Why StumbleUpon is good SEO

I've been a devoted stumbler (that is a a regular on StumbleUpon or SU) for about eight months and I can personally attest to the fact that it is a great social networking site to boost traffic to blogs or websites.

But it is also quite a critical forum, polices by the stumblers themselves. If they notice that you are using StumbleUpon purely to promote yourself and not contributing to the overall information sharing experience, you'll be in hot water.

Tadeusz Szewczyk alias "Tad Chef", Germany's most notorious white hat SEO consultant, web developer and online publisher has written an interesting article about StumbleUpon when he presents seven reasons why StumbleUpon traffic is the best there is.

He says: "Do you think Digg or Reddit is the place to go nowadays? Never used StumbleUpon until now? You should, both as a user and a webmaster. Users get highly relevant content that matches their preferences, that’s the way of social browsing. Webmasters get substantial and steady traffic. Especially new and small non-profit blogs like mine can get a regular, even daily traffic boost. That’s not all though to say about StumbleUpon, it’s not just any traffic, it’s the best and most targeted traffic I have ever seen!

Catch his seven reasons why you should sign up right now and become a committed stumbler.

Run a Stumbleupon Advertising Campaign for your Blog

When I read this blogpost on Problogger I thought wow! I'm a regular visitor to Stumbleupon and I have seen the power of Stumblers at work, so the create an advertising campaign for your blog at Stumbleupon sounds like a very good idea to me.

You get to choose the story you want, that you think the Stumbleupon audience will go for and you set daily budgets and limits to how many impressions you want on any given campaign.

For those not in the know, StumbleUpon - is a growing social bookmarking service (over three million members) that is used by people around the globe. It is a service that many bloggers target to drive organic traffic to their blog - but also one that also offers a means to advertise a website upon it. StumbleUponAds allows you to submit a page on your blog to be shown to StumbleUpon users as they go Stumbling. The cost is 5 cents per impression so for as little as $5 you can have 100 SU users see your page.

Let Darren at ProBlogger explain the rest.