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Stumbleupon is a great little service that tries to recreate the fun experience of web surfing discovery that people enjoyed 10 years ago.  Now that the web has gotten bloated with auto-blogs and link farms it can be less then enjoyable to “surf the web”.  With Stumbleupon you download a tool bar for either Firefox or IE.  You create an account and then tell Stumbleupon what you like.  Then you just click the “Stumble” button on the tool bar and it will randomly send you to sites that match your interests that have been submitted by other Stumbleupon users.  You can then either give the site a Thumbs up or down.  The site then gets ranked by how many people like it and Stumbleupon keeps feeding the site to members until interest in the site fades.

As a tool for finding new interesting sites it’s great!

Now if your site gets into the Stumbleupon rotation it can be a PHENOMINAL boost to your site.  EliTheComputerGuy.com would get over 5000 visitors from Stumbleupon some days last year!  EverymanIT.com apparently found its way into the rotation a couple of days ago and the Analytics below shows you the boost that it give.

Just submitting your site is FREE and the results can be free.  They do have a paid service where you pay 5 cents per visitor.  Depending on your site this may or may not be worthwhile (We will be doing a Stumbleupon for Web Marketing Class soon).  If you have a website you should make sure to put a Stumbleupon button or badge on it.  Other social networking services will give you traffic in drips and drabs, Stumbleupon dumps a whole bucket on you.

You can find the Stumbleupon Toolbar and info here: http://www.stumbleupon.com/

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