How to use StumbleUpon to generate traffic

What is StumbleUpon? Stumbleupon is a social bookmarking site that is used by many people around the world. Social bookmarking is a method of bookmarking all of your online resources, these can be links to websites that you want to remember.

Once you have created an account, you are known as “stumbling”. You would click the stumble button when you get to a website you like, or use frequently, to bookmark it. The more “stumbles” a website has, the more traffic it will receive thanks to StumbleUpon. Members recommend your site by clicking the “stumble” button. You can also rate these websites with a thumbs up if you like it, or a thumbs down if you don’t like it.

StumbleUpon even has a toolbar that lets you “browse” through websites you can rate. You can download this toolbar if you want, but it is not a necessity. On this toolbar you will see a button that allows you to stumble across sites.

When you click the ‘Like’ button another window will open allowing you to rate the website, this will be stored in the database and once someone with similar interests logs in they will see it.

You can use StumbleUpon ads to drive traffic to any site you’re promoting. This is a good way to send traffic to your blog. It only costs 5 cents per impression or click to advertise on StumbleUpon. All you have to do is choose a website you want to send traffic to, no need to write an ad. You can choose your maximum daily spending limit.

In order for you to start advertising, you need to click the Discover button, then go to Paid Discovery, then you can choose which plan you want to use. This would be a great way to promote your website, especially as a new Blogger.

Social bookmarking has gained popularity recently and has become a good way to increase your popularity as a network marketer. StumbleUpon currently has over 10,000,000 members as of May 2010.

A sure way to generate traffic is to write “How To” guides or “Lists”, people always want solutions to their problems.

Go and have fun Stumble and make your sites Stumble. Remember that you don’t have to stick with Facebook and Twitter to make yourself known in the network marketing industry. There are a couple of other social bookmarking sites that I will talk about in future articles.