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The use of StumbleUpon has brought great wonders in my blogs, bringing me an immense load of hits (phrase relative to my newbie status ) and a number of subscribers. Taking this blog for example, as of the date I have published this article, I have 706+ visitors (I’ve just started last week), of which, almost 600 was brought to me by StumbleUpon alone. That’s over 80% of my total traffic to date. From there, I gain a few subscribers, a few comments, and well, a lot of hits enough to boost my alexa rankings from the 5 millionth spot to the 1,200,000+ rank. Because of that, this blog was instantly approved in SponsoredReviews, an addition to my online money making portfolio.

The best thing in the traffic that StumbleUpon gives is that they are relevant to your content, the highest quality of hits. With that quality, hits can eventually turn into leads or sales, with a very high possibility. As I have read as I was stumbling through the net, StumbleUpon produces 32% of bounce rate compared to other social networking websites, like Digg that produces 75%. That means the traffic that you receive from StumbleUpon are people who are really interested in what you offer in your website, staying longer in your site and not just surfing through.

Because of that, webmasters and advertisers are making ways to maximize the potential of StumbleUpon, and ending up to gaming it or making money through the system. Here are some of them.

Gaming StumbleUpon

1. Selling and Buying of stumbles. SubvertandProfit is an example. Mashable has something to tell about this one. Please read the comments there, it’s very interesting.
2. Beneficial arrangements in Stumble Exchanges.
3. Building a network of StumbleUpon users so that you can collect stumbles from them. The purpose is to put your stumbled page in the Stumble Buzz webpage. (doshdosh.com)
4. Stumbling pages that links and blogs about you. The intention is very simple, the traffic brought by StumbleUpon to that particular webpage will eventually follow the link and will be brought to your website. (doshdosh.com)
5. Using the power of redirect. After stumbling a domain that you own, setup its redirect attributes and point it to the website you want to promote. Just make sure that the tags you used is relevant to site that you wanted to promote.

That’s all that I have collected on how people game the system of StumbleUpon. There are no guarantees on how effective they are, and also, by using the said tactics, your website may possibly be banned from the StumbleUpon network, so I advice you to take the proper precaution so that your site won’t get exterminated in such a promising service.

Please use the comment section below to let me know how you think about gaming the system of StumbleUpon.

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