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The most effective ways of building connections and making relationships are
Initiate friendship by sending friend requests Testimonials give generous reviews to other members profiles
Website Popularity
There are a number of factors that determine the popularity of a page on StumbleUpon
Every time a page or site or discovered it ranks on a 0-5 star scale which makes up thesubmission score This submission score is determined by
Reviewers and stumblers score all StumbleUpon members are ranked based ontheir authority which includes
o the number of thumbs-up given and reviews madeo the number of testimonials receivedo the number of subscribers and friendso age as a StumbleUpon membero the diversity and consistency of topics Stumbled
Rate at which the story is thumbed-up the more thumbs in a short amount oftime the hotter the story
Source of the thumb if a post is thumbed or review from the page itself thiswont rank as highly as if the post was randomly discovered or Stumbled
Diversity of Stumblers if the page is thumbed or review by a wide variety ofunrelated people this will also increase the popularity of the page
Finally
StumbleUpon is a fantastic way for targeted traffic to visit and learn more about yoursite as well as discovering new sites for yourself
Building up your friend-base and can help further expose your website to their friendsespecially if you have a good reputation and always thumb-up good sites The more sitesthat you thumb-up (that interest you) the more it will attract like-minded people to yoursite connections are made and referrals start to come in StumbleUpon works very wellas a brand and link building tool
Have fun Stumbling
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The Social Media Guide
The Social Media Guide provides helpful advice and tips on connecting you to othersthrough the use of social media and social networks
The Social Media Guide is an authoritative source on current and emerging social mediatools and platforms
The current explosion in social media technologies has made it easier than ever toconnect with friends groups customers and networks with similar interests from allaround the world
Businesses can benefit greatly by using social media to market their product strengthenbrand recognition and attract new customers
My aim is to show you how social media can be used to connect with more peoplefaster by providing clear and simple solutions
The Social Media Guide will show you how to extend your reach deeper into the socialweb and connect with more people
This material may be shared with everyone not sold for profit and not modified in anyway
Regards
Matthew Tommasi
www httpthesocialmediaguidecomau
email matthewthesocialmediaguidecomau
twitter socialguide
facebook httpfacebookcomTheSocialMediaGuide
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Your Home --gt Preferences
This was covered at the start of this guide
Supr URL
Supr is StumbleUpons URL shortening service that also helps your content getdiscovered Every Supr URL exposes your content to StumbleUpons 8 million users
Some of the notable features of Supr are
One-click posting andor URL-shortening to your Twitter and Facebook accounts Ability to schedule your posts at optimal times Suggestions for best posting times Reporting and graphs for your posts Exposure for your content to the entire StumbleUpon community Ability to highlight the best pages on your domain along with the main post Advanced options for your own custom short URLs
To be able to share Stumbled sites and post links to them on Twitter and Facebook youfirst need to authorise Supr to post to these services
Sign-in to Supr with your StumbleUpon details
Authorize on Twitter
Firstly click on ltAuthorize on Twittergt
Click ltAllowgt
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Authorize on Facebook
Now click on ltAuthorize on Facebookgt
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Click on ltAllowgt
Click on ltAllow Publishinggt
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Posting from Supr
When making a post you can either
Post immediately Just Shorten the URL (to be used elsewhere eg other social networks blogs etc) Schedule your post for later
I am going to post immediately to Twitter and Facebook
Successfully appears on Twitter (and the URL is automatically shortened)
Successfully appears on Facebook (and the URL is automatically shortened)
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Stats
As soon as yoursquove made a post you can immediately start checking stats in real time
You will be able to see how the post will appear to your recipients how many times theSupr link was clicked on (15 clicks) how many other views it got from the StumbleUponcommunity how many times it was retweeted and how many times it was reviewed (1review) by StumbleUpon members
Overview of StumbleUpon
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Friends and Subscribers
One of the best ways to Discover interesting sites is to connect with other members as aFriend or Subscriber
If you enjoy content another member has Shared or Discovered subscribe to their profileso you can follow their Stumbles while using the Toolbar If someone subscribes to yourcontent theyrsquoll see pages you rated and reviewed when Stumbling
Friends may not always share your interests so yoursquoll only see their reviews when youchoose to or if theyrsquove already shared content that matches your interests
Requests to become someonersquos Friend must be approved if yoursquove chosen to make yourStumble activity visible to others any member is free to Subscribe to your content
Building Relationships
Like with all other social communities connections are everything at StumbleUpon asthey determine
Authority the more friends you have the higher your authority as a member is Influence the more friends you have the more people you can share your
