If you installed stumble toolbar in your browser, you can see a white bubble button. It is called stumble review button. When you browse a website url, if you press this bubble, you can see the reviews regarding that website by different stumbleupon users. Take your wordpress blog posts and click on stumble review bubble, you can see others reviews about each of your blog post.

If you are getting more reviews for your wordpress blog post, it is the time to reveal or expose your reviews in front of your blog readers.

Here is a wordpress plugin which shows your post reviews by stumble users. If you are using wordpress widget, just activate stumble review widget and add to you sidebar after download the plugin files from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stumble-reviews/

If you are not a wordpress widget user, add the below code in Template Editor.

<?php wp_stumble_review_template() ?>

If you want to add stumble review on your sidebar use the below code:

<?php simple_sumble_review_template() ?>

See the screen shot when i activated the stumble review plugin and added the code <?php wp_stumble_review_template() ?> in my single.php file just above the comments area ( <?php comments_template(); ?> )

(Screenshot of sajithmr.com after installing stumble reviews plugin)

Tags: featured, plugin, review, stumble, stumbleupon, wordpress

Addtothis is a wordpress plugin for improving your blog traffic. What you want to do is just activate this plugin. This plugin automatically add user option / shortcut for adding a particular post in delicious , stumble , feed readers and technorati

Download the zip file and unzip into your wp-content/plugins directory. Go to your administrative control panel / plugin menu and click on the activate link.

The plugin is also available from wordpress official website: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/addtothis/

See sample post after activating this plugin:

Comment your opinion / queries regarding this plugin. If you want more additions to this plugin, please feel free to mail : admin@sajithmr.com or comment to this post.

Tags: addtothis, bookmark, delicious, feeds, plugin, social, stumble, technorati, wordpress, wordpress plugin

The idea attracted me some months back is that of stumbleupon. There you can customize your likes and dislikes. You can categories your likes. After this you can view websites as per your interest. What you have to do is just press the stumble button in your browser’s stumble plug-in. This is like taking books from library. Every day as a course I used to stumble around 20 web pages. It is very wonder to see this, that all the sites getting will be exact on your interest. And if you like that site, you can click I like it button else I dislike button. If you have no opinion on that just leave it and stumble next pages. The backend of stumble upon automatically learns your likes and dislikes and it serves you next pages depending on this knowledge base.

But one thing I noticed some days that, now the websites getting from stumble is not that much suit to my interest. If I stumble 10 websites, I got only three best sites. (In old days it was around 9 ) This is happening just because of stumble spamming. There are some websites which doing stumble exchange. As the traffic through stumble increases, most of the websites managers use its loop hole. What is a stumble exchange is, if you add my website as you like it, then I will do same for yours. Thus what results is, improper, non valid, ad oriented, mere marketing based sites will get gather in this pure stumble.

So I hate stumble spammers, as it reduces stumbles real effect, and real mining capabilities. And one more thing also to remember is , the revenue model of this stumble site is also from custom injection of other sponsored sites with stumbleupon’s support . So there is a built in “spamming” in stumble’s revenue model. And these entire stumble exchanges are in addition to this. Then what will happen; normal users like me will get mislead. But still I stumble around 50 sites everyday.

Tags: exchangers, fraud, hate, spam, spammers, stumble, stumble spammers