Why you should use StumbleUpon

Have you seen a huge traffic spike coming from StumbleUpon recently? If not, this is for you. Many of my posts do get stumbled and some of them pull in a really massive traffic spike. Here is a screenshot from Google Analytics that shows the latests spike:

On Sunday, November 18^th, I published my ranking of Blogs about Blogging and StumbleUpen users obviously liked it. Plus, my daily traffic rose significantly from that day on.

How to start with StumbleUpon
It´s quick and easy, just go to stumbleupon.com and register with them for free.

After that, you can download their toolbar, which is available for both Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers.
The toolbar provides with several buttons, but the most important ones are these:

Now, you can stumble every webpage you like, just with a click on the blue thumbs-up button which says: I like it. Other users who have similar interests now get showed that webpage. Users are being shown new website, every time they click on the Stumble!-button.

Getting traffic from StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon is known for delivering huge amounts of traffic in short terms of time. If you get connected with other users sharing the same interests, you get more traffic as your friends will be shown your stumbled webpages first. As you are reading my blog, I´d assume you are interested in my topics, so feel free to visit my StumbleUpon-Profile and add me as a friend.

It´s no problem with stumbling you own websites, though some users don´t like it. Be sure to stumble only pages which provide value to the community.

Stumblers will come to your site and tend to rate it within a few seconds. So make sure a few points the serve them well and get the most out of this traffic.

• Make sure, there is a lot of content on your site, which attracts these user and cannot be scanned with one short visit. Chances are, they will come back later to read more of your writing.
• Remember to provide visible possibilities for a quick subscription to your RSS-Feed or your via E-Mail.
• Do not overload your page with ads and other crappy stuff, which can make your site look unprofessional.

What others wrote about StumbleUpon
Let´s collect the best articles of the blogosphere about StumbleUpon. Have you written an article about StumbleUpon on your blog, or know someone who did?
Please contact me with the link and a short 1-2 sentence description of the post. I´ll assemble them and will publish the whole list next week. Let´s create the definite resource list.

This article is part of my series:
The 25 best ways to increase traffic to your blog. Please read the other 24 articles and you will definitely increase your blog traffic.

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