Like using the Ping-O-Matic, adding your site to Stumble Upon is one of the easiest ways to start getting traffic, and should be one of the first things you do after setting up your blog.
What is Stumble Upon? It's a website that allows users to install a toolbar into their browser with a 'Stumble' button. Users make an account with Stumble Upon and then choose their interests. After that, whenever they click the 'Stumble' button, their web browser jumps to a new page matching one of their interests! It's a fun thing to do when you have some time to kill, and it has helped thousands of people discover new favorite sites.
How does this help you? Simple:
1) Go to Stumble Upon and sign up for an account (free).
2) Install the Stumble button into your web browser (you can uninstall it easily as soon as you're done with this tutorial).
3) Go to your website. Once you're at the homepage of your blog or website, use the stumble tool bar to add your site to the stumble search engine. Be sure to set it to the appropriate category, and put an interesting and accurate description into the description box. Add it to the Stumble site, and you're done!
4) At this point you can uninstall the stumble toolbar from your web browser if you want to.
Congratulations, now people from all over the world will be 'stumbling' onto your website. The whole process takes just a few minutes.
Keep in mind that some of these 'stumblers' you get may not stick around on your site, and may keep on stumbling along, which is really useless traffic to you as guestblogging.com points out. I still maintain however that some of my favorite sites have been found by using stumble, and there is the possibility that you may get some loyal traffic from it, but perhaps not as much as you would hope for. It is worth a try anyway.
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