Ever since I wrote my Using Stumble Upon to Increase Blog Traffic Article, I have made a conscious effort to make the most of the StumbleUpon service.
Recently as I was happily stumbling through the blogosphere, I had a moment of uncertainty. You see, I blog in two different niches. Over here I blog about blogging. And at my other site – A Mom’s Life at NeenMachine.com – I blog about parenting stuff.
Now, most of my StumbleUpon friends are bloggers, but only some of them are parents. My non-parent StumbleUpon friends would not be interested in an article on say, potty training. I certainly did not want to send unrelated stumbles to my StumbleUpon friends.
Thankfully, StumbleUpon has thought of this issue and (see the highlighted text below) will only send your friends pages that you have rated that are FILTERED according to shared topics. Whew! That is a relief.
According to the StumbleUpon help section:
What are friends? (and do they influence my Stumbles?)
To quote the devs: “Adding a friend is essentially subscribing to their content. You will stumble upon pages they have rated, filtered according to the shared [topics] displayed on that person’s profile.“
A friend is someone whose pages you like. By adding them to your friends list, you will start to receive pages that they like when you Stumble!
Note that it is not necessary to actually like a person in order to make them your friend! Neither is it considered necessary to ask their permission when adding them to your list of friends.
Whether you choose to make their acquaintance, on the basis of your shared interests, is entirely up to you!
If you are interested in reading more StumbleUpon articles – check out the results of Newest on the Net’s most recent group writing project: 65 Must Read StumbleUpon articles. I have listed them here for your convenience.
1. Boost Your StumbleUpon Traffic With Outbound Links
2. 5 Essential StumbleUpon Power Points
3. 7 Reasons Why StumbleUpon Traffic is the Best on the Planet
4. Who Else Wants to Learn an Advanced StumbleUpon Secret
5. The Ultimate Guide To Leveraging StumbleUpon
6. Choose Your Audience: The Uncaring Social Media Crowd or Your Loyal Readers?
7. 9 Things Wrong With StumbleUpon
8. StumbleUpon for Computer Dummies
9. A Comprehensive Guide To StumbleUpon
10. Using Social Media Arbitrage to Drive Traffic With StumbleUpon
11. Build Super Links and Traffic With StumbleUpon
12. StumbleUpon Addiction for Business Research
13. A Quick Traffic Driving Tip With StumbleUpon
14. A Definitive StumbleUpon Guide: Driving Traffic to Websites
15. How to Use StumbleUpon Like a Pro
16. StumbleUpon the Best Pages on the Web
17. How to Draw StumbleUpon Users Into Your Blog
18. Building Your Blog With StumbleUpon
19. StumbleUpon Traffic Bounce Rate is Amazing
20. Getting Started With StumbleUpon – Using the Toolbar
21. How Important Is StumbleUpon?
22. Rethinking Links
23. Using StumbleUpon to Increase Blog Traffic
24. 5 Top Resources for Stumblers Outside of StumbleUpon
25. 3 StumbleUpon Traffic Myths Debunked
26. StumbleUpon is a Goldmine For Writers
27. The Magic of StumbleUpon’s Recent Reviews Page
28. StumbleUpon Gamed By Paid-To-Stumble Service
29. StumbleUpon Optimization: Leveraging Photo Stumbles for More Traffic
30. How to Increase StumbleUpon Traffic?
31. Building a Large Audience for Your StumbleUpon Account
32. Don’t Buy Traffic, Use StumbleUpon
33. Lingering Taste of StumbleUpon Traffic
34. Is StumbleUpon Traffic Worth Getting?
35. Revealed: 16 Different Personality Types of StumbleUpon Users
36. StumbleUpon Mathematics for Stumblers
37. 25 Reasons You Get Thumbs Up
38. StumbleUpon Launches Stumble-Thru Site Specific Stumbling
39. Before Submitting Your Story Make Sure That…
40. The Secret To Massive Digg/StumbleUpon Traffic Without Spamming
41. Why StumbleUpon Sends More Traffic Than Digg
42. The Why, How and Who of Marketing on StumbleUpon
43. StumbleUpon vs. Digg – Sharing Traffic
45. How Important Is StumbleUpon?
46. Centralizing Your Social World
47. How Do You Become A StumbleUpon Power User?
48. StumbleUpon Quintuplet From The king Of Blogging Gobshites
49. Claim Your StumbleUpon Blog Through Technorati
51. Making a Power Account On StumbleUpon
52. 8 Reasons I Prefer StumbleUpon
53. StumbleUpon’s Fantastic Ability to Drive Traffic
54. Increasing Your StumbleUpon Audience
55. Beginner’s Guide To StumbleUpon
56. How To Run A Successful StumbleUpon Advertising Account
57. The Secret Features of StumbleUpon
58. Increase Your StumbleUpon Network
60. 5000 Stumbles And Counting
62. StumbleUpon Visitors Not Identified By Analytics
63. StumbleUpon: Exposure That Lasts
{ 3 comments… read them below or add one }
Thanks for the link to my article (# 64).
Hi Neena, and thanks for the mention. Always greatly appreciated…
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