I came across this interesting article by Caroline Middlebrook, she discusses using links to get traffic. As always here information is very good.

It is well known that StumbleUpon can drive a huge amount of traffic to your website and there are numerous posts in the blogosphere about writing for StumbleUpon, ensuring you get plenty of thumbs up votes, and ideas for post topics that are sure to get stumbled lots. What I haven’t seen mentioned is the value of using outbound links to increase your StumbleUpon traffic.

StumbleUpon Tricks for Savvy Bloggers

In my links roundup that I posted over the weekend, I highlighted a StumbleUpon tips post from Big Bucks Blogger. The first tip in that post is to stumble the pages that link to you.
In this way you drive more traffic to the page containing your link and
thus you hope that some of that traffic comes back to you via the link
on that page.

Therefore it makes sense to me to make a point of linking out to
other blogs in your post. If the blogger that you are linking to is a
savvy StumbleUpon user who uses the above technique, then they may well
see your post come through their analytics program as an inbound link
and then stumble it for you, to get more traffic for themselves.

To read the full article click here

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