StumbleUpon is a social networking and social bookmark tool. Much like other book marking tools like Digg, StumbleUpon has the ability to bring huge amounts of traffic to your site. StumbleUpon is a free service that helps you discover and share websites with others who have similar interests.
What is StumbleUpon?
StumbleUpon is a social website that allows it’s users to discover and rate web pages, multimedia etc. based on their personal and professional interests. It displays web pages when the user clicks the "Stumble" tool bar. Users can rate the web page accordingly by giving a "thumbs up", if they wish to see that page again or giving "thumbs down", if they do not find the content worthy enough. The user can also keep a track of submitted websites and recommend it to other stumblers.
StumbleUpon is a great way of generating huge traffic to your website or content that you have stumbled. If your content is good and useful, you will be able to generate a large amount of traffic. Hence, you require StumbleUpon to :
- Generate exposure to your brand.
- Build a good reader platform for your blogs.
- Gain enormous back links.
Stumbleupon’s new traffic builder Su.pr
SU.PR (pronounced “super”), is a web service that provides short aliases for redirection of long URLs, like TinyURL or Bit.ly. Not only is su.pr a URL shortener but also a Social Network cross poster. All your submitted URLs, aka blog posts, can and will be cross posted to social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
Not only this, but it provides an array of other functionality.
- Submit my content to StumbleUpon’s 7.9 million users with each post
- Get suggestions for optimal posting times: get more traffic per post
- Schedule as many tweets or posts as I want, for any time
- See my click-throughs in real-time
- See retweets for each post, including the biggest influencers (ranking coming soon)
- Post to Twitter and Facebook at the same time, with more platforms in the pipeline
- Use my own short URL (i.e. www.myblog.com/ab123) instead of someone else’s branding
Conclusion.
After using su.pr for a month or two. I have seen 4% of my traffic coming from StumbleUpon. Perhaps not a huge amount as compared to some of you. But none the less, it is extra traffic that I otherwise would not have had. Every little bit counts, right?
So for me. It seems to be working, and worth the little bit of extra work.
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