How to Use StumbleUpon to Grow Your Online Business

StumbleUpon operates like a social networking and bookmarking website allowing users to rate and rank pages and share them with fellow users. It also helps users find relevant and useful websites based on the pages they like and share.

As a business owner, StumbleUpon’s unique user driven approach can drive tons of traffic to your website. It’s ranked as one of the thirty largest social bookmarking sites with almost 10 million members and more than 500 topics to search through.

This report breaks down how you can use StumbleUpon to grow your business, step-by-step. And it includes a handy checklist to help keep you on track.

Originally posted at Linda Stacy's Business Opportunity Connection. Please click the link below to read the complete post, add your comments, and find similar articles.
Social Bookmarking Workbook

Technorati.com – This site allows users to share their blogs, photos, videos and more.

del.icio.us – This site is a very popular and was one of the first social bookmarking sites to really take off.

digg.com – Another very popular site. Visitors can look up any topic and receive instant information and statistics.

StumbleUpon.com – A toolbar that delivers pages based on your preferences and recommended by your friends.

reddit.com -This site allows users to view what’s new, what’s hot at the moment and what the weekly stats are.

Fark.com – This site’s main page has categories displayed that allows the user to go directly to topics such as sports, business, politics, music and more.

MyBlogLog.com – This site combines social bookmarking, blogging and social networking.

BlinkList.com – One of MindValley’s projects that quickly became popular.

ma.gnolia.com – This site isn’t quite as big as some of the others but it is very easy to use and has a lot of information to make the process of social bookmarking understandable. This is a great site to get started with.

Propeller.com – Owned and operated by AOL, users submit and vote on stories.

To get the most out of these sites you may want to combine the use of several of them. For instance, you can list your blog on Technorati.com and ping the site when you update your blog. Meanwhile, keep your bookmarks in del.icio.us to share with other users and visit reddit.com to find out what’s hot.

Originally posted at Linda Stacy's Business Opportunity Connection. Please click the link below to read the complete post, add your comments, and find similar articles.
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