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Who Stumbled My Post?
by adminYesterday, Michael from Saphrym.com was kind enough to Stumble my post How To Modify A WordPress Theme - Part 2. So I emailed him and thanked him. This evening I get a message back asking me how do you know who stumbled you? So rather than send him the answer, I thought that others might have the same question and here’s my answer.
Step 1: Go to Hit tail and sign up, it’s free. It is a service that allows you to see the hits to your site in real-time and track the keywords that are used to find your site. They will give you a bit of javascript to put in your page, similar principle to Google Analytics.
Step 2: Once it’s up and running you go to the Search Hits page, it shows 15 hits per page and it has forward and back navigation at the bottom so you can view past hits. All of todays hits have the time highlighted in green in the left column.
Step 3: Use the navigation to go back until you see a URL that starts with:
http://www.stumbleupon.com/refer.php?
The rest of that line will be the URL to the page that was Stumbled. Move the mouse over the line, it gets highlighted blue as below, and click on it.
Step 4: This will take you to the StumbleUpon site. The page you land on will tell you your page has been Stumbled and how many reviews, circled in red, it has received. You then click on that link and it takes you to a page that shows who first Stumbled the post, others who liked it and any reviews that the Stumble got, as shown below.
From there you can go to each Stumbler’s homepage see what they’re about and make them a friend, send them a thankyou or whatever you want.
There may be an easier way but I haven’t found it yet, but this suites me fine for now. If you know of another, easier method please leave a comment here.
Stumbling Tips
I have noticed that some people do not leave a review when they are the first Stumbler of a page. If you are the first person to Stumble a page, leave a review. You will benefit as well as the page. A comment box will appear, enter a comment and the keywords. This is critical to the success of a Stumble, the keywords will target the post to others of similar interest, increasing the chances of a Thumbs Up instead of a Thumbs Down.
The SU also knows how long you were on a page before you Stumbled it, so if you’re Stumbling along and randomly Thumbs up page after page with resting on it for a while your ranking will not be as good.Think about it, how could it be a quality Stumble if you spent only 2 seconds on it?
If you leave a review on any page that you Stumble, it will increase the "strength" of the Stumble as noted above as well as your ranking.
Friends: Be discriminate about who you make friends with. You want them to have similar interests as you do so that when you have a page you want Stumbled the friend will be more willing.
Finally, if you’ve just started with StumbleUpon don’t Stumble your own pages. With few friends and no ranking you will not get much of a hit, instead, ask others. If you Stumble only your own stuff your Stumbles will be snubbed.
Tags: friend, hittail, stumble, stumbleupon, thumbs down, thumbs up
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Social Networking is all about building relationships. One way you can do this is by thanking those that Stumble your posts. If you do this they are more likely to Stumble other posts for you. But how do you know who did it? This foxed me for a while u…
You can also do the same thing if you use the wordpress.com stats plugin. I just tried. Thanks for the great tip.
Ironic that I should see this post today. I received an email first thing this morning from someone I had stumbled and reviewed the day prior. “Mike” thanked me for having done so, and was grateful for the “flood of traffic and attention that came to the post” he had written.
It isn’t very often that I actually “discover” a post, but I do try to spend an extra minute or two giving even just a brief review. I just think it’s good karma to give a boost to those who have written something well, and it’s of benefit to others.
Even if I haven’t discovered a post, I still try to be sure to give a review myself. Increased numbers of reviews, even very brief ones, seem to really help bring stumble traffic.
I find it alot easier to click the review balloon on the stumbled toolbar to see who discovered the page. That way your not limited to seeing who discovered your own page, but who discovered other people’s pages as well. (this post was discovered by Descarte for example)
Lately I’ve been seeing alot of Entrecard users show up in with new stumble accounts. I’m glad that they are learning to use the tool as I think it brings in longer term traffic than Digg. Good read Colin =)
This much effort is not needed to track and see who stumbled your post. As Mitch just pointed out, if you have your stumble upon toolbar installed (if you dont have it installed. Why not?) if you notice a post getting alot of attention in your analytics just click the “speech” bubble button (it is the 6th clickable button on the SU toolbar). It will then show you all the reviews, for the page. And all of the people that gave it a thumbs up!
I use stumble upon every day. The more you use it, the more weight that is given to your profile. Right now, I can count on between 150-500 unique visitors every time I give a review (including my own sites).
Great post. This can also be done using Statcounter - it is also free and gives you 500 hits to your site to view.
Thanks for the tips on how to get more Stumbles as I did not know that Stumbleupon measured the length of time spent on a site before stumbling.
Chris
If you want to find out who stumble a page (any page), you simply use the following bookmarklet to once click to check find out. So you don’t have to add another hit count type of services.
How do you know if a page is stumbled? - One click to check it
There are also other stumble related topics there.
