NOTE: This is a quick ‘what is’ writeup about a great site called StumbleUpon. I’m writing this because I have not been able to find a good online resource that explains what StumbleUpon is from a REGULAR WEB USER perspective, rather than a blogger or webmaster perspective, which there are lots of. And oh, you can buy traffic from StumbleUpon too.

What is a Stumbler?

A ‘Stumbler’ is someone who uses the StumbleUpon toolbar to find, rate and review great new websites.

What is StumbleUpon?

What StumbleUpon is:

• a website/tool for easily and quickly finding great new sites in categories YOU specify
• once at the new site, you can rate it as ‘good’ (thumb up) or ‘bad’ (thumb down)
• StumbleUpon learns your preferences and starts delivering you sites more to your liking

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It’s all about getting the links. If you focus your efforts with the intention of getting links, you WILL be successful online.

Why? Because if you are getting links it means that you are doing a lot of other things right, like building excellent content, and offering people top quality information that informs, educates, or entertains. People eat that stuff up, and they link to it too. Top Quality Information is called LinkBait. Linkbaiting should be your business focus. (Our contest at www.remodelingmyspace.com is a form of linkbait.)

Why Build Links?

Here’s a great list of benefits of links, but simply:

Links do two things:
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