Stumbling social bookmarking and Ezinearticles

Finding your way around the Stumble Upon site isn't particularly intuitive. You wonder whether you're logged in or not (before realising that as you have a toolbar installed which has to be able to connect to the site when you make a review you are pretty much always 'logged in'). Its also just not straight forward to navigate. To get your profile/own part of the site you have to click 'home' even though you would normally expect home to be simply the domain name... it isn't.

However submitting your sites to Stumble Upon IS very easy once you have the tool bar installed and it can be easily hidden by using ctrl-F11 (in firefox anyway).

I've reviewed all my pages now and I think its about time I start networking with bloggers who are better established. Maybe people blogging about chess, or even about online business.

Another good thing is that my two newest articles have been approved by Ezinearticles and I now have reached 'expert status' (who says the online achievement is difficult)! Although it wasn't immediately obvious why I had achieved this status I did a quick search to find out (more important to me was what difference this could make to my exposure):

"Ezinearticles.com assigns its authors "expert" status if they demonstrate through their article writing--its style and content--that they have expert knowledge on a subject." Source

"Something else worth noting is the benefit of appearing as an “expert author” at EzineArticles.com. This is a powerful credibility tool and handy search engine optimization trick. Thanks to Ezine Article’s significant presence in search engines (high PageRank and lots of backlinks) web searches for your name will often pull up your author homepage. " Source

I'm also allowed to use these funky button things:


Great!