Stumbleupon features – 10 reasons I love stumbleupon!

Stumbleupon is a networking site having some unique features. Many bloggers (including me) enjoy good amount of traffic to their website through this stumbleupon.  Participating effectively in SU will make you a familiar person in your niche. When compared to the shared feature on other major social media sites, StumbleUpon’s is really not abused.

Following are the top ten reasons I like Stumbleupon!

Networking – You can meet the experts in your industry and get introduce with them. You can send friend request and also a private message.

Subscription – You will be notified regularly on your friend’s favourite web pages. To enable this option, just you have to click on the subscribe link present in a person profile.

SU Toolbar – While you are viewing a web page, you can directly vote for that page from thumbs up and thumbs down link present in the browser toolbar. This toolbar is doing a lot for me!

Spam Less – Here there is no use of anchor text. This itself will reduce maximum amount of spam. Also page screenshot will be there instead of anchor text. If it contains just ads, then we can skip it off. If it continues, then we can unsubscribe from that user.

It’s Easy – Single click on a shared item will take you directly to the web page which that your friend want you to see. It is very easy when compared to other systems.

Traffic - If any of your web pages got discovered by a SU user who is subscribed by 1000 of users, then you will get enormous amount of traffic to that web page.

Effective – Users will be subscribing the person only if they are reliable in their industry. The more you discover and review, the more you will get popular in SU. If all your discovers and reviews belongs to a same category, then you will be getting lot of friends and subscribers from the same industry.

Profile – Here you can explain about yourself and your field of expertise. Field of expertise is needed because, it helps you to increase your subscribers count. HTML is allowed which helps to hyperlink your blog or website owned by you.

User review - These will help the user to identify a reliable person. If a person is having more number of reviews, then he will be the most reliable and trust worthy person. For getting more reviews, write review about other users.

Web page review – Before clicking a web page, you can read reviews written by SU users about the web page. You also can add your thoughts about that page.