How to Promote Your Blog with StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon is one of the leading bookmarking and sharing sites on the web and can help you promote your blog or website with ease. When you want to increase traffic and help build readership, bookmarking sites such as these can help deliver your content to interested readers. Here's how to use StumbleUpon to promote your blog successfully.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Internet connection
• Working e-mail address
• URL to your blog
• List of keywords and subjects relevant to your blog

1. Visit StumbleUpon.com.

2. Register for StumbleUpon.com. Fill out your information after choosing 'Join StumbleUpon Today' and confirm your membership.

3. Download the StumbleUpon toolbar. This takes only a few minutes and is also free. The toolbar will be added to your browser.

4. Click on a blog entry you want to promote. Type in the URL of your blog and choose an entry you want to share with the community. This will open up on your browser.

5. Click on the 'Stumble!' button on your browser. The blog entry title will appear in a popup box that asks for a few more pieces of information.

6. Fill out the description box and select a category. Create a short summary of the article and select the appropriate category from the list. Use the drop-down menu if you do not see your category listed. Select 'Other' if your article does not fit in any of the designated categories.

7. Add tags. Type in five to seven keywords that people may be using to search for your topic.

8. Confirm whether your content is considered to be 'adult content' or not. Select the appropriate radio button.

9. Select the language. Select the language your site is written in; the default is English, but you can scroll down the drop-down menu to find alternatives if needed.

10. Select 'Submit This Site'. This confirms your submission and adds it to the roster of stumbled content on the web.

11. Congratulations! You've just stumbled your blog content.

Tips & Warnings

• Registration for StumbleUpon is free.
• Users who use StumbleUpon can find you with a random 'stumble.' You never know who may find your blog and blog contents!
• If someone else has already stumbled upon your URL, you can check 'I like it!' to promote it instead.
• Use StumbleUpon frequently to help boost your rankings; rate or downrate articles that you come across on the web by clicking the 'thumbs up' or 'thumbs down' button on your toolbar.

Resources

• StumbleUpon
• Create Your Blog with Wordpress

[edwardvance]

on 11/18/2009 this is great! 5* and I recommend.

[hiptoknit]

on 9/5/2009 great info...I just joined stumble upon this evening

[Psalmist4M]

on 8/14/2009 Cool, this is one I forgot about. Thanks for the article on How to Promote Your Blog with StumbleUpon. 5*s

[looptheloop]

on 8/14/2009 Great idea.

[sageofsheffield]

on 6/7/2009 Thank you. Vey informative and well written. Just one question - are there no restrictions on submitting your own content to stumble upon?