One Firefox Plugin You Have (And Should Use for Reputation Monitoring)
Glen Allsopp / 
8 Comments / 
March 10th, 2008 / 
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When I completely changed the theme of this blog to match the passions I have and the services I want to be offering, I started looking for more and more ways people can find themselves online, especially where others can’t.
For example, a great way to find if you are getting talked about on Facebook (which you won’t find using Google Blogsearch, Google Alerts or any other tool) is to check your Analytics stats to see if you are getting any direct traffic, if you are then you must be on there somewhere.
With that In mind I turned too my favourite Firefox plugin, and the results where quite amazing. I found:
- Blogroll links to me I never knew
- Comments left by Matt Cutts on other blogs, linking here that I never knew
- Blog posts featuring me I never knew
So what is this tool?…StumbleUpon.
So…How do I Find Things?
This part is simple, and to be honest it can be really, really enjoyable. Especially if you find positive things you never knew about.
If you aren’t familiar with the search function in StumbleUpon then you are really missing out, simply go to the all option on your toolbar and click down to search (or check the image to the right). You should see a little search box and from there you can start discovering things you never knew. I didn’t think I would find anything new but try it; you will be surprised.
So what types of things should you search for?
- Your name
- The name of your blog / website
- Names of products and services that you offer
- …anything else that may be linked to you
I’m not sure if StumbleUpon actually reads the whole text on a page (someone can enlighten me in the comments?) but I assume they do because I find it hard to see people tagging comments left by others with my name as a tag for the SU review.
Good luck on your hunt, feel free to let us know what you find!
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What a great tip Glenn. I love SU, and use it just about every day, but I have never used the search feature.
Glad you liked it, thanks for the comment Zak!
Thanks man!
i use SU often and it works! but you need a strong follower to make a site become famous ~
Great tip. I have been using SU to search for myself and my company for a while now and it has, indeed, found a few things that I had not found using other methods. Great post.
I have been using SU for a couple of years now. I have some great sites trough SU. But be warned it’s very addictive, before you know it you’ll be stumbling for hours
Nice tool that doesn’t get much attention!
Nice info. I’ve just started using SU myself and that’s how I found your site. I’ll have to give it a whirl.
SU is great..but I chose google alert..