Stumped or Stumbled?

Generating Quality Traffic with StumbleUpon

Stumble can bring you a ton of traffic, and opposed to many of the others, you have great control of how targeted that traffic is.

Stumble creates traffic , that’s how it works. Participating in the network means actually viewing a lot of sites. Many of the other networks provide listings, where a snappy title and witty description is the only thing that brings in the hits. Yes, you can submit to specific topic areas, which will target it a little. But that’s about as good as it gets. Great articles are constantly lost on the social bookmark sites that use lists because someone posted about Britney Spears latest antics 2 seconds at the same time.

Stumble is different; your submissions will go through your network of fans and friends. And you don’t even have to annoy ask them to do it. If they are your fans, Stumble makes sure that they eventually sees the pages you like.

You Decide

You get many of your fans based on your stumble history, people who like sites you have submitted will find you, and they will find you through their other friends, who may have found you through the sites you have submitted and stumbled. In other words, people will add you based on what you like, not based on your ability to write a snappy title only.

Relevance

So your stumbles, if they are relevant to your own site or blog, will attract people who like what you write about too. Making them more likely to thumb you up, this will drive more people that like what they like… And the chain continues. This chain can bring you traffic for weeks and months, not just hours like so many of the other social bookmarking sites.

This spreading of information through your networks is almost like a pyramid scheme, the more powerful you are the more people will see your stumbles. If they have a lot of fans, you will quickly be reaching a very large network of people, all of whom will see your actual site, as opposed to just reading your snappy headline on a list where it drops to page 39 before you have refilled your coffee.

This is the brilliance of Stumble, not only does it drive traffic; it gives you the control to focus your network and bring you quality traffic that is actually interested in what you do. Not just those that got lured by the snappiest headline.

Once you have your target audience on your site, it’s all up to your content quality to get that Thumbs Up.

By: Erik Johnels

Source :http://www.weakestlinkconsulting.com/2008/06/stumped-or-stumbled/