If Facebook was a nation, then according to recent membership estimates it would be the third most populated country in the world. Other social networking giants like twitter are not very far behind. With facts like these it would probably be fair to say that the majority of traffic referrals or links distributed all over the web would come from sites like Facebook or Twitter. But that however is far from the truth. Since it’s inception in the 2001 Stumbleupon has been a majority player in that sector. How much of a majority? Try 50 on for size. Yes that’s right, Stumbleupon presently drives about 50% of the traffic that the rest of the web receives in the form of referral links.
If you have just stumbled upon Stumbleupon (no pun intended); it’s essentially a social media bookmarking site. Stumbleupon uses a system of generating traffic that is as simple as it is ingenious. Visitors get to choose which type of web content they would like to view from a very wide yet specific range of topics & categories. The final step is to click on the aptly named “Stumble” button & the site sends them to other sites & blogs which web content relevant to the selected category. If they like it they can share it with others by giving the site or the specific page the proverbial ‘Thumbs up’ which is also the name of another button. This in turn generates traffic.
But a drawback of this utter simplicity is that it can sometimes be a very tricky trade to get right. Well this article will illuminate three tactics to make sure you make full use of Stumbleupon’s massive traffic generation potential:-
- Make posts that users can’t just read but see too – Since most Stumbleupon users go through hundreds of sites in a very short amount of time, you really don’t want to create posts that only have texts or users will find them boring & your posts will soon slip into oblivion.
- Tag Your Posts Properly – While adding a post, Stumbleupon gives the option of tagging your posts with specific keywords with a wide range of specificity. These tags are very important since they greatly enhance the chances of your content being recommended to more targeted users.
Do some stumbling yourself as well – In it’s heart Stumbleupon is a social bookmarking site & if any internet gig has the words social attached to it, it means that you’ve got to give out in order to get something in return. If you want your site’s content to be frequently stumbled & thumbed up, you’ll have to connect to & develop relations with other users and submit content that is not your own.
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