by Gordon Hamilton

Created on: December 09, 2009

How to promote Helium articles on Stumbleupon has to take account of balancing the number of Helium articles submitted to Stumbleupon against the volume of other material submitted, as well as the wording of the review which is used to promote the Helium article. Only if both of these factors are carefully considered in full can Helium articles be promoted on Stumbleupon in a fashion which will significantly increase page views for the Helium articles and thus generate additional revenue in the form of royalties.

By far the most common mistake made by Helium writers using Stumbleupon for the first time is to join the site and then simply add their Helium articles, one after another, in the hope that they will be picked up and liked by fellow Stumblers. While this mistake is perhaps understandable in its simplicity, using Stumbleupon - or any other social bookmarking site - in this fashion is a sure fire way of knowing minimal if any long term success and perhaps even being excluded from the site altogether.

How to promote Helium articles on Stumbleupon involves joining Stumbleupon and registering your categories of interest. You should think about this carefully (although they can be changed later) and begin simply to Stumble through articles relevant to your category. You should indicate as instructed whether or not you like each page presented. This will serve to narrow down your options and ensure that more and more pages so presented to you will meet with your approval.

When you begin to try to promote your Helium articles on Stumbleupon, you should submit them on a gradual basis. Be sure to submit plenty of non-Helium articles or websites and ensure that they are not all of your own creation. Try to have at least five or six submissions which are not your own for each one that you yourself have produced. This will ensure that you are not branded as a spammer.

It is important also when submitting Helium articles or anything else to Stumbleupon that you write a relevant and attractive review on the piece. This need not be lengthy but should effectively both summarise the work and tell Stumblers why they should be interested in viewing the work and what benefit it will be to them or positive information it will give them.

As you develop and grow upon Stumbleupon, you should continue to Stumble as you did initially and submit new content but it is also a good idea to try and make as many friends on the site as possible. These should be Stumblers with similar interests, who are then likely to look out for your new submissions and view them favourably.

If you establish how to promote Helium articles effectively on Stumbleupon in these ways and in others which you will learn in time, you can very successfully heighten your overall online presence and increase your Helium revenue at the same time.

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