How to Use StumbleUpon to Get FREE Traffic For Your Blog
15 Millions members already on board, So if you are a blogger I expect that you must be knowing about this powerful FREE traffic generating site StumbleUpon.com. But if your answer in “No” I never heard about any such site” then please don’t get dishearten, (not a big deal) I will tell you what it’s all about.
Okay Lets watch this Introduction video first to get a feel about it.
StumbleUpon.com is another form of search engine, but in search engines you look for relevant content through result pages, but in StumbleUpon you served with pages of your interest and preferences. With this system you will definitely discover great content which you probably wouldn’t find using usual organic search engine like Google’s results, the reason is simple, StumbleUpon uses a ratings in form of likes and dislikes to form collaborative opinions on website quality. If you are stumbling through it, you will only see pages that friends and like-minded members have recommended for you.
So StumbleUpon uses human opinion and deliver content before its member accordingly. In other words it serve only those pages before you which have been suggested by other like-minded Stumblers or members. Each time the ‘Stumble’ button is clicked, the user is presented with a high quality web site based on the collective opinions of other like-minded web surfers. StumbleUpon offers nearly 500 topics which users may choose to indicate their interests and preferences so each Stumble produces only the most relevant content.
StumbleUpon is probably the mother of all social networking methodology we see today, the base of hundreds of other social networking sites. Even facebook now deliver and present content based on affinity, likes and dislikes.
Below is StumbleUpon’s content referral system graph, which shows that ”StumbleUpon combines collaborative human opinions with machine learning of personal preference to create virtual communities of like-minded websurfers”.
So StumbleUpon keep a log of your likes and dislikes and deliver content to you based on your peer’s, community’s similar likes and dislikes endorsed and recommended for you. StumbleUpon log your interest and preferences through its toolbar system that automates the collection, distribution and review of web content within a like minded social framework.
So the thing you should note here is that you must give great importance about the content you like or dislike on StumbleUpon , as based on this StumbleUpon suggest and serve relevant content and build a relevant community around your profile
StumbleUpon Architecture
As I told you before, the first thing you need to do; to get started to register yourself as member on StumbleUpon and install a toolbar on your favorite browser (chrome or firefox). Another way to do stumbling is to discover content in your stumble profile page and start stumbling your friends and follower’s favorites sites. Following are some popular ways of doing it;
- Stumble sites recommended to you by your StumbleUpon friends
- Stumble another user’s or friend’s favorites sites – you can get this from their profile
- StumbleThru -personalized content within fast-growing sites!
- Stumble sites on the basis of tags or keywords
- Find your friends and share interesting content with them!. You can use a tool here to find your friends who are already on stumbleUpon
- Manage your interest well, so that you can build community around your SU profile which is exact same interest and preferences. Related to your blog niche actually.
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SU is great source of traffic. Sometime it sends 1000+ visits to a single post. A very nice article for people who may be still unaware of what SU is about.
Yeah, you need only your couple of posts doing good there, and then you ‘ll get insane traffic flowing to your website. It’s true.
Totally correct; “No” I never heard about any such site”. But now have I also a accont in StumbleUpon.com and now I explore more on their site. Thanks Shanker.
Social networking sites are rocking all over internet world. StumberUpon is one of the best social networking site. I am getting really huge traffic from SU.
SU is a great tool to get visitors to your site, but our bounce rate is certainly affected negatively as the stumblers generally don’t stick around. But if we have 10-20% stick around and read our stuff and we can gain a new fan, that’s good enough for me
StumbleUpon really works well for generating traffic. I’m also using it and gets a decent amount of traffic.
StumbleUpon is my favorite social networking site. I am using it on daily basis. Its work really great.