Increase Website Traffic with Stumbleupon

I have been looking for ways to increase traffic to my blog for a bit. I have read a lot of information on social bookmarking and just wanted to share some of what I have learned. I know about submitting to the search engines but I was looking for even more ways to increase traffic. My blog is still fairly new as of this post so I still have to keep producing more content for my blog. But I found this site called Stumbleupon which can really help increase website traffic. The great thing about Stumble Upon is that it gives your site backlinks which is great for search engines.

StumbleUpon is a free site to sign-up which is great. You have to download a tool which will be connected to your web browser. After you install the toolbar you can use it to surf or 'stumble' on websites. You can now use this program to stumble your blog or website. All you have to do is click a button and they will put it in there social bookmark.

You can stumble your entire url which will bring visitors to your homepage. Or you can stumble single blog entries to the site. I thought this would really be a great idea to try out. I would have backlinks to the site which can help my search engine optimization and it's free.


You have to fill out a short description of the site and place it in a category. You will then have to add up to five tags or keywords so people searching on stumble may find it. You can also select the language and if it is adult content among other things.

If your site gets a lot of thumbs up it will be shown more often when people use the stumble bar. It really is a great way to promote your site and make more money online. If you have good content to stumbleupon and you get good ratings you can increase your traffic a ton. I plan on using the social bookmarking tactic in the future to make money online with my blog.