Are you still looking for sites like StumbleUpon?
Update November 2020: If you are looking for a StumbleUpon alternative, this post offers you more than five alternatives. Mix StumbleUpon is only one StumbleUpon alternative for you. However, I find the best StumbleUpon alternative is actually Google which is not a social media site.
StumbleUpon brought bloggers mass traffic. If you are looking for a StumbleUpon alternative to bring you massive website traffic, optimize your post for search engines using these SCO marketing tips.
What is StumbleUpon?
Let’s examine sites like StumbleUpon that are social media alternatives for generating massive blog traffic since StumbleUpon was a social media site that brought bloggers boatloads of traffic.
Update August 2020: Although years have passed since StumbleUpon folded, bloggers still seek a StumbleUpon clone.
Sites like StumbleUpon are hard to come by. I should know. I’ve looked for two years since StumbleUpon folded.
Read this Mix review and determine if it’s an adequate alternative for your brand.
If you don’t feel, after reading this review, Mix will generate the kind of traffic StumbleUpon did, consider these other StumbleUpon alternatives.
I haven’t received any traffic from Mix since I started curating my content there.
This post exposes you to cool websites, sites like StumbleUpon, that have the potential for traffic generation StumbleUpon had.
Here are sites like StumbleUpon:
- Quora
- Facebook groups
All these sites allow you to post your website content, like StumbleUpon did.
The first three of the sites like StumbleUpon, Quora, Facebook, and Twitter, consistently bring my website a steady stream of traffic. Reddit and Flipboard are rare traffic generators, but when they do generate traffic, they generate a great deal.
Let’s get started learning the answer to “What is Mix.com?”
You can use Mix on Firefox, or any one of a number of browsers.
Consider this a follow-up to my post This is What You Need to Know to Get More Traffic from Content Syndication Sites.
What is Mix?
Mix is a content aggregator: You use the site to collect web articles.
Creating a collection on Mix allows you to collect articles, videos, and web pages you like about specific interests or topics. When you add to your collections, your content is shared with friends and made discoverable to others on Mix who share similar interests.
Submitting your articles to Mix takes mere seconds.
According to the Mix site, you can curate and share the best of the internet. “Mix learns what you love to show you even more.”
Mix has an app that enables you to curate using your smartphone. Mix also has a Chrome toolbar bookmarklet that makes it easy for you to curate your favorite content.
Why You Should Use Mix
- You will save time posting your articles without having to create new content.
- Generate interest in your articles by being exposed to new audiences.
- Use articles you find at Mix for research for your blog posts.
- Using the app makes it easy to Mix posts on the go.
- Leaving your link at Mix provides you with an external link to your blog. This helps your off-site search engine optimization.
- If you have questions, people are standing by ready to help you on the website.
- Mix has tips for bloggers.
- Gaining traction is easy at Mix. After I Mixed an article, I was notified via email that people had commented on the post, and I found myself in the middle of an interesting discussion about the content.
- Since Mix is a new site, you can more easily gain an audience than when the site has more users.
How to Use Mix
When you add new content to your collections, people who follow you or your collections will see what you’ve added in their “Top For You” and Recently Added sections.
If other people are mixing or saving things you’ve mixed, you’re more likely to appear on their homepages.
You can follow a person or just a particular collection you like.
If you follow a person or a specific collection when content is added by that person (or into that collection) it will appear on your homepage in your “For You” feed or your “Recently Added” feed.
When you log in, you’ll see suggestions Mix has for you.
Interview with Mix Support
I have a question. I heard StumbleUpon is transitioning to Mix.
At StumbleUpon, I heard we were penalized if we stumbled our own articles.
Can we curate our own articles at Mix?
How to Generate Traffic Using Mix
- Follow people who have written articles in your niche. They usually follow back. Then, when they log in, they’ll see your articles in their feed.
- Do not spam the site with all your posts. Follow the 80/20 rule: What you post should consist of 20% of your content and 80% of other writers’ content.
- Write catchy, clever post titles. They help to get people to click your link at any site.
- Share your Mix pages on your social media sites. This will help generate interest.
UPDATES
According to a Mix user, you may actually be generating traffic from Mix and not realize it!
UPDATE
I have seen traffic from Mix on my Dashboard.
Perhaps the comments were accurate and Mix is now running smoother.
UPDATE:
How to Install a Mix Sharing Button
Did you have a StumbleUpon sharing button? They no longer work (so I hear.) If you’d like a Mix sharing button, Gary Jefferies published a wonderful tutorial about how you can install a Mix Sharing Button.
If readers can sharing your post to Mix, your exposure and potential for traffic grow.
UPDATE: MAY 2021
Blogger Gary Jeffries wrote with an update that Mix has turned out to be a huge disappointment in terms of traffic generation. He shared his attempts to reach the developers have fallen on deaf ears. His update was so scathing, I was actually surprised to see Mix still sending me curated information in my email box.
