thumbsI am currently doing a lot of research on one of my next subjects. StumbleUpon Authority. In laymen’s terms, this is how much juice your thumbing has. Since this is not an official Series release, I just wanted to update you on what I am researching. If you have additional information on this, I would love to hear from you.

The mystery many people want to know behind StumbleUpon is why some of your articles get massive traffic and others don’t. What causes the traffic mass?

While I am doing this research, check out these articles on StumbleUpon Authority.

All Thumbs are Not Created Equal

StumbleUpon How it might work

Stumbleupon mathematics for stumblers

Breaking Down The StumbleUpon Algorithm

Organic Stumbling Tip

Here is the basic idea I have learned so far.

Discovery - Being the first to find an article adds to your authority, however the more articles you discover from the same site, the less effective your submission becomes and the less authority your are given for that Stumble.

Getting Thumbs – Getting your discovered articles thumbed up adds to your authority, and getting articles with thumbs down will take away from your authority. Be sure to add articles from sites you believe will get the most thumbs up.

Giving Thumbs – The amount of articles you have thumbed up or down to other articles adds to your authority. In this theory, you need to thumb hundred, and maybe even thousands to gain lots of authority. More preferably they need to be thumbed by finding the site using the stumble button.

Fans – The more fans you have the stronger your authority is, so go out and mingle with as many as possible.

Same domain same friends – Submitting articles from a previously stumbled domain, and having the same fans and friends thumb articles who have also thumbed those domains for you, creates a diminishing effect. Example if you submit 10 different articles from xyz.com and have 5 same friends stumble those articles for each of the 10 submits, your authority will lessen over time, due to repetitive submits from the same site and thumbs from the exact same fans or friends.

Reviews – The more reviews your submitted articles receive the more authority you are given.

Organic Thumbs – This means a stumbler thumbs your article by using the StumbleUpon bar. If a random stumbler comes across your submit and thumbs it up you get a good amount of authority. It is also theorized that using the send to from within the StumbleUpon bar will also contribute to an organic thumb.

In Conclusion

You need to submit articles from different websites all the time, and get new and different people to thumb your articles. Do not submit articles from the same site all the time, and don’t get the same people to thumb the articles from a site they have thumbed already.

If you submit an article from a site you have already submitted from before, you need new friends or fans to thumb it up. This may be why I have seen less traffic to my blog when I have had many of the same stumblers thumb my article, and then notice a small burst of traffic when an unknown stumbler thumbs it.

If you submit an article from a site you have never submitted from before, then you can have all your current friends thumb it up. You will get lots of authority and the site will get lots of traffic. This may be the reason why many new stumblers are excited about their new found traffic when they first submit their own site. It’s a new submit, from a new site, from a new stumbler, with thumbs from people who never thumbed that persons article before. However StumbleUpon has cleverly devised a way to ensure the spammers don’t continue to get floods of traffic by taking away their authority as the same site is submitted, and stumbled by the same friends.

Disclaimer: All of the above is only theory, and I have not proven anything as of yet ;)

I hope to add an official release on this subject in the near future

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