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Exactly How Do I Use StumbleUpon To Get Mass Traffic To My Website?

by David Braybrooke
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Can anyone set out the simple steps in order to successfully use SU for traffic generation? I hear of some users getting crazy traffic numbers to their site, 600K etc.

How exactly?
#mass #stumbleupon #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author Justin Tyme
    Without crushing your dreams, I don't think anyone is realistically getting 600k uniques from stumbleupon anymore. The traffics just not there anymore.

    I've had limited success with SU in the past by doing the following.

    1. Register a new account and stumble my site.
    2. Register a few new accounts and re-stumble the site to get the ball rolling

    There was also a SU service I tried once, but the results were very limited.
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  • Profile picture of the author UnkwnUsr
    I have seen some traffic spikes by doing the following:

    1. Download the toolbar
    2. Stumble your own page with a review
    3. Use the share feature in the toolbar for Twitter
    4. Add a call to action like "#StumbleThis"
    5. Copy the tweet to use in Hootsuite or TweetAdder

    This seems to work because the stumble upon tool bar will give you a specialized stumbleupon shortened URL. When the user clicks on it from Twitter they can instantly hit the thumbs up (if they are logged in to stumbleupon). This has gotten me thousands of hits and I just started implementing it with a very small Twitter following.
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    • Profile picture of the author melvinsh
      Originally Posted by UnkwnUsr View Post

      I have seen some traffic spikes by doing the following:

      1. Download the toolbar
      2. Stumble your own page with a review
      3. Use the share feature in the toolbar for Twitter
      4. Add a call to action like "#StumbleThis"
      5. Copy the tweet to use in Hootsuite or TweetAdder

      This seems to work because the stumble upon tool bar will give you a specialized stumbleupon shortened URL. When the user clicks on it from Twitter they can instantly hit the thumbs up (if they are logged in to stumbleupon). This has gotten me thousands of hits and I just started implementing it with a very small Twitter following.
      I am interested in this, where do you add call to action
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      • Profile picture of the author UnkwnUsr
        Originally Posted by melvinsh View Post

        I am interested in this, where do you add call to action
        The call to action is in the Tweet I normally use #StumbleThis people who use stumbleupon will know what that means and the hashtag seems to help with visibility. I will either put that at the beginning or end of the Tweet.
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  • Profile picture of the author st0nec0ld
    The article below is almost two years ago, however I think there is still a struggle for stumbleupon which is not anymore a good source of traffic. But for some people SU still works for them. I hope I don't make any confusion but you can still see it for yourself and give it a try. How? Add a link and submit it to an appropriate category, put relevant tags and description; as simple as that.
    Report: StumbleUpon’s Traffic Down 53% Since July
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  • Profile picture of the author peepin2me
    To get that much traffic from SU, you have to go back to the year 2006!
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  • Profile picture of the author melvinsh
    I dont think you can on your own, you need thousands of people sharing.
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  • Profile picture of the author awesummer
    I don't think stumbleupon is still that effective. However, just like any other social media accounts, if done right, it can still give your site some traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author clean99
    People get tons of traffic from their ads. It called StumbleUpon paid discovery - https://www.stumbleupon.com/pd. You can get really cheap clicks.

    Last time I had $5 advertising one of the blog posts and got over 100 stumbles, few facebook share and twitter tweets. And keeping in mind that blog post wasn't even all that exciting, these are okay stats.

    Many use this for split testing
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    • Profile picture of the author AlexRent
      Originally Posted by Russerg View Post

      People get tons of traffic from their ads. It called StumbleUpon paid discovery - https://www.stumbleupon.com/pd. You can get really cheap clicks.

      Last time I had $5 advertising one of the blog posts and got over 100 stumbles, few facebook share and twitter tweets. And keeping in mind that blog post wasn't even all that exciting, these are okay stats.

      Many use this for split testing
      It seems the paid advertising system of StumbleUpon. How about the traffic? Does traffic targeted?
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      • Profile picture of the author clean99
        Originally Posted by AlexRent View Post

        It seems the paid advertising system of StumbleUpon. How about the traffic? Does traffic targeted?
        yes that;s exactly what it is. And yes you can get somewhat targeted traffic. I think it lets you choose country and niche category.

        The blog post I had didn't have any ads on it so not exactly sure about conversions but I heard from others that you do get conversions with StumbleUpon traffic
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        • Profile picture of the author melvinsh
          Originally Posted by Russerg View Post

          yes that;s exactly what it is. And yes you can get somewhat targeted traffic. I think it lets you choose country and niche category.

          The blog post I had didn't have any ads on it so not exactly sure about conversions but I heard from others that you do get conversions with StumbleUpon traffic
          Used your tip in another post, thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author DylanC
    I think most of those pictures that go viral are either from accounts with thousands of followers, using paid advertising or both.
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      Originally Posted by DylanC View Post

      I think most of those pictures that go viral are either from accounts with thousands of followers, using paid advertising or both.
      Yeah, exactly I'm thinking the same as of you.
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  • Profile picture of the author tahajawed
    Stumble upon is the best source to bring traffic on your site but it increase Bounce rate of my website
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    • Profile picture of the author kevin timothy
      Good point in regards to bounce rate.
      Unless you capture the attention well,
      that SU user just keeps it moving.
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  • Profile picture of the author reddy183
    Hi David Braybrooke,

    You can get some good traffic from Stumble Upon. But How much people is following you and they need share your posting. Then only you can get some good traffic.

    Regards,
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  • Profile picture of the author gknugurlu
    I have tried stumble upon lots of times, but have stopped it. I got traffic, even a lot, but the value was very very low. The other thing was that I got traffic for my new submissions for the moment or for 2 days but later no traffic. So I think you should take into consideration more how much worth is it the traffic that you will get.
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  • Profile picture of the author Moneymaker2012
    If you want to increase your website traffic via StumbleUpon, you have to connect to as many stumblers within your niche related, stay active and stumble more often, and join new communities to make new connections.
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