Over the past year, we've consistently spent a small amount of time using
StumbleUpon, and seen good results. In fact, I'm going to increase our efforts over the coming months.
StumbleUpon doesn't get much attention these days, but it still can be a very good source of traffic.
So in this issue of our “Become a Better Blogger” email series, I'm going to share 5 reasons why we use StumbleUpon.
1. Sharing Content Directly To Your Contacts
My favorite way to use Stumble Upon is sharing content with contacts that I follow. (And the receiving side of the share feature is a great way to support my blogging friends
and find content to share on my other channels.)
These days there aren't many appropriate ways to directly send content to a small set of individuals through social media.
The share in StumbleUpon allows you to send a link to a set of contacts in a way that they actually want to receive it.
I am careful to not send too many posts to the same people very
often. If you overwhelm your contacts with too many shares, they may select the option to stop receiving shares from you.
Another warning... you do NOT want to submit or "add" too many of your own posts to StumbleUpon. Instead, try to get other friends and contacts of yours to first thumbs up your
posts.
Here's a screenshot of sharing through StumbleUpon...
