Question:  How do I find which of my pages are listed on Stumbleupon?

Answer:  This is not perfect but gets at what you want easily.  To see which of your pages are on SU run this query:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3astumbleupon%2ecom+evliving%2ecom

The site:stumbleupon.com portion of the query limits the results to pages on the Stumbleupon site and the specific domain search term gets the pages on stumbleupon that include references to the domain evliving.com.

Anyone who wants to see the results for their own domain can use the query
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3astumbleupon%2ecom+
… and after the + sign add the domain name.

From there, you just need to weed out the duplication caused by tag pages, buzz pages, listings in profiles, etc. and you get the subset you are looking for.

By adding &num=100 to the end of the search string, you will get the first 100 listings and can copy and paste them into a text file or spreadsheet to manipulate.

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Did you know that you can edit your reviews and your tags and your reactions on Stumbleupon?

Suppose you change your mind about whether you like (thumbs up) or hate (thumbs down)  a site on stumbleupon.com?  Did you know that you can change your reaction, review and tags by editing them?

If you go to the page and click the review bubble, you will see your review, or if you have not reviewed it, you will get the ability to write a review.  Writing a review if you have not already done so will help the item get more exposure and be seen by more stumblers.

When one of your friends has a blog post or article is running wild on Stumbleupon and they ask for stumbles or reviews, there is something you can do even if you have already stumbled that page.

If you have already reviewed the post or blog article there will be a date when you stumbled the item and a link that says  “Edit Tags or Review.”

If you click on that link, you can modify the review, including adding more tags (up to five) modifying tags, etc.  It also gives you the opportunity to modify the date.

By changing the date, you add one more “vote” to those that are making that post popular and getting it listed high in the “currently popular” listings.

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Stumbleupon FAQ

Question: I don’t know how to change my password and I will never remember the one they gave me.  How do I change my Stumbleupon Password?

Answer:  To Change your password, go to the toolbar and select “Tools”; “Change Password.” You have to know the old one.

Stumbleupon Hints, Tricks and Tips

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Instead of getting the “Ranking received” notice you get a blank dialog box that just hangs there forever.

The URL is not added to the index and it is as if the post was never stumbled.

We have had some success with this bug by asking someone else to stumble the post but that does not always work.

Sometimes just waiting a few days will cause it to correct itself.

It appears to have something to do with the system clock on your machine conflicting with something Stumbleupon is looking for.

It began around the time wordpress.com added the bar at the top of all their blogs.

This is the “quota” that some people refer to when they write that they think they are being punished for submitting too many stumbles to quickly and it behaves exactly that way, appearing to the user that their account has been restricted somehow.

If you have that problem, let us know. Someone else ought to be able to add the initial post to Stumbleupon and after that, you should be able to stumble it yourself.

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The buzz topics from the last hint used to be a different animal from the tags that we all can add (up to five) to our reviews.

Note, for example that the tag for business http://www.stumbleupon.com/tag/business/ is completely different from the buzz page for business http://buzz.stumbleupon.com/business/

Buzz topics show up here:
http://buzz.stumbleupon.com/blogs/ (no longer true)
Tags Show up here:
http://www.stumbleupon.com/tag/ and there are Recently Hot Tags plus Most Popular All Time

http://www.stumbleupon.com/tag/blog/ is a popular one and this item is number four on that list:

Zingers – Sales Training Stories and Sales Training Aids – Zimmerma…

Zingers monthly sales newsletter

4 reviews blog, blogs, sales, training, business, newsletters

Under the tag jobs, three of the top four are people we know.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/tag/jobs/

FRACAT – Free Resume And Career Toolbox Blog & How To Put 9.3 Hour…

sports rated 3 days ago

“Why does my boss’ poor planning mean I have to stay late?!?”

6 reviews jobs, blogs, time-management, work, career

albajason.stumbleupon.com

MegT rated 4 weeks ago

Some great stumbles here

6 reviews jobs, stumblers, bloggers, blogs, career-tools

JibberJobber Blog & Blog Archive & Security? We Don&8217;t Need…

tigerbw rated 4 hours ago

Read about why you shall do something everyday for your own career.

3 reviews jobs, career-planning, career, job-security, careers

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These are the topics that have a “BUZZ” page.

You want your post to be in at least one of these topics.

The size of the tag on the buzz page listing on Stumbleupon shows the relative popularity of that topic.

· arts

· bizarre

· blogs

· books

· business

· computers

· design

· food

· games

· health

· history

· home

· humor

· internet

· linux

· living

· mac

· movies

· music

· photos

· politics

· science

· shopping

· society

· sports

· technology

· videos

· windows

Visit the Stumbleupon home page to find the top topics.

It appears that since I originally wrote this there has been a change to how Stumbleupon handles buzz and topics.

<a href=”http://buzz.stumbleupon.com/”>http://buzz.stumbleupon.com/</a> now redirects to <a href=”http://www.stumbleupon.com/”>http://www.stumbleupon.com/</a>

They now list the following tags across the top of the main page:

What interests you?

* News
* Photos
* Videos
* Arts
* Business
* Fun
* Health
* Computers
* Lifestyle
* Music
* Science
* Sports
* Technology

The same principles apply.  The topics above are what the majority of the people who go browse and wander around the Stumbleupon site will see are items within those topic areas / categories / tags.

Happy Stumbling.

