Write things that would interest the SU's demographic. That said, traffic from StumbleUpon doesn't earn hubbers very much money. SU users usually give really high bounce rates and they rarely click on ads. In fact, this is true of any social networking site be it SU, Reddit, or Digg.
Furthermore, it's HIGHLY discouraged by SU, Reddit, and Digg to add your own content to their sites. It's always nice when someone Diggs, Stumbles, or adds your content to Reddit, but let someone else do it, chances are there will be a much better response.
If you're looking for a great way to get traffic, you'll want to look toward getting traffic from the search engines. HubPages users actually make the MOST of their money from people coming in from the search engines, I know I do!
If you're curious on how to get people in from the search engines, HubPages actually put together and SWEET section on how to do this (and a lot more.) I recommend giving it a looksee!
I highly recommend the segments under "Choosing Topics"
http://hubpages.com/learningcenter/contents
But yeah, it's generally not a great idea to Digg, Stumble, or Reddit (or what have you) your own content.
I get quite a lot of traffic from stumble upon, the best thing to do is work on your stumble upon profile. Comment on other peoples work and make a lot of friends so they follow your work, so many people use these referal sites just to simply link their work but never actualy spend any time on the site itself
by William F Torpey 17 years ago
One of my hubs recently got a small flurry of hits from stumbleupon.com. Can someone tell me how and why that occurred on that hub -- and not on any other? Are you supposed to be signed up such groups to draw their readers?
by Farawaytree 8 years ago
If you haven't yet tried posting your HubPages articles to this site - you should do so today and see if it boosts your traffic - I've had great success with this over the last 2 days.
by Rik Ravado 17 years ago
I find Stumbleupon great for boosting traffic but am nor sure how to add the HubPages tracker in my URL. - Any ideas?
by LondonGirl 16 years ago
I find I either get almost no traffic from SU, or hundreds of impressions in a day. Anyone know why it works this way?
by SnapHappy 13 years ago
Please lead me by the hand here. I have registered to promote my Hubs, but so far it looks like a lot of work, talking about nothing with individuals just to plug my link sooner or later. Is it right? How much time do you spend on promoting articles on Stumbleupon?Thanks for answers!
by Steve Andrews 16 years ago
I get such varied viewing figures from Stumbleupon that change drammatically and can do within hours eg today my viewing figure for 7 days dropped from in the 90s to 0. Just a day ago it was in the hundreds. So how can it go from hundreds to 0? Surely the figure should increase not decrease to...
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