As you all probably know, StumbleUpon doesn’t crawl the web pages automatically. It only adds those pages which are added by its users. And then it rotates or displays these user submitted/voted quality content to its other users (who share similar interests). Providing quality content to its users and good traffic to the source. So everybody is happy.
Over years we have seen so many products claiming to generate huge traffic to our websites through Stumbleupon, but the trick is simple. Produce quality content (suitable for StumbleUpon community) and make it easy for StumbleUpon members to find and submit, vote for the story.
Having quality content is mandatory. Next thing is making it more accessible.
All these days we use to have a simple banner or a link to submit the article to stumbleupon, but now we can show a badge and encourage or remind our readers to submit and vote for the story, if they find it interesting.
Get your content discovered with SU Badges
With 3 simple steps, add a StumbleUpon badge to your site so your visitors can easily submit your content to StumbleUpon and you can start enjoying additional traffic from StumbleUpon users who want to see content like yours! Simply copy and paste the code into your site and start receiving free exposure on StumbleUpon.These new badges reflect a real-time count of how many times your page has been viewed by members of StumbleUpon’s community of over 10 million users. Show off your big numbers!
Users clicking these badges will be prompted to submit a page to StumbleUpon’s index (if not already in the index) so other users can enjoy your content or to view the ratings and reviews of your page from other StumbleUpon users. Your site will not be framed when users click any of these badges.
Reason for this post: I had seen these badges some time back, but had never used them. Out of curiosity, I took some time to put them on the blog and to my surprise – traffic from Stumbleupon has significantly raised. I still thought it’s a coincidence. But after watching for some more days, I thought I would recommend using this badge for all my fellow bloggers/webmasters to generate good traffic from Stumbleupon or atleast try this out and share the results with us, in the comment section.
The badges are somewhat similar to that of the TweetMeme/Re-Tweet Buttons. But what I feel is, the color is too dim to notice.
You can check badges in these posts, to see them in action:
7 Ways To Get Traffic – Before You Need It!
10 Ways To Make Your Blog Load Faster and Save Bandwidth
You can get the code for implementing the badge at: SU Badge.
The numbers really encourage visitors to take action and hit that stumble button. Try it and share your experience with us.
“Simple Steps, extra Traffic!”
Bonus Tip:
You can even use the StumbleUpon URL shortener, it provides some easy, lazy way to hit the thumbs up button.
Interesting article. I have more traffic from SU. One question, is there limitation for one account to put their article on SU, friend told me about this.
Bonus for you, I ReTweet this post 😉
@Latief, Its not encouraged by StumbleUpon(SU) community to submit your own content or the self promotion is not encouraged.
Most people won’t understand this in the beginning and will get their SU a/c banned.(Ofcourse one can create another a/c – but your SU subscribers will be lost.)
As far as I know, there is no set limit for the article submission. Promoting your own content once in a while – along with a lot of others quality content is surly not a problem.
For example, I have submitted only 1 article from my blog from past 1 and a half year. And I keep submitting quality content from other blogs, whenever I find them.
This creates good relationship between other SU users and over time you will find the benefit.
( Thanks for the bonus! )
One more, is there any different between submit my article to SU and stumble my own article? Please, SU still confusing me. I have a friend on SU that always share his article on SU, his own blog/articles. What do you think?
@Laief, As I said before – self promotion is a big NO NO in StumbleUpon.
I think hitting a thumbs up for your own article once in a while is ok, if its already getting a lot of thumbs up – but submitting your own article to SU is bad. Because, it makes sense if others think your content is good and submit it to SU rather than you yourself submitting it. Some time people may find it annoying and they may bury your submission – hurting your SU profile reputation.
Thanks, for the quick answer. Hope this conversation help other visitors. Once again, big thanks for you brother.
Great information on SU, I really have learnt a lot through your post.
Very nice!! I’m gonna add the number badge to my site too. This is a great tip! Thanks!
Arie
@Latief, You are always welcome.
@Sally, @Arie, Great to know that it helped.
There will be a considerable increase in the number of visits from SU, with the SU badge, but however there are many more ways you can get better traffic from SU, first thing is to stop cheating SU , by asking friends to like that content.
@Ramkumar, yes you are right. Self promotion on SU is a way to getting their accounts banned!
Just share the interesting things and actively involve with the community.