Stumbling, stumbling and more stumbling

Recently, one of my friends introduced me to a site/program that is quite addictive and I am sure that you will enjoy what you see and get with this site as much as I do.

This site currently boasts 3,506,854 users and it is growing day by day. The site is Stumble Upon

What is this site all about?
The idea behind this site is to discover Cool and Interesting websites depending on what your interests are. There is definitely something interesting for everyone.You customize your preferences and tell Stumble Upon that you like for example Art, Technology etc. (There are many more categories that you can choose from)

Next, you download and install their add-on/plug-in for Internet Explorer or FireFox. This add-on/plug-in will add a Stumble Upon toolbar to Internet Explorer or FireFox.Open FireFox and start Stumbling simply by clicking on the Stumble Upon Button on the toolbar.

When you click on the Stumble button, a site will be displayed in the window. The site will be one from your interest category.

You will find some really interesting sites on this network that you may have never known existed. I definitely have found some. So start stumbling today to see how addictive it really is …

WARNING: You will get addicted to this site and you will waste quite a lot of precious time once you join this network :-)

After having been using Stumble Upon, although it is great I think there is still room for improvement for their toolbar.

You can recommend to your friends the sites that you have found interesting. What currently happens is that I have to select each friend from the Stumble Upon toolbar and send the site to each friend individually. This is a tad bit irritating. I think it would be easier to select a group of Friends and recommend the site at one go to all. Maybe further allowing me to make friends groups.

Another, thing I found a wee bit irritating is I open FireFox and log on to Stumble Upon and start Stumbling. A friend recommends to me a site he or she found interesting. As soon as the site comes to me it opens in the current tab that I am viewing and I have to go back to the site that I was currently viewing. This gets me a bit irritated.

Stumble Upon makes me wonder that with Stumble Upon boasting such a large user base in such a short time, it would be a great place for marketers, wouldn’t it.

Probably a good place for getting an huge increase in traffic if your site is not getting much traffic.

A new idea to research on … How do I get listed on Stumble Upon? I will leave this for a future article. This will definitely be a boost in my traffic and something I should research as soon as I can.