Stumble Upon Removes 200 Friends Limit

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The long wait is finally over. Now stumblers can no longer be as picky as they used to in adding new stumblers into their circle of friends. Stumble Upon have removed their 200 friends limit. Here’s what they said:

Over the next couple weeks we are going to separate the social & content aspects of friendship on SU, so you can subscribe to someone’s favorites without necessarily becoming their friend, and become someone’s friend without necessarily seeing their stumbles. You’ll also be able to "Subscribe" to more than 200 stumblers, since we’ve changed the way they are stored in the database. Mutuals will just be "Friends", fans will become "Subscribers" and you’ll simply be "Subscribed to" stumblers who rate great content.

Now you can "friend’ your friends without having to stumble upon their topic if it doesn’t interest you, or just following their stumbles if you’re not interested in their personality.

SU has been doing great for HomeBiz Resource and it’s an effective way to spread words about your articles. Of course, I need to provide articles people are interested in and willing to share too. But apart from the content, if you use SU well and accordingly, you can have a "permanent" source of traffic to your blog. I’d like to share with you how to get the most of Stumble Upon. Caroline Middlebrook has worked out on a free Stumble Upon Course called "Traffic Rush ". In these free 10 lessons, she begins with introducing you to Stumble Upon, how to get more thumbs up votes (I can see you’re smiling.. ), pimping your SU profile, and traffic boosting tips (now you can’t wait to click on the link, right?). Here is the complete list:

1. Introduction to Stumble Upon
2. Creating Content That Gets Stumbled
3. Getting More Thumbs up Votes
4. The Mechanics and Ethics of Stumble Upon
5. Pimp My (StumbleUpon) Profile!
6. The Basics of Networking on StumbleUpon
7. Good Etiquette and How to Handle Abuse
8. Traffic Boosting Tip #1
9. Traffic Boosting Tip #2
10. Trouble Shooting - Avoiding and Correcting Mistakes

The full course itself consists of 20 lessons which the other 10 lessons are available via purchasing. BUT, the first ten above are free ! You may choose only to get the free ones but just to tell you, here are the other 10:

1. ‘Power’ Stumbling - The What, Why & How
2. Optimising Your Submissions for Maximum Results
3. The Proper Way to Use Categories & Tags
4. How to Build a Massive, Loyal Fan Base on StumbleUpon
5. How to Ask For Stumbles Without Being a Jerk!
6. Using StumbleUpon to Build Backlinks to Your Site
7. Using Images to Tap Into a Little Known Source of Traffic
8. Another 3 Advanced Stumble Tricks
9. Monetising StumbleUpon Traffic
10. Putting It All Together - A Complete Action Plan

Signup for the free lessons below and have them delivered every three days to your mailbox but if you cannot wait that long you can also buy the full Stumble Rush course which gives you instant access to all of the basic and advanced lessons.

Digg Toolbar Launched!

Digg , a prominent social media website launched its FireFox toolbar to make digging faster and easier. And that’s this post is also about, quick read and easy. Here are the features you can have by installing the toolbar to your FireFox browser :

• Displays how many Diggs a and comments page has and a submit button if you haven’t done so.
• Displays new stories become popular on Digg.
• Allows you to see what your friends are Digging.
• Get notified on your friend activities.

That and some customizations on how and where you want those features to be performed. If you’re an avid Digg user, go get them now while it’s hot!

PS: Not long after publishing this post, Stumble Upon removes the 200 friends limit. Read the full post here .

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