Adsense tips | #7 How to generate tons of traffic on your blog

There is a fast growing community called Stumbleupon.And this post will help to understand all main goals of StumbleUpon and how to generate tons of traffic on your blog. Enjoy.
What is a discovery?
You discover a page when you are the first to submit it to StumbleUpon. You can see the member who discovered the page as well as the date when it was discovered to the right of the submission page (http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/url-of-the-submitted-page):



What is a category?
A page is discovered in one of the multiple categories. The category the page is submitted to determines who will see it. StumbleUpon is based on the relevance mechanism: each member is categorized based on his interests - these interests are determined based on the preferences specified by him and also based on the member’s browsing behavior (topics of the articles the member usually stumbles and reviews).
What is a thumb up?
A thumb up aims to mean two important things:
A thumb-up is a vote: it promotes a post and allows more members to see the post;
A thumb-up shows SU what you like and encourages the machine to show you more stories of the kind.
What is a thumb-down?
Like a thumb-up, a thumb-down is called to accomplish two important roles:
It votes against the story (the member doesn’t want more users to see it);
It tells the algorithm that you don’t want to see similar stories any more.
What is a review?
You can post your comment on the page and this comment will appear on the submission page.
What is a tag?
You can tag each page based on its topics - like the category it was submitted to, tags determine who sees the page.
Building Relationships
Like with all other social communities, connections are everything at StumbleUpon - they determine:
Your member’s score: the more friends you have, the higher your authority as a member is.
Your influence: The more friends you have, the more people you can share the story is.



So building connection on StumbleUpon is an essential step to becoming a power member. Most effective methods to do that are:
Initiate friendship: send friend requests. A friend request may be also followed by a personal message detailing why it would be a good idea to be friends (similar interests, similar stories, location, etc);
Give testimonials: generously review other members’ profiles and give real, detailed feedback: not just “good stumbles” but why they are good and how they are different from other members’ stumbles.
Sharing stories with friends:
You can share your finds on StumbleUpon using two tools:
Toolbar share: allows to send a page one friend at a time (with a short message);
Web share (accessed from “Your Favorites” page when you hover over the page thumbnail): allows to share the story with all/many friends in a bulk (add a short message along with it).


Your friends will be able to see your share twice:
Toolbar notification: your share will be displayed on your friend’s toolbar
Email notification: unless your friend unsubscibes from email notification, your share will come to his email address.
StumbleUpon Mathematics
What determines the popularity of each page on StumbleUpon? How to predict the page popularity and traffic? There is no official answers to these questions but there are some educated theories and assumptions that will help you understand StumbleUpon algorithm.
Each time a story has been discovered it ranks on a 0-5 stars scale which makes up the submission score. The submission score is determined by a number of factors, most important of them are supposed to be:
The reviewers’ and stumblers’ score: each member of StumbleUpon is ranked based on his authority: the number of thumbs-up he gave and reviews he made, the number of testimonials he received, the number of subscribers and friends, his age as SU member, the diversity and consistency of topics he stumbles (diversity in domains and consistency of topics: how many stories from various domains but similar topics he has stumbled so far).
The rate at which the story is thumbed up: if you keep the momentum, the story might go hot.
The source of the thumb: I am pretty sure that if the story is only thumbed/up reviewed from the page itself, it might look suspicious. Random thumbers clicking the StumbleUpon button should thumb it up and review as well.
The submission category: some categories are so unpopular, that the page won’t get much traffic no matter how many reviews and thumbs it may receive - there are simply not enough people interested in that topic to see the submission.
The submission tags: the more related tags are added to the submission, the broader public will see the page. Besides, like with the category, this also depends on the tags popularity itself.
The diversity of the stumblers: it looks unnatural if same people stumble same domain again and again.