favourites to
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau26
The most effective ways of building connections and making relationships are
Initiate friendship by sending friend requests Testimonials give generous reviews to other members profiles
Website Popularity
There are a number of factors that determine the popularity of a page on StumbleUpon
Every time a page or site or discovered it ranks on a 0-5 star scale which makes up thesubmission score This submission score is determined by
Reviewers and stumblers score all StumbleUpon members are ranked based ontheir authority which includes
o the number of thumbs-up given and reviews madeo the number of testimonials receivedo the number of subscribers and friendso age as a StumbleUpon membero the diversity and consistency of topics Stumbled
Rate at which the story is thumbed-up the more thumbs in a short amount oftime the hotter the story
Source of the thumb if a post is thumbed or review from the page itself thiswont rank as highly as if the post was randomly discovered or Stumbled
Diversity of Stumblers if the page is thumbed or review by a wide variety ofunrelated people this will also increase the popularity of the page
Finally
StumbleUpon is a fantastic way for targeted traffic to visit and learn more about yoursite as well as discovering new sites for yourself
Building up your friend-base and can help further expose your website to their friendsespecially if you have a good reputation and always thumb-up good sites The more sitesthat you thumb-up (that interest you) the more it will attract like-minded people to yoursite connections are made and referrals start to come in StumbleUpon works very wellas a brand and link building tool
Have fun Stumbling
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau27
The Social Media Guide
The Social Media Guide provides helpful advice and tips on connecting you to othersthrough the use of social media and social networks
The Social Media Guide is an authoritative source on current and emerging social mediatools and platforms
The current explosion in social media technologies has made it easier than ever toconnect with friends groups customers and networks with similar interests from allaround the world
Businesses can benefit greatly by using social media to market their product strengthenbrand recognition and attract new customers
My aim is to show you how social media can be used to connect with more peoplefaster by providing clear and simple solutions
The Social Media Guide will show you how to extend your reach deeper into the socialweb and connect with more people
This material may be shared with everyone not sold for profit and not modified in anyway
Regards
Matthew Tommasi
www httpthesocialmediaguidecomau
email matthewthesocialmediaguidecomau
twitter socialguide
facebook httpfacebookcomTheSocialMediaGuide
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Authorize on Facebook
Now click on ltAuthorize on Facebookgt
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Click on ltAllowgt
Click on ltAllow Publishinggt
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Posting from Supr
When making a post you can either
Post immediately Just Shorten the URL (to be used elsewhere eg other social networks blogs etc) Schedule your post for later
I am going to post immediately to Twitter and Facebook
Successfully appears on Twitter (and the URL is automatically shortened)
Successfully appears on Facebook (and the URL is automatically shortened)
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Stats
As soon as yoursquove made a post you can immediately start checking stats in real time
You will be able to see how the post will appear to your recipients how many times theSupr link was clicked on (15 clicks) how many other views it got from the StumbleUponcommunity how many times it was retweeted and how many times it was reviewed (1review) by StumbleUpon members
Overview of StumbleUpon
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Friends and Subscribers
One of the best ways to Discover interesting sites is to connect with other members as aFriend or Subscriber
If you enjoy content another member has Shared or Discovered subscribe to their profileso you can follow their Stumbles while using the Toolbar If someone subscribes to yourcontent theyrsquoll see pages you rated and reviewed when Stumbling
Friends may not always share your interests so yoursquoll only see their reviews when youchoose to or if theyrsquove already shared content that matches your interests
Requests to become someonersquos Friend must be approved if yoursquove chosen to make yourStumble activity visible to others any member is free to Subscribe to your content
Building Relationships
Like with all other social communities connections are everything at StumbleUpon asthey determine
Authority the more friends you have the higher your authority as a member is Influence the more friends you have the more people you can share your
favourites to
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau26
The most effective ways of building connections and making relationships are
Initiate friendship by sending friend requests Testimonials give generous reviews to other members profiles
Website Popularity
There are a number of factors that determine the popularity of a page on StumbleUpon
Every time a page or site or discovered it ranks on a 0-5 star scale which makes up thesubmission score This submission score is determined by
Reviewers and stumblers score all StumbleUpon members are ranked based ontheir authority which includes
o the number of thumbs-up given and reviews madeo the number of testimonials receivedo the number of subscribers and friendso age as a StumbleUpon membero the diversity and consistency of topics Stumbled
Rate at which the story is thumbed-up the more thumbs in a short amount oftime the hotter the story
