Most of us know that to increase traffic we need to write some great quality content and start commenting on other blogs. Yes agreed this is really great and proven ways to increase your blog traffic and popularity. But we always starve for that X-Factor of massive traffic. Yes I have mentioned the name of Twitter to generate massive traffic. Then is there any other thing which can really get us some huge amount of traffic? Yes you got it right, I am talking about StumblUpon.

StumbleUpon is one of the leading social bookmarking sites which includes huge amount of web pages, videos and photos submitted by users.

So here I am discussing some steps to grow benefit from StumbleUpon. I am also getting really good traffic using StumbleUpon.

1. Create your account on StumbleUpon : Create your public profile on StumbleUpon by including your personal information, your picture, your interests and your short bio.

2. Thumbs Up or Review : Download the StumbleUpon toolbar and start stumbling the web pages of your interests. If you like the web page you can give a thumb up to that page by clicking on I like it button on the StumbleUpon toolbar.

If you have discovered a new page then when you click on I like it, you will see a dialog box asking you the review and tag of the page. Once you do that the site will be available to other stumlers to stumble.

3. Discover Daily : Here if you are getting new material from stumble community than its time for you to give back something. Try to discover new things everyday and submit to StumbleUpon. This way you will give something to your community and people will start noticing about you and you will automatically gain traffic for your blogs as well.

4. Make Friends : As I have mentioned above StumbleUpon is social bookmarking site so you will find so many people here of your interest so start making as many friends as you can. Wait, here if you are getting any friends request than first check for his favorites and if it suits you than you can add him as a friend (This way you can get rid from spammers). Also when you find some new person on the site you can check “How similar are you?” section of that person. That way you can get some idea about his interest which will help you to take decision.

5. Send your articles to friends : After you gain good circle of friends on StumbleUpon you can send your articles to them by using Sendto button on StumbleUpon toolbar. You can also request them to review or thumb up your article if they like. Similar ways there are chances that you get some articles to review from your friend. I am sure you will gain really good traffic by this way.

6. Don’t be Selfish : Yes! Just don’t submit your own pages only. If you are part of community then you should also submit pages if you like them. In that way you are giving something good to your community and the same way your community will give you some great stuff and of course some sweet traffic.

7. Get more and more subscribers : The more interesting stuff you submit there are more chances to get more and more subscribers. While making new friends you can humbly thank to the person and ask him to subscribe to your favorites. Here you would think that if I am getting friends than what is the need of getting subscribers. When somebody subscribes to your favorites, he will able to see all the favorites submitted by you and that way there are more chances you get some extra traffic.

8. Invest your time : Make above things your habit and invest some time to this procedure. What I suggest that you should assign some hours to your daily blogging routine to StumbleUpon. This way day by day you will increase the traffic around you and your blog as well.

9. Onsite Changes : Do some onsite changes related to StumbleUpon. After each post you can put a button asking readers to stumble the current post. You can also put some attractive request line after your post like “Don’t forget to review or thumbs up if you like this article“.

10. Continuous Analysis : Analyze the traffic continuously which you are getting from StumbleUpon. Check the reviews your articles are getting and do according needed changes to your future posts. Also check all the persons and make them friend who stumbled your articles this way you are getting sure shot for next time.

I am sure these 10 steps will help you grow your network on StumbleUpon and will sure help you to increase traffic to your blog. Correct me if I have missed something. Your comments are always welcome. And yes don’t forget to review or thumbs up it if you really liked this post.