Stumbleupon is the best social network next to Digg in terms of traffic potential. The problem lies in the fact that people have to find your site and stumble it, and lots of people have to do that in order for you to benefit from it. There’s nothing you can really do to influence people to stumble it or to get people to stumble it. Luckily, people there are exchange programs where you can sign up and stumble other users in exchange for them stumbling you. This is the best way to get stumbles, even better than link baiting and actually posting genuinely stumbleable articles.

The top Stumble exchange sites are www.piqqus.com and www.stumblexchange.com. All you have to do is stumble other peoples articles and you will get stumbles in return. If youd like to automate the process even more and are willing to dish out a few dollars, there is software called “Auto Stumble” that you can try at autostumble.net. All you have to do is tell it what page to stumble and leave the software open overnight. It will automatically stumble other users’ submitted pages and they will stumble yours. The reason this works and isnt obvious to SU is that there are so many people using it, and it efficiently creates campaigns so the same people arent stumbling the same stories or stumbling each other too often, so it appears to be just a bunch of real users stumbling sites they like. Another thing to note is that if somehow they do catch you and ban you, theyll ban your account, not your site. So make another account and do it again. Check another great stumble tool here.