There is no doubt in mind that there is StumbleUpon traffic magic in the world. How do I know such a thing? I have had a lot of success with Stumbleupon traffic lately. This site is quickly becoming one of my favorite sites for driving quality traffic to my blog.
While I am still in the learning phase of my experiments with StumbleUpon (Translate: Expect More In-Depth posts later on), this site with minimal effort has become a goldmine for driving traffic. Plus, it should be even easier with the new StumbleUpon design.
Stumbleupon Traffic Magic
Over a two week period, I had over 2,000 visits to my blog from StumbleUpon alone. For me, this represents about 15% of my traffic over that period of time. Additionally, the people who are on StumbleUpon generally promote my site more, sign up in higher percentages, and have a much lower bounce rate.
Plus, and this is a big plus for me are more local to the United States. I am all for international traffic, but I also understand the beauty of home-court advantage. StumbleUpon has been the great equalizer in my traffic because the vast majority of my clients are here in the US. Which to me is a very big reason in me increasing the US traffic.
StumbleUpon Traffic Magic Tricks And Tips
So, now the big question that everyone has been dying to learn more about from the start of this article. How in the world do I do it?
1. Remember how important I told you tribes have been in my blogging? These are the people who are most likely to Stumble and Share my posts. Without them, I would not have nearly the amount of traffic as previously mentioned. If you are looking to learn more about TSA or Triberr, please let me know in the comments. I will email you the appropriate links to get started. They are very different groups and I want to help you get started with the one that fits your needs appropriately.
2. Every day I like about 5-10 posts from other people (80% of them in my tribes) and then I share with my followers 2-3 articles that I think are just awesome (Note: Most of these shares are with people who are in my tribes or new followers).
3. I am looking to connect with 1-2 new people every day from my connections or people that I know elsewhere.
That is it! The great StumbleUpon traffic magic is out. If you notice it is very much like other social networks that I belong to in terms of strategy. Connect with a few people every day, share their info, and then have a core group of people to help share yours. Except that StumbleUpon traffic comes in a lot faster than Facebook or Twitter (Working to change that with the Social Traffic Plugin).
StumbleUpon Traffic Magical Next Steps
So, what is next?
1. Either sign up for Stumbleupon or just sign in and make sure that your profile is updated.
2. When you are finished with that feel free to connect with me. http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/smartatthestart
Other than that, I look forward to your Stumbles as we look to build our StumbleUpon traffic together.
Hi Andy,
yes, I agree stumble upon is a great platform and it is probably overlooked by a lot of people.
I was amazed that one of my vision board posts had over 100 stumbles in a few days.
Tribes are great and I love being part of the TSA not only do my posts get syndicated, I also learn a lot.
Thank you for your great post and drawing my attention to Stumbleupon.
Yorinda,
I appreciate your insight into this post!
Andy
Hi Andy,
Can you send me the links to help me learn more about TSA and Triberr ?
Milan
I am shooting you the email in a few minutes!
Please send me info on TSA and Triberr… I’m not familiar with them… .I enjoy stumple upon quite a bit as well… I’d love to actually get some traffic from it.
thanks
Gary,
for Triberr you need to register at Triberr.com. Once you do send me your Twitter id. When we finish that we can set up TSA afterwards.
Thanks!
Andy
I’ve been trying to break into StumbleUpon for a while now Andy. The problem I have is that it’s not clear which metric actually gets your site in the Stumble results. The counter seems to count how many users view your page from stumbleupon instead of people that “thumbs up” the posts.
Anyway, it seems like the equalizer is to build a network within StumbleUpon itself (a network of people who actually use the site). I haven’t had much traffic from StumbleUpon.
Adam,
That is exactly the key to Stumbleupon. Let me know if you are interested, and I can connect you to some people in Stumbleupon who are creating networks to work with others to drive more Stumbleupon traffic.
Andy
Great info Adam! I would like to know about the groups and how to maximize StumbleUpon! Great to connect with you through this amazing social world 🙂
Paula,
We should definitely connect. I just sent you my connection info through your website contact page.
Andy
I used to absolutely LOVE StumbleUpon. It was my favorite Social Network. Now it is instant frustration because nothing that I used to be able to do there works. I can’t follow anyone until I unfollow someone and I can’t tell who I’m following is still active or is following me or isn’t following me.
I did just randomly unfollow one person so I could follow you – but you can’t share anything with me because I have 500 shares backed up in there and as far as I remember there is no way to delete them except to go through them one by one.
I know that SU can drive a TON of traffic even now – but where it used to be halfway logical now it is so unusable that you can’t just go there and do anything unless all you want to do is mindlessly click the stumble button.
I’ll have to find some how-to videos or a mentor or blog posts to figure it out – and that is the mark of bad usability – when a long time user has to go read a book to use a social network. That may be by design because just mindlessly stumbling is probably their original goal and the way I used it for micro-blogging and saving resources was never what they had in mind.
That said, they used to be sitting on a gold mine with the gold lying around already exposed and they never bothered to pick it up. Maybe they didn’t want to compete with Google AdWords – because they could have and the ads would have converted even better than search. I wrote about why long ago. I’ll link that post to my name in this comment.
Gail,
I have to completely agree with you on this, because I am having some of the same challenges with Stumbleupon that you are having right now. The only reason I use it is the same as you: it drives traffic.
Let me know if you have a better way to use Stumbleupon, because right now it is horrible.
I agree with you on your post that the best thing social media could do is create a better search option with their social network. However, that might be what Google+ is.
Andy