Source of the thumb if a post is thumbed or review from the page itself thiswont rank as highly as if the post was randomly discovered or Stumbled
Diversity of Stumblers if the page is thumbed or review by a wide variety ofunrelated people this will also increase the popularity of the page
Finally
StumbleUpon is a fantastic way for targeted traffic to visit and learn more about yoursite as well as discovering new sites for yourself
Building up your friend-base and can help further expose your website to their friendsespecially if you have a good reputation and always thumb-up good sites The more sitesthat you thumb-up (that interest you) the more it will attract like-minded people to yoursite connections are made and referrals start to come in StumbleUpon works very wellas a brand and link building tool
Have fun Stumbling
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau27
The Social Media Guide
The Social Media Guide provides helpful advice and tips on connecting you to othersthrough the use of social media and social networks
The Social Media Guide is an authoritative source on current and emerging social mediatools and platforms
The current explosion in social media technologies has made it easier than ever toconnect with friends groups customers and networks with similar interests from allaround the world
Businesses can benefit greatly by using social media to market their product strengthenbrand recognition and attract new customers
My aim is to show you how social media can be used to connect with more peoplefaster by providing clear and simple solutions
The Social Media Guide will show you how to extend your reach deeper into the socialweb and connect with more people
This material may be shared with everyone not sold for profit and not modified in anyway
Regards
Matthew Tommasi
www httpthesocialmediaguidecomau
email matthewthesocialmediaguidecomau
twitter socialguide
facebook httpfacebookcomTheSocialMediaGuide
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Click on ltAllowgt
Click on ltAllow Publishinggt
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Posting from Supr
When making a post you can either
Post immediately Just Shorten the URL (to be used elsewhere eg other social networks blogs etc) Schedule your post for later
I am going to post immediately to Twitter and Facebook
Successfully appears on Twitter (and the URL is automatically shortened)
Successfully appears on Facebook (and the URL is automatically shortened)
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau24
Stats
As soon as yoursquove made a post you can immediately start checking stats in real time
You will be able to see how the post will appear to your recipients how many times theSupr link was clicked on (15 clicks) how many other views it got from the StumbleUponcommunity how many times it was retweeted and how many times it was reviewed (1review) by StumbleUpon members
Overview of StumbleUpon
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau25
Friends and Subscribers
One of the best ways to Discover interesting sites is to connect with other members as aFriend or Subscriber
If you enjoy content another member has Shared or Discovered subscribe to their profileso you can follow their Stumbles while using the Toolbar If someone subscribes to yourcontent theyrsquoll see pages you rated and reviewed when Stumbling
Friends may not always share your interests so yoursquoll only see their reviews when youchoose to or if theyrsquove already shared content that matches your interests
Requests to become someonersquos Friend must be approved if yoursquove chosen to make yourStumble activity visible to others any member is free to Subscribe to your content
Building Relationships
Like with all other social communities connections are everything at StumbleUpon asthey determine
Authority the more friends you have the higher your authority as a member is Influence the more friends you have the more people you can share your
favourites to
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau26
The most effective ways of building connections and making relationships are
Initiate friendship by sending friend requests Testimonials give generous reviews to other members profiles
Website Popularity
There are a number of factors that determine the popularity of a page on StumbleUpon
Every time a page or site or discovered it ranks on a 0-5 star scale which makes up thesubmission score This submission score is determined by
Reviewers and stumblers score all StumbleUpon members are ranked based ontheir authority which includes
o the number of thumbs-up given and reviews madeo the number of testimonials receivedo the number of subscribers and friendso age as a StumbleUpon membero the diversity and consistency of topics Stumbled
Rate at which the story is thumbed-up the more thumbs in a short amount oftime the hotter the story
Source of the thumb if a post is thumbed or review from the page itself thiswont rank as highly as if the post was randomly discovered or Stumbled
Diversity of Stumblers if the page is thumbed or review by a wide variety ofunrelated people this will also increase the popularity of the page
Finally
StumbleUpon is a fantastic way for targeted traffic to visit and learn more about yoursite as well as discovering new sites for yourself
Building up your friend-base and can help further expose your website to their friendsespecially if you have a good reputation and always thumb-up good sites The more sitesthat you thumb-up (that interest you) the more it will attract like-minded people to yoursite connections are made and referrals start to come in StumbleUpon works very wellas a brand and link building tool
Have fun Stumbling
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau27
The Social Media Guide
The Social Media Guide provides helpful advice and tips on connecting you to othersthrough the use of social media and social networks