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Twitter Follow Limits – Twitter.com Follow Limits

Every day I see a lot of questions posted on Twitter.com by twitter users.  Because as of today I  have 96,813 Following and 88,839 Followers there are a lot of people asking me questions.  I also get questions on other social media sites such as LinkedIn and Ryse and Facebook.  One of the most Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) that I see about Twitter is some variation of the following questions:

Why can’t I follow more people on twitter?

Why can’t I follow anyone on twitter?

Why is there a limit of 2000 people that I can follow on twitter?

Twitter has restricted my account and I am only following 2000 people. Why is that?

My twitter.com account is broken. Why can’t I follow anyone? Can anyone help?

The answer to all of these questions is simple and straightforward.  When you get to the point that you are following 2000 people, twitter will restrict your account until more than 1818 people are following you.   Once you reach above that number, your account is always restricted to 1.1 times the number of people who are following you …

So … If you have 2200 followers, you can follow 2420 people. If you have 3826 followers, you can follow 4209 people. … and so forth.

This is one of their spam controls.

They have quite a few others that they don’t usually talk too much about but they have documented them in their help files here.   They limit the number of people you can follow in a day, they limit the number of direct messages you can send in a day, etc. Sometimes they simply stop allowing you to add people no matter what.

The 2000 limit is the least onerous of their restrictions.

Protect your account by using is judiciously.

I hope that helps explain the Twitter.com 2000 following follow limits.

PS:  Have you watched my video on Twitter Strategy and the Top Three Most Important Things about using Twitter?

Thank you,

Bill Austin
Have you submitted a Free Business Directory Listing yet?

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by Bill Austin

Please Stumble this article. Thank you.

Top 3 Social Media Strategies for twitter.com from @wbaustin

Bill Austin was recently interviewed by Travis Campbell of MarketingProfessor.com on the topic of “Top 3 Social Media Tips & Strategies.”  The video interview is featured below.

To summarize, the top three tips are:

1. Get Involved
2. Engage
3. Personalize

Some quotes from this social media and twitter tips video:

“If you want to engage with people in order to grow your business or grow your social relationships and grow your social capital, you have to engage with them.

“Put your picture up there, fill out your bio.”

“It’s called social media for a reason.  And that’s because it’s supposed to be social.  So if you’re just on there to count numbers or connect with everybody in sight and you don’t really know them, you’re not going to get much value out of it.”

“You already know the people who are going to make your business successful and make you successful.” … “they know your next customer.”

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By Bill Austin

Bill Austin presenting Social Media at the third Arizona Real Estate Blogger Network Meetup. This video is approximately 50 minutes long and will give you a general overview of what Social Media is and how to apply it to your Real Estate Business.

Bill Austin on Social Media from phoenixrealestatelive on Vimeo.

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Phoenix AZ Real Estate

Real Estate Technology  Conference

Social Media Conference

January 27, 2009!

SEVRAR / BlueRoof360.com

Hi everyone…

I wanted to let you know about the SEVRAR / BlueRoof360.com Technology Conference on the 27th of January 2009!

We’re holding it at the Mesa Convention Center Mesa Arizona in Building B and we have some FANTASTIC people lined up to speak!

Jack Peckham – Founder and CEO of the Real Estate Cyberspace Society (www.RECyber.com)
Greg Tracy – REALTOR and Founder of www.BlueRoof360.com
Joeann Fossland- GRI Technology Instructor and Business and Life Coach – www.Joeann.com
Chip Lambert- LinkedIn Master Instructor from www.IntegratedAlliances.com
Bill Austin- Social Media Guru & the 3rd most linked person in Phoenix on LinkedIn www.azhttp.com
Jay Thompson- Blogger Extraordinary – www.PhoenixRealEstateGuy.com
Chris McKeever- NAR Center for REALTOR Technology – http://www.realtor.org/technology
Jeff Raskin – Microsoft Expert – http://technologyforrealestate.net/
Kathy Lunak- AAR Transaction Management – http://www.aaronline.com/TM/

In addition, ARMLS will be doing training all day long on the following topics

Custom Views and Q & A
Business Cards, Flyers and Q & A
Personal Preferences and Q & A
Wireless flexmls and Q & A

If that was not enough you will get the opportunity for one on one time with experts in:

Blogging
Twitter
LinkedIn & Other Social Media
Search Engine Optimization
Tablet Computers
Technology Tools
Transaction Management

Also be sure to stop by and see our very own Arizona rep Candace Robinson at the Diverse Solutions booth. Diverse Solutions will be offering some training in conjunction with ARMLS. For those seeking an outstanding SEARCH MLS page to diversify your online presence and make a better search experience for your consumers be sure to stop by and see the great offer that DS has for you!

SEVRAR Members and Non-Members planning on attending the Keynote Address should Sign up with this form so you can order lunch (the address is over the lunch hour 12:00-1:00).

As always, SEVRAR Members who don’t feel they need lunch can sign up at www.SEVRAR.com

Our Keynote Address by Jack Peckham is over the Lunch Break so please DON’T FORGET TO ORDER A LUNCH when registering!

Thanks to our sponsors for keeping this event FREE to EVERYONE!

www.BlueRoof360.com
www.SendOutCards.Com
www.REALTOR.org
www.ORHP.com
www.magnustitle.com
www.DiverseSolutions.com
www.Zillow.com
www.HWA.com
www.VisitMyLuxuryHome.com
www.mycomputerworks.com
www.ARMLS.com
www.Superlative.com
www.DynamicPageSolutions.com
American Title Agency

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