UPDATE: October 2020
When one of your contacts joins Mix, Mix notifies you. You receive notification in your email. The email reads, “Joined Mix from Twitter.”
UPDATES: August 2020
Mix emails you content it believes you will enjoy.Â
Although people report they struggle to experience success with Mix, others report positive experiences.
Blogger Gary Jefferies is one of those people. He shares strategies for how to get referrals on Mix here.
Mix Testimonial
The 5 Minute Mom predicts Mix will be a great source of traffic for bloggers.
Consider these comments from Mix fan Cee Arr: “I love Mix, which took over from StumbleUpon (it’s how I found this post, actually, I follow you & it showed up in my feed,) since it gives me a lot of traffic, and, more importantly, *engaged* traffic. The referrals I get from Mix spend more time on the site, and view more pages on average than traffic from other sources! 🙂”
Sites Like StumbleUpon
With the end of StumbleUpon, you might be interested in sites that can bring you mass traffic like StumbleUpon did.Â
- Quora Â
This is my best referrer of social media traffic.Â
- Facebook groups
With tens of thousands of members in some of the groups, you stand a huge chance of mass traffic if you promote in these Facebook groups. Facebook is my second best referrer of social traffic.
Twitter is my 3rd-best referrer of social traffic. If you write about trending stories and use hashtags to promote, you can boost your Twitter traffic.Â
Generating Reddit traffic can be difficult, but when you do, you’ll receive a great deal of traffic.Â
With the end of StumbleUpon, you might be interested in additional content curation sites.
How to use GrowthHackers:
In his Huffington Post article How to Write a Popular Blog in 10 Easy Steps, Ryan Biddulph recommends Growth Hackers as a way to aggressively promote your blog.
Step 1: Go to https://growthhackers.com/Â Make an account by signing up with your Twitter or your Email account information.
Step 2: Modify your profile.
Step 3: Follow 3 tags. Click “Follow.”
Step 4: Follow 3 people by clicking on their names. Read their background descriptions. Click “Follow” if interested in reading their articles.
Step 5: Vote for articles you like and recommend. This is called “Upvoting”.
Step 6: Add your first post.
Step 7: Leave a comment. GrowthHackers is a forum. Your first post will be in moderation and then visible to others.
Wrapping Up: Sites Like StumbleUpon
In conclusion, there are many content management systems where you can publish your articles such as WordPress.
Now, you can curate them at Mix and GrowthHackers.
Save time while you grow your audiences, learn informative data you need for your posts from already curated articles, and get links from new websites back to your blog.
Readers, please share so other StumbleUpon users (aka Stumblers) learn about Mix and other sites like StumbleUpon.
MORE UPDATES: How to transfer your StumbleUpon data to Mix
Here is the link you need to transfer your StumbleUpon links to Mix:
https://mix.com/setup/migrate
Mix has put out a statement regarding transferring your StumbleUpon content to Mix.
StumbleUpon has also made public additional information about the link transfers.
UPDATE:
According to reports, StumbleUpon sharing buttons no longer work. This makes sense since StumbleUpon is defunct.
The code for Mix sharing buttons is currently being tested.
I will continue to bring updates on the situation.
Related Post:
Sites like StumbleUpon, which have the potential to bring mass traffic, are hard to come by. Flipboard has that potential.Â
Flipboard is another popular content curation site. Flipboard also has the potential to bring you new traffic without creating new content.
Readers, please share so former Stumblers discover Mix’s potential.
“The new app is more like the old SU interface. Video and images with like, dislike algorithms to learn what you prefer seeing. Quite frankly it’s rubbish. So far I’ve seen kids videos skate boarding and a picture of a fox. Responses to my feedback forum posts have been childish. As is the content now. I mixed heavily in politics, Corona, various film universes, and trending news plus blogging articles.
Currently, the desktop version is still functional. But my latest email indicates that will not be for much longer.
Not very impressive really.”
Do you know any sites like StumbleUpon? I look forward to your views in the comment section.
Sites Like StumbleUpon FAQ
Is Mix better than StumbleUpon?
No. In my experience of using Mix for several years, StumbleUpon generated mass traffic and Mix doesn’t.
What is Mix.com?
Mix is a content curation site. People using the now defunct site, StumbleUpon, flocked to Mix when Mix announced StumbleUpon morphed into Mix. However, bloggers don’t report seeing the same traffic boost from Mix they received from StumbleUpon.
Janice Wald is the founder of MostlyBlogging.com and co-founder of the Mostly Blogging Academy. She is an ebook author, blogger, blogging coach, blogging judge, freelance writer, and speaker. She won the Best Internet Marketer Award and the Best Blogger Award at the 2021 Infinity Blog Awards. Wald was also nominated as 2019 Best Internet Marketer by the Infinity Blog Awards and in 2017 as the Most Informative Blogger by the London Bloggers Bash. She’s been featured on Small Business Trends, the Huffington Post, and Lifehack.
