1. Pick The Topic

Pick the topic in which you have most knowledge and you are most interested. There are many topics to choose and you can see a big list here. Find the topic of interest.

2. Choose The User:

Once you have chosen the topic of interest, you will be leaded to a page where you will see a few stumblers who have stumbled some articles recently. There will be 10 stumblers for any particular topic and you can choose a stumbler from it.

3. Add Them As A Friend

Be careful while doing this. You should not add all the users and send messages to them. Add one or two a day. Go to their profile page and click on “Add Him/Her As A Friend”.

4. Send Them A Message

This is the most important thing in getting friends. The message you send matters a lot. This message will determine whether the person will be your friend or not. Send a message like this:

Hi, I’m [Your Name] and I’m a [Your Profession]. I visited your profile and found that both of us have the same interests. I just added you now. How are you? Have a great time.

Cheers,

[Your Name]

This message will be good enough and the person you add will most probably add you.

5. Tell Them More About You

The next step will be to tell more about you and how much you liked their blog or website (many stumblers have a blog/website). Send them critiques about their latest post. Tell them about their blog design and how well it looks. Stumble a few of their pages.

That’s all you need to do to get a new friend through StumbleUpon. But maintaining the friendship is equally hard. Don’t send requests often to stumble your post unless you have written something of good value. Talk to them often. If you want to add someone right now, then feel free to add me. Also don’t forget to Subscribe to my blog for more posts on StumbleUpon.

P.S:Don’t spam the StumbleUpon community.

Blogspot Blogs Can Reach The Hot Topics In Sphinn:

People normally have a thought that blogspot blogs cannot reach the front page in any social site. But in Sphinn and Stumbleupon, I have seen few blogspot blogs reaching the front page. Right now, there is a post in the Google Webmaster Central blog which has made to the front page (or the so called ‘hot topics‘).

So if you have got a blogspot blog and if you have written a great post in it, don’t hesitate to push it in Sphinn. You might just hit the front page if the post is really good.

Sphinn Effect:

Although I haven’t reached Sphinn ‘hot topics’ page, I have been near at times. I wrote a post yesterday which is missing the front page of Sphinn now due to lack of a couple of votes. So if you have a sphinn account and if you like the article, please sphinn it here.

A couple of my submits have made to the hot topics page in Sphinn. The traffic that comes from Sphinn is not huge but the quality if traffic is good. I got nearly 50 visits from Sphinn yesterday for my post and many of them cared to stumble the post which in turn got me more traffic. I always like quality over quantity.

The Comments:

The comments you get either in your blog post or in the Sphinn’d article are always encouraging. They tell you the good and bad about the article. You can learn from the people over there. Many expert bloggers have accounts in Sphinn and they are also active. Chances are that they might find your post and even link to it from their blogs.

My Profile:

Whenever you write a post about a social site, you should give the link to your profile so that you can build your profile and also get new friends. So here are profiles of Sphinn and StumbleUpon:

1. Sphinn

2. StumbleUpon

Moral:

If you have a great post in your blogspot blog or even if you find a good post in any other blogspot blog, don’t hesitate to promote it in Sphinn (and also in StumbleUpon). You can reach the ‘hot topics’ page (in the case of sphinn) or the buzz page (in the case of StumbleUpon) easily. Good Luck.