What is StumbleUpon?
Social bookmarking websites such as Digg and Del.ico.us are an excellent method of gaining large quantities of traffic in a short space of time but the concept of StumbleUpon is slightly different. StumbleUpon has over a million users and generally refers a lower (but still significant) amount of traffic at a more consistent rate, whereas sites like Digg can send thousands of hits in the space of a few days for promoted stories which have made the frontpage.

How does StumbleUpon work?
Here is the definition of how StumbleUpon works but basically instead of listing popular stories on the homepage StumbleUpon works by downloading a toolbar which allows you to rate a website as thumbs up or down and view relevant websites (by clicking Stumble!) based on your own preferences.

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According to Wikipedia, StumbleUpon is a web discovery service which integrates peer-to-peer and social networking principles with one-click blogging. The Toolbar system automates the collection, distribution and review of web content within an intuitive social framework, providing users with a browsing experience which resembles “channel-surfing” the web.

Those of you who has used StumbleUpon (SU) before might have experienced the traffic they can send you if your site get’s stumbled. Also traffic from SU lasts more and can be higher than the traffic send from Digg. So why not encourage your visitors to Stumble your blog posts?

SU can be integrated to your WordPress blog in 2 easy ways. LiewCF recently explained the direct method of adding StumbleUpon to your WordPress Blog.

Here I will explain on how to add StumbleUpon to your Sociable WordPress Plugin.

For those of you new to Sociable, it is plugin for WordPress that appends links to Social bookmarking sites at the end of each of your blog’s posts. This makes it easier for your readers to bookmark your posts thereby increasing your potential audience.

Sociable supports many sites like Digg, Del.icio.us, Reddit, etc but not StumbleUpon. So here I will explain on how to add StumbleUpon to Sociable.

Instruction to add StumbleUpon to Sociable

Download the modified Sociable from here

Now activate the Sociable WordPress Plugin and go to Options > Sociable and select the bookmarking sites that you like and click ‘Save Changes’ Read more…

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I have had a much better experience with Stumbleupon than Digg. 

1. Stumbleupon Rewards the Best Articles

Stumbleupon seems more democratic. You can submit a good article to digg but it can fly off the new section as quickly as you submit it. Generally stumbleupon is better at picking up on good articles. At digg everything counts on the 24 hour window after first submission, and your network of friends. At stumbleupon it seems less important who are your friends and most stumbles I receive are good quality. Spam doesn’t seem a real problem at Stumbleupon.

2. Stumbleupon doesn’t ban the best sites.

Many times I have seen my favourite sites getting ‘banned’ by digg, usually because they are ‘too successful’ Examples that come to mind include Pick The Brain and Copyblogger. (true sites can come off the banned list, but it can take a long time)

3. Stumbleupon has more Positive Pages.

It seems that on Digg stories that do best are the negative ones. See article at We The Change on Digg At times, the negativity can be overwhelming. When browsing the internet, I like to see some positive stories and articles of inspiration. Read more…

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