StumbleUpon Can Help Bring Traffic to Your Website

StumbleUpon is one of the revolutionary social Bookmarking sites which is becoming increasing popular for its ease of use and the quality of traffic it brings to a site.

Before discussing how one can use StumbelUpon to bring quality traffic to your site it is necessary to know how StumbleUpon works. You join Stumbleupon as a stumbler and your job is to stumble through various sites on the network and rate their quality. You need to visit sites whose content is similar to your site. you need to rate their site and in turn people will rate your site.As more people stumble through your site and you will start getting good reviews of your site.

StumbleUpon site also provides a toolbar which you can use to stumble across sites with ease and effectiveness. The toolbar helps you save precious time and hence you can surf more sites at any given time.

Remember you do not need to rate every site that you stumble across, if you find a site which is not very interesting and does not appeal to you it is better to let that site pass rather than giving a thumbs down to the site.

Once you have decided to sign up with StumbleUpon go to various online discussion forums and learn how people are using StumbleUpon to effectively get traffic to their site. Go to the Stumble Upon forums and build credibility which will help bring more visitors to your site.

The sites which are successful in getting sustained traffic use glitter, graphics,banners,flash videos and interesting widgets to attract attention of their visitors. ordinary sites very seldom attract attention of their visitors. Try to make your site as interesting as possible without overdoing it.

Make sure that your site is not under construction before you decide to use StumbleUpon to bring traffic to your site. Try to stumble sites which have content similar to your site, write honest reviews of the sites and make sure that you have a great original content on your site.

StumbleUpon can help your site get better search engine rankings if used correctly. One important point to be remembered while using any social bookmarking site it that these sites are meant only for socializing and one should not become greedy and promote their own affiliate links on these sites.