For those of you that don’t know what Stumbleupon is all about, it’s a website where you can find new and interesting sites, rated and reviewed by web users. Signing up to Stumbleupon is a painless process which involved a short registration form and downloading a tool bar for you chosen explorer, don’t worry it’s trustworthy and doesn’t take up too much room.

Once downloaded and registered you have a profile on Stumbleupon and every time you click on the icon for a “Good Website” the page will automatically be saved on your page. You do also have the option to review a website, I personally feel it’s nice to give some kind of feedback to the webmaster, be it good or bad.


So why is Stumbleupon an untapped goldmine?

Just over a week ago I read an interesting article about social media websites, located on www.seomoz.org and they believed that good amounts of traffic could be generated, and that the traffic would be of a high quality. At first I must confess I was a little skeptical, due to the fact when using social media sites in the past the bounce rates (amount of users leaving the site immediately) would tend to be quite high.

So how do you get this high quality traffic?

There are different techniques to get the hits, the method I used was on a website well known to webmasters – Digital Point. On the forum there is a section where you can offer stumble exchanges, this is a process whereby you list your website and ask people to stumble it and in return you will stumble theirs.

In total I must have stumbled around 25 to 30 different websites for people and the same was done for one of my websites. I left it for the rest of the day and didn’t think much else about it. To my surprise the results were amazing, just look at the screen capture below:

Now the website I tested would on average receive around 20 unique visitors a day, this is mainly because no advertising has been initiated. As you can see over one evening and one night the website received 427 unique visits. Not only that but 754 page views and a bounce rate of 33%, this means the traffic generated actually looked around the website.

Now I spent roughly 1 hour stumbling websites, at the very most and this generated good quality traffic at no cost. I suggest you all do the same and take advantage of this and get something for free!

By the way feel free to stumble this page if you have signed up – thank you!