StumbleUpon is a tool that allows its users to discover web sites, videos, and pictures that have been previously found and labeled by other users. Its a lot of fun, and perhaps just as important, a great source of traffic for your blog.
But other than doing the obvious, such as becoming a member of StumbleUpon, finding “friends”, and otherwise rating sites and being a good Stumbler, what else can be done — and understood — about StumbleUpon to maximize your efforts?
Turns out one Stumbler, Tim Nash, has tried to break down the mechanics of the StumbleUpon algorithm based on his own observations. While it has yet to be fully vetted by any of the StumbleUpon community it does provide some interesting variables to chew on.
Check his thoughts out over here, but Tim basically tries to break things down into understanding an Audience Score, where he attempts to break down some variables that lead to a “power” stumbler; several models that might explain how any given site might get popular through StumbleUpon (taking into account, for example, the first stumbler); and finally some bonus factors that might influence things in ways that deserve a lot more working out.
Just like we’ll never know the Google algorithm, we’ll probably also never know the one for Digg, or *any* of these algorithm driven sites. With time, we’ll probably derive our own ideas of how they work, and Tim’s ideas are probably just the beginning with StumbleUpon.
Having said that, there are some experienced users who feel that breaking down the algorithms to boost your rank doesn’t really make a lot of sense after all. You can read a lengthy review of that over at DoshDosh.
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