Getting traffic to your website can be a daunting task. If you host your own website you have several methods of getting reader attention and converting them to followers. Bringing new visitors can almost become a full time job is you decide to do go that route. There are several bloggers that do just that with the intent of getting more ad revenue through their site. The truth is, it works and people like John Chow (for lack of a better example off the top of my head) have been doing this for years.

StumbleUpon is off the hook!

I started actively using StumbleUpon (SU) about a month ago. I had an account for the past several months but not really getting into it until recently. In the past 15 days StumbleUpon has brought me over 7000 new visitors. I didn’t believe it myself since I rarely check the site stats for this blog and I just happened to look at them today.

How did they get from StumbleUpon to your website?

Many of the other stumblers have done a great job of filling out their profiles and leaving a link to their primary website. Once I got there, I made a point of reading some of the posts they had written and giving a thumbs up to the articles I liked. This also saves them for future reference through StumbleUpon.

I added a link to this site not really thinking that too many people would actually check it out but low and behold, I was blessed with new visitors.

Much love for the StumbleUpon community

Traffic is great but what I have really found interesting is the community dynamic around sites like StumbleUpon. Their are levels of trust that must be established before they will ‘endorse’ you with a thumbs up or even better a recommendation. Getting a recommendation on something you wrote by one of these super networkers seems to have a great effect on getting some new visitors. I’ll call this the StumbleUpon Effect.