StumbleUpon 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.

  1. Stumble (thumb up+review+tag) as many page as you can. Thumb down doesn’t count.
  2. Join communities and help others.
  3. Get as many friends as you can.
  4. Thumb up and write review about other stumblers.
  5. Invite friends join your communities
  6. Link to your StumbleUpOn profile pages from other web site. Ex. MySpace.com, blogger, facebook, etc.
  7. Promote StumbleUpOn in any ways.

Here are some other facts about StumbleUpOn that you need to know as part of Good stumbler guide line.

  1. Be friend with stumblers with higher Google Page Ranking. Some stumblers have Google page ranking 4+, who your best friend.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.

StumbleUpon 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.

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