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For awhile now I have been trying to figure out the advantages of using StumbleUpon. I had given up on it and decided that it wasn’t something that I was interested in. Then one day, someone I don’t know stumbled a post I wrote called Do Twitter Backgrounds Attract New Followers? I began to see a lot of traffic and I had a good idea which post it was but I could not figure out who stumbled the article. After about 2 weeks of research, reading blogs, commenting and bookmarking posts, I discovered some things that have now made me a SU convert.

First, I found out about the Su.pr link shortener (http://su.pr/) and the amazing traffic increases achieved for blaineblogger.com. I like link shorteners, and I use ow.ly which I get from my Twitter client of choice HootSuite. But when Blaine show me his tracking data, I was ready to make the switch, even if only for a few days.

I was still left with these two questions which I left as comments for blog authors that I follow:

1.      I am getting some traffic on my WP.com blog from SU. When I click the link that appears in my referrers list, I get a page that says “Your page is on SU…create campaign”. But what I really want to find out is – what page has been submitted, who submitted it and who viewed it.

2.      Alternatively, I just want to search SU by post title but I don’t see where I can do that.

I got the answers that I need from Kristy in an email:

“If you have the Stumble Toolbar, what you want to do is go to the particular post on your site, and hit the Info button.  This will show you who submitted it, reviews, etc.  The new Stumble will show how many people have viewed it from the Stumble link, but not necessarily who viewed it, only those that thumbed it up.”

And a video demo from timethief

http://www.stumbleupon.com/productdemo

http://www.stumbleupon.com/trynow/ (New Beta version of SU)

Now I get it and I hope you will too.

Smooches.

UPDATE ON USING Su.pr: Here's a great inspirational post from my friend Gordon at the Knowledge-Reactor Blogon having a huge traffic spike from using StumbleUpon and the Su.pr link shortener. Getting You First Traffic Spike. The post that was stumbled is Editorial: Metaskill and and Playerskill Why You Suck in Games.

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