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If you watch Alexa Traffic Ranking closely like I do, you probably notice that the traffic ranking was not updated for few days. Today, Alexa has made significant changes to their traffic ranking system. They claim that the ranking system will be more accurate by collecting more data from multiple sources from all over the world.

Alexa Traffic Ranking has been used by many bloggers, web sites and pay per click advertiser to determine the amount of traffic a web site is getting. They will them decide the value of the web site. I have post many articles about Alexa Traffic Ranking and StumbleUpOn. I was using both to gain a lot of attention on the Internet. Now the traffic ranking world is changing.

Will the Alexa Traffic ranking kill StumbleUpOn?

In the past, I have gotten so much traffic from StumbleUpOn, which indirectly boost my Alexa Traffic Ranking. I did not use the traffic ranking to gain any revenue through PPC advertise. However, it was my experiment and observation to see how easy you can manipulate Alexa Traffic ranking by using StumbleUpOn, Digg and many other black-hat tricks. Now those old trick and Alexa toolbar trick will no longer be useful.

In my posts, I talked using Alexa Traffic ranking to evaluate my competition web site’s traffic. In many case, my e-commerce stores has out perform my competitor’s stores. I also use Alexa Traffic Ranking to see they grow rate in the past. This gives me a lot of information about how their business is doing.

With the new changes, you Alexa traffic ranking will be more accurate. Just recently, I found one of my test blog’s traffic ranking dramatically dropped. That site has been getting a lot of StumbleUpOn traffic as sole traffic source. It indicates that StumbleUpOn traffic is no longer play important role to gain traffic.

The site effect is that those who tend to use StumbleUpOn as the traffic booster tool will give up StumbleUpOn. Or just don’t use StumbleUpOn that much any more. If I am correct, we should see StumbleUpOn traffic ranking drop as well.

Personally, I have been using StumbleUpOn for a while and have so much fun with it. I have made some great connection and friendship with StumbleUpOn. I am not giving it up. I think my experiment is finished. You can still add me as your StumbleUpOn friends. I am sure you will like my collections of sites.

What do you think about the Alexa Traffic Ranking System changes? Will that stop you using StumbleUpOn?

Do you stumble your own pages? I admit that I did few times when I signed up with StumbleUpOn. After reading their terms, I realized that is not a good idea. I have not stumbled on my own page since. What I also realized is that your StumbleUpOn account may be banned by stumble the pages under the same domains too many times. You heard it right. You are so kind to your friend. So you decide to do your friend a favor and stumble (the first one to discover) all your friend’s pages under the same domain. The domain may be banned by StumbleUpOn eventually. In other words, no one can ever discover the page on the domain again. Your account may also be banned shortly. So how do you become a good stumbler without hurting your own effort and your friends site?

So what is the consequence?

Let’s say that you are a great stumbler and you have pretty good score. So you discover a new page. You thumb up and write a decent review about the page. Suddenly, you are bring in the attention to the pages. All your friends on StumbleUpOn start receiving the page when they stumbling. They like the page, so they thumbs up and write a review. So more and more stumblers gave the thumb up. Now. The page is getting tremendous traffic that it was not getting ever before.

You did the same thing to other pages under the same site. It consequently brings in more traffic in the very short time frame. You are happy and your friend are happy. So you two have a great night sleep.

Few days later, your friend receive a letter from Google AdSense team claiming that your friend’s site was creating click fraud. Boom! Your fiends AdSense account is banned. Your friend is trying to explain the situation to Google AdSense with no luck. No response. So your friends un-paid check is sitting in Google’s bank account.

What was happening? Your kindness is sending too much traffic to your friend’s site. The story here might be too scary, but it is pretty close to the reality.

Now few more days later, you tried to discover a new page of your friends. You can’t. The StumbleUpOn toolbar just open a new blank window that has one “Cancel Rating” button. You know you are no longer to discover the pages on that site. If you continue do the same thing over and over again, you will find your account banned some days.

I am not trying to scare you. It just doesn’t make sense to send huge traffic without knowing the consequence.

Extra reading about the consequence: Stumbleupon can get your AdSense Account Banned for Invalid Impressions Fraud

What is your thought? Do you discover a lot of pages on the same domain name, which is not even your domain?

