Stumbleupon is a unique tool that allows you to share websites that interest you with others. For some, it may drive a major amount of traffic to their website which can be found in my previous post. Though, sometimes people may not like the same things you do and will not give it a “Thumbs Up”. The top 5 things that I have learned about this program are that:

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Entrecard can be a great source of blog traffic if you can use it efficiently. MasterSOfSeo.com sent me an article that really made some sense so I will pass it on to my readers.

Steps To Becoming An Entrecard Power-house

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Advertise on as many of the cheap sites as you can. Forget the advertising on the huge sites, until you have lots of credits. The key to gaining traffic from it, is by having a large cost to advertise on your site. And the way you do that is advertising on lots of sites. So check the “most recent” tab as many times a day as you can. And every time there’s a new site that just joined. Advertise on it, this will help the cost of your site grow dramatically. And keep this up. [Continues After The Jump...]

Now that you have a great amount of traffic coming from Stumbleupon (Which by the way brought in 4 more subscribers, 241 Unique Visitors, and 387 PageViews since yesterday), you might still desire a higher Alexa Traffic Ranking as it is judged by most advertisers. Lets look at a brief history of Alexa before we divulge into strategies to get it in the hundred thousand range or less!

Alexa was created in 1996 to enable users to give websites a specific “Popularity” by visiting websites. Their first toolbar was created in 1997 which included site links, related links, access to achieved pages, and an Instant Messenger (Maybe the first of its kind?). With a huge jump in the time-line Alexa grows to have indexed over 100TB of data,covering 4.5 Billion websites. Pretty Impressive for a traffic indexer! [Continues After The Jump...]