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Welcome to the last day of “7 Days to StumbleUpon Supremacy”
We’ll conclude this mini-tutorial by sharing a few Power Tips for StumbleUpon Traffic
Today is the last day of this ‘StumbleUpon Supremacy’ challenge. It has been hard work, no doubt. I hope you enjoyed learning and putting what you learned into action. And if it hasn’t already happened, you will soon reap rich rewards for your efforts – in the form of huge traffic surges.
On this final day, we’ll explore more ways power stumblers use to get a lot of traffic.
Say Thank You
Simple things like saying ‘Thank you’ can give you incredible advantage over any competition – just because very few people do it! Sad, but true. But you can make the crowd’s boorishness your competitive advantage. Courtesy is so rare it is always noticed!
Thank everyone. Thank the friend who stumbled your post. And the friends who ranked it or visited your site or reviewed your blog. Thank the person who wrote the article or blog that you just discovered and stumbled, or reviewed.
Post blog comments
Comment on other people’s blogs on good posts that have already been stumbled. When visitors from StumbleUpon read the blog, they might see your comment – and follow a link on it to your website.
Don’t abuse this function. Always be sure your comment is in context and contributes to the conversation. Never use this as pure link spam. Karma is a strange thing… it’ll come back to bite you in the back!
Link spam is also easy to spot – and no power blogger or stumbler will endorse a link spammer. It’s a strategy that’s penny-wise, pound foolish.
Evangelize bloggers and their posts
Be lavish in your praise about great posts. No, not just on StumbleUpon – everywhere. Blog about it. Email your list. Twitter or Utterz it. Bookmark it on Del.icio.us and on other services.
Doing this positions you as a ‘value adder’ – and the beneficiary of your efforts will be extremely grateful to you. When it’s their turn, they will gratefully drive a rush of visitors to your site or blog.
In the end, it all boils down to being human and social.
“StumbleUpon is a network of people looking to find interesting, exciting, useful content on the Web; they respect, cherish and admire people like you who help them achieve this goal; and helping them is the quickest, easiest way to get huge surges of traffic from StumbleUpon”
The rest is detail. Technical excellence is of little advantage in a human powered network. Human empathy matters more. That, and a commitment to growing and enriching the online community you participate in.
StumbleUpon is one such awesome online community. It has the ability to drive a huge torrent of website visitors to your online properties. Take advantage of this potential – but do it ethically, effectively and enthusiastically.
To your StumbleUpon success – and may your web server crash from the flood of visitors thronging your site!
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