You can find more about those traffic boost tips I have in the related post section.

So how do I do with my Alexa Traffic Ranking now? Is that enough or not enough?

My highest Alexa traffic ranking is 207,742, which went from 5.5 million on June 1st 2007. It’s not bad for a month and half old blog. So does these Alexa traffic ranking number mean a lot to me? You will be disappointed by my answer. My answer is this. “Alexa Traffic Ranking” doesn’t mean a lot to me. It’s just a statistic information about overall traffic to your site. My primary purpose for manipulate Alexa traffic ranking is to boost the traffic to my blog so I can have more readers to view my posts. I did not have any advertisement on my site until few days ago when I post “Should I monetize my blog? It’s never too late to make money online.” Now I only have few small text link ads from AdBrite.com, which makes no profit so far.

This is what my traffic look like on Alexa Traffic Chart. I got no traffic in May 2007. Now I have static traffic from about 500 unique visitors to 2000 unique visitors. It’s up and down, since I stop manipulate the traffic. Is that good enough? Definitely No! Should I continue to manipulate it?

The question should be read as “what should I do to boost my traffic again to the next level?”. Well. As I always believe that “Content is the King.” Without a good quality content, your readers will leave and will never come back. It’s hard to get into top 100K on Alexa Traffic Ranking without a good static traffic. Now my focus will be on the content.

If you are looking for a ways to boost your traffic, you can look around my post and find how I did it. However, I truly recommend you to put up really good quality and unique content for your viewer. I am still learning new things every day. So do you!

Good luck to you all!

I don’t see anything wrong with what I am doing. So if you are interested in getting “SHORT TERM” traffic from StumbleUpOn, please continue reading.

First of all, I insist that good and quality content is the only solution for long term traffic. Second of all, I don’t call myself StumbleUpOn expert. I just follow the rules and play safe. All this traffic stuff are based on my observation. I did not manipulate the traffic in any way from StumbleUpOn. However, I do manipulate Alexa Traffic Ranking as you know. Again, I only recommend you to get traffic from StumbleUpOn the nature way. StumbleUpOn can only help you to boost short term traffic. There are some facts about StumbleUpOn, which I did not include in my previous post. StumbleUpOn – The No-Magic facts of building traffic.

These are the facts about StumbleUpOn that you might not pay attention to.

1. Not all 2+ million stumblers are doing stumbler’s job to discover pages. Many of them are just for social purpose and to meet friends. There are also many dummy members, which were created as secondary account for whatever purposes.
2. StumbleUpOn sell traffic to sponsor web site. You can find more about their StumbleUpon Advertising program. It costs the sponsor $0.05 per member visit. StumbleUpOn claims that the member will only see the sponsor page once. I am not 100% sure about this.
3. StumbleUpOn is watching you. In order to know what page you have stumbled. It remembers what pages you visited(stumbled) as well. They will use this information to arrange the proper advertisement sites for you based on your preference and interest. What else do they know? How fast you are navigating the sites. In other words, how long do you stay on the site? They also know what page you are on in other browser windows with the toolbar installed. So they know every page your see on your browser, including your own web sites. That sounds scary. I just don’t know if they will ever use this information against their members for statistic purpose. It does the similar things as Google ToolBar!

[UPDATE] I received an email from one of the StumbleUpOn members telling me that there is misconception about the tool. Here is what he said.

Terence:

You are incorrect on #3 on your most recent post… SU has no knowledge about time-on-site, and has no insight into URLs you visit where you do NOT select a feedback for the site (Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down). Absent the direct “bookmarking” it is blind to your browser experience. Please correct that common misconception about the tool. It ends up making people think its like spyware.

My apology to all my readers who might have been miss-lead by my statement. I do not want people to think StumbleUpOn toolbar as spyware, but I still have the rights to question about it.

Again. I keep saying that a good stumbler will get a good stumbled traffic. You can see the post at StumbleUpOn – How to make yourself a good stumbler. Some people just read me wrong. In order words, if you are good stumbler, your traffic will come. Most people having problem with my statement are those who don’t have web site to send traffic to or don’t want to. If StumbleUpOn can ask you to buy traffic, why can’t we get traffic from StumbleUpOn? We follow the rules.

These are the guide line that I put together.

