Stumble Exchange Sites
We all know that stumbleupon can drive huge amounts of traffic to your blog or article, but typically we are all lazy to stumble our own and others peoples posts, most of us hope that our readers of friends will stumble them to increase traffic , but generally this will only bring in small increases of traffic, to gain the maximum from stumbles you will have to join a stumble exchange or swapping group
Generally they work in a very simple way, find and join the site and register yourself, now you stumble the posts above you in the list and submit yours to the bottom, after which the next person will continue where you left off.
There are two types of sites that will do stumbling, forums or websites both these work but in different ways.
Forums can be used and theres a few out there which practice stumble exchanges, some of the advantages are you can interact with people on a personnel level, and quite often people will become friends and normally you have the option to add your tags, category and the description of the post, the negative side is the smaller quantity of stumblers as often the sites need passwords to enter so with limited readership so must posts are thumbed up by the same people.
Websites have there advantages as you can gain larger volume of stumbles compared to a forum site and are fast to submit and have a large number of different stumblers but you normally are not able to select your tags, categories and descriptions so you are limited here.
You may like try Suexchange where you can submit your website and have the ability to stumble others in exchange. They have a referral system in place to allow you to gain more stumbles form other if you have more people under you.
In conclusion both types of sites have common advantages and disadvantages like increased volume of traffic etc, just look at whether these short boosts in traffic are quality readers. At the same time any unique viewer who finds your site though stumbling has the potential to be a new regular reader in the future.
So tagging, categories and descriptions will help ensure quality traffic comes to your site, therefore stumbling yourself first will help to put your article in the correct position.
Please feedback if you use a stumble swap/exchange site? And has it helped your site?
