Use StumbleUpon to Build Backlinks

Saturday, November 21. 2009

OK, this post is in my SEO category, and you're probably thinking if I write about StumbleUpon I can't know what I'm talking about, after all every expert will tell you that being stumbled might bring in traffic, but it's worthless traffic that doesn't convert.

Well in most cases you'd be right, but have you ever thought of using StumbleUpon to build backlinks, no, not from being stumbled, but instead from making sure you set your toolbar to show you related websites that you can comment on.

Here's what I do. I know one of my websites is in the make money online niche, so I set my SU profile to show me other make money websites, then I click the Stumble button on my toolbar to show me the next site in the niche.

If I find one that is relevant I make a comment. If it isn't relevant I might pass and click to the next site, or I might leave a comment anyway, but perhaps using the anchor for one of my longer tail keywords.

The people who have the sites get a comment from being stumbled, and with many of them I get a backlink. It's a win/win even though Stumbleupon is usually bad traffic. This is why I don't mind being stumbled myself, I often get some great comments.

Too many people think if all you get from traffic is a comment, that the traffic isn't worth having, but I disagree. Anyone who leaves a good relevant comment increases the amount of content on my page for search engine spiders to index. That's good news for me because it means I might rank higher.

I delete poor quality comments, and I'm sure a lot of other webmasters do as well, but if I can leave a good quality keyword rich comment on another site that I found using SU, then I'm happy, and so is the website owner.

And you can confirm the link is valuable by checking Google webmaster tools. If the link shows up, chances are good you're getting a backlink.
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  1. PowerPoint Templates said,

    Sunday, November 22. 2009 at 14:37 (Reply)

    I'm a huge fan of stumbleupon its a great little toolbar and you can even see things with thumbs up that you have stumbled in Google's search results.

  2. CS Photographic Backgrounds said,

    Sunday, November 22. 2009 at 17:50 (Reply)

    Just learning about SEO. What a great idea ! Going to give it a try straight away.Thanks for posting.

  3. Chris said,

    Tuesday, December 1. 2009 at 20:43 (Reply)

    I am searching everywhere for some ideas on promoting my Dating site when i came across this one. On the topic of backlinks obviously this is an important issue as far as ranking is concerned but lets face it if you don't appear on say the first two pages of Google what chance do you have of getting noticed. Generating interest in a site without PPC or some other form of advertising combined is surely doomed to obscurity! I read alot of headers saying get more traffic to your site all you have to do is backlink to sites with PR 4,5,6,7 etc...... easier said than done i would say. Is this all really possible and is it realistic to gain a top position within Google consistently by this method alone surely everyone would like to do the same? I shall try this method and see what results i can achieve but i am at present sceptical at present unless i can see things with my own eyes!

  4. Carl said,

    Tuesday, December 1. 2009 at 20:49 (Reply)

    Chris you can do it, but realistically that is a very competitive niche, and you have to consider that the top 10 or even 20 listed sites are going to be part of networks of dozens of sites. How many dating sites do you own?

    Perhaps you'd be better off targeting some long tail keywords with less traffic and competition, your goal should be to rank on page one for that, and then target a related long tail keyword and also rank on the first page for it, then repeat until you start ranking for your main high traffic keyword.

  5. Orlando Web Design said,

    Monday, November 23. 2009 at 01:35 (Reply)

    I like this idea using SU. Never tried it but it seems like a logical approach to gaining backlinks.

    Thanks for posting this.

  6. Carl said,

    Tuesday, November 24. 2009 at 08:37 (Reply)

    Not really, you could just as easily use an asterisk, or almost any other punctuation. The reason that we're using | in this example is just that it is friendly on the human eye. Remember that the symbol you use appears in the search engine results, and I generally find people click thru from SEs more if I use the | whereas a comma gets less click thru.

  7. Daniel Coupet said,

    Friday, November 27. 2009 at 02:33 (Reply)

    I've never used SU to build backlinks, but I'm willing to give it a go and hopefully it'll be effective. I know SU is great for getting tons of traffic if anything, so it cant hurt! Thanks for the tip!

  8. Carl said,

    Friday, November 27. 2009 at 08:57 (Reply)

    Daniel, don't be fooled by the traffic you get from SU, it isn't worth having. Generally the traffic from SU wants to be entertained. They're looking for jokes, or great pictures. They're not going to convert, they won't click your ads or buy the affiliate programs you recommend.

  9. Mark Henry said,

    Tuesday, December 1. 2009 at 13:57 (Reply)

    This is nice post man. I have a lot of experience with social bookmarking sites. I already worked with SU also. But your points stands different. I will try it out and let you know the result.

  10. Anti-Virus Reviews said,

    Saturday, December 5. 2009 at 10:46 (Reply)

    I have completely overlooked SU in the past for that vary reason - traffic quality and no do follow. Using it as a tool to find other websites... now we're thinking.

  11. Affiliate Millionaire Review said,

    Monday, February 1. 2010 at 14:59 (Reply)

    What a great way to SU. I use it but I never even thought of using it to get information about other similar blogs that I can use to make comments on. Great stuff!

    Thanks!

  12. Murphy said,

    Monday, February 22. 2010 at 15:25 (Reply)

    Never thought of StumbleUpon as a way to do linking. I will definitely look into it.
    Thanks!
    Murphy

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