Stumbleupon: My story so far…
Stumbleupon came to my attention along time ago but i never really put in any effort before the start of October when i did a post called Stumbleupon- simple tips to increased traffic. Since then it’s changed my blog, i have gained huge amounts of traffic for a little amount of extra work. As its been 3 weeks since i did my earlier post it’s time for a recap and review of Stumbleupon.
What happened in last 3weeks?
You heard it from many people before, they all claim to get hundreds if not thousands of page views a day, i was a little skeptical to start with but now after 3 weeks i can truly say it works. My total visitors has increased no end since this month started and my top stumble post actually got 1186 hits, and my top 5 stumbled posts achieved 2370. So for the average blogger who’s looking for visitors his will help you for your alexa.
So What have I learnt?
- The time of the day can affect the results of your stumble, the key is here to hit the maximum users when you stumble. Try and get both Europe and American online at the same time. Probably the best time is around late morning Pacific time which means you catch the Europeans after work hours or 8-0pm EST in USA, by using these times you have more chance of reaching your audience.
- Stumble in Groups, this works well if you and your friends work closely to stumble one another daily. By viewing each other articles and stumbling you and your friends will continue to receive regular traffic though these stumbles.
- Quantity over short time is better than a bigger quantity over longer period. For better results you need to get the thumbs up done over a quick time frame, by getting a quick 5 thumbs will probably do better than 10 over 24 hours.
- Don’t be a selfish stumbler and spread the love, the more you stumble people the more likely you will receive good thumbs and greater traffic. Stumbleupon actually weights a stumble depending on the originator authority within Stumbleupon, which is marked by the number of stumbles made. This is one area i will work on over the next few weeks to optimize my stumbling.
- As with most socializing sites, you need to socialize and by gaining friends you are more likely they will stumble your site. Genrally enjoy your experience on stumbleupon and don’t just do for the sake of it…
- Another way to share you posts with others is to use the “send to” button on the toolbar (which is next too the thumbs down button).By clicking on the button you will send a site that you feel is worth a mention to your friends so be sure to add all your friends. To add a friend find their address which looks like this http://yeepage.stumbleupon.com. so if you can please add me to your friends then we can share the stumbles…
- Lastly you can gain more exposure and do a lot of back scratching inside forums, currently i have found two, stumblexchange and lovesickalien, by posting your URL, tags etc people will stumble you, but return you need too stumble all the people in the list too.
Stumbleupon experiment
Ok, lets see whether we can all increase our traffic though stumbleupon by following these simply steps:
(I will assume you all have an active stumbleupon account first and have downloaded the stumble toolbar.)
1. Add me to your friends list by copying this URL http://yeepage.stumbleupon.com
2. Now give me the thumbs up for this post
3. Inside my comments section leave your profile URL like mine above, your email address, a URL to a post including the tags to be used and a description of the post.
SU profile: http://yeepage.stumbleupon.com
email: admin@yeepage.com
Stumble URL: http://www.yeepage.com/stumbleupon-my-story-so-far
Tags: stumbleupon, SU, increase, traffic, stumble,stumbler
Description:My story of stumbleupon and hows it’s changed my site
4. Kindly give the thumbs up to all readers who add comments in the list.
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