Using StumbleUpon to Increase Site Traffic

This is a quick little blog post, with a big punch! I have been experimenting with different ways to increase the traffic to my blog recently. Of course, I have the usual connections to my Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn accounts to drive traffic back to my blog and website. Those were sending a nice amount of visitors to my site, but one day my friend Nick of Nick’s Traffic Tricks mentioned StumbleUpon as a great way to drive traffic back to your sites. So I tried it.

I couldn’t believe it! It was like magic! I had doubled the amount of visitors from the other referring sites with that one little click to StumbleUpon. So I kept sending my blog posts and occasionally would Stumble one of my static website pages and I continued to get the same incredible results. I love it!

To take my little experiment a bit further, I am part of a Social Media Tribe, where the members help promote each others events, websites and blogs through social media marketing. I selected one of my tribe members and Stumbled her blog post. I checked in on her the next day and that one act provided her with more than 70 new visitors to her blog that day. Amazing!

Here is a link to some StumbleUpon stats and how it’s now ranking #2 globally just behind Facebook. Give it try! Do your own experiment and I’d love to hear back from you on how it worked for you and your sites.

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Terri Brooks helps entrepreneurs “overcome the overwhelm” of using online and social media marketing for their business. She understands their fears and feelings of confusion when it comes to marketing on Facebook, Twitter and blogs and shows them ways of Tasting The Internet…One Byte at a Time.