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I have always been a StumbleUpon user for my internet business. It has always done well for me for traffic. It is valuable traffic for places like article writing  sites, where you get paid for pageviews. But honestly it is not so good for selling because it is not converting traffic.

But of course, if you are simply a surfer and love to look at stuff that is of interest to you. Then StumbleUpon is for you because it really does hone in on the things you love and shows you what you want to see, thereby not wasting your online pleasure time.

But back to business, it was recently noted that StumbleUpon with its 12 million members has surpassed Facebook with its 600 million members. What?!

Yep.

Check out this article, and then ask yourself whether you should be using StumbleUpon too.

StumbleUpon is one of the only companies that is designed to keep you away from their own website. By its very nature, StumbleUpon takes you everywhere else based upon your interests, stumbling habits, friends, and what’s hot in the Internet. Using an installed Toolbar or a browser frame, users “stumble” websites, stories, videos, and pictures, not knowing where they’ll be going next.

Once there, they can thumb something up or down and write a review of the page, or they can simply move on to the next stumbled site. The more that someone stumbles, the better the algorithm learns of the user’s preferences. The goal is to have an understanding of what the user enjoys so the site will serve only relevant pages.

The service is particularly popular with newer and smaller websites. While Facebook is a tremendous traffic generation tool, it requires time and creation of relationships, ie more “likes” to a website’s page or more shares by visitors. Large sites with a ton of traffic benefit most from Facebook’s sharing abilities.

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