The results are in…
I recently did a poll to find out what most of my readers wanted to know, I gave them the option to vote on what they thought I should write about.
The winner of the poll was Website Traffic (Free) and SEO (Search Engine Optimization) in a close second place.
So, this post is going be about how to generate free website traffic using StumbleUpon, but before I get into that.
Here are some useful links & related posts. I recommend you read them all if you have not done so already.
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) 5 simple tips
Using Yahoo Answers for free traffic
Using GoDaddy for free traffic
Okay, a little back ground on StumbleUpon.
StumbleUpon is defined as a social bookmarking website, this means is that when you bookmark (add to your favorites) a website it is shared with other stumbleupon users and they also have the option to bookmark the site and give it a thumbs up (a voting system, a bit like digg) with an optional review.
Our objective is to get as many stumbleupon users to see, bookmark and thumbs up your websites content.
I’ve been using this method for about two years now and it always provides some traffic, and occasionally a shed load of traffic. It all depends on what kind of content you have on your website.
Because the site is a social site of sorts the stumble upon users are mostly casual suffers looking for cool, funny & interesting things. If your website offer these types of things it will do very very well from the stumbleupon userbase, but don’t worry if your site is not cool or funny or even interesting.
You will still get visitors from StumbleUpon no matter what your website is about.
On with the method.
1) You need to create an account at www.stumbleupon.com
2) Login into your account at StumbleUpon, you should be greeted with a screen like the one below, this is how some of the stumbled websites are shared with other users.
You can see that the bottom result has 193,000 visits and 93 reviews. I’m sure the person that created that article about Nintendo is very happy and has probably made a nice bit of money from it too.
3) To share your website and it’s content with other stumbleupon users to need to add it to your StumbleUpon Favorites.
Note: You can download the stumbleupon tool bar which makes this process a bit quicker.
Click the favorites tab on the top and then click add site
4) Enter your websites url or the url of the page that you want to share, so it could be.
http://www.Free-Web-Submission.com
or
http://www.Free-Web-Submission.com/blog/super-blog-post-worth-sharing.html
Yes, you can share your main site url and then your content pages after, but do this over a few days for best results.
After entering your URL, add a short description, brief or introduction to the page your sharing.
Click the “add a site” button.
5) Part 2 of the submission process,
Tick the safe for work radio button and add tags related to you websites / page content.
Then click submit.
(You can see in the picture that StumbleUpon has 9,768,092 users as of 16/04/10)
You should now be able to see the website you wanted to share in your favorites.
Note: The photo thumbnail is automatically generated after a few hours.
Thats it your done, easy isnt it?
Check back on your favorites and see how many views it’s had.
Hope you like the post, please feel free to share this post and leave your comments below.
Can I ask a favor?
Please add the url below to your list of StumbleUpon favorites, it’s the url for this page and will help me share it with others. Thank you.
http://www.free-web-submission.com/blog/using-stumbleupon-for-free-website-traffic/
Regards
Lee
P.S If your interested in taking this traffic tactic to the next level and well beyond, I highly recommend Amy X’s StumbleUpon Domination it blows stumble upon wide open and reveals some awesome traffic secrets.
Thanks for all the interesting article.
Hi
The point of this exercise is to gain a DO-FOLLOW backlink? or is their another purpose?
thanks
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Once again, useful information, but only easy if you know how ;-) thanks
Thanks Lee, as always you came out with useful sharing notes.
Great tips, as always. Ty very much.
Best regards.
Great I always follow your tips. Thanks
Nice idea Lee, thank you.
Best regards
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I added my last blog post to StumbleUpon and got over a 1000 new visitors to my site the same day. I always monitor traffic source through Google Analytics.
Thanks for more great info. This is the best blog for SEO by far.
great work. thank you man
Good Great I will give a try thanks.
Did you heard what Bob Parson said about it?
I wish more people would write blogs like this that are actually helpful to read. With all the garbage floating around on the web, it is rare to read a blog like yours instead.
Stumble upon is a very good tool for promotional work just its little bit time consuming than others.
Excellent post. Keep writing. Thanks.
Thanks for all the interesting article. They really helped me a lot! Between, you just got a new subscriber now!
Just created my account on stumbleupon. This a great guidance how to get free traffic through this site.