Classic StumbleUpon Traffic Optimization Articles

Even before publishing my post hailing StumbleUpon as the best traffic source in the world, 2 of my posts got stumbled in the meantime. So I decided to look closer at StumbleUpon optimization techniques. In fact there are lots of articles that show ways of increasing traffic from StumbleUpon, a forerunner in the field of social browsing.

Does it make sense to optimize for StumbleUpon in the first place? Yes it does, all famous web pros agree: StumbleUpon traffic is

"fantastic" (SEOMoz)
"unappreciated" (Pronet Advertising)
"more than Digg traffic" (Problogger)

So now that you probably got the message check out these articles, the best come first this time:

doshdosh: A Comprehensive Guide to StumbleUpon: How to Build Massive Traffic to Your Website
doshdosh (again!): StumbleUpon Optimization: Leveraging Photo Stumbles for More Web Traffic
Search Engine Land: 5 Tactics For Driving Traffic From StumbleUpon
SEOptimise: How to increase StumbleUpon traffic?
Ogletree SEO: Is Stumbleupon traffic worth getting?

These articles are more than you need to know about social media optimization for StumbleUpon.

What I like most about all those attempts at increasing StumbleUpon traffic are the ethics of them: It's pure white hat SEO 2.0, it's not even link bait like in the case of social news sites. It's just about using this social browsing service correctly.

Last updated: August 17th, 2010.

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August 25, 2007 · SEO 2.0, Social Media

19 Responses

Glen Allsopp August 25, 2007 at 18:39 ·

I hate you Tad Chef, ive just spent the last 2 hours writing the longest guide of them all. Planned to post it on monday ;)

Damn, missed out on the link love :P
onreact August 25, 2007 at 18:42 ·

Well, no problem. I can add it to the list :-)
Btw. do you have an alert on me or something? You comment always like 2 minutes after I publish something…
Glen Allsopp August 25, 2007 at 19:34 ·

no, but I can stop commenting if you want? :S

I use Google Reader, ive found it to be pretty slow on updating. I never read when something was published just comment when I have time.
onreact August 25, 2007 at 22:55 ·

Oh no! Stay here. I only thought that you may use some unheard of superpowers to watch me. I am always eager to learn from the younger generations as nowadays they know more than the elderly in the thirties like me.
Matthew Ridout September 7, 2007 at 10:23 ·

I agree stumble’s traffic is good quality and if you do it properly you can get thousands of hits per day – as I did :)
SEO 2.0 | Hail the Returning Visitors and Subscribers! October 3, 2007 at 10:11 ·

[...] was targeting the casual reader or rather stumbler and neglected you, my most ardent supporters. I know who you are! I mean people like Wallace of CSS [...]
Wayne Smallman November 2, 2007 at 16:54 ·

My last article did pretty well out of StumbleUpon, but that was planned for.

I’ve got few complaints about the volume of traffic my ‘blog gets, but it’s the conversion rate that attract me.

Of all the stuff I’ve read about the various social media platforms, StumbleUpon seems to come top in terms of conversion rates (subscriptions, comments, downloads et cetera) from visitors.

However, it’s not good to have all of your social media eggs in one digital basket — like StumbleUpon, for example…
The certain Way November 16, 2007 at 15:59 ·

In my case, I got 1.89 page views on average from 400 visitors from stumbleuppon. I always thought it was not fantastic, but I guess it is not so bad.
On the other hand, they did not click my ads :-(
onreact November 16, 2007 at 17:06 ·

Capitalizing on the quick SU crowd is long term and indirect. Don’t annoy them with ads.
Ken - Hoobin.com November 22, 2007 at 14:30 ·

I’m looking for a way to build links using stumbleupon, but no luck yet.

As you know, I just add you as fan in stumbleupon.
onreact November 22, 2007 at 18:43 ·

StumbleUpon is all about being social. It’s not about link building. It should be a side effect. That’s why I called this list “traffic optimization”. You get plenty of traffic but with the links it’s more difficult and depends on your content.

I’ve seen you. Thanky you, but I do not add more marketing friends as SU does not count votes by your friends like “true” votes.
Nishanthe December 7, 2007 at 09:55 ·

I love SU. It helped me to achieve my dream target 1000 UV/Day ;)
SEO 2.0 | Let’s Read It Again (And Again And Again) January 4, 2008 at 21:05 ·

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Mobile gal January 17, 2008 at 14:07 ·

I’m trying to catch SU traffic, but results not so good.
Life Near Philly March 17, 2008 at 21:27 ·

I’ve been trying – No results yet but I haven’t seen suggestions like this…I’m going to give it another whirl…thanks!!
Heather April 24, 2008 at 00:14 ·

When we first launched our site, we received a huge rush of StumbleUpon visitors. 15 months later it’s still our favorite traffic bump. Throw in the fact that it’s fun and it’s a winner.
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