The first question may be should be how can your website get traffic from Stumbleupon, the first step for that is to be stumbled (thumbs up) by a member, but is that enough ? let me tell you where is the possibilities for your website  to get traffic from stumble and then we can discuss how to increase this traffic

1. The best way to get massive traffic from stumble upon it to make it to the buzz page http://buzz.stumbleupon.com/ this page enjoy a lot of traffic since it has a direct button from each member page, so being their means getting a lot of visitors. There are many factors to be on this page, but the most important of them is getting big thumbs up from the stumblers (the history of the stumblers play role in that – How much time they have been stumbling, number of websites in their favorite)
2.     What is new tab: each member  has a tab called “What’s new”, this tab shows the latest stumbled website by your friend, so even if you couldn’t make it to the buzz page you still have a chance to get some traffic through this page in the first 24 hours
3.     People browsing your page/favorite/blog may be getting to them using their friends profile, or Stumbleupon directory or search etc.
4. The search box in stumble upon drives good traffic, so make sure always that you  are using the proper tags.

So number 1-2-3 which are the massive source of traffic are totally depends on the number of friends those you have on your profile, and amount of popularity that you have in this community.

Just to let you know, you can’t have more than 200 friends with stumble upon (friends mean people those you added them to your friend list from your page), but you can get unlimited number of fans (fans are people those added you as a friend but you didn’t reciprocate)

So the question now how can I make fans/friends in Stumbleupon, unlike www.myspace.com where there are many software help you to that, it is not the same in Stumbleupon, you need to work for it, and as I don’t have a huge number of fans/friends, so I will try to  have a super stumblers with thousands of fans blog about that very soon, so stay tuned  

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