I hardly published any articles on CompuWorld during January, February and March. This did bring down the traffic a little and hence my major goal was to restore the traffic when the blogging bug re-bit me some 2 weeks back. I tried every possible way that I could in this short span of time which I had. I published multiple posts in a day, I started to tweet regularly (follow me in twitter), published some list articles, tried to cash in using the StumbleUpon traffic and what not? But, it didn’t take much time when the 2.5 years of my blogging experience started to kick my brain. It started to pinch me regularly and once again I was forced to stick to the basics. Content Is The King! I agree that proper marketing is necessary to publicize your quality articles but only marketing isn’t necessary to drag more and more traffic to your website.

SU SU Everywhere

We have read so many times about experts trying to break the StumbleUpon algorithm so as to grab exponential traffic from this mesmerizing service but hardly did anybody succeed. As of now everyone knows the same basic thoughts that point towards making your profile as Power Stumbler profile so that you can capture more traffic from your own stumbles. Do some googling and you will end up reading multiple articles that tell you the same stuff over and over again.

Regularly use the StumbleUpon toolbar, do review the sites which are worth your review, and regularly vote for the sites that come across you. The more you use the StumbleUpon toolbar the stronger your profile becomes.

But, what do I do with that power user profile of mine? I know of cases where a weak StumbleUpon user will submit a page of his website and if that page gets a couple of thumbs up then the page gets going. It hardly matters if that user had 100 stumbles or 1000 stumbles. Secondly, there are cases when a page submitted by a power stumbler won’t persist much amongst the StumbleUpon users as others might not like it much. As far as I am concerned, the top stumblers page generated on StumbleUpon website is just another marketing gimmick to force people into StumbleUpon. Thirdly, everybody knows that IF we stumble our own website regularly or else ask our friends to stumble the website regularly then the inflow of traffic keeps decreasing. At this stage not even a power stumbler account will help your website come out of this ditch.

Lastly, I won’t give my positive vote to a page just because I find out that it was submitted by some power user. If I find that page relevant then I give thumbs up to that page else hit the stumble button (and leave thumbs down for the creepy ones). Till now, the power user profile didn’t make any difference. So what is the summary? It was the content (the video, the image, or the text) which grabbed the stumbler’s attention and NOT the power user. It is just a matter of few positive votes and the page is on its way. The date of submission and the user who submitted that page hardly make any difference. All you need is the content which users will appreciate not the power user profile.

More Friends/Fans Means A Strong Profile

This was one more point which was picked up by most of the bloggers when StumbleUpon gained fame. Initially I was also with them but as of today I don’t think this makes any difference. Why would an algorithm backing a website of such a heavy caliber have such a creepy point? Anybody can end up pumping up his/her friend list just for the sake of a stronger StumbleUpon profile. StumbleUpon is about creating real friends who think like you not just for the sake of traffic.

Interesting Articles But Nothing New

We have read tons of articles that target the StumbleUpon readers and I must say, they are worth reading. These writers love to play with words and you end up reading the articles from sentence one till the end. But most of them bring forward the general points that almost everyone around us is familiar with. Nowhere will you find them talking about the real content. Everybody is busy targeting traffic and nobody is actually generating real content. Stop wasting time and gear up to write some articles which are actually appreciated by the StumbleUpon users.

Believe me, sticking to the roots is all you need to do so as to bring in StumbleUpon traffic which converts for the good.

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