How to Use StumbleUpon: Your Comprehensive Guide You’ve likely heard of StumbleUpon. But do you really understand how to use its full power? StumbleUpon is a social bookmarking and rating site where people can “Stumble” their favorite web pages, write reviews and share their discoveries with their followers. This network is like Delicious, but with a more enhanced social platform and sharing system. Why Use StumbleUpon? StumbleUpon can be a great site to organize your favorite bookmarks, although it isn’t quite as advanced as Delicious in organization. Use the StumbleUpon toolbars (Chrome on top, Firefox on bottom) to see Stumblers who like a specific page. Aside from organizing your own favorites, StumbleUpon is also used to drive traffic to a specific webpage, photo, video or other website. Saving Your Favorites There’s more to saving your favorite pages than just hitting the “I like it” button. Whenever you’re favoriting an item, be sure to use the tag icon to add tags to your favorites. Creating Your StumbleUpon Profile Your Bio Topics
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The Jawa Report Making the most of improvements to the +1 button Webmaster level: All For the past few months, you might have used +1 buttons to help visitors recommend your content on Google Search and on their Google Profiles. We’ve just announced a few changes that make +1 even more useful. First, the +1 button now lets visitors share links to your pages on Google+. If someone wants to start a conversation about your content, it’s easy for them to do so. Here are a couple of tips to help you take full advantage of these improvements: +Snippets The +1 button opens up your site to a valuable new source of traffic with sharing on Google+. For example, if you’re running a movie review site, you might want visitors to share posts containing the title, movie poster, and a brief synopsis: You may already be using this markup to build rich annotations for your pages on Google Search. Example code containing each of the +Snippet attributes For more details on alternate markup types, please see our technical documentation.