StumbleUpon, facebook, twitter, digg and Mixx (Someone like Yahoo! Buzz) are the top 5 social media sites which do most helpful to your online business. For me, these 5 sites always drive lots of traffics and profits.

For facebook and digg marketing, we have wrote something before, however, StumbleUpon marketing is the first time. In order to get as most as traffic as you wish, you need follow some StumbleUpon tips.

- Make friends, join groups and the communities. For the site default setting, make friends on StumbleUpon is much more difficult than any other social networking such as twitter or facebook. However, you can post reviews, customize your profile and subscribe to other stumblers’ links so that get more subscribes.

- Share. Send your favorite links to your friends via mail or other ways. I personally recommend not send your own links directly. You can suggest a great site/link while drop a link to your own sites.

- Use the toolbar and stay active. You must let the readers’ know you are an active member so to get more hits from stumbleUpon.

- Content is king. Be sure to create original, unique and intriguing stories. Concept websites are best, because they offer an intriguing concept in an engaging fashion that captures user’s attention right away.

- Always stumble interesting story pages with relevant tags, not only the homepage. No stumblers like to look for interesting content when they are stumbling, they want it to be given. You’d be avoided trick them stumblers by sending them something they are not interested in. Use tags to relevant your stories.

- Stay white hat. Black-hat ways or automatic tools may gives you more traffic short-time, however, in the long run just stay away from it or you will be got banned.

All the 6 tips above are all from my personal experience, if you have any other ideas for driving traffic from stumbleUpon, feel free to leave a comment.