Sometimes it’s embarrassing how much I overlook the simplest things! But when ME Strauss over at Successful Bloggers suggested actually, you know, saying thank you to people who had Stumbled your pages, I was dumbstruck with how dumb I’d been in not thinking of that!
One of the people I’d thanked at SU wrote to me recently to ask me how to know who had stumbled what pages. If your stats program from your host doesn’t provide detailed links on StumbleUpon, you might be at a loss. Both awstats (my host’s) and Google Analytics show how many links from SU came through, but not which specific stumble they had come from.
Then I came across the biggest reason to keep my account active at MyBlogLog.com. They don’t send a lot of traffic my way, but their stats DO show such details.
Another way is to simply go to the article of yours that you want to view the Stumbles for, and click the bubble at the top of your browser page.
If the article has never been stumbled, it will tell you, and give you a chance to add it and review it yourself. I personally avoid doing this too often, and only will add my own articles if it’s something I’m REALLY proud of.
However, if it’s already been Stumbled, hitting this bubble will allow you to see any and all stumbles and reviews it’s gotten. If you don’t type in a review, I don’t believe it will record that you hit the ‘review’ button. If you hit the thumbs up button FIRST, however, it WILL record that you came to leave a review. (If someone knows differently than this, please correct me, but this has been my impression.)
Then all you have to do is click the icons of the people who left you reviews and thumbs up, and you can drop them a note in their profile.
Now… I have a whole list of people to run and thank! And if you Stumble this article, thank you too! 
September 21st, 2007 at 5:20 am
Someone recently thanked me for stumbling an article of his, and I was honestly surprised to receive the message! The content was good, so I stumbled it - yet, it really struck a chord that someone would take the time to send me a note.
Proof once again that it is the little things that make big differences.
September 21st, 2007 at 11:53 am
I’m way behind on these…thanks for the motivation, better get started now!
PS I love that function of the MyBlogLog…I hope they get things figured out so the system’s up to speed again soon.
September 21st, 2007 at 6:31 pm
I also wondered about knowing about who stumbled what. Thanks for this information. I had no idea what it meant when a number showed up…actually..there is a one up there now that I just noticed!! I’m off to use what you just taught me
September 22nd, 2007 at 1:05 pm
That is a great tip indeed! I’ll guess I might start doing that a.s.a.p.
September 22nd, 2007 at 10:50 pm
There is a widget you can put in your browser tool bar that will tell you who stumbled your page originally.
September 24th, 2007 at 4:32 am
I did look, Michael, and didn’t find such a thing (at least not on the Firefox add-on page). Can you point me in the right direction with a link?
Thanks very much!
October 4th, 2007 at 2:48 am
i have started to focus on stumbleupon over last few days and found an increase in my visits due it…
October 18th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
I haven’t thought of that either. I think I’ll try it out and see how it goes. Thanks for the tip.
October 19th, 2007 at 2:45 am
Just shows that at the end of the day, we’re all human beings who like a little recognition and thanks for our actions. A little courtesy goes a long way!
Great tips - nice & detailed plus easy to follow instructions.
SU isn’t a great source of traffic for me yet, but I’m starting to test it out much more. I’ve heard it can bring significant traffc if you engage frequently with the SU community.
October 24th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
These are great points! I don’t know why I hadn’t thought of that myself! Duh! I stumble quite often and most often love what I find. I’ve been fortunate enough to “discover” some great stuff. Thanks for posting this! Back to stumbling now! Thumbs up here!