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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1. Don’t Stumble Your Own Content – you meant don’t stumble ONLY your own content, right?
It’s perfectly acceptable as long as you have plenty of others with it, isn’t it?
Hey Dennis,
Yeah, that’s exactly right bro.
“Don’t Stumble Your Own Content” I said this because, many people just start stumbling there own content and never look out of it :D.
Thanks for the commenting Dennis. I really appreciate it.
Nice post mate… I really had some problems with stumble. People seems to be getting a lot of traffic from it… but still i wasn’t able to find how! I think this will help me to find it 😀
Thanks for sharing this Dev. I am an active member of SU but since this was a good thing do that you also gain good result in you, then I should start stumbling right now.
All great tips. I like StumbleUpon, it is a certainly a great place for discovering new websites. I totally agree with what you are saying about the StumbleUpon Advertising, it can be a great return on investment when leveraged properly.
Regards,
Karl
Nice tips DEV…
Really SU is best way to drive traffic than twitter and facebook
whether we have to give many keywords for a POST ??
One thing is very true that SU has quality traffic as compared to any other social networking traffic. Building network and stumbling the stuff is basic rule for a network. After subscribing to other stumblers, also check mark “Accept sharing to my toolbar” for sharing through SU toolbar.
Nice post Devesh.
Getting Traffic from Stumble Upon has always been like Mt. Everest for me, But after reading this post I am feeling that i too can get more traffic from StumbleUpon. Thanks for the tips Dev, I am going to try it all out
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! =)
Good tips, you just made my finding simpler. Will definitely put in place point 1 and 2.
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…