Last month I post a topic about StumbleUpOn – The No-Magic facts of building traffic. I got pretty good feedbacks, reviews and traffic on that post. I also got some requests from friends on the BlogCatalog.com asking me about how to stumble the right way to get the most traffic.
My conclusion is that you have to be a good stumbler in order to get good stumbled traffic back.
If you search internet, you will find many article about how to get traffic from StumbleUpOn. One of the ways to get people stumble your page is to ask for it. There are many web site out there doing stumble link exchange. You simply provide your links and stumble other’s links in order to get your page stumbled. According to StumbleUpOn’s TOS, it’s violating the TOS. Those links will be banned upon StumbleUpOn’s investigation. The question is how do StumbleUpOn decide if your links is truly stumbled from those exchange methods? I don’t think they can really tell you that. StumbleUpOn do held the rights to ban your links, if they want to. So the nature way to get the traffic you want is to be a good stumbler first.
How do we become a good stumbler?
What does stumbler do? They basically discover worth reading web pages on the internet by thumb up and review a page. The more page a stumbler thumbs up and reviews, the higher internal score a stumbler will get. I have found out that some high score stumbler has stumbled more 62K pages. OMG. How much time has he spend on discovering a new page?
So how is that going to bring a web page traffic? According my research and observation, you don’t need a lot of people stumbling your page to get traffic. One is enough to get you started. Like ONE good stumbler with 62K pages thumbs up! So how do we find one with such a high score? The simplest answer is to become one yourself. How?
To make it short, I list the key facts to become a good stumbler.
- Stumble (thumb up+review+tag) as many page as you can. Thumb down doesn’t count.
- Join communities and help others.
- Get as many friends as you can.
- Thumb up and write review about other stumblers.
- Invite friends join your communities
- Link to your StumbleUpOn profile pages from other web site. Ex. MySpace.com, blogger, facebook, etc.
- Promote StumbleUpOn in any ways.
Here are some other facts about StumbleUpOn that you need to know as part of Good stumbler guide line.
- Be friend with stumblers with higher Google Page Ranking. Some stumblers have Google page ranking 4+, who your best friend.
- Nofollow link. Have you notice that all the links (web page, photos, profile) are all nofollow links on StumbleUpOn? It means that your links on a high ranking stumbler page will not increase your page ranking. However, it will get you indexed faster. So get high PR stumbler to thumb up, review and tag your stumbler profile page.
- Pay attention to the popular pages on StumblerUpOn. What is the most popular topic on StumbleUpOn? You can simply go to http://buzz.stumbleupon.com/ and find out what are the most popular tags and categories. Keep eyes on those. They change frequently.
- Don’t be afraid of negative reviews and thumbs down. It’s free speech. People can give you thumbs up and can also give you thumbs down. Review those stumbler who gives out most of thumb up and review. Be friend with them.
In the past few weeks, I have been getting a lot of traffic from StumbleUpOn. I decide to be more dedicated on StumbleUpOn to become a good stumbler. You are welcome to join me and add me as friend.
Next time, I will write up a topic about “How to make your blog Stumbler friendly“. If you would like to be notified when I have the post up, please subscribe my RSS Feed, or subscribe by Email.
thanks for the comment, I will see what happens with the manipulation once I see updated alexa ratings, this is good I posted the same facts on how to be a good stumbler too on my stumble upon case study – very similar and its only 1 week of a case study too
nice
Ian:
Thank you! I will keep eyes on you..
Good luck!
I found this article to be very informative.
Ps: I stumbled you.
Rose:
Thank you. I was not expecting anyone to stumble it. I try not to bribe into the stumble exchange game …
Good post. Very userful tips on becoming a power user on stumble upon
Orange:
Thank you for coming.
Hey, I’m reading you via the No Nofollow | I Follow | DoFollow Community at Bumpzee, on the RSS feed.
I joined in on the stumbling thing too, about a week ago. I think you’re right. Look forward to reading the other article..
Snoskred
http://snoskred.blogspot.com/
I just realized I’m a terrible stumbler. Thanks for the post Terence…
just stumbling through thumbs up.
Thanks for the info
Ken and Dave:
Thank you for stopping by. I hope you enjoy Stumbling.
I had stumbled a while ago, but had stopped. I’m now getting back into it and having some fun with it. I don’t remember the bit about the reviews until now, but it’s something that I’m trying to do for a few of the sites that I give the thumbs up
Sephyroth
http://www.sephyroth.net
I like the way you resolve the problem of using Stumbler to promote your own blog while remaining true to Stumbler’s purposes. This might sound silly, but it’s almost like you create good karma by Stumbling good things you like.
