Increasing your StumbleUpon Audience
StumbleUpon is one of those social sites that many people ignore, although it is not as popular as Digg or Del.icio.us, it can drive a lot of traffic. Back in September I wrote an article on How to get StumbledUpon and how I received 17,209 visitors from using the techniques described in that
article. Since then a lot of things have changed on StumbleUpon and I have learned a lot more about it, if you are looking to leverage it here are some of my thoughts.
Audience
Each user is given an audience number. The number could be 1 or it could be in the thousands. The overall goal is to get your audience number as high as possible because then when you stumble stories more people will see them, thus increasing your traffic. The following are some ways to increase your audience number:
- Use StumbleUpon on a daily basis - by stumbling and submitting stories (as well as voting) on them on a daily basis your audience number should go up. Just be careful because their algorithm is quite complex and your goal should be to stumble and submit stories you like as well as ones that the community will like.
- Add friends - the concept of friends is that when you stumble stories your friends will also see them. StumbleUpon lets you add up to 200 friends, so be careful and make sure you add friends with similar interests or it could hurt your audience number.
- Join communities - there are communities within StumbleUpon where people with common interests such as "Apple" or "Web 2.0" hang out. Join the communities that you are interested in so that when you stumble, web pages that will interest you come up.
If you do these simple things and become an active member in the community your StumbleUpon account’s audience number should get higher. If you have a high audience and submit a website that the community loves, you should be able to drive thousands of visitors to that website.
