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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?

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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?

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Even since I re-start my Blah Blah Blog, I decided to give it a boost hand. I have researched on many ways to increase my web site traffic since June 1st, 2007. I have also post many traffic booster related posts. Many of them actually brought in more traffic to my site. Some of them are still at #1 position in Google search result and above DoshDosh’s famous post. I was surprised.

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?

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Since I joined StumbleUpOn in May 2007, I have spent a lot of time discovering and stumbling web pages. I have also got good traffic from StumbleUpon to my personal blog which you are reading now. I stumbled photos and sites with thumb up, reviews and proper tags. While I am trying to be a good stumbler and enjoy my time viewing awesome photos and web sites, I have also received some critics about how my site got traffic and how I help other doing stumble the nature ways.

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.

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If you are my loyal reader, you probably already know that I have been so dedicated on gaining traffic from any possible resources in the past few weeks. In the past month, I have been getting huge traffic from StumbleUpOn.com, Google Search Engine, BlogCatalog.com and MyBlogLog.com. Who doesn’t want to get traffic to their web site?

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.

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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?

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Since you come to this page, I assume that you are one of us. Stumbler!. And I believe that you are curious about building traffic to your web site or blog. Recently, I have been getting huge traffic from stumbleUpOn. Thanks to all stumbleUpOn friends. With my additional efforts to increase my Alexa traffic ranking, I have been doing great on my personal blog.

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?

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For the past few weeks, I have received a lot of traffic from StumbleUpOn.com, You can see my profile at http://terencechang.stumbleupon.com/. I also provided a small bookmark Javascript tool for people who don’t have StumpleUpOn toolbar installed for any reasons. It’s a very small shortcut that you can drag to your FireFox browser bookmark toolbar folder or save to your IE favorite links. You can just one click on the shortcut to see if any page is stumbled. The bookmarklet can be found at How do you know if a page is stumbled? - One click to check it If you come to my site from somewhere else and have no idea what StumbleUpOn is all about. You should check it out. Add me as your friend and send me message if you have question.

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?

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