How To Get StumbleUpon Traffic
When you want to get fast traffic to your blog social media is a great way to get a lot quickly. StumbleUpon today is one of my favorite sites to get traffic from because it’s very easy and can send you quite a few hits pretty fast. So below I’ve written how to get StumbleUpon traffic to your blog.
First things first, if you haven’t already, you need to install the StumbleUpon toolbar. Download it here.
Now that you’ve installed it check if your website is listed on StumbleUpon yet or not. You can do that here. If your URL is not already listed in StumbleUpon then use your toolbar to submit it and review it. Just click the ‘I like it!’ button and fill it out then submit it.
Once you’ve done all of that you need to start being active and testing with things. When you post a blog post, submit it to StumbleUpon. Just don’t submit your blog posts or pages from your websites or you could be banned. You need to submit other pages from other sites.
How To Get StumbleUpon Traffic
Now that you’ve got the toolbar installed and have started being active, it’s time to get some traffic from StumbleUpon. If you have any friends that you know that have a StumbleUpon account, then you should add them. Also, if there are other people that are in the same market as you and have a StumbleUpon account add them as a friend as well.
Once you have a few friends, it’s very, very easy to get StumbleUpon traffic. Once you’ve made a blog post, and you think it’s worthy of being stumbled, tell your friends about it and ask them to Stumble it. Who knows, they might send it to their friends and tell them to Stumble it or maybe they’ll make a blog post with a backlink to your article.
What Quality is the StumbleUpon traffic?
When getting traffic from StumbleUpon it can be poor quality traffic that won’t stay on your site for more than ten seconds. So how do you avoid this?
1. Have A Great Design – When people are using the toolbar to stumble other websites, they aren’t usually going to stay and read. With StumbleUpon traffic, first impressions are very important. If you have a nice design there’s a better chance that they’ll stay and have a look around or perhaps they might revisit another time.
2. Easy To Remember – You want your site to be easy to remember. For example, you want to have a URL that is very easy to remember so they won’t forget it. You also should have a unique logo that makes them remember your site as well.
3. Don’t Have Too Many Ads – You don’t want a website that has just a bunch of ads all over the page. This makes your page look newbie-ish and they won’t want to stay long. By having a bunch of ads, a first impression will mostly think you’re just trying to make money and your content isn’t worth looking at.
4. Great Content & Enough Of It – You want great content and enough of it so that when they visit they enjoy it and will want to return to get more of it. Also you don’t want it to be that they can read all of your content in one visit. That’s why having enough of it is important.
If your site fits into those points then you should be fine and the quality of the traffic from StumbleUpon will be better.
So there you go, that’s how to get StumbleUpon traffic and a lot of it. It’s very simple and easy but it works.
If you would like a friend for StumbleUpon, feel free to add me 
http://cadengrant.stumbleupon.com
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I’ve been trying to utilize StumbleUpon for some time now. I’ve gotten some traffic from there, but hardly a noticeable amount. Guess I need to start making some friends that use it
I know there are some people pulling in tons of hits from StumbleUpon…gotta get myself to that point!
Nice post..
How many hits have you gotten from it?
Feel free to add me btw
Cool post, just subscribed.
I’ve found StumbleUpon traffic to be beyond tolerable. I used to input a lot of time into StumbleUpon. My profile page used to be a PR3. :S However, due to a lot of the users on the network being not so focused, only my fun/joke/humor site was benefiting a lot from it. Sites like ahnternet and more niche-focused sites were failing with it miserably. Well, not failing, but not the output I had expected from the time I put into it.
Bad memories… Haven’t checked out SU more recently though.
Did it get significantly better? Mind you, I’ve listed to all four points.
Eh no the quality isn’t the best. That’s why I don’t focus on it too much but I still do focus on it a bit.
But yeah for more niche-focused site’s it’s probably not the traffic you want to focus on getting the most of.
Cool post.
Personally I’ve never really optimised my site for SU… I don’t even have an account (but that’s set to change today!).
I do find that usually, when I actually get stumbled by someone, it produces loads of traffic. One stumble got me 150 UVs once!
Your four points which you have described in the post about the quality of stumble traffic is quite impressive and effective. I will follow that.
I have never use stumble upon before, may be I should go open an account and try it our… thanks for sharing..