1. Stumble (thumb up+review+tag) as many pages as you can.
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.

All I am saying above is trying to tell people to spent time doing what stumbler is doing and be a good stumbler. I did not mention any traffic at all. What’s wrong with the #1? Some people just don’t read my mind. Thumb down does NOT count in terms of your stumbler score.

There are also some extra facts that a stumbler should know about on StumbleUpOn – How to make yourself a good stumbler, which have generated some controversial attention and drove even more traffic to my site.

Remember, the traffic is based on the category and tag that people provides when they stumble the page. So if the page falls under those less popular categories, the traffic is smaller. Also, you only get portion of the traffic that you supposed to get from StumbleUpOn, because a lot of the members are not active members. They don’t come to your site at all.

The bottom line is not to stumble upon your own page, because it will miss the whole point of “Discovering a new site?” Once or twice is fine, but don’t over use it. So how does your page get stumbled at first place? It is simply get stumbled by other stumblers regardless that they are your friends or just a stranger or any other dummy accounts. If you are a good stumbler with great score and friendship with other stumblers, you can share you pages with them. There is a gray area between share your page and invite people to stumble your pages. Some people call “Invitation” a way of manipulation. I share my page to my friends. It’s up to my friends to thumb up my pages or thumb down my pages. I have no choice. However, if you are good stumbler, you have better chance to get thumbs up by your friends. There is nothing wrong with that? The point is that you DO NOT force and intend to exchange link for stumbling. You share your pages with them. It’s up to the stumbler to stumble your page. How you want to make it happen is not my business. You got the point!

In the past months, my stumbled page got a lot of thumbs up and also thumbs down with bad review. What make StumbleUpOn great is that people have the freedom to speak out their mind. I respect those feedbacks regardless good or bad. I am glad that only few of them are bad. Don’t be frustrated with the bad reviews you are getting. There are many stumblers with huge negative thoughts to everything. They either do that for fun or do that for attention. I give those negative reviews respect, but I won’t feel upset for that. If my page got very bad reviews, that means I will have to rethink about what I said. I will learn from that.

Back to the topic, let’s assume that you are a good stumbler, and you would like to stumble a page you really like. And you understand the benefits that the owner of the page will get, when you stumble the page. You know you will bring them the potential traffic.

So how do you stumble to make this more beneficial?

1. Proper Topic/category and Tag. If you are the first person who discovers the page, you need to pick the correct and proper Topic for the page. If you don’t pick any topic, StumbleUpOn will pick it out from 500+ topics for you. In some case, it will pick the irrelevant one, which will put the page into the deep ocean. So use your own judgment to give it a proper topic (category) as a good stumbler.
2. Thumb Up+Review. Don’t be afraid to thumb down a page. It doesn’t make you a worst person. However, more thumbs up you give out, higher score you will get. The higher score will make your stumble more important. I believe that the score is combined and analyzed by number of thumbs up + reviews + friends you gave out.
3. Timing. If only one person stumble the page and his score is low, it won’t bring much traffic at all. If the second person with higher score thumbs up the page and review it. This will bring more traffic. The time in between these two thumbs up is important. The shorter, the best.
4. The first few thumbs up matters. The first person who stumble the page is less important. The next stumbler with higher score is more important. If they put down the review, it creats more weight.
5. Send message to other stumblers or your friends to take a look the page. Tell them you like it, just don’t force them to “Thumb Up” that page. This is one of the StumbleUpOn Toolbar functions. You can once click to sent the page to your friends or through e-mail. It make no difference than post your link on the Internet and ask people to take a look at it and potentially been stumbled. I don’t know why people are arguing about this as “EXCHANGE” link for traffic. If StumbleUpOn toolbar can do so, when can’t we?
6. The more thumbs up, the more traffic will come. If the page gets more thumbs up in a short period, it gets more traffic faster. If the page has 20 thumbs up in 1 hours, it will generate more traffic than 100 thumbs up in one day does! This is why #2 and #3 is important. If the first few stumblers have higher score, it will have better chance to get other stumblers with the same interest to view the page. So the page will get stumbled faster than random viewers.

