Fire Up Your Blog Traffic With StumbleUpon Groups
Published on 31 May 2008 at 12:33 pm.
9 Comments.
Filed under Attraction, Business Development, Savvy Marketing Tips.
I started blogging over a year ago and a common question most folks have (me too) is how to drive traffic to your blog so people will read what’s being posted. If you’re writing to market your business, one of the great tools I’ve found to get known is StumbleUpon.
Are you familiar with Stumbleupon groups?
Up until 8 months ago, I hadn’t a clue about them until I was invited to join one. Bloggers get together to stumble each others articles each week.
Right now I’m in three Stumble groups. The rules for each one vary slightly.
Here’s how it works depending upon the rules of the organizer:
1. The organizer creates the master email list of everyone in the group. The size of the group might be small or larger with a mix of blogging topics or a more focused group like one of mine with all personal development bloggers.
2. The post is either submitted to Stumbleupon first (by you) before sending it to the group, or a person in the group discovers it (writes a review) for you. The amount of Stumble requests might be limited to two per week so stumbling requests are minimized.
3. You might be asked to include your Stumbleupon ID, the category to submit the thumbs up to, with a brief description of the post and suggested keyword tags.
4. You choose which articles you’ll stumble and you may elect not to Stumble them all. If you are expected to stumble posts you don’t really like, feel offended by, don’t relate to, you might want to rethink joining that specific group if stumbling them all is a member requirement. Yup - some may have that expectation.
5. Stumbling other people’s posts is key to being able to continue having your own articles stumbled.
That’s pretty much it! I often ask folks to leave a comment and write a review to open up the conversation. I LOVE when they become subscribers!
How to find a group? Ask around your blogging community.
Can’t find one? Start one!
Look around at the bloggers you like and form your own group. It’s a great way to increase your visibility and create a supportive circle of friends.
PS: Be sure to read this post: Careful When Asking for Stumbles!
Last week there were four of us in one on my groups that wrote on a common theme of lifting a negative mood. It was pretty cool to see we were all on the same wave length!
While things have leveled out a bit, I definitely think the groups help to increase the unique visitors to blog on my website each month.
Have fun with it!
Cheers,
Lorraine
www.powerfull-living.biz
Kathleen Gage on 1 Jun 2008 at 9:12 am: 1
Excellent information on building traffic for one’s blog. Another thing that works very nicely is Blog Carnivals. And Lorraine, I have you to thank for introducing me to Blog Carnivals. I had never heard of them until you mentioned how valuable they are in finding interested readers (that’s only one benefit).
I now use Blog Carnivals as a regular part of my overall blog presence.
Great tips Lorraine.
Kathleen Gage
The Street Smarts Marketer
lorraine on 1 Jun 2008 at 11:01 am: 2
Thanks for adding your comment Kathleen
With all of the blogs online now, learning what some other folks are doing to attract their target audience has been been so useful and Stumbleupon has made a huge difference in my traffic. I’ve been using Blog Carnivals consistently for over a year and it has not only increased traffic to my site, it has also added credibility to my posts by providing an additional outlet to provide value to readers.
Enjoy your day Kathleen!
Warmly,
Lorraine
Gina on 1 Jun 2008 at 8:31 pm: 3
Thanks for letting me know the details about StumbleUpon Lorraine. I signed up about a month ago but haven’t activated yet bc of time and bc I wasn’t sure what it was all about.
Now I have a clue thanks to you!
with gratitude,
Gina
lorraine on 1 Jun 2008 at 8:36 pm: 4
You’re welcome Gina
When I had Denise Wakeman and Patsi Krakoff (aka The Blog Squad) on my show a few weeks ago and I told them my success with Stumbleupon, they encouraged me to write this post.
Have fun with it
Warmly,
Lorraine
Learn How To Do Things » Blog Archive » Bountiful Internet - Bring On The Blog Traffic on 4 Jun 2008 at 5:01 pm: 5
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Annabelle on 5 Jun 2008 at 6:38 pm: 6
Great article. I’ve been searching for ways to increase traffic and didn’t think of Stumble!
Thank you.
lorraine on 5 Jun 2008 at 9:11 pm: 7
Thanks Annabelle,
The group support really makes a difference. Are you also on Squidoo?
Warmly,
Lorraine
StumbleUpon on 16 Aug 2008 at 3:34 pm: 8
Your post makes one think! Great article. Thanks for allowing me to comment!
lorraine on 16 Aug 2008 at 3:51 pm: 9
Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment!