Social bookmarking is the big buzz word marketing on the Internet between these days, but so far it has been fairly static. You could make recommendations to their friends in places like Del.icio.us, Digg, Technorati, and you could find sites in a given field of study. But StumbleUpon offers all this and a little more, this site is learns what you like and makes recommendations. What are the implications for the web marketing? What should you do if you want to recommend StumbleUpon your site? Then this free service to generate traffic to your site? All these and other issues will be discussed in this chapter. Like any social bookmarking site, visitors can connect and share with friends sites. They can meet people who share similar interests and see what other people find them. With StumbleUpon you can “channel” the best-reviewed sites on the Internet. “It is a collaborative tool for surfing and sharing to find good sites.”

Just add a toolbar on your browser and you can give a review on any site you come to the on earth. So this is where the marketing of the Internet comes in. As you have probably already guessed, it may be beneficial to the health and future of your website where several people are giving good feedback. If one of your guests has already StumbleUpon toolbar installed, and find your site, they can get the ball rolling for you. But if you are like most traders, you will not want to leave anything to chance. Like what people have already been made with sites like Digg and Technorati, there is no reason that you can not revisit one of your own websites. In fact, why not review them all?

Once your site has been reviewed, StumbleUpon will start to do some work for you. Since the site makes recommendations to its members, telling them about the sites they might be interested, just StumbleUpon might recommend your site to a small number of people. The most popular your site becomes, it seems is determined by the amount of positive feedback you get, the more your site will be recommended to others. Before you know it, and with very little extra effort on your part, you may have won a steady stream of free movement. What better way of free movement, from the recommendations of people you never contacted in places you never heard of? All this just because some people voted for your site, and said it was good. Of course, this is not likely to happen if you have not started a site with an excellent content, but it’s what you do now, is it not?