Stumble Exchange Sites
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We all know that stumbleupon can drive huge amounts of traffic to your blog or article, but typically we are all lazy to stumble our own and others peoples posts, most of us hope that our readers of friends will stumble them to increase traffic , but generally this will only bring in small increases of traffic, to gain the maximum from stumbles you will have to join a stumble exchange or swapping group…
Generally they work in a very simple way, find and join the site and register yourself, now you stumble the posts above you in the list and submit yours to the bottom, after which the next person will continue where you left off.
There are two types of sites that will do stumbling, forums or websites both these work but in different ways.
Forums can be used and there’s a few out there which practice stumble exchanges, some of the advantages are you can interact with people on a personnel level, and quite often people will become friends and normally you have the option to add your tags, category and the description of the post, the negative side is the smaller quantity of stumblers as often the sites need passwords to enter so with limited readership so must posts are thumbed up by the same people.
Websites have there advantages as you can gain larger volume of stumbles compared to a forum site and are fast to submit and have a large number of different stumblers but you normally are not able to select your tags, categories and descriptions so you are limited here.
You may like try Suexchange where you can submit your website and have the ability to stumble others in exchange. They have a referral system in place to allow you to gain more stumbles form other if you have more people under you.
In conclusion both types of sites have common advantages and disadvantages like increased volume of traffic etc, just look at whether these short boosts in traffic are quality readers. At the same time any unique viewer who finds your site though stumbling has the potential to be a new regular reader in the future.
So tagging, categories and descriptions will help ensure quality traffic comes to your site, therefore stumbling yourself first will help to put your article in the correct position.
Please feedback if you use a stumble swap/exchange site? And has it helped your site?
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Good post Simon … I haven’t seen many others talk about these Stumble exchanges to date, and find it interesting.
Hah! Simon and I seem to have very similar interests at the same time. On same day I also wrote something about StumbleUpon: 10 Must-read Articles to Become an Expert Stumbler . This is another great sharing from Simon and I regret didn’t read it first. It should be in my list. Unfortunately it’s limited to “10″, so… next time
Binh , it does indeed u could still add a mini update ….
Since this is against SU’s TOS, probably not a good idea to advertise.
I have yet to try this. I have mainly been stumbling other’s blog posts in hope that they will one day return the favor.
You can also check out http://linkyme.com/fast-stumbles/ which allows you to “bid” for stumbles with stumbles (1-1,2-1 and so on), in general the stumbles are of much higher quality than the other SX sites.
This could be against the TOS of SU, but then i guess SU isn’t all that strict with mutual stumbling .. I’ve seen a lot of contests which require the visitor to stumble the blog for entry .. But i guess the same will not work with Digg.. Too many diggs too soon, then you’re asking for a ban ..
SU may not be that strict about enforcing their TOS, however, I do know at least one person who has gotten a warning from them about stumble exchanges. He was told to stop it immediately or be banned.
I’m here to retract on my previous comment, and i’m actually researching these stumble exchange sites myself, i’ve heard everyone talk about how they got a fillip from SU, i think its time for me to try and get some traffic myself.
But then i still don’t think i’ll join any of these stumble exchange sites, i’m going to rely on my blogging network for stumbles, i’ve managed to get a group of people who’re into blogging, and now hopefully our collective effort will drive some traffic our way.
Also another thing i’m concentrating on right now is to write stumble worth content, so gone are those rant posts, i’m trying to create something useful. Hmm ..
Anyways i could also get to these exchange sites if nothing works for me.
linkyme.com/fast-stumbles/ has a stumble “biding” sytems is faster than most of the other stumbles. It needs more traffic, but besides that its the best out there.
SUExchange violates the StumbleUpon ToS. Exchange users harass and spam bomb other users who openly criticize the practice. Do you really want to be associated with such a scum?