All of this observation is not just my observation. It’s not magic. Some of them are written on StumbleUpOn’s web site. I put up all this information because I enjoyed to be a good stumbler and enjoyed the benefits that StumbleUpOn brought to my site. I share this information in return of my appreciation to StumbleUpOn and all of my StumbleUpOn friends. So be a good stumbler to get good stumbled traffic back is what I am saying.

I think StumbleUpOn is a great community and services which bring traffic to a lot of the web sites. We need to appreciate what a great community brought to us. Join me to discover new we sites. You can find my profile on StumbleUpOn.

Now I have found another good resource for blogger. BumpZee.com, a good social network for people to exchange thoughts and create buzz on the Internet. I could not remember where I saw the post, I have heard people talking about that Google is utilizing BumpZee as one of the trusted authority for calculate Google Page Ranking.

Since I join BumpZee. I have joined few communities such as the No Nofollow | I Follow | DoFollow Community created by AndyBeard, who is one of dedicated blogger. By joining those communities, you exposing yourself to many other with the same interest. You also expose your own post to majority of the reader on BumpZee, which is one very good features for the blog owner. MyBlogLog.com recently release the similar features, but I think it is too late.

So you might be asking me what exactly BumpZee can do for a blogger. I will rephrase this question to “What can I help others on BumpZee?” At this moment, I will not ask for something in return, I will offer something to others. Base on my experience with StumbleUpOn, I realize that the best way to get good things return back to you is to offer the good things to others. If you read my other StumbleUpOn + traffic related posts, you will understand why I post “StumbleUpOn – How to make yourself a good stumbler” yesterday.

So how do you offer others on the BumpZee to bump up your traffic and readership? First of all, you will need to join BumpZee and see if yourself, if you have not done so. Second, add me as your friend. Same as StumbleUpOn, more friends you have more exposure you will will get from the public. Here are things you can do to offer other BumpZee users.

1. Write up a good quality content on your blog.
2. Add your blog to BumpZee, which will automatically read your RSS Feed and post on BumpZee.
3. Join communities that you are interested in
4. Add friends.
5. Create new unique community if there is no one already done so.
6. Add BumpZee Widget to your blog. This is very important step.
7. Add Bump This script to your post. I did not do so, because I don’t really have a lot of friends to bump my post. At least not yet.
8. Provide your professional thoughts in different communities to help other solving their problems.

So after you done all those things, what’s the benefit you are getting?

If you look deeply in BumpZee, you will find something interesting which no other Social network really offer to you.

1. No nofollow rel link. You have the option to to turn this feature off, if you don’t want the links to your blog counts.
2. The widget will track your most popular post and rank it on BumpZee in many communities you joined. In order words, your most popular posts will be list as top post in the following three types of links. Latest entries, Top entries and HotSpots.

Here is one example. One of my posts is listed as “TOP ENTRIES” in one of the communities which has PR5.

So why is that important. If you think Google Page Ranking is important to you, you will need to know what nofollow can harm you in the big way. So you need to check out and join No Nofollow | I Follow | DoFollow Community. One really big difference BumpZee had is the high Google Page Ranking communities, which do not have NOFOLLOW by default. So that means if your post is list on top in the communities, you will have chance to be found by Google. Google will than trust your post as a good and qualified content.

Remember, there is no magic just like I post a while ago. “StumbleUpOn – The No-Magic facts of building traffic.” Do you get the points? With all this hard working effort on BumpZee, you will get better page ranking and free readership from many of your friends on BumpZee. If you have more friends, the chance is that they will BUMP your post on your blog. The higher score the higher position on BumpZee’s high page ranking communities. Isn’t that all we want?

I hope to see you join me on BumpZee. Drop me a line! Let’s make the communities better!

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.

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.

You may have seen many blogs or web sites telling you how to build traffic to your sites or blog pages. Do you wonder why you still not getting the traffic you expect after following all those steps? I do! I get some huge traffic on some of the pages people stumbled, but not all my pages. Are those web sites or blogs telling you the truth?

The first question pop up in my mind is this. How do you attract people to read your blog? I bet that Your answer is pretty close to “Put up something interesting or controversial.” So people will read and see what is going on with it. However, does the viewer receive the information they really expect? How many duplicate information are out there on the Internet and how many are true? I start hating those blogs that put up some stuff just for attracting people to read and make profit from the advertisement. The viewer did not get what they are looking for.