The Social Media Guide is an authoritative source on current and emerging social mediatools and platforms
The current explosion in social media technologies has made it easier than ever toconnect with friends groups customers and networks with similar interests from allaround the world
Businesses can benefit greatly by using social media to market their product strengthenbrand recognition and attract new customers
My aim is to show you how social media can be used to connect with more peoplefaster by providing clear and simple solutions
The Social Media Guide will show you how to extend your reach deeper into the socialweb and connect with more people
This material may be shared with everyone not sold for profit and not modified in anyway
Regards
Matthew Tommasi
www httpthesocialmediaguidecomau
email matthewthesocialmediaguidecomau
twitter socialguide
facebook httpfacebookcomTheSocialMediaGuide
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau23
Posting from Supr
When making a post you can either
Post immediately Just Shorten the URL (to be used elsewhere eg other social networks blogs etc) Schedule your post for later
I am going to post immediately to Twitter and Facebook
Successfully appears on Twitter (and the URL is automatically shortened)
Successfully appears on Facebook (and the URL is automatically shortened)
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau24
Stats
As soon as yoursquove made a post you can immediately start checking stats in real time
You will be able to see how the post will appear to your recipients how many times theSupr link was clicked on (15 clicks) how many other views it got from the StumbleUponcommunity how many times it was retweeted and how many times it was reviewed (1review) by StumbleUpon members
Overview of StumbleUpon
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau25
Friends and Subscribers
One of the best ways to Discover interesting sites is to connect with other members as aFriend or Subscriber
If you enjoy content another member has Shared or Discovered subscribe to their profileso you can follow their Stumbles while using the Toolbar If someone subscribes to yourcontent theyrsquoll see pages you rated and reviewed when Stumbling
Friends may not always share your interests so yoursquoll only see their reviews when youchoose to or if theyrsquove already shared content that matches your interests
Requests to become someonersquos Friend must be approved if yoursquove chosen to make yourStumble activity visible to others any member is free to Subscribe to your content
Building Relationships
Like with all other social communities connections are everything at StumbleUpon asthey determine
Authority the more friends you have the higher your authority as a member is Influence the more friends you have the more people you can share your
favourites to
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau26
The most effective ways of building connections and making relationships are
Initiate friendship by sending friend requests Testimonials give generous reviews to other members profiles
Website Popularity
There are a number of factors that determine the popularity of a page on StumbleUpon
Every time a page or site or discovered it ranks on a 0-5 star scale which makes up thesubmission score This submission score is determined by
Reviewers and stumblers score all StumbleUpon members are ranked based ontheir authority which includes
o the number of thumbs-up given and reviews madeo the number of testimonials receivedo the number of subscribers and friendso age as a StumbleUpon membero the diversity and consistency of topics Stumbled
Rate at which the story is thumbed-up the more thumbs in a short amount oftime the hotter the story
Source of the thumb if a post is thumbed or review from the page itself thiswont rank as highly as if the post was randomly discovered or Stumbled
Diversity of Stumblers if the page is thumbed or review by a wide variety ofunrelated people this will also increase the popularity of the page
Finally
StumbleUpon is a fantastic way for targeted traffic to visit and learn more about yoursite as well as discovering new sites for yourself
Building up your friend-base and can help further expose your website to their friendsespecially if you have a good reputation and always thumb-up good sites The more sitesthat you thumb-up (that interest you) the more it will attract like-minded people to yoursite connections are made and referrals start to come in StumbleUpon works very wellas a brand and link building tool
Have fun Stumbling
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau27
The Social Media Guide
The Social Media Guide provides helpful advice and tips on connecting you to othersthrough the use of social media and social networks
The Social Media Guide is an authoritative source on current and emerging social mediatools and platforms
The current explosion in social media technologies has made it easier than ever toconnect with friends groups customers and networks with similar interests from allaround the world
Businesses can benefit greatly by using social media to market their product strengthenbrand recognition and attract new customers
My aim is to show you how social media can be used to connect with more peoplefaster by providing clear and simple solutions
The Social Media Guide will show you how to extend your reach deeper into the socialweb and connect with more people
This material may be shared with everyone not sold for profit and not modified in anyway
Regards
Matthew Tommasi
www httpthesocialmediaguidecomau
email matthewthesocialmediaguidecomau
twitter socialguide
facebook httpfacebookcomTheSocialMediaGuide
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau24
Stats
As soon as yoursquove made a post you can immediately start checking stats in real time
