QUICK GUIDE TO STUMBLEUPON CATEGORIZATION AND TAGGING

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Quick Guide to StumbleUpon Categorization and Tagging
CC: Stumbling into happiness by szea. One of the most galling issues on StumbleUpon, both from an user and a webmaster appearance is the freakish arrangement system. SU mixes tags and categories in a way nobody rattling grasps. You crapper exclusive memorize them by using this flawed system in a trial and error way. After more than […]

Stumbling into happiness by szea.

One of the most galling issues on StumbleUpon, both from an user and a webmaster appearance is the freakish arrangement system. SU mixes tags and categories in a way nobody rattling grasps.

You crapper exclusive memorize them by using this flawed system in a trial and error way. After more than a assemblage of SU training I finally got it, but most grouping don’t. So I inform to you a quick guide to StumbleUpon arrangement and tagging.

Why pain in the first place? As I said before, StumbleUpon is steer surfing on the Web. It means that, metaphorically speaking, if you place celebs on the discovery steer or cars on the persuasion steer you won’t accomplish your desired audience.

Stumble and fall by andreasnilsson1976.

Miscategorization means:

• No traffic beside the initial near of a few hundred people
• High snap rate of those grouping who are not interested in your subject matter
• Bad provoked reviews
• Spam reports

I get miscategorized every of the time that’s why I wrote about the categories that make significance to submit my posts to:

• marketing
• search
• stumbleupon
• blogs
• web development
• internet tools
• writing
• business
• internet

depending of instruction on the topic of the post. Most grouping just drop every place of mine in “internet” even if deals with a tiny characteristic of the Internet but mostly with a marketing or wager specific subject most SU users don’t tending for.

Ironically grouping submit my posts that rattling deal with the Internet as a whole to the marketing collection where nobody cares.

Stumble Inn by Andy2Boyz.

Likewise most grouping miscategorize technology posts and websites. They every end up in science/tech. The power and technology collection on SU is not meant for the latest Internet craze, gadgets or hardware news. You have lots of categories for that:

• internet
• internet tools
• cyberculture

• IT
• computers
• machine hardware
• machine science
• electronic devices
• electrical eng.

There is added difficulty likewise miscategorization due to lack of understanding the system. Some of the most freakish miscategorizations happen due to the non-intuitive tag to collection translation StumbleUpon performs. Some tags get appointed to categories but not ever the way you think. At least digit collection even leads to nowhere. SU sometimes just assigns a ostensibly haphazard collection which has null to do with the place or is supported on the site’s general topic.

The stumbling monk by sparktography.

So here is a little StumbleUpon tag to collection dictionary. On the left is the tag you enter, on the correct the collection it ends up in:

electronics -> electronic devices

web design -> web development

web-design -> web development

blogs -> weblogs

design -> graphic design

health -> health/fitness

technology -> science/tech

electricity -> electrical eng (electrical engineering)

non acquire -> nonprofit/charity

iraq -> iraq conflict

These tags will termination in empty category (which essentially kills a StumbleUpon submission):