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.. :D.
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 🙂
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I agree wholeheartedly that one of the key things you have to do to be successful with Stumble Upon or any social networking/bookmarking site is to be active and social with the other members.
Otherwise it’s just a token act that won’t get you anywhere.
Yes I agree with your points. Though sometimes it’s difficult to not stumble your content. Especially if your blog is new like mine.
I discovered Stumble Upon quite some time ago, but it was two months ago when I decided to really try it out. Unfortunately my results were close to zero and I left the site. Reading the above article was definitely worth the time, since I was able to find new and useful information. Now I might actually give the site another chance. It seems that being active is the most important thing if one wants to succeed.
Really great and well outlined post,
I absolutely agree with all your points and they should be followed on all social networking/bookmarking sites.
Thanks a lot for the great post,
-Onibalusi
Nice article, I try to stumble everything I enjoy reading, but I often forget to just randomly stumble. I admit the StumbleUpon toolbar for Firefox makes it really easy to stumble others sites with just a thumbs up.
These are great tips. I definitely need to get more active in the StumbleUpon Community. It’s just irritating when I want to stumble something, but there’s no StumbleUpon button on the site. You definitely have to make it easier for people to stumble your work.
i really had worst experience when i stumbled my own content. it is not a professional way because people think we are promoting something
nice make
Great post Devesh! I agree with you with the second and third point. You need to be an active stumblers if you want to increase your site traffic. Currently I’ve received 595 stumblers from my article “Lessons That Helped Me To Turn My Blog Into A Money Making Machine” by using this strategy. Have a nice day