Why StumbleUpon sends me heaps of traffic

I’m often asked where I get my traffic from and currently Stumble Upon combined with Twitter are my top referral sites. Most people who read my blog know how much I love Twitter and I have mentioned before on webinars that I’ve held my secret weapon of using Stumble Upon with Twitter and how by using both of them together it dramatically increases my traffic.

There are many URL shortners out there, bit.ly is a very common one – in fact one of the great things about bit.ly is that you can spy on how much traffic your competitors are getting who use bit.ly. To do this you simply put their link in followed by the + and voila you can see the amount of clicks and stats etc. Bit.ly also has a customizable feature which is pretty cool.

But my favourite URL that I personally use is su.pr which is Stumble Upon’s url shortner. This little baby is a very powerful url shortner as not only does it shorten your links as bit.ly does (and of course providing all the usual tracking etc) but your link is also seen by Stumble Upon’s community (currently over 11 million and growing). Whenever I’m posting links on Twitter I use the su.pr shortner and add that to my Twitter update.

You can see here my blog post I did only yesterday has already accumulated 475 clicks in a day – not bad just from combining Twitter and Stumble Upon.

Of course it’s important that when you create your link you put in the relevant keywords and review, the more relevant you can be the better results you will have. Su.pr also has a suggested posting time which helps you guage when is the most optimum time to be sending out your updates.

You can also schedule your posts to Twitter and Facebook or post now. I personally don’t use this feature though and use Social Oomph to send my tweets out as this is the only tool that sends recurring scheduled tweets.

As you can see from the stats below whilst each blog post was written 3 months ago it’s still accumulated quite a lot of traffic and continues to do so. And as I blog most days each post is generating a ton of traffic in fact as you can see from the above stats using this method I’ve accumulated 282766 clicks just from combining su.pr with Twitter. I must admit I don’t use su.pr to post my updates on Facebook, I like to track my Facebook traffic separately and also have found occasionally Facebook blocked or didn’t show the traffic from Stumble Upon – this is rare, it didn’t happen a lot but I didn’t want to take the chance so figured it wasn’t worth it.

I’ve always maintained that whilst Twitter is a fantastic tool it’s the tools that you use to work alongside it that can make a huge difference to your social media marketing campaign. Stumble Upon has a host of other features too and is a great social network to find some great content and network. When used together it really does provide a powerful and huge traffic tool as you can see from my stats.

Are you using url shortners? Which one do you use? Please do leave a comment and share what your top traffic resource is too.

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Lilach

Founder at Socialable Ltd

Lilach Bullock is passionate about getting tangible results using social media. Listed in Forbes as one of the top 20 women social media power influencers. She's the co-author of "Images that Influence" (Number One in its category on Amazon). Lilach is consulted by journalists and regularly quoted in newspapers on social media related matters, including (Forbes, Social Media Today, Prima Magazine, The Sunday Times and BBC Radio 5 Live ). A keynote speaker at business and marketing seminars. If you want excellent results, more business and better visibility you can can subscribe to Socialable newsletter here.

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