traffic. however, it’s also a good thing that blogs are being created by the millions every day. you see, not all web blogs will become successful in today’s online arena. and many will fail right from the start. so sit back…

you can get the best work from him. some of the basic skills that a writer must have are as follows:the writers should be able to write immaculate english and should not have any errors in spelling, punctuation and grammar. the…

ok your page is “http://islamictexts.stumbleupon.com/”

when you go to there, and you are signed in.. go to the tab that says “favorites” (next to the tabs”what’s new” and “friends”

after that you will see a couple of links. one will say “pages liked” that is where all the pages you pressed “I like it” will appear.

I see what you mean by just the “edit” button. what you do is go to the webpage again.. and then UNCLICK the “I like it button” then it will take it off of your list… but you have to visit the webpage again to unpress it.

I hope that makes things a little more clear. With your “favorites” you have the option of deleting as well as editing.

wallahu alem..

I hope that helps!

Actually, the bit about how to write posts, well… although we use word press, it is used more in the context of a website than a blog, and we use it post transcriptions from lectures and/or books, and translations of work or extracts that has not yet been translated. In other words we do not write our own stuff and as such have very little influence over the style in which something we post is written.

Yes, the tips with regards to using Stumble Upon are very beneficial. With regards to deleting favourites than I do not have the “delete” button, I only have the edit. I also have a website in my history page that I have never seen or visited before, weird! Again, I do not have the option to delete it. Sometimes when I am viewing a web page and I click “I like it”, it does not save the page at all.

Oh well… Jazak’Allaahu khairan!

Barak Allahu feek for the comment, inshaAllah hopefully this reply will serve as something beneficial to both you and others who want to use Stumble Upon to increase traffic:

First, alhamdulillah the first step is to install the tool bar.

There definitely are techniques one can use to increase traffic.

Part of it has to do with the interest of the topic at hand and the writing style, headline, and lead. (which is really basic guidelines for any media writing)

and the second part of it are the “special” things you should do in order to make it successful.

I’ll tell you right now that not every post will receive tons of traffic. But if you do the steps I’m about to tell you and follow them each time, you should over time be able to drive tons of traffic to your blog.

The first part of it (the writing style and such) is extremely important when it comes to driving traffic. If people dont like what you’re writing or the style it’s written in, you can assume that people will not be passing it on to their friends.

1. The headline of each post should give the reader an idea of what the post is about. Make it clever and eye-catching.

2. the lead or the “hook” which is the first paragraph of your post should also draw the reader into what you have to say. Think to yourself ‘if i were to come across this page and read just the headline and the first paragraph.. would i want to read more about it?’ if your answer is no, or you think that people will read more than just the first paragraph to get interested.. then you need to adjust the article and “hook” them in from the beginning.

3. make your site visually stimulating, include pictures in the posts.

4. add lots of personality in the style of writing.

those are just a few but MAJOR factors to drawing traffic.

The second part is the part that is exclusively Stumble Upon tips.

A. When you submit your site to stumble upon, put it in the correct category… I put most of mine in the ‘Islam’ category because most of my posts have something to do with Islam in one way or another.

B. make sure you add tags. add any key word related to your post. later you will see that in search engines when people look for those key words your site may appear and drive those people to your site.

C. The KEY to stumble upon is that the more people who press the “I like it!” button and the more they “send to” their friends, the more traffic you will get.

this is a major point. What I want you to do is to add your friends or start adding people by pressing the “become a fan of” button when you go to someone’s profile. When that person in return ALSO becomes a “fan” of yours is when you can start to send them pages through the “Send to” button.

Once you start adding people and they add you back.. ANYTIME you make a blog post, i want you to send your page to all those people who are listed as your “friends.”

The more it gets sent around and the more people that press “I like it” inshaallah you will see your traffic increase a lot.

As for your other question. In order to remove pages from your favorites, go to your stumble upon site, press favorites, then when you move your cursor over the favorite that you have added, two links will appear— one will say “edit” and one will say “delete” inshaallah just press the delete button and it should be gone.

InshaAllah let me know if that helps and let me knwo if you need any more help inshaAllah i’ll be happy to show you.

Wallahu alem.

Also, i’ll be teaching a media writing course soon. I’m teaching it to my PR group as of now and “testing the waters” when things prove to be useful and helpful with not only their media writing skills but also increasing their traffic to their blogs, inshaallah i will be teaching it through Message Mastery (www.messagemastery.com).

So people should be looking out for that soon. bi’ithnillahi ta’ala.

Also, I do not seem to have a delete option to delete pages from my favourites, so is it possible to delete pages?

Its a great tool to discover new material also to get your material across.

Great post,
Jazakallah

(PEOPLE TAKE ACTION!, Try it!, its free)
Its great

*pinches himself, and stumbles onto leechon film ?