How To Make A Blog Post Go Viral In StumbleUpon
This is a guest post by Devesh, who is a young entrepreneur. He writes at Technshare.com and wpkube.com.
StumbleUpon is one of the most efficient ways to drive traffic and get maximum referral visits. With just a few Thumbs-up you can get hundreds of visitors, but most Bloggers fail to get those first thumbs-ups to their sites or blog.
It is still a great source of traffic and links. It’s simply an incredible viral means to drive a large amount of sustainable traffic to any website over a period of time. Using it is crucial to your social marketing success.
Here Are 5 Tips To Make A Blog Post Go Viral In StumbleUpon:
1. Don’t Stumble Your Own Content
You’ll need to sign up and stumble other member’s websites in return for other members thumbing and tagging your website/blog. If you only stumble your own content, then other users won’t feel you add any value to the StumbleUpon community aside from self-promotion.
2. Be An Active Stumbler
Don’t just submit your articles. Be active and stumble. Get out there and vote on other people’s sites as well. You need to recommend sites to your friends, you need to make friends, and provide well written reviews of relevant sites. Active users command more traffic and they’re more likely to take an action because they’re stumbling actively anyway. Don’t just add a friend then forget about them. The power of StumbleUpon grows the more you network.
3. Be Consistent And Invest Your Time In Your Network Building
Take some time to get to know other members of the StumbleUpon community and befriend them. Your StumbleUpon presence will grow as you network with more users. Start doing all these steps mentioned here every day and you will soon find yourself in a network of people that are interested in the content of your blog, and that are active StumbleUpon users as they have recently submitted/reviewed/thumbed some relevant articles to your content.
4. Onsite Exposure
Include a Stumble Upon button on your webpage or blog post and encourage your users to use it. Like smartbloggerz has done here (in the bottom of every post). Don’t forget to link to your stumbleupon profile, in your about me page and your homepage.
Greet box or Referrer Detector, are great plugins to greet your StumbleUpon visitors with a welcome message and asking them to rate your post and subscribe to your feed or you can do it manually.
5. StumbleUpon Advertising campaign
StumbleUponAds allows you to submit a page on your blog to be shown to StumbleUpon users as they go Stumbling. The cost is 5 cents per impression, so for as little as $5 you can have 100 StumbleUpon users looking your page. If you place your campaign in a popular category and set your number of views to be high, you can rapidly expose your blog to a very new & large audience.
Traffic Is Long-Term!
Every blogger know that traffic generated via StumbleUpon is long-term. StumbleUpon is different from a search engine, which offers very targeted/unique traffic that matches keyword searches with the content on your blog.
PS. If you’re not investing your time in StumbleUpon community, then also your blog will get high traffic but it will not stay for more than 30secs.. 
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Although there are many ways to generate traffic via StumbleUpon but this post contain simple steps to generate traffic via StumbleUpon. If any of you have any tips or views regarding this post please do share it with us through comment section 
Article Written By Devesh
Devesh is a Young Entrepreneur & author of Make Money Blogging. Visit his blog for regular articles on Blogging Tips, How to Make Money online, Link Building and much more. You can Follow him on Twitter@tnsblog and make sure you download ~Atomic Backlinking ebook Plus 8 Squeeze Page.Devesh has written 2 superb article(s) on this blog
June 9, 2010
10:23 am
Nice tips, I haven’t explored using stumbleupon too much but it’s always beneficial to add more to marketing and promotional strategies. After this I’m definitely going to go back to my stumble account and get to work! Thanks! =)
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June 10, 2010
6:11 am
Good tips, you just made my finding simpler. Will definitely put in place point 1 and 2.
June 10, 2010
3:56 pm
Well, this is very informative and very important post and especially for the internet marketers so that they can easily populate their web business by this way… stumble upon is a very effective and important social media and you can utilize it for the promotion purposes in a more effective manner…
June 11, 2010
12:00 am
This is so true and a very good article on SU. A few months ago I was used SU for my blog posts and did receive good numbers from the site, then the numbers decreased rapidly and very few return visitors. You need to find and use current events of significant social significance and be very careful not to promote just your posts.
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June 11, 2010
5:27 pm
I’d like to add in that StumbleUpon has a huge potential for those that have a very strong following – think Tribe mentality.
If you had 20 or so very passionate readers, simply ask and remind them politely to stumble your posts. This will bump up the exposure. In turn, give back by stumbling their posts as well.
Build a system of equal trade and you should soon see your posts go viral in StumbleUpon
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June 12, 2010
9:35 am
Thanks for your kind tips in this post Dev. These are some excellent tips and I hope others will put this article to good use
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June 12, 2010
9:40 am
Nice Info and Tips Bro! i Am not Active in SU. But after Reading this Article i Changed my Mind to be an Active Stumbler
Thanks For Sharing man:
Have A Nice Weekend !
June 12, 2010
9:53 am
Great post. very useful and informative for a guy like me. I have been using stumbleupon a lot more these days. And I have really benefited from it. These tips are certainly going to help me a lot. Thanks for sharing
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June 13, 2010
4:38 am
Hi Devesh,
Thanks for the excellent tips. I use StumbleUpon but I will be able to make better use of it after reading your post.
I get traffic from StumbleUpon but they never stay long. Now I get it. I’m not making enough effort to be a part of the community.
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June 13, 2010
8:04 am
Great tips, I like the “StumbleUpon Advertising campaign” , tis seems to be useful and powerful way to get readers to your blog! it could work very good especially if you are pronouncing a new product!
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June 13, 2010
9:03 pm
One point which I would like to add here. Always connect your other profiles like Twitter and Facebook along with Stumble. Always remember it’s social media sharing site and you need to be social. always Stumble articles which you like and don’t get into SU exchange thing…
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June 13, 2010
11:55 pm
Hi Dev,
very interesting, I have to admit that I probably don’t properly engage in the Stumble Upon community, I will certainly put in more effort in this area having read your tips here.
Thanks,
Des.
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June 14, 2010
12:59 am
This is an excellent post that reminds us that we need to network in order to be exposed.
June 14, 2010
3:33 am
Very interesting – I’ve noticed that my stumble visitors don’t stay very long. Now I think I understand why. I’m very happy to have read this article. It’s very helpful. More work to do to build up my stumble community. It is one of my favorite sites so I’ll have to think of it as fun instead of work
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June 22, 2010
11:14 am
Thanks for the tips. Earlier this month, traffic went through the roof because of one of my posts being stumbled. It almost made me cross me fingers and hope the server holds up (it did).
Its died down a little now, but I think I need to do more work around this area
-dee-
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June 30, 2010
7:48 am
Thanks for the great info on Stumbleupon. Networking is definitely the key to getting support for your posts.
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July 5, 2010
12:44 am
Great post on StumbleUpon. Just found you through the Blog engage monthly best list. I see why it made it there.
the thing is, this is not really just for StumbleUpon. This is how you should use any bookmarking/social community. if more people would do this they would get better results, and they would have the community that they desire.
July 28, 2010
10:13 am
Very useful article. I love the first point as many bloggers have made this mistake. Interacting with other stumblers are very important too
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