I have been a member of StumbleUpon for quite a few years now. I think I might have joined when it first started and joined not for a way to receive traffic, but a way to find interesting sites, articles, pictures and videos online.
For years I have used the SU toolbar and find all sorts of webpages and posts that happen to be huge part of my bookmarks. Out of all the webpages that I have bookmarked from SU, most of them happen to be recipes that I do plan on making someday. I have all found some really tool stuff to help me with web design, blogging, and other techy stuff I like.
- To start receiving traffic from StumbleUpon, you should definitely start using it if you don’t already. I have the toolbar installed and browse different webpages throughout the day when I have some free time, but using it is not required to seek the benefits, just a bonus.
- Get your posts discovered and in the CORRECT CATEGORY. For your posts to do well on SU, I recommend that you don’t discover your own posts, but make sure they are discovered by another SU member that knows what they are doing. Have the other user discover your post in the correct category (SU category list I use), add the appropriate tags and write a short review. If possible, have them share your post via the SU toolbar share feature. If you are wondering where you are going to find someone to do this, there are lots of blogger Facebook groups that help each other with this.
- Use the su.pr URL shortening service to promote your posts. With su.pr you can create a message that will allow you to send out a tweet (and shorten it) that can also be send to your Facebook profile. What is neat about this service as it also lets you expose your content that you are publishing to the StumbleUpon community. Even better is the cool stats you can see after you have hit the post button. You can see how many clicks your post has received in real time, see what posts are popular from the last 24 hours, week and month as well as find out the best time to SCHEDULE your posts. Yes you can schedule tweets and posts to your Facebook for the day you are posting.
I have created this post to give other bloggers some ideas on how they can benefit. Right now is a slow month for me with SU traffic and I have already received over 12K extra visits to my site from SU and the month isn’t even over yet. I am not a pro at using the service, but I have learned over the past year how to get a decent amount of FREE traffic from StumbleUpon.
If you want to receive traffic from SU you are going to get more out of it, if you put time into it. I am actively browsing websites each day, even if it is only 5 or 10. I am sharing posts via the SU toolbar with others that I am following. I am removing those that I follow that are no longer active so I don’t have to waste time sharing posts with them they won’t see. I am also discovering other posts for SU members and including reviews and sharing their posts to help the community.
Have any extra tips on getting traffic from StumbleUpon, feel free to leave a comment and share!
My stumbleupon traffic is slow and steady nothing to write home about. It use to be 10x as much as it is now. I never understood the su.pr link thing so I stopped using it. I still try to stumble every day.
I think this is where people go wrong they have to really use it daily for a long time not just a couple days or week and think it is going to return, it has to be a continual use. That is my opinion at least.
I had no idea about su.pr. Giving it a try today!
GREAT post!
Kas
I can discover my own but maybe that’s because I know what I am doing LOL. I don’t use the su.pr links though. And I do fine on SU.
But SU is a great service. 🙂
I discover a post every once in a while of m own but prefer when its done by someone else. 🙂
These are fantastic tips, I didn’t know about the shortening link part. Thanks for sharing!
These are great tips, SU can be a wonderful tool for finding great posts on topics of ones interests and allowing others to find your own posts that may be of interest to them.
Thanks for the tips, I need to learn more and use it!
I need to bookmark this page. I’ve been using SU on and off and need to sit down and figure it out.
Wow you weren’t kidding about that SU.pr site I went from zero to double digit clicks almost instantly, thanks for that amazing tip!
I have been having fun watching my numbers grow in seconds. This weekend I took a old post and start promoting it on su.pr. I went from having 119 hits to almost 7k in less than a week.
Good tip. SU is hit or miss for me, but sometimes when I get one of those skyrockets, it’s all worth it.
That su.pr is fantastic! I didn’t know about that. I haven’t used SU in so long, I need to get back into it – I just felt like I was putting so much time into it daily without seeing much benefit. 🙁
Lots of new info for me here. Thank you for sharing it.
Thanks for the tips! I haven’t had much luck with SU, but I should check it out.
I have to check out the SU.pr site! Thanks for the tip!
Great post. Thank you for the info!!!
Great tips! I used to use su.pr but I felt like I couldn’t tell what were clicks on a stumbled post and what were just clicks on a shortened URL, so I stopped using it.
Do you know anything about how to make it so you can “share” with people you are following? I have several SU ppl that I follow them and they follow me, but they don’t show up in my share drop down off the toolbar. If you ever write another SU post, I’d love to hear more about how to work with your following! 🙂 TY!
From what I have read, you are not the only one having this problem. I read somewhere that both people should unfollow each other, then re-follow to make it work. Might want to give that a try!
Great tips…SU is still a mystery to me….I need to put some time into it for sure
I gave up on StumbleUpon 🙂
This post is super helpful, thank you for sharing. I have recently started using it again and am really seeing the benefits! I’m tweeting this, too!
Wonderful tips!
I have never really gotten into stumble upon, but maybe I should rethink that & give it a try! I’d love to increase my traffic. Thanks for the information. I will share a link to your post with some folks who were asking about this the other day in a forum. 😉
StumbleUpon hates me…it doesn’t matter what I do.
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I really need to get stumbling!
I’m new to stumble upon. Great information. Thanks.
Seriously great information! I’ve had some success with SU, but didn’t know about the su.pr page and I love that category list. THANK YOU!
Those are some great tips! I want to learn all I can about stumbleupon because I know I am not doing it right.
Great tips! I’m gonna them right now. Thanks! 🙂