How To Increase Traffic Through StumbleUpon?

StumbleUpon is a great place for people, who think that their blog or website can benefit someone on the internet and look for increased traffic. It is a popular content curation site which has the potential to get massive traffic to your blog.

It is constructed based on a social network service, and a research service.  People from everywhere can submit links to deep pages here in this platform. Every participant of this network service view websites according to their interests and are tasked with evaluating them. 

In U.S most of the traffic to a website comes from StumbleUpon compared to other social media websites. 

Though it is not helpful for long tail searches, nor does it improve your page ranking it drives traffic to your sites.

Here are some pros and cons of Stumbleupon

1. Huge traffic

2. Reaching new visitors

3.  Targetable by topic, age, gender, and location

4. Can connect with other networking sites.

Cons of  Stumbleupon is nothing but "high bounce rates". People may like or not like your page or website. Its all depends on the page content quality.  As every website or page is different from each other what works well for one site may not work well for another.

People often forget that StumbleUpon is a social networking site just like Facebook, Twitter. So there is a lot of scopes to get more traffic to your website. 

Here are some steps to follow to get traffic to your website

1.  Add page of your website :  

After publishing content in your website or blog start adding it in StumbleUpon. Before that create an account on this networking site. 

• Add page of the website or blog.

• Click on option yes if your website or blog safe for work.

• Add the interest of your choice i.e if the page is about marketing add the category as marketing.

• Add one or more tags.

Now your page is added to SU. 

2. Add button of SU on your website or blog :

If you didn't add SU button on your website or blog start adding it. If there is social share buttons plugin on your blog, then often it already comes with an SU button.

3.  Be active and stumble :

Just like every social media platform people has to be active in StumbleUpon. Stumble the websites of your interests and also give the page a thumbs up or down or add it to your like. 

4.  Keep Quality Content :  

To avoid bounce rates of your website or blog and keep your people longer time on your content you need to post quality content.  

5. No Spam :

Being spammy may lead to ghost banned by Stumbleupon.  It is not outright banning it may lead to low traffic to the website.

6. Fill out your profile :

Start filling your profile of  StumbleUpon with the profile picture and add interests.

Along with these above steps interact with people and look at their pages. 

Please share your useful tips on increasing traffic through Stumbleupon. 

Hope this information helps to all.