I am sure the majority of you have heard of Stumbleupon before, if not, its a rather nifty thing to have. It’s often underestimated and bloggers or web masters think that the traffic is particularly of low quality (as stumblers often stumble to the next page).

What Sets Stumbleupon Apart:

See, with other social bookmarking sites, you only end up seeing decent traffic increases after your post or article has become popular, and often to do that you need to have some form of a strategy before hand as there are hundreds of articles submitted every minute.

What Stumbleupon lets you do, is pretty much channel surf through various websites that are tagged with the interests you like and the pages you have submitted previously. Visitors often switch through websites and make the decision whether or not to go to the next one, rate the current one, or stay and look around

The Quality of Traffic:

The type of quality you get from Stumbleupon would really depend on your type of site or blog. If you have ads plastered everywhere with a bad layout and no sense of design, chances are the channel-surfing visitor will just change the channel and see what else is new and exciting. With my own experiment in the past, stumbleupon has proven to be a useful tool which can help bring quality traffic (and returning traffic) to a website.

Landing Page:

The page you bring stumblers to has to be creative, eye-catching, and just something they would be interested in coming back to. If you stumble a page which is filled with advertisements and a ‘hopes and dreams’ product to make $1000 a day, “available to you for only a low payment of $39.95″ then chances are, that is not the type of page stumblers will want to see.

Content Content Content!

You have heard me preach it before, but it is true. If you have quality content that is visible to the reader or stumbler right away, they can get drawn in. Not that hard of a concept, eh? Though it can be difficult to judge the totality of a blog or website in just a few seconds, it is often a much more pleasant experience if you plan out your website and have a decent header or decent content placement.

Fact of the matter is, Stumbleupon can be a reliable way to increase traffic to your website on a daily basis if you are smart about it. You cannot just sign up for it and expect to get 100 visitors a day for stumbling 1 site. You have to gain friends, gain ‘minions’, stumble other sites and leave comments; you have to increase your overall visibility and find a way to get more readers to your stumbleupon page, which in a way itself, acts as a blog. It is pretty simple once you get down past the nitty-gritty work, so try it out for yourself, you might be surprised.