You will be able to see how the post will appear to your recipients how many times theSupr link was clicked on (15 clicks) how many other views it got from the StumbleUponcommunity how many times it was retweeted and how many times it was reviewed (1review) by StumbleUpon members
Overview of StumbleUpon
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau25
Friends and Subscribers
One of the best ways to Discover interesting sites is to connect with other members as aFriend or Subscriber
If you enjoy content another member has Shared or Discovered subscribe to their profileso you can follow their Stumbles while using the Toolbar If someone subscribes to yourcontent theyrsquoll see pages you rated and reviewed when Stumbling
Friends may not always share your interests so yoursquoll only see their reviews when youchoose to or if theyrsquove already shared content that matches your interests
Requests to become someonersquos Friend must be approved if yoursquove chosen to make yourStumble activity visible to others any member is free to Subscribe to your content
Building Relationships
Like with all other social communities connections are everything at StumbleUpon asthey determine
Authority the more friends you have the higher your authority as a member is Influence the more friends you have the more people you can share your
favourites to
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau26
The most effective ways of building connections and making relationships are
Initiate friendship by sending friend requests Testimonials give generous reviews to other members profiles
Website Popularity
There are a number of factors that determine the popularity of a page on StumbleUpon
Every time a page or site or discovered it ranks on a 0-5 star scale which makes up thesubmission score This submission score is determined by
Reviewers and stumblers score all StumbleUpon members are ranked based ontheir authority which includes
o the number of thumbs-up given and reviews madeo the number of testimonials receivedo the number of subscribers and friendso age as a StumbleUpon membero the diversity and consistency of topics Stumbled
Rate at which the story is thumbed-up the more thumbs in a short amount oftime the hotter the story
Source of the thumb if a post is thumbed or review from the page itself thiswont rank as highly as if the post was randomly discovered or Stumbled
Diversity of Stumblers if the page is thumbed or review by a wide variety ofunrelated people this will also increase the popularity of the page
Finally
StumbleUpon is a fantastic way for targeted traffic to visit and learn more about yoursite as well as discovering new sites for yourself
Building up your friend-base and can help further expose your website to their friendsespecially if you have a good reputation and always thumb-up good sites The more sitesthat you thumb-up (that interest you) the more it will attract like-minded people to yoursite connections are made and referrals start to come in StumbleUpon works very wellas a brand and link building tool
Have fun Stumbling
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau27
The Social Media Guide
The Social Media Guide provides helpful advice and tips on connecting you to othersthrough the use of social media and social networks
The Social Media Guide is an authoritative source on current and emerging social mediatools and platforms
The current explosion in social media technologies has made it easier than ever toconnect with friends groups customers and networks with similar interests from allaround the world
Businesses can benefit greatly by using social media to market their product strengthenbrand recognition and attract new customers
My aim is to show you how social media can be used to connect with more peoplefaster by providing clear and simple solutions
The Social Media Guide will show you how to extend your reach deeper into the socialweb and connect with more people
This material may be shared with everyone not sold for profit and not modified in anyway
Regards
Matthew Tommasi
www httpthesocialmediaguidecomau
email matthewthesocialmediaguidecomau
twitter socialguide
facebook httpfacebookcomTheSocialMediaGuide
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau25
Friends and Subscribers
One of the best ways to Discover interesting sites is to connect with other members as aFriend or Subscriber
If you enjoy content another member has Shared or Discovered subscribe to their profileso you can follow their Stumbles while using the Toolbar If someone subscribes to yourcontent theyrsquoll see pages you rated and reviewed when Stumbling
Friends may not always share your interests so yoursquoll only see their reviews when youchoose to or if theyrsquove already shared content that matches your interests
Requests to become someonersquos Friend must be approved if yoursquove chosen to make yourStumble activity visible to others any member is free to Subscribe to your content
Building Relationships
Like with all other social communities connections are everything at StumbleUpon asthey determine
Authority the more friends you have the higher your authority as a member is Influence the more friends you have the more people you can share your
favourites to
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau26
The most effective ways of building connections and making relationships are
Initiate friendship by sending friend requests Testimonials give generous reviews to other members profiles
Website Popularity
There are a number of factors that determine the popularity of a page on StumbleUpon
Every time a page or site or discovered it ranks on a 0-5 star scale which makes up thesubmission score This submission score is determined by
Reviewers and stumblers score all StumbleUpon members are ranked based ontheir authority which includes
o the number of thumbs-up given and reviews madeo the number of testimonials receivedo the number of subscribers and friendso age as a StumbleUpon membero the diversity and consistency of topics Stumbled
