Jul 19

How StumbleUpon Can Bring You Tons Of Traffic

Tag: Traffic GenerationShawn Lim @ 9:26 pm

Well, last time I’ve posted about using social sites like StumbleUpon can help you increase your blog traffic. You can read it here if you don’t know what is StumbleUpon, Tips To Increase Traffic. Yes, StumbleUpon or simply SU can bring you lots of traffic. But how? There are a lot of people who joined SU and hope to have tons of traffic flow to their site, but in the end they got no traffic at all.

So what are the tips and guides for you to generate tons of traffic from SU? I’ll assume that you have a SU account and you do know how it works. If you don’t, then please read Tips To Increase Traffic. Frankly, I’ve been using SU to increase my traffic for quite some time now. In the beginning, I don’t really get much traffic from SU, I get the traffic only for 1 or 2 days from SU. But now I receive quite a lot of traffic from SU, and of course, I’m going to tell you exactly how.

1. Join SU Discussion
What I mean here is you have to join those SU discussion out there. With this, you can let other people stumble your site, in exchange you will have to stumble other people’s site. It works like some kind of ’stumble exchange’. Just like for Technorati, you favorite me and I favorite you. The same concept goes for SU. Look for these kind of discussion in forums or any discussion board.

Do this everytime you’ve publish a new post. Let people stumble your new post. And don’t stumble your own site. Sorry that I cannot tell you any forum discussion or any board discussion where they have this StumbleUpon exchange, this is because it is not the right ethical to exchange stumbles. You will have to find out this for yourself.

2. Increase Your Mutual Friends
This is another very important task to do if you want to have lots of traffic from SU. The maximum numbers of friend in SU is 200, you must keep on looking for friends. When you have lots of mutual friends in SU, the traffic you can generate from SU will be huge. I know that it is not possible for you to have 200 friends in just one day. Even you can add all you want, but they not necessarily will add you back. Here is the hard part. You will have to figure out some way to increase your mutual friends.

My advice is, keep on messaging for other stumblers and ask them to add you. And keep on stumble other stumblers, but you must be careful, because you do not want to stumble just for the sake of it. If other ‘pro’ stumblers find out that you are stumbling just for the sake of it, they will leave bad review and stumble you down. This is what you don’t want to.

Therefore, the best way is to send message for other stumblers. If they notice, they will add you back. Use one month to do so, it will be kind of challenging, but its worth it. Leaving reviews also is another great way to increase the number of mutual friends. Remember, stumble everyone of your friends. (*You can stumble other stumblers when you free, however don’t keep on stumbling everyone in a short period of time, you have to stop for awhile. This is because people will know how many stumbles you have gave, and once they see that you are just stumble because you want people to add you, they will ‘warn’ you.)

3. Stumble All The Way
For this tips, it is easy, keep on stumbling, don’t give up and don’t stop. Stumble a lot pages and stumblers, and you will know the results. Give yourself one month time to do all these, and you will slowly see how traffic from SU flows in to your blog.

That’s all, the 3 tips how you can increase tons of traffic from SU alone. I believe that if you follow all the tips here, you can generate lots of traffic from SU. So now you know how you can generate traffic from SU, the more traffic you get, your blog can make more money for you.

9 Responses to “How StumbleUpon Can Bring You Tons Of Traffic”

  1. Gabe says:

    Nice article. I can say from my short experience using SU discussions, that this does work…and works very well.

  2. Shawn says:

    Hi Gabe, thanks a lot for commenting.
    Yea, there are a lot of methods we can increase our traffic. And SU works great.

  3. mon@rch says:

    still kinda new to stumble but learning from your 3 hints! Thanks

  4. Shawn says:

    Welcome mon@rch, go slow on it. Good Luck.

  5. Eric says:

    Really! SU brought me lots of traffic in a day, I agree with your point.

  6. Shawn says:

    True, SU can brings you a lot of traffic, however, you must make sure that you make good use of it. Don’t just use it for the sake of increasing traffic only.

  7. TheResidualIncomeLifestyle.com says:

    Great post Shawn,

    StumbleUpon has been good to me bringing quality traffic. I am very specific as to which of my blog posts I put up there, but each time I stumble my latest blog, I see a larger spike. Each and every post, I get more and more visits.

    Timothy

  8. Shawn Lim says:

    Hi Timothy, thanks for dropping by and leaving your comment.
    Well, for me, the traffic from SU is not targeted enough.
    Most of the people who come from SU stay less than 5 secs.
    However, SU is still a great tool to drive traffic and it is
    good to expose your blog or website.

  9. Lisa says:

    I’m very new to all of this, but what I have found
    is a lot of great tips, but how do you implement them?
    I’m starting a new website, but I want to be thoroughly
    knowledgeable before I start it. It will be an affiliate
    website and I just want to get my feet wet first. I’m
    just not finding a lot of specific “how tos” yet. Any suggestions?

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