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I saw my blog traffic jump by a huge amount yesterday, with most traffic coming from Stumbleupon, and I wondered how I could check who had reviewed me, and what they had said. I found a webpage on Stumbleupon that links to this information. It doesn't seem to be directly accessible from your user account but I found part of the answer in this post. You need to build a URL using a base URL of:
http://www.stumbleupon.com/refer.php?url=
plus the page URL, eg
http://stephenbaugh.com/2008/09/the-guy-that-turns-her-light-off/
This means the full URL would be
http://www.stumbleupon.com/refer.php?url=http://stephenbaugh.com/2008/09/the-guy-that-turns-her-light-off/
This brings you to the referrer page on StumbleUpon, with the information you're looking for. Just click on the "reviewed by" link, shown as "2 reviews" in this picture. (click image to see full size). In an effort to make it even easier in the future I set up a script in my book marks. The javascript is:
javascript:void(location.href='http://www.stumbleupon.com/refer.php?url='+location.href)
Loaded in Safari like this (click image to see full size): This shows up in my browser as below, meaning I can check the StumbleUpon status of any page right from my browser window. UPDATE: Of course you could do what I did and change to Firefox, the Stumbledupon tools are amazing. I like the new Firefox, but miss Safari though
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