I’ve had a lot of people ask me - Why is SU so good? - Where does the traffic come from? Will the traffic be targeted? Plus another 101 questions, so I decided to do a bit of explaining (with diagrams woohoo!!).

Why is SU so good?

SU is different from the other players in the online social industry. People as a whole can customize what news they can see on their profile page each day. By becoming a fan of another stumbler you will in effect receive updates each time they stumble a page. I obviously like to know about SE’s and SEO so most of my friends or people I call a fan are in that industry. So you can see that in all other social bookmarking scenarios you are not targeting a themed audience but “the whole world” - In SU you make your audience whatever you need them to be - very unique indeed.

Where does the traffic come from?

Like I mentioned I have created a simple flow chart thingy (excuse the technicalities) - First is a simple explanation of how you actually get visits to your website from SU:

Stumbleupon traffic

Don’t be fooled into thinking however you can sign up to SU and add 10,000 friends and you will start getting more traffic than God himself - it ain’t gunna happen! You need to create a reputation online, review fans stumbles if you genuinely are impressed, PM people, generate a tue fan base, this way you know everytime you stumble a page your fans will click on it!

For a more detailed look on how you get big volumes of SU traffic:

I hope this helps people understand a bit more what SU is really about and how it works.

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