Stumble-Upon is a wonderful tool for posting details of interesting sites that you want others to discover. This has very good use for webmasters who want to build traffic to their sites. You must have seen "Stumble It" links on many websites urging you to submit the site on Stumble Upon.
Actually Stumble Upon is an Ebay owned website where you can rate and discover all sorts of web content including websites, music, videos and other online media. This is done through a downloadable browser plugin. The advantage of using Stumble Upon over Digg, for example is that Stumble Upon shows individual websites for you to rate, rather than a bunch of sites connected through a common subject matter. Another difference between the two services is that in Digg the submitter needs to enter a description of the website in question and if the description is not impressive then the whole exercise is futile as the visitors rely on this to decide whether or not to click the link.
The service is available by registering free at the website www.stumbleupon.com. The plugin can be downloaded from here, for Opera users however, you need a separate plugin which is available here. After the plugin has been installed in your browser your browser will have a Stumble toolbar which has all the functions on it. The features available are Stumbling and rating. For stumbling you click on the "Stumble!" button and you will be taken to a random site associated with the subject of your interest as given during registration. You can rate the website by clicking over Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down buttons denoting positive and negative votes for the website.
Advantages Using this service is of great advantage especially if your goal is to get maximum traffic for your website. This service can get you an equivalent traffic vis-a-vis Digg if not greater. The resulting traffic may not be a flood like you get from Digg, but it will be steady stream spread over a period of time.
Using stumble upon the users may not get breaking stories or the very latest snippets, but they are more likely to get quality stories vetted by many other users having similar interests. This results in the user getting more relevant information and the website in turn getting a loyal userbase.
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Advantages Using this service is of great advantage especially if your goal is to get maximum traffic for your website. This service can get you an equivalent traffic vis-a-vis Digg if not greater. The resulting traffic may not be a flood like you get from Digg, but it will be steady stream spread over a period of time.
Using stumble upon the users may not get breaking stories or the very latest snippets, but they are more likely to get quality stories vetted by many other users having similar interests. This results in the user getting more relevant information and the website in turn getting a loyal userbase.
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