StumbleUpon is a social network, or it can be also defined as a web community that allows the users to discover and rate internet pages, photos and videos.
It is a personalized recommendation engine which uses peer and social-networking principles.
Web pages are presented when the user clicks the “Stumble!” button on the browser’s toolbar.
Stumbleupon can generate a big amount of traffic to a specific webpage or website that has been stumbled.
How StumbleUpon works
Stumbleupon chooses which Web page to display based on the user’s ratings of previous pages, ratings by their friends and by the ratings of users with similar interests.
Stumbleupon users can rate or choose not to rate any web page with a thumbs up or thumbs down and clicking the Stumble button for “surfing” the Web.
StumbleUpon also allows their users to indicate their interests from a list of nearly 500 topics. In this way you will receive recommendations of webpages and sites between your interests choosen.
Users can also use the Stumbleupon toolbar as a form of social bookmarking : by surfing the web and tagging or submitting specific websites, each user can keep track of which websites they like and share it with others.
Tips to Get Traffic from Stumbleupon
Once signed up, you may want to add your web site toStumbleUpon database : you can then categorize it, write a description and insert the specific tags, in order to let others users visualize your web site when they choose similar tags.
Here you can find useful tips in order to improve traffic that you can receive from StumbleUpon :
- have a site with lots of unique, original and high quality content ;
- high quality web site design;
- an easy to remember name or URL.
But remember to follow these rules if you want to have success with StumbleUpon :
- make friends in the community (following people) ;
- use good titles and description;
- stumble a lot of content, but above all from different sources;
- do not stumble your own content (at least, not at the beginning).
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