@All Thank you all for your feedback
I try to keep plugins to a minimum on WP. This method is not that much work, just a couple of clicks. Each morning I check the last day’s hits and if I see an SU hit, 2 clicks and I see all who reviewed the post.
@Tevin: I do have the SU TB and use it just about every day
I seem to remember reading a post that indicated regular participation also helped your “strength”.
@Terence: Handy JS, but I see you got similar comments when you posted it.
I have stumbled your post with name kasakk.Good post I found as I am new user of stumbleupon.Thanks.
thanks, I had no idea!
I wondered if an actual review helps. Thanks for that tip. A good way to “semi-stumble” your own site is to comment on the posts you stumble.
@Manas & Tara: thx both
@Stephan: Yep, I forgot to mention that tactic, it helps if you are one of the first 4-5 to leave a comment, more chance of being noticed.
Interesting. I’ll have to sign up and try it out. Cause a lot of mine are stumbled and I wanna know who did it.
*Ninja literally jumps from nowhere!*
My site also got Stumbled! Maybe not as many as yours, but still pretty good. 130 visitors in 1 hour.
Trackback on its way.
*Ninja disappears in quicksand*
You don’t even need Hitail. As long as you have a site meter/analytic, you can easily see where your visitors came from.
One of the ways I do it exactly.
Another fantastic post! I Stumbled and Zoomed ya. I bet your traffic is surging very nicely today. Traffic might even be better tomorrow, thats what happened to me this past week. Keep up the great work!
Thanks for the post! Its nice to know that you can track who liked your page or post so that you can send them the appreciation they deserve. Thanks for the post!
Funny, I was just having this problem with some recent SU traffic. Thanks for explaning what to do with that SU landing page! Another way is to find your page in a google serp and click on the reviews beside it that the SU firefox plugin causes to appear.
@Jenny: Hittails is handy because you have all your hits and searches all in one compact interface for a quick look. I also use Google Analytics for more detailed analyses of traffic.
@Steve: Well done.
@Sly: Yes there are many analytics available, but I do shy away from on page counters that’s so 1980’s
@Reno: THX
It hit heavy about a half hour after I posted, then all day yesterday, today it’s starting to slow. Definately the best Stumble so far.
@Erica: Your welcome.
@Gab: The quick way of doing that is by typing “site:URL“. But this only works if the page has been indexed.
nice tip … funny I used to stumble some post but still haven’t received a thank you not a single word. darn
@Rhyan: I just recently “discovered” this way of doing it, and have thanked everyone since. I did check and you haven’t Stumbled mine yet. Personally I think it’s ignorant to not show appreciation and at least say thank you.
Good tips, both in the post and the comments. And just to let you know, the link to the site of the guy that stumbled you is going to a 404 error page on your site. Guess you put it as an internal page rather than an external site.
@Steve: thx for that, I missed the http bit out
Fixed now.
thanks for these valuable tips
I have loved the StumbleUpon tips more the Hit tail part.I have a number of Java scripts running from my page.Adding Hit Tail would slow down the loading of my pages quite a lot.I manage to follow up on who has stumbled and reviewed my pages through my Statcounter in spite of the fact that it does not keep the historical records of page load activities.
@Juliana: You’re welcome.
@Clement: Thankyou for visiting and I’m happy you found something useful here.
As you very well know, I came here courtesy of StumbleUpon. I must admit that there is a lot of useful information for me here. I will be coming back quite often.
Thanks for visiting my blog as well.I have just moved to my self hosted WP blog and I have a lot to learn from geeks like you. Keep well and happy blogging
Great site and awesome information! I have bookmarked your site.
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Very informative post
Thanks
I stumbled this post as well!
@All: thx guys for the comps and the Stumbles
I’ve just come back to StumbleUpon and have been really taking an interest in it, but I’ve had a lot of questions. You’ve helped to answer a number of them quite clearly! Thank you so much for a great article!
I’ve stumbled you, too!
@Aywren: thx for the Stumble. If you have any questions, fire away
Colin, exactly what I needed. Some one to actually explain the way you did how stumble works. I am subscribing to you. I also see you through entrecard. I am going to HitTail now Thanks and good luck.
@Etta Rose: thx for dropping by and subscribing
I find Hittail very useful for keywords too.
hit tail is no longer free…? It asked me for 9.95/month
@Cory: I’ve just had a look at the site, on the right side you will see that HitTail Plus $9.95/month and HitTail Basic is still FREE. HitTail Basic is more than enough for average use.
Thanks for the great write up, I use stat counter and it works great for keeping track!
Looked useful, ended up wasting 10 minutes of my time. To find out who stumbled a page simply press the little white speech bubble on your tool bar when you are on the page that you want to figure out who stumbled…
@Jared: Not everybody has the toolbar. Besides, using HitTail, or a similar tool, is actually quicker than going to each page and then clicking the speech bubble. Sorry you felt you wasted your time.
Exactly what I needed to know. Thanks for sharing this info