I’ve just submitted my article to stumpleupon but don’t see it brings traffic to my blog, so I stopped it. Perhaps I could give it a try again by following your tips. Thanks Caden!
Regards,
Lee
Great post but you forgot about explaining how stumbles, reviews, and tags affect the amount of traffic you get from stumbleupon. Maybe I will cover this soon.
By the way keep up the great content.
There are only 3 points to getting a social bookmarking traffic (like digg and stubleupon):
. The users there don’t care about your design or you SEO efforts – all they care about is interesting content.
1. content
2. content
3. content
And capable servers
I know that having quality traffic is hard. But, never give up =)
Cool post. I have been trying to get better traffic from Stumble Upon for a while now. You had some great tips.
I am really liking the blog. Count on my further readings.
@Odzyskiwanie Danych, I agree with you. Traffic from bookmarking site doesn’t really care about your SEO, as long as you have attractive title and they love your articles, then they will return and read your other articles again. Anyway, I’m not doing well with bookmarking sites and the purpose I submit my article to them is to get more backlinks.
Regards,
Lee
This post is just on time, I think the road is clear now for tumble Upon members to drive traffic to their blogs, thanks for the great post & tips!
Stumbleupon traffic have lower bounce rate than any other social network (I don’t know about twitter). Stumbleupon traffic are there to stay, and not like diggs that like only top ten posts.
@Hesham, yep no problem
Good advices. I have tried this and many other techniques to get stumbleupon traffic for my pages and I got only 5 or 10 visitors, but once I have sumbitted a video from youtube via su.pr and it got more than 1000 visits in 3 weeks.
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well this post can easily be helpful to me as i haven’t really gotten a lot of SU traffic to my personal blog… The most that I got was around 200 in a day and I know there’s more to come if I optimize it more..
SU used to be a big hype about a year ago; I guess the fire’s died down and the discussion ended, but people are still using it! I agree that it does bring traffic, but unless there is other content that appeals to the viewer, they usually end up leaving very soon.
@Melvin, follow those steps and you can get good traffic from it. Yesterday I got 320 visits from stumbleupon.
@Grace, yeah that’s true. Out of my 320 visits yesterday the average time per visitor was 0:23 which is higher than usual but still, it’s not very good. The more you get though, it can be useful.
Very nice and informative article. Its very useful for people like me who are looking for these kind for info.
We can get good traffic by using these steps. Its a great number of visitor in a day. Good job keep it up.
Great tips Caden. I thinks its very wide way for all member to drive traffic to their blogs. thanks for such cool and interesting post.
@Caden– I wanna to know some thing more about how to increase affiliate marketing. Have you posted about this if yes than give me link of that. If not than Pls tell some thing about that.
Personally I’ve never really optimised my site for SU… I don’t even have an account (but that’s set to change today!).
Bit of a coincidence but my blog just received 600+ visitors from StumbleUpon! Very pleased!
Nice post. I never stumble upon, maybe I need to try it out soon. Thanks for the tip.
SU toolbar. Is it really necessary ?
I just added my toolbar Caden and sent you a friend request.
These are the great tips, We all wanna to know more about this topic. we hope you will make it in next update.
I stumbled
across your site from LinkerBlog. Nice site…keep up the posting and good luck!
We can get good amount of traffic form the Social Net working site. Just add friends, tell to them about your site. Create an community on your website. Send a community request for join.
These are some great tips. I just sent you a request, hope to hear from you soon.
I love the StumbleUpon bar and have had one installed for quite a while now. I always wondered how they picked out the sites, I thought they may have used spiders like the search engines. Thanks for the tips, now i’ll be able to get my site listed!
These are some great tips. I just sent you a request, hope to hear from you soon.
Good tips for get quality traffic from Stumbleupon. I use SU only for bookmarking. Thanks for information.
I havent used StumbleUpon a lot for traffic as youve outlined in this post but I have used it to get my websites indexed and lift them in the rankings. Stumbleupon (now with Twitter as well) are my favorite bookmarking websites.
Sites that go nuts with the ads are a major turn off they make the design look too busy and the owner look too greedy.
Before even considering purchasing any type of package of 10,000 visitors, have you checked your SEO metatags which should normally bring net traffic to your website(s) for free.
We can get good amount of traffic form the Social Net working site. Just add friends, tell to them about your site. Create an community on your website. Send a community request for join. etc..
this can be a great source of traffic if you target the right people on stumbleupon.
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