10 Minutes A Day Keeps the Traffic in Play
If you’re serious about social media marketing, then spending 10 minutes a day on StumbleUpon is crucial to the foundation of your strategy.
StumbleUpon puts more weight on the actions of those who use its service regularly. So pressing that Stumble button, as well as the thumbs up or thumbs down AND leaving comments on pages will help any pages you submit to SU be seen by more people.
A big Stumble can get you far better traffic than a big Digg could ever hope to. Last year, we had a post see traffic of 24,000 because of StumbleUpon. The effect of that still lasts until today as I’m still seeing new people comment on the blog as well as follow me on Twitter and other related social networking activities.
So, what are you waiting for? Stop reading this post and go Stumbling! Then report back with your success – and that’s an order!
I wrote an article back in August 2007 called: “5 essential StumbleUpon power points” which has probably edged towards the 5 figure mark in terms of traffic to my ‘blog from StumbleUpon.
As a traffic generator, it’s hard to fault StumbleUpon. Additionally, I find StumbleUpon visitors convert pretty well, too.
So I’m with you all of the way, Nathania…
An easy way to make sure you use StumbleUpon regularly is to keep the toolbar visible while going through your daily feeds. When you get to an article you like stumble it. Pretty easy. I also set my toolbar to take me to the page after I give it a thumbs up to remind me to give it a quick review.
I should probably hit the Stumble button more though. I tend to submit more and find content by following what my friends have stumbled.