When came to driving traffic to your website, a lot of people will choose Digg. This choice seem obvious since the existence of “digg it” button. Getting you your site at the frontpage of diggs will surely great but in term of usefullness it’s stop there.
There is another way perhap maybe better than Digg, in term of generating targetted traffic to the right audience – such as StumbleUpon.
StumbleUpon also allow your to discover new sites. The StumbleUpon make it easy to share websites that would interest not just you but other people. Here is five step to generate traffic with stumbleupon.
1. Personalize Your Page.
Up load an avatar, tell people who you are. If people are browsing the community they’ll get the true sense of who you are.
2. Join The Communities Relating To Your Interest and Your Business
Join communities that related to your business and interest because if your page relevance to this group then the page will be served to the group. You can join up to 63 group (at the point of writing).
3. Stumble Often
Just submitting your pages of just one pages doesn’t get along very well at stumbleupon. Keen and frequent user will notice this. So stumble often. Your reputation will also goes up.
4. Label and tag you submitted pages approriately.
Tag properly, effectively and relevant. The last word relevant carry a lot of weight because pertinent user that had expressed interest in your topic will bring your the most targeted traffic. Don’t forget, your tag can be deleted or added by the community which is the definite indication that they’re visiting you site.
5. Sponsored Your Site on StumbleUpon.
When compared to Google Adword, StumbleUpon only charge about $0.05 cent per visitor (maximum 2,000 visitor per day). The result can be very effective.
So if your interested in social media marketing stumbleupon something regularly.
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