So why are you reading this post? It’s because you are curious about how to build traffic to your web page with StumbleUpOn. I got you! Didn’t I? So you do expect to get something make sense to you, don’t you?

Back to the topic. I don’t like to talk nonsense, even I did sometimes. So what I am telling here is what I have done and what I have experimented for the past few weeks. I am NOT telling you some fancy steps and tricks that will give you 3500 unique user a day like some big “Make money on the Internet with ….” blogger claimed on their blog. They claims that you have to have 300+ thumbs up to be on the home page. That’s not true at all. See how many pages on the home page have less than 5 reviews and 100 thumbs up. You should pay more attention on who first stumble those page.

So am I telling the truth? Use your own judgement. At least, I am not make $$ on my blog.

So let’s begin. StumbleUpOn will not release their algorithm on how they drive the traffic. So no one really knows how that works except those developers. Do you think those big blogger knows? As a programmer, I will try to reverse engineering. Just pretend that I want to duplicate a brand new StumbleUpOn site with more features. Let’s call it “StepOn“. How is that? What will I do to calculate the weight of a page, so it will get more traffic? I asked myself.

So. What is StumbleUpOn’s goal? To build a great community and share what they like. Build-up traffic is just the facts not the purpose and causes. They say so to get your attention. Keep that in mind. So if you try to manipulate the traffic on StumbleUpOn, you will find yourself wasting time.

Once again. Do NOT quote anything I said here. It’s just based on my personal experience and the facts that I observed. We all know how StumbleUpOn toolbar work, so I don’t repeat that here.

What’s the facts of building traffic to your web site through StumbleUpOn?

1. You need someone to stumble your page
2. You need someone to thumb up your page
3. You need someone to review you page
4. You need someone to tag your page
5. You need someone heavy(high score) to list you page in their profile

There are million web pages in StumbleUpOn’s database, how will it decide to show your page to the stumbler? To pick your page out of millions is based on the following facts.

1. The category of your page. A page in the wrong category or less popular category will have less chance to be viewed. I can only tell you that my personal popular categories are photos, humor, blog, internet, technology. I have not test other categories, because my site won’t fit into those categories.
2. The person who first stumble your page is NOT important. It can be anyone. In other words, you can stumble your own page. According the StumbleUpOn TOS, do NOT stumbleUpOn your own page, because it miss the whole point of the StumbleUpOn idea. However, it doesn’t say that you can not have two StumbleUpOn accounts. Got that?
3. Number of reviews with thumb up is very important. You can review a page without thumb up and you can thumb up a page without a review. Either way will carry less weight. So you need to get someone to thumb up and review your page. BOTH!
4. The tag used in the review. With more tags, your page will have higher chance to be listed.
5. The stumbler who stumble you need to have higher score to carry more weight to the page. How does the score calculated? The stumbler have more than 1000 reviews and have more than 200 fans will be consider high score stumbler. According to StumbleUpOn, you can have up to 200-250 mutual friends. The rest will be your fans. The stumbler should also be a very active stumbler in the communities and forums. More active you are the higher score you will have.
6. The page ranking of the stumbler profile page. Have you noticed that some of the stumbler profile page have Google page ranking 6+? Think about the side effect. What will you get, if your page is reviewed and listed on their profile page? Got that?
7. Number of stumblers who thumb up your page is less important. I am not saying it’s not important, but I would rather have 3 thumbs up plus review and right tags than have 100 thumbs up with no review and tag.

As you can see that my profile doesn’t have any PR on it since I signed up on May 29, 2007. I am still young in the StumbleUpOn communities. I will post another entry on how I do to improve my StumbleUpOn score. Some of you are already with high score. I will very appreciate you, if you can add me as your friend. Here is my profile at http://terencechang.stumbleupon.com/.

Any comments and critics are welcome. I know the developers of StumbleUpOn were here reading my other post. You are welcome to correct me as well.

By the way, if you have not checked out my little bookmarklets to help you stumble, review a page without StumbleUpOn toolbar, you should check out the following two posts.

Stumble a page without StumbleUpOn Toolbar – One click to review a page

How do you know if a page is stumbled? – One click to check it

Just today, I received a question from a new StumbleUpOn friend Witchywife, who happened to be a very good cooker. (please add her as your friend). You can find her delicious web site at Janet is Hungry. She asked me if there is a way to stumble a page without StumbleUpOn tool bar installed on her company computers. Absolute yes. However, it will just be not as pretty as toolbar installed. How can I do that with one click?

