Give your site a StumbleUpon Boost

StumbleUpon is a social media site which allows you to share your bookmarks. It’s one social media site with a difference, it lets you share your favorite sites. Thus it allows a different kind of leaverage for your blog if you want to tap into it. Here’s a short list of how you can benefit from StumbleUpon.

• A bookmarking site is different from a news site or a blog. The listing remains there instead of scrolling down the list of days hottest hits. I relate to it as the “Digg phenomenon”. Thus bookmarks at StumbleUpon provide a constant visitors to the bookmarks. In this case this bookmark is your site. So you get constant traffic.
• It’s different also in the effect it has on your site traffic. Unlike the “Digg effect” which can burry your web servers for a popular hit, StumbleUpon sends reasonable traffic for less “thumbs” (the equivalent of a “Digg”). Thus you don’t need to speculate and wait for Diggs to happen and the post to reach the top. You share a site and leave it there. Traffic builds over a period and stays.
• You can find more sites like yours. The term is “networking” and “linking”. You are finding content that is relevant to your domain. You can build you information, use that information and of course link. That’s called a “Stumble” – you Stumble upon sites as per your preference.
• It’s all about sharing and what better way of sharing content than to do it from within StumbleUpon – you can choose your contacts from Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, Gmail and AOL. So it’s a short process and an easy one at that. This is a powerful tool that allows you to “pitch” your bookmarks to other users. Few sites allow this. (I really miss this kind of thing on Digg)
• Site reviews really make a difference. They carry the explaination of why the site is popular and you get to hear how others liked it. A review is more than a number. It is a reason why you would or wouldn’t want to visit a site. So a review has more chances of building up the popularity of a site (and thus the numbers) than the numbers alone.

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