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September 5, 2007

One More Black Hat Stumble Technique

Did I catch your attention yet? I sure hope I did, especially if you happened to stumble upon this page (pun intended). If you’re still catching up on the basics of making the most of the wonderful service that is StumbleUpon, read up on my Ultimate Guide to Leveraging StumbleUpon.

Now that you’ve done that, It’s time to play with the big boys and talk about an advanced stumbling technique that involves Technorati and Stumbling other people’s blogs. Confused? Wait…wasn’t I supposed to get other people to stumble my blog to get more traffic? Theoretically, yes, the more stumbles to your landing page, the more traffic you will get. However, traffic garnered from Stumble Upon is usually inconsistent and comes in gradually decreasing waves. For example, you may get 1000+ visits the first and second days of your flagship stumbled post, but the traffic decreases dramatically to 50-100 visits at best, by the end of the week.

Necessity Is the Mother of Invention

One of the things that I love about humanity as a race, is our ability to create ingenious situations to problems we face. In that spirit, I’ve expanded on a technique first mentioned by Loren Baker of Search Engine Land. It takes only 3 steps, and should give you a consistent stream of traffic till you rinse and repeat.

If you’ve written linkbait worthy material, it’s very likely that you’ve already got other bloggers commenting or referring to your post on their own blogs. These posts often are not ‘discovered’ as being stumbled, and there is a good opportunity to maintain downline stumble traffic to your blog, by stumbling those of other bloggers that have written about you.

• Go to your Technorati reactions and sort by ‘authority’ to order the list of blogs that link to you in descending order of linkbacks.
• Visit the appropriate post that mentions something about you or your blog and ‘discover’ it via the ‘thumbs up’ button in StumbleUpon.
• Insert appropriate tags referring to the main keywords used by the blogger that’s referred to you or your blog, and proceed to submit your stumble

Continue to promote the newly stumbled page to your friends and you will see a stream of downline traffic coming from the referring site for another week!

That’s it - I hope the technique works out for you, and do let me know what results you achieve after implementing it. You can also add me as a friend on StumbleUpon in the meantime

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