Rate at which the story is thumbed-up the more thumbs in a short amount oftime the hotter the story
Source of the thumb if a post is thumbed or review from the page itself thiswont rank as highly as if the post was randomly discovered or Stumbled
Diversity of Stumblers if the page is thumbed or review by a wide variety ofunrelated people this will also increase the popularity of the page
Finally
StumbleUpon is a fantastic way for targeted traffic to visit and learn more about yoursite as well as discovering new sites for yourself
Building up your friend-base and can help further expose your website to their friendsespecially if you have a good reputation and always thumb-up good sites The more sitesthat you thumb-up (that interest you) the more it will attract like-minded people to yoursite connections are made and referrals start to come in StumbleUpon works very wellas a brand and link building tool
Have fun Stumbling
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau27
The Social Media Guide
The Social Media Guide provides helpful advice and tips on connecting you to othersthrough the use of social media and social networks
The Social Media Guide is an authoritative source on current and emerging social mediatools and platforms
The current explosion in social media technologies has made it easier than ever toconnect with friends groups customers and networks with similar interests from allaround the world
Businesses can benefit greatly by using social media to market their product strengthenbrand recognition and attract new customers
My aim is to show you how social media can be used to connect with more peoplefaster by providing clear and simple solutions
The Social Media Guide will show you how to extend your reach deeper into the socialweb and connect with more people
This material may be shared with everyone not sold for profit and not modified in anyway
Regards
Matthew Tommasi
www httpthesocialmediaguidecomau
email matthewthesocialmediaguidecomau
twitter socialguide
facebook httpfacebookcomTheSocialMediaGuide
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau26
The most effective ways of building connections and making relationships are
Initiate friendship by sending friend requests Testimonials give generous reviews to other members profiles
Website Popularity
There are a number of factors that determine the popularity of a page on StumbleUpon
Every time a page or site or discovered it ranks on a 0-5 star scale which makes up thesubmission score This submission score is determined by
Reviewers and stumblers score all StumbleUpon members are ranked based ontheir authority which includes
o the number of thumbs-up given and reviews madeo the number of testimonials receivedo the number of subscribers and friendso age as a StumbleUpon membero the diversity and consistency of topics Stumbled
Rate at which the story is thumbed-up the more thumbs in a short amount oftime the hotter the story
Source of the thumb if a post is thumbed or review from the page itself thiswont rank as highly as if the post was randomly discovered or Stumbled
Diversity of Stumblers if the page is thumbed or review by a wide variety ofunrelated people this will also increase the popularity of the page
Finally
StumbleUpon is a fantastic way for targeted traffic to visit and learn more about yoursite as well as discovering new sites for yourself
Building up your friend-base and can help further expose your website to their friendsespecially if you have a good reputation and always thumb-up good sites The more sitesthat you thumb-up (that interest you) the more it will attract like-minded people to yoursite connections are made and referrals start to come in StumbleUpon works very wellas a brand and link building tool
Have fun Stumbling
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau27
The Social Media Guide
The Social Media Guide provides helpful advice and tips on connecting you to othersthrough the use of social media and social networks
The Social Media Guide is an authoritative source on current and emerging social mediatools and platforms
The current explosion in social media technologies has made it easier than ever toconnect with friends groups customers and networks with similar interests from allaround the world
Businesses can benefit greatly by using social media to market their product strengthenbrand recognition and attract new customers
My aim is to show you how social media can be used to connect with more peoplefaster by providing clear and simple solutions
The Social Media Guide will show you how to extend your reach deeper into the socialweb and connect with more people
This material may be shared with everyone not sold for profit and not modified in anyway
Regards
Matthew Tommasi
www httpthesocialmediaguidecomau
email matthewthesocialmediaguidecomau
twitter socialguide
facebook httpfacebookcomTheSocialMediaGuide
httpthesocialmediaguidecomau27
The Social Media Guide
The Social Media Guide provides helpful advice and tips on connecting you to othersthrough the use of social media and social networks
The Social Media Guide is an authoritative source on current and emerging social mediatools and platforms
The current explosion in social media technologies has made it easier than ever toconnect with friends groups customers and networks with similar interests from allaround the world
Businesses can benefit greatly by using social media to market their product strengthenbrand recognition and attract new customers
My aim is to show you how social media can be used to connect with more peoplefaster by providing clear and simple solutions
The Social Media Guide will show you how to extend your reach deeper into the socialweb and connect with more people
This material may be shared with everyone not sold for profit and not modified in anyway
Regards
Matthew Tommasi
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