Targeted Traffic is what all Internet Marketers are after. Not just an ordinary traffic, which means that more likely, your targeted niche are interested in what we have to offer and are therefore more likely to buy, signup or otherwise participate in our website.

Marketers spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars building traffic to their websites. In some cases, the cost of traffic generation far exceeds the meagre income made from the site itself.

Aside from the usual traffic generation methods, there are other Web 2.0 techniques you can use to increase your traffic. One site in particular stands out with its ability to generate vast amounts of traffic very quickly, i.e., Stumbleupon.com. It has a great following and offers something for people who are bored at work or at home. The basic premise is that you find a site you think is interesting (you Stumbled Upon it) and submit it to Stumbleupon.

Visitors can look through the sites other people have found. They can vote to say they like a site, which gets it more views, or they can say they don't like it, which gets them less views.

Stumbleupon appeals to that voyeuristic, reality TV mindset. People can see what other people are doing and vote - something which is becoming ingrained into our culture.

Your site must be the kind of site that people will want to pass on and recommend in order for it to do well on Stumbleupon. Avoid sales letters as they don't tend to do very well. You can try for yourself some controversial or contrarian articles because they do well. It's what the people want. They want something they can interact very well. Anything that is cute, funny or entertaining will also do well.

This can be an article, a video, or anything of a similar ilk that has a social appeal to your niche. You may have to think about how you can spin your content in order to give it wide ranging appeal. It can be done though, and will get you traffic.

You can Stumbleupon your site yourself, but it is better to get someone else to do the original Stumbleupon for you. This could be a friend, family or an outsourcer. They will need a set of space separated tags plus a description and to know which category you want it placed in.

Once it has been Stumbleuponed, you need to get other people to say they like it through the Stumbleupon website. This will help to kickstart the viral effect. If you can, put a link to Stumbleupon on your website to make it easy for your visitors to say they like it.

Write you article very well. A nice or well written article with wide social appeal can get thousands of visitors in a single day. Stumbleupon is a very powerful site that you, as a marketer, must be using. With the traffic potential from this site, you are missing out on valuable backlinks and massive amounts of traffic if you are not using it.