StumbleUpon is Increasing My Traffic!

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I logged into Analytics today to check my traffic, and found the surprise of my life. It appears that since I started using StumbleUpon, I've gotten a huge influx of traffic to any page that I post, on the day I post them!

That beats out Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo! Answers, Street Articles, and all the rest. All with the click of button on a site I did nothing but join.

I've been using StumbleUpon for the past few months, and I've been discovering a lot of unique and interesting sites with it, but it never occurred to me what kind of impact it could have if I were to make my own site a Stumble. Now it's become clear that this is a very powerful avenue for generating traffic, and I'm inclined to think moreso than any other social bookmarking site.

I still have to investigate StumbleUpon a bit more. It appears that the Stumble only lasts a day or so -- on the day you post it -- so the traffic burst doesn't last forever, and if you keep reposting the page you can be marked for spam. However, while Stumbling, I've wound up on certain sites time and again, if on a different landing page each time, so obviously the discrimination is against repeat Stumbles on pages, not from the site itself. It appears the secret is to keep making fresh pages and turning them into Stumbles, thus keeping people coming back to your site. In other words, it's no different from Tweeting every new article or blog I publish. The only difference is my reach is much larger! It's almost like a mailing list if you think about it along those lines.

It's interesting how very little discussion there is about StumbleUpon around here and other communities. I've seen sites with hundreds of thousands -- read, 100k+ -- stumbles on a single page. These are not popular sites! The Stumble approach is an approach indeed.

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I use it daily. It is another tool to use in your business. :)

Shawn, can you tell me more about "using it daily"? And how stumble upon has worked for you? thanks

I just share a post daily on all social sites. It builds up traffic to my posts and generates leads that I sell to a company

OK so suddenly traffic shot up. Thanks for that. Will now wait and see if it produces sales :-)

Keep us informed! I can't help but think of the possibilities.

Great idea! Will definitely utilise it. Thank you for sharing!

Thanks for the tip, Flash. I'm going there right now.

Congratulations! Keep doing it!

I have subscribed to all the sites that were listed by Kyle in his lessons. I assumed he had this in mind to enhance and further our reach to the public and more traffic to our sites. I haven't used StumbleUpon yet, but I do believe I will in the very near future. The more your name is out there, the more it will get noticed. That is the idea, I do believe, of traffic. And its FREE! What more could anyone ask for in this business? Congrats to you, I hope it continues to be a big success.

Thanks, you as well. And yeah, free publicity is awesome innit?

thank you. im going to make an account.

Thanks for the info I check it out before , but I don't think I have ever use it. I will check it out again.

Thanks for sharing... I learned about stumbleUpon from my college son... never would have found it on my own... but now they are one of the popular icons linked on many sites large and small.

Thanks for this, i must admit I have only used it rarely, but I seem to remember one of my sites getting a really big hit as a result. I think I will go and give it another try.

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