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The words “multiple streams” are a bit over used in Internet marketing, especially in connection with income sources. I decided to ignore that and bring to your attention another place, where you might not yet have applied the principle: StumbleUpon.

You may have tried to stumble each and every article or blog post you write, but that seldom gives very good results. You need to stumble others’ content too, not only your own. You should become a power stumbler. But I bet you’d still like to get the traffic from your stumbles, right? Well, in a way you can.

Do you use Blog Carnivals? Maybe you should. Some of the carnivals don’t get much traffic, but you can help it with a stumble. By stumbling every carnival (or at least most), where your posts are featured, you can get indirect stumble traffic: someone stumbles upon the carnival, sees your posts and clicks.

The same principle can be used on other social media too. For example, you can stumble your MyBlogLog listings, or BloggingZoom submissions. It is easy to get front page listed on some smaller social bookmarking sites, but they don’t get much traffic. When you see your post on the front page, stumble it.

There are countless ways to get second level indirect stumble traffic. If someone blogs about you, be sure to stumble the post. Even if it’s just a link in a sub-clause. If you can get the first comment or trackback to a post on a popular blog, it’s certainly stumble time.

There’s also the crawling effect to be considered. Search engine spiders visit the social media frequently, so stumbling a page will often point the crawlers there much earlier than otherwise. If you’ve just acquired a link from a page on another site, you might want to stumble it to get the link noticed.

None of the above ways will get you very much traffic on its own. However, used together they will amount to something. The advantages are that indirect traffic from links is much more targeted than StumbleUpon traffic generally is, and that you build your profile while at it. There’s always something to gain from stumbling.

by Sutocu | November 27, 2007