How to Increase Your Website Traffic with StumbleUpon

While StumbleUpon is a popular social bookmarking website, many individuals and businesses are using it as a valuable Internet marketing tool to increase their online traffic.

StumbleUpon, owned and run by eBay, operates as both a search engine and a social bookmarking website to rate other websites, web pages, internet video clips, audio files and all sorts of images. Those who sign up with StumbleUpon (it’s totally free) can provide ratings for websites they’ve come across.

Using StumbleUpon can easily help your website attract visitors. The more people who stumble upon your website and like it, the higher your ranking grows. A top ranking means even more traffic to your website from StumbleUpon members. StumbleUpon can be even more useful to your site if visitors provide a positive review about your website along with their comprehensive rating. There’s massive traffic potential involved with StumbleUpon, which presently has almost 8 million members, and it’s growing fast.

Website owners who use StumbleUpon have noticed an immediate increase in their website traffic. Those who track traffic diligently say StumbleUpon generates more clicks to their site than any other search engine. It can make a difference in their search engine ranking as well.

But the key to success is having good content on your website. It needs to be informational or educational, providing the reader with something of value. If you are selling products or services, include informational content on your website that speaks to a trend in the industry, a new finding, or current events that have a connection to your product or service. At the moment, StumbleUpon has more than 500 different topics. Utilise these areas of interest to develop content that’s of intense interest to StumbleUpon members.

To retain the new visitors that StumbleUpon brings to your website, add feeds, email subscriptions, contests, or special offers to your website to encourage StumbleUpon members to become long-time customers.

E-commerce websites can also benefit from StumbleUpon if it’s creatively designed or has an intriguing way of branding a product. The social aspect of StumbleUpon will enhance the exposure of your site. It’s viral marketing at its best.

StumbleUpon can also help your website gain more traffic through its buttons. You can add a button to your website and encourage your visitors to submit your content to StumbleUpon. It’s a free and easy way to spread the word about your site.

If you’re looking to enhance your website’s presence, it’s time to StumbleUpon a new marketing tool and give it a try for yourself.

Adam Toren, Co-Founder of Young Entrepreneur, specializes in improving the profitability of under-performing businesses with a unique and ‘bottom line’ program. Adam, along with his brother, have started, bought and sold several companies over the past years. They currently own and operate a successful publishing company and several online companies.