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Stumble Upon provides a service where like minded internet surfers can vote for a website that then becomes part of a Stumble Upon rotation.

Alexa provides a service where internet users can see the amount of traffic the site they are visiting is receiving. Normally if the Alexa traffic rank is high then the visitor might have more faith that the site being popular knows what it is talking about.

Alexa high and low. High is towards 1 where as low is towards millions. High is what we want to achieve.

Blog traffic is the amount of visitors you receive to your blog on a daily basis. This is of course the Holy Grail of blogging. To get and maintain traffic.

Well why would you want more traffic to your Blog?

Let me explain why and the results you should expect to receive.

You set up a blog either using a free platform or self hosting for your site.

Your motives for such a blog is either a daily journal that you enjoy writing and to share with visitors that you do not know, friends and or family. You want nothing more from your blog but to express yourself.

Personally, I enjoy these types of blogs as the posts are normally from the heart and down to earth. Often I find these types of blogs to be quite inspiring.

Other reasons to start a blog is simply to make money. This is achieved by monetising the site with Adsense, In Line Text ads, Links and Banner advertisements.

Now if your blog has a very high Alexa ranking, and I do not mean millions but in the top ten thousand, you will have webmasters requesting to advertise on your site, pay for a link on your site and/or request if you would write a review of their site and post the review on your blog. This type of review can return a one time payment, a lot of money into your Paypal account.

This type of income generation can return a lot of money each month. Imagine some webmaster paying you $100 to $500 a month just to have a link on your site!!

There is the old catch phrase that Traffic = Clicks = Money. This is true, a lot of traffic will have ctr, that is a click through rate, at least a certain percentage of visitors will click on one of your ads.

How do we achieve A LOT OF TRAFFIC. Easy .... read on.

Alexa use a system to count the visitors to your site. This is generally known as the Alexa Toolbar. The Link is in the Resources Box to left.

When you install the toolbar there is an icon at the bottom of your browser that displays the traffic rank of the sites traffic. Very useful if your marketing and looking to exchange or pay for links. I use it as a gauge of how well the site is received and the credibility of the site.

So if Alexa uses the toolbar to record visitors to a site, how can we go around this so that Alexa will record visitors who do not use a toolbar?

The answer to this is to place a Alexa traffic widget on your site. The Link for the widget is also in the Resource Box.

Now, when a visitor lands on your site, the site Alexa traffic display widget will record the visitor. That is, every visitor to your site will be recorded by Alexa and count towards your traffic history.

Stumble Upon is an internet traffic goldmine. You will be told a lot of Stumble Upon traffic is useless as the visitors won't click an advertisement or leave a comment.

Thats not our goal to use Stumble Upon traffic. We are using this traffic so we get a record of each visitor to our site that Alexa records and increases our traffic ranking.

The purpose is to gain a good Alexa traffic rank so that the site benefits from the other alternative ways the site can stand alone and make money on auto pilot. Remember a paid link per month, that is an automatic income!

To get the maximum benefit from Stumble Upon place a Stumble widget on your site (I'll show you how) and build up relationships with other webmasters that you can invite to review your site and Stumble or thumbs up or down, your page.

As you become involved with Stumble Upon you can Add friends. Then using the Stumble Upon toolbar, send your pages to them and ask for a review. This is simply sharing each others work and performing a review that other Stumble Upon users can see and visit your site.

First we download the Alexa toolbar and install this on the browser of choice and do not worry, no spam emails or anything else of that nature. Just a handy tool to have.

Next we install the Alexa Traffic Rank widget on our site. This will record visitors for us that do not use the toolbar.

Now here's the trick I use. You know I always have a trick. You can see it in action here, my blog, New Hair Styles for Women. Notice at the top right of Sidebar 2 that in plan clear view is my Stumble Upon widget. In this position any visitor to my site can click this and write a review of my site.

Yes I know that in the Stumble Upon toolbar there is a Thumbs Up Down the visitor can use, but this widget allows a review to be written. The more reviews on your site and thumbs, will increase exponentially the Stumble Upon traffic to your site.

Installing this widget is easy. On your blog place text or html allowed widget in position at the top. Here is the code you use in the box to generate the widget.

Before I show you this though, here's another trick. In the code you will see the url to be Stumbled. The trick here is to change this url to any other page of your site to share your Stumbles around.

The code can be found on Stumble Upon to place a widget on your blog. It does work as I have had this widget on my wordpress blog and the statistics of wordpress does record other clicks and this widget ranks very highly.

The purpose of this article is for one reason. To use Stumble Upon traffic to increase your Alexa traffic ranking.

The benefit is to record visitors to our site that increase our Alexa ranking so we can further monetise the site and attract paying webmasters and advertisers.

The goal is not to increase our Adsense earnings as this is proven to be unsuccessful using Stumble Upon traffic.

There are many affiliate programs that allow bloggers to install banner and link advertising to their site. The higher the Alexa traffic ranking the higher and more popular your site is, will command a higher rate of return, more money per click through or link display.

All the resources here a free and there is no or any ongoing cost to you. The way to make it work is to actively participate in Stumbling other sites and making friends.

I use the avatar of terratite on Stumble Upon and you are welcome to friend me. My friends actively send their new pages through the Stumble Upon toolbar and we do review each others sites.

Does it work, yes it does. The Alexa graph you observed higher up on this page shows my Alexa traffic a short time ago. The site is not three months old and already has a high Alexa traffic rank.

You can search your sites Alexa traffic rank at Alexa dot com.

I have enjoyed writing this article. I hope you too found it interesting and maybe something that may help you in the promotion of your blog sites.

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