Send Stumble Requests to Your Stumbleupon Friends
After a few quick emails with Kelly Curtis from Pass the Torch we began discussing Stumbleupon. I mentioned the Send To feature, but she had never used it before. Getting your stumble friends to stumble your posts is another way to utilize stumbleupon for more stumbles and more traffic.
How to Use the Send to Feature
On your stumbleupon toolbar there is a “send to” feature. By clicking that it lists all of your stumble friends. Instead of emailing each one separately when you want to promote an article you can simply use this feature.
For this feature to work the person has to be your “mutual” friend. I currently have 20 ‘mutual’ friends that I can send my stumble requests to.
Once you send them a request, there will be a number next to their stumble button. This will indicate that there is a request. The next time your friend presses the stumble button, they will be sent to the page you that you ’sent to’ them.
Get Your Stumbles
I am always looking for new articles to submit and stumble. An easy way to do this is requesting me as a friend and “sending” them to me.
Another option on stumbleupon is the ‘contact’ page. This way you can send private messages to users on stumbleupon. This is a great way to use stumble to build your base and increase your votes. I get plenty of requests a day, so don’t worry about bugging me! Send them on over.
How do you promote your articles on stumbleupon? Have you used the Send To feature?
9 Responses to “Send Stumble Requests to Your Stumbleupon Friends”
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March 11th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
I always wondered how those showed up on my stumble bar. Thanks for the useful information!
March 11th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Haha, glad the post was useful to you. I don’t use the feature much, but it’s nice when you are trying to push your post a bit.
March 12th, 2008 at 8:00 am
The toolbar is not friendly with Vista. I cant seem to use it at all.
March 12th, 2008 at 9:53 am
I was wondering how those messages with a number were being sent via the Stumble bar. Thanks Matt!
March 12th, 2008 at 11:35 am
Lol your welcome.
That sucks, I haven’t heard of that problem. Glad I don’t use vista yet :-p
March 13th, 2008 at 4:53 am
I just “stumbled upon” stumbling this year. It is great fun. Just curious to know how do you compare it to sitehoppin and entrecard?
March 13th, 2008 at 9:15 am
Not John Chow,
It doesn’t even compare yet. I could stumble my own post, put a description and tag it. That could lead me to 100’s of visitors. Sitehoppin’ isn’t there yet.
March 14th, 2008 at 2:25 am
What about EntreCard? I get a lot of traffic from them but, I worry that it is just artificial.
March 14th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Great idea. I should add people to my account. I use stumble but I don’t notify of a post that way.