Stumble Upon is a social website which allows its users a new way to experience the Internet. Instead of searching for specific items on search engines like Google, Stumble Upon users only have to tag specific personal or professional interests and then ‘channel surf’ the web by simply clicking on a button on Stumble Upon tool bar.

Webmasters spend lots of time optimizing their sites for the search engines, submitting them to directories, and building incoming links.  It’s a lot of work, but if done properly, the traffic will come.

Webmasters have realized the potential of StumbleUpon as a marketing tool and therefore have started to stumble each others sites to gain traffic and exposure for their sites.

Stumblebot automates this process for you and lets you sit back, relax and get traffic to you sites on autopilot.

So whether your site is a blog or a sales page Stumblebot will work hard to bring in that avalanche of visitors to your site.

StumbleUpon is an Internet community that allows users to discover web pages.  They download the StumbleUpon Toolbar, and click on the “Stumble” button when they want to be taken to a new page.  They may give each page a “thumbs up” or thumbs down”.  Sites are selected from those submitted by other StumbleUpon users based on the user’s interests and ratings of similar sites.  Not only is this a fun way for web surfers to discover new things, it also presents a grand opportunity for webmasters who are seeking traffic.

It allows you:

1. Generate rapid exposure for a specific website, brand or concept.

2. Establish a reader base for your blog very quickly.

3. Gain numerous backlinks from StumbleUpon visitors with websites.

Here are some points which may help you to improve the rate of repeat visits from Stumble Upon visitors.

* Content Depth. Your website should be full of content that cannot be digested in one single visit.

* Ad Saturation. Your website should not have too many poorly blended ads, which makes it look amateurish.

* Site Design. Your website should be visually appealing, with an attractive site design.

* Exclusive on-site materials. Your website should offer tools or in depth material which can only be accessed from your website.

* Feed/Newsletter Subscription. Your website must prominently ask visitors to subscribe to your blog feed or newsletter for updates.

* Branding. Your website should have memorable branding or an easy to remember URL.

Traffic from stumbleupon:

* Diverse demographic. Visitors from StumbleUpon come from many countries from all over the world, though 40% of my traffic came from North America.

* Very low Adsense or contextual CTR. Why click on an ad when you can stumble to the next site in a few seconds?

* Good web design is important for StumbleUpon visitors. The average time spent on a web page can be less than 10 seconds. They tend to look more than they read.

* Fickle RSS subscribers. My feed subscription doubled when certain posts received a lot of traffic but 50% of the readers unsubscribed over the next few days. This will vary depending on your website.

* Not all websites are made equal. Video, Humor, Web 2.0 and eclectic websites do extremely well with SU. Some friends with video websites and Boing Boing-ish blogs usually retain at least 25% of Stumble Upon visitors after a spike in traffic.

* Traffic is long-term. I’m still continuing to receive traffic for specific webpages that I’ve stumbled several weeks ago.

StumbleUpon works best as a brand and link building tool. It’s ability for exposure across a wide demographic can also help to build online communities or a blog’s reader base.

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