StumbleUpon + Content + Music= Unique Visitors Increase

Every blogger wants to improve their monthly unique visitors and see more traffic to their site. As a musician, unique visitors are potential customers and possibly future loyal fans. StumbleUpon has added an extra dimension to the musicians’ marketing plan. Its fun, easy, and a great way to promote your content while surfing the web.

StumbleUpon is a free tool that discovers websites based on your interests. You give a “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” rating to pages you like and it delivers sites that it thinks you might like according to your history.

Every time you click the Stumble button, the engine delivers web pages, videos, blogs and photos related to what you like, all personalized for you. You can narrow down your preferred sites with over 500 interests to choose from. All of your rated sites are saved for you so you can revisit them. Once you set up a profile, the process is simple, download the toolbar and begin Stumbling.

The cool part is you can find informative sites that are based around your interests. There are alot of hidden gems that don’t have high page ranks or aren’t keyword optimized but are very relevant. Many of the current sites I follow were stumbled upon.

If you are promoting your content, then give your site a thumbs up and make sure it is tagged correctly. By doing this you will enter your content amongst the millions and millions of webpages in their database.

This will give you the opportunity of having other people review your site and when that occurs you get nice traffic. The more quality the content in relation to the topic, the better the results.

A key feature that I like is when you do a Google search. If you have the StumbleUpon toolbar, the search results will show a little icon next to the results. This icon lets you see sites that others have stumbled.

Its a great feature that makes your site stand out in results if it is submitted. The profile is also a great way to get an extra inbound link for your site and find friends that share similar interests.

StumbleUpon has provided a steady flow of traffic to my site and by providing some free music or promotions, I have been able to network with fellow bloggers, musicians and friends while watching my unique visitors on the rise.

Definitely add StumbleUpon to your social networking attack. Feel free to Stumble this article if you like it and check out my profile. Marketing can also be fun!