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 think the key is your second point. Taking the time to invest in others will have it’s rewards, especially on a site like StumbleUpon.
Btw, cool SU graphic! 😉
wow, nice tips, everytime i think why i not getting good traffic frm SU, now i know why,
one doubt if i didnt vote for my current post, who will be posting mine !! – it like if i didint get any users to submit, 0 votes, but i f stubmle and i ll get 200-300 views. so how to get more traffic if no one submitting my post, should i ask them to vote, or they can find my post when i update in my blog.
– i think you help me in this matter !! and add me as a mutual friend – /animhut
I started to get a lot of traffic recently and went through logs to pin point the source. StumbleUpon and Digg had both been pinged with an article relating to ‘sites with funny names’. My site was on that list and I can personally attest to a large volume of SU traffic (and some Digg traffic) all generated from a relatively pointless article that got several thumbs up and had a list of 20 sites. Mine was no where near the funniest name on the list but there were still a lot of people checking out the domain.
Networking with the community on stumbleupon is key for making your posts to viral from what I found out. When someone with great influence stumbles your post, their friends jump on and stumble it as well – this shoots your post up up up!
Of all the popular social media/bookmarking sites, stumbleupon is really one of my top picks. Though it’s really hard to establish relationships with stumbleupon, especially if you can’t spend time with just one media site. But thanks for sharing this great tips Devesh. This just made me think that perhaps I can spare 20-30mins of my time daily just to build my stumbleupon’s rep 🙂
All of these are very useful for me. I used to use StumbleUpon as a tool to self promote. Maybe I will need to invest more time for building networking.
Thanks.
I’m always forgetting to Stumble randomly via the Chrome plugin, but I do try to stumble blog posts that I enjoy reading 😉
I agree with you, Dev. Just like all forms of social media you have to give back so that you would get back from the society :).
Great points :).
Hey Dev,
Good post. I didn’t know that Stumble had these properties and we had to follow these rules.
Social Networking Sites are also a greay way to get your site indexed quicker.
You are basically saying to the search engines ‘Hey I have done something, come and have a look at this!’.
Kindest,
Nabeel
P.S.Typo in article:
“Start doing all theses (these) steps mention (mentioned) here every day”
Thanks..Corrected it.
great*
I was one of those people who thought just stumbling my own websites would bring in a flood of visitors. But, I didn’t really receive a whole lot of traffic. I realize that you need to participate in teh Stumbleupon Community. Great Tips!