Stoneman:
Thanks for stopping by. I hope it make sense to you..
Sephyroth:
Thank you for stopping by. I start doing review, tag and thumb up to those pages I like. I have fun with Stumbling as well.
Great information!! Thanks for helping other stumblers.
Very nice post, Terence
But it’s kind of difficult, or at least I think so. If you stick to it, however, I’m sure you’ll greatly improve on Stumble.
All you need is time and more time
I have a lot of fun finding new awesome photos on StumbleUpOn. Getting traffic is just the bonus for me. My traffic is up and down.
It seems to me that I can just get the traffic I want when I want it. However, it takes time to build up your traffic for long term.
I have only just started with Stumble Upon – Great information!
Ross:
Hope you enjoy stumbling … and enjoy the traffic.
What a good information to me. I’ve started stumble upon just two days ago. Thanks for the post Terence. I stumbled you!!!
yustiawan:
Thank you for stopping by. Please also take a look the comment above your comment, if you are interested in adding Google AdSense to your blog later.
That’s a pretty good post. Thanks for the advice. I’ll definately try out all your tips.
Awesome Article. I am glad I :stumbled upon: it. Thanks
@Jenny:
Just realized that you commented few days ago. Enjoy your stumbling.
@Nickel:
Thank you for stopping by. Use stumbleUpOn wisely can bring you a lot of traffic. Good luck!
I use Stumble Upon a lot for visiting random sites from time to time. I also stumble every single post I make on my blog. This gives them a chance (however slim) of being found by someone.
@Vaibhav:
Thank you for stopping by. You stumbled on every post you have? That’s definitely violate the TOS of StumbleUpOn. You may be banned. It’s just matter of time.
Really helpful article Terence. naturally i had to give it a thumbs up
@Karen:
Thank you for stopping by! I hope you enjoy stumbling web sites. StumbleUpOn can really bring you some decent short term traffic.
Now that i’ve started getting steady traffic from stumble upon I realize how important it is to be a good stumbler. Thanks for your tips
@Crystal:
Thank you for stopping by. I have not play with stumbleUpOn a months. I have been traveling to Hong Kong and China for sometimes. I can’t access stumbleUpOn here. I am still getting traffic from stumbleUpOn. Especially when you have many good stumbler stumble you page. People came to my site from their stumbled history. That’s a great traffic source.
I am glad that you like the tips. Keep it up!
Thanks for the tips, have already been stumbling some myself but just recently started with stumble upon so not seeing any real effect yet, but let’s hope that’ll change in the future
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And I’ll keep in mind to thumbs up others as well, let’s hope it’ll help
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Very good information.
Have you written about how to invite friends?
If not, would you mind writing about it?
I stumbled you because of your good content.
Thanks,
@Slevi:
My best suggestion to you is to involved more with StumbleUpOn. Social with other stumblers. They will visit your profile page and see what you are up to. Leave them message invite them to your site. Good luck!
@Jim:
Thank you for stumbling my page. I will keep definitely write about that when I have time. StumbleUpOn have helped me getting unbelievable amount of traffic in the past.
Thanks for the info. Stumbling is confusing to me. I am a member, but I don’t get much traffic. Guess I’ve been doing it wrong.
@Chic Girl:
I have spent a lot of time in the past to social with other stumblers bloggers. I have generated a lot of traffic and boost my alexa traffic ranking. However, it’s not an quick and dirty way to get traffic from stumbleUpOn. It takes time to build up your traffic.
Just keep in mind that StumbleUpOn can only give your short term traffic. You need to keep up a good content to get some longer term traffic.
Thank you for stopping by!
Hi Terence, thank you for all your SU tips. I have read 3 articles within the last 15 mins and learned more about SU than what I had tried out in the last 3 months.
I was stumbling and making friends not aware of the effects/benefits of stumbling. But I’m glad that I have been a good stumbler without knowing it myself; and from your articles, it seems to benefit my friends and myself in the long run as well, which is cool.
Thanks again.
@Lawrence:
You are very welcome! I am glad that it helped. Yes. I have been getting some good traffic from some really high score stumbler. I am still getting some traffic from that stumbler. So keep it up! Have you add me to your friend yet?
http://terencechang.stumbleupon.com
Good luck to your blog!
Thanks for the great post!
@Elan:
Thank you for stopping by. If you like my other StumpleUpOn post, make sure you read and stumble it.
Thanks for the informative post. I am a casual stumbler and got a little surprised when some of my posts got lot of views. StumbleUpon was the referrer. I found it more impressive than I previously thought it to be. Thanks again for explaining Why!