I create a new bookmarklet “Stumble this” for review a page.

FireFox Browser:

Stumble this

Simply drag and drop the “Stumble this” link to your “Bookmark Toolbar Folder”. It will create a little shortcut for you on your FireFox Bookmark. Note: this option isn’t currently available for IE.

IE Browser:

Stumble this

For IE, you?ll need to use the following work-around to add this to your favorite.

Right-click on the “Stumbled?” link, then select “Add to Favorites” > “Links.”

Depends on your security settings in your IE browser, you might receive a “Security Alert” – “You are adding a favorite that may not be safe. Do you want to Continue?” Press “Yes” to continue.

In order to use this bookmarklet, you have be sure that you already login into StumbleUpOn. Otherwise, it will not work. Now you can just one click to review a page. However, I mentioned earlier that it won’t be as pretty as using the toolbar. Every time you try to stumble a page, you will be asked to review it. You will not have the option to “Thumb Up” or “Thumb Down”. You will always need to review it.

I prefer to review it. Why? Review a page means you are providing your opinion and show the page that you have more respect. In addition, StumbleUpOn might give you more weigh on reviewing a page than just thumb up. So whatever page you just reviewed will carry more weight. Don’t quote me on this.

Why is stumblUpOn so important and became one of the most used social network for blogger? You can visit www.blogcatalog.com and your answers in the discussion board.

So use it as your day to day tool and enjoy it.

We all know that StumbleUpon and Alexa Traffic Ranking can bring you a lot of traffic, but how do you do it more efficiently? Especially for those who do not have Alexa ToolBar installed? This is just an experiment to see how easily you can increase your Alexa Traffic Ranking and got stumbled by your viewers at the same time. More people stumble your page, more traffic you will get. More traffic you get, higher Alexa Traffic Ranking you will earn. It’s a chain reaction.

Click on the graphic and see it in action.

Want to do so on your own blog? Follow the instruction and enjoy your traffic.

1. Right click and download the graphic to your own site.
2. Write up a blog post and telling people how to manipulate and increase Alexa Traffic Ranking with One Click.
3. Ask your viewer to click on the graphic and see how it works.
4. Copy the following HTML code to your blog and change the required path to your own page.
5. Linkback to this page and my blog at http://www.terencechang.com. Thank you!

Copy the following code and make required changes.

<a onclick=”Javascript:window.open(‘http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?[Replaced with your Home page URL]‘, ‘StumbleUpOn’);return true;” href=”http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=[Replaced with your blog URL]&title=[Replaced with your blog title]” target=”_blank”><img alt=”StumbleUpOn + Alexa” src=”[Replaced with your image path]/stumbleuponalexa.jpg” border=”0″></a>

So I have come up a simple small Javascript that you can just one click and check if the current page your are viewing is stumbled by someone. Feel free to use it for FREE. Here is the instruction.

FireFox Browser:

Stumbled?

Simply drag and drop the “Stumbled?” link to your “Bookmark Toolbar Folder”. It will create a little shortcut for you on your FireFox Bookmark. Note: this option isn’t currently available for IE.

IE Browser:

Stumbled?

For IE, you’ll need to use the following work-around to add this to your favorite.

Right-click on the “Stumbled?” link, then select “Add to Favorites” > “Links.”

Depends on your security settings in your IE browser, you might receive a “Security Alert” – “You are adding a favorite that may not be safe. Do you want to Continue?” Press “Yes” to continue.

You can trust the Javascript, it simply attach your current browsing page’s URL into the Javascript and open a new windows to StumbleUpOn review page. If the page has been stumbled before, it will show you the review pages.

Here is the original source code for the Javascript:

javascript:(function(){var a=window,b=document,c=encodeURIComponent,

d=a.open(%22http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/%22+b.location,’StumbleUpOn’,

‘location=1,status=1,scrollbars=1,resizable=1,alwaysRaised=1,width=800px,height=600px’);

a.setTimeout(function(){d.focus()},60)})();

If this trick helps you, please feel free to stumble it.

Thanks!