StumbleUpon Traffic Secrets

StumbleUpon is a web browser plugin. It’s a toolbar that you add to your browser. The toolbar allows users to find webpages related to their own interests. For marketing purposes this is a great resource for pulling in new traffic.

StumbleUpon is also a social networking site. It allows you to interact with other people online and share information that you find.

The situation with the internet is that the amount of information is astronomical and increasing daily. It is overwhelming to go looking for information online. You get a million responses to your search term.

What do you do? You know before you begin you will hit as many crappy pages as jewels. Social sites like StumbleUpon helps you narrow your search to sites that people you trust recommend. In return, they will learn to trust you.

The result, your traffic will grow.

Oh yes, that is why you are reading this article. You want to know how to pull in traffic.

The StumbleUpon toolbar lets readers give a webpage a thumbs up. The more thumbs up you get, the higher your page moves in the StumbleUpon delivery system.

Getting your page into the system is fairly simple (and free). You create an account at Stumbleupon.

Add as many users to your network and as many friends as you can. The more of these you have in your system the more thumbs up you will get.

There is some confusion about giving your own page a thumbs up. It’s better not to do this. Focus on building a good network and finding other, like-minded, people who will (one hopes) give your page a thumbs up.

However, it is extremely important to create a public profile. You can tell the world who you are. And you can add your website link here.

Think of StumbleUpon as the ultimate viral marketing tool. If you have a friend who has 10 friends and each of them has 10 friends – well you get the picture. Soon your web page will be traveling via word of mouth to people who are interested in that topic.

If you want to kick start your StumbleUpon efforts, you may want to consider Stumble exchanges such as those on the digitalpoint forum. (Please know the site occasionally has troubling loading, so if the site times out then wait a few seconds and try again.)

There are forum rules regarding length of membership, reputation, and number of posts that you have to reach before being able to post in the Buy, Sell or Trade forum which is where StumbleUpon exchanges are made.

What this means is that while you might want to jump right into StumbleUpon, at digitalpoint, you will have to wait 14 days, make 25 posts, and have a reputation that is not overall red.

Another great place to find people exchanging stumbles is StumbleUpon Exchange or SUExchange.com