This is Part Three in a series on How to Use StumbleUpon to Grow Your Business. If you missed the last post, you can read it here.
We’ve established that StumbleUpon can bring new traffic to your site. But how much? Can you REALLY gain that much traffic with StumbleUpon?
What do you think? StumbleUpon currently has millions of users. (If you recall – almost 7,000,000 members.) The users rate and stumble websites every single day. These same users who stumble upon a website could potentially become regular visitors of that same website should they like what they see on their initial visit.
There’s an ongoing debate over whether or not this social bookmarking website produces the mammoth traffic results for website or blog owners that some have claimed. Many Internet business owners have experimented with StumbleUpon to see exactly what it brought in terms of traffic to their websites or blogs.
Many of these site owners have claimed that within one day, they saw an increase in website traffic by a couple hundred or thousand visitors, all of which were referred from StumbleUpon. Some saw a slow, but steady increase in their site traffic numbers. Still other website owners saw increased traffic, but it came at a sporadic rate. As you can see, the results vary from site to site.
Some site owners extended their experiments to a couple of months and saw a steady increase which ended up bringing them a visitor number in the thousands or tens of thousands. So, it’s pretty obvious that the constant exposure does offer you a great opportunity to increase your site’s traffic to larger numbers than you might see without StumbleUpon as your ally.
Every website owner, blog owner or business owner has the ability to see huge numbers of site traffic if they take the plunge and try StumbleUpon for themselves. The results can prove to be more amazing then you could ever have expected to see for your site.
Does that mean that every web page being stumbled is going to have successful results?”
Unfortunately – No. There’s no guarantee. There’s lots of factors that affect the level of your success with StumbleUpon. With some planning and tweaking as you go along, through, you can definitely make it a helpful addition to your marketing plan.
The key is in the testing.
Try different techniques. See what is and what isn’t working for your particular site, then stop wasting time with those things that aren’t working and focus on what is.
Can I Stumble my own site?
Well, you certainly have the ability to stumble your own site, but there are some things to keep in mind, before you take that step.
We’ll talk more about that tomorrow in Part Four of our series: The Do’s and Dont’s of Stumbling Your Own Sites.
Good stuff – don’t miss it! 
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