10 great StumbleUpon tips to generate more quality visits.

Posted on March 11th, 2010. Written by Jamie Northrup.

As per their about us page, StumbleUpon helps you discover and share great websites. As you click Stumble!, we deliver high-quality pages matched to your personal preferences.

These pages have been explicitly recommended by your friends or one of 8 million+ other web surfers with interests similar to you. Rating these sites you like () automatically shares them with like-minded people – and helps you discover great sites your friends recommend.

According to Alexa Rankings, it’s ranked 118th right now for websites in the United States and 211th in the World, so there’s a lot of traffic that goes there, so it has the potential to drive a lot of people your way.

We have compiled 10 tips to make the most of StumbleUpon:

1. The most important thing is the keywords you choose. It’s important to put high traffic keywords that relate to whatever website you are submitting. Some people just put the top keywords to get more traffic, but the point isn’t to get a lot of uninterested traffic but to get people that really want what you have to offer.
2. Make sure the website you are submitting is complete and appealing, because if it isn’t a lot of people will give you a thumbs down even if the content is good.
3. Reviews are important, you should always submit a review of the link you are adding to your favorites and also other websites you find useful.
4. They don’t call it a social network because that’s what’s cool now, it’s because it really is social, so make friends, follow others.
5. Make sure your website/link has an interesting title, and have a list of related, popular or new posts on the same page so if someone ends up on the page and doesn’t like the topic they won’t necessarily give you a thumbs down because they may see something else they like.
6. Don’t spam, but submit a lot of different topics of interest to you, chances are you aren’t alone, so if it really interests you, it will others also.
7. If the main focus of your website is advertising, don’t bother, nobody wants to visit websites full of ads.
8. Don’t just join StumbleUpon, become a Stumbler and learn all the different aspects of the site.
9. Stay up to date, read their blog, or better yet add it to your RSS reader.
10. Last but not least, talk about StumbleUpon, most the people that use SU really like it, and like to know new things about it they didn’t already know.

Jamie Northrup

I’m a 30 year old Canadian web consultant and founder of the Deuce Group. I have been working online since 1995 and have experience in blogging, web development, web design, e-commerce, eBay, social networking and online marketing.