If you do not know already, just to let you know, StumbleUpon website is closed now and the whole StumbleUpon website is moved to a new website which is Mix. If you had a StumbleUpon account and you did not get an invitation to move your website from StumbleUpon to Mix, all your saved contents are gone from StumbleUpon. I know this sounds horrible! But this is true. If you are in blogging industry, you know that a lot of bloggers were getting huge traffic from StumbleUpon. But those traffic sources are lost. Specially for me, I used to get at least 50 hits from StumbleUpon. But now all gone and my social traffic has gone down. So, it became necessary for me to get StumbleUpon alternative to drive traffic to my blog.
As StumbleUpon website no redirects to the new Mix site, I had a look at Mix site which is quite similar to StumbleUpon website. You can add your contents under specific category. Though the site is not that popular in web, but I believe over the time, it will have the ability to drive more traffic than StumbleUpon. I think this is the best time to add all your contents to this site. I am quite sure, in the long run you will get additional advantage as an early bird.
Read About the StumbleUpon Alternative to Drive Traffic to Your Blog:
- This is quite easy to sing in to Mix. You can simply use your StumbleUpon account credential to sign in if you already had one StumbleUpon account. Otherwise, you can sign up for Mix.
- After signing up, it will ask you to add your interested. Simply, add some categories and start using Mix. You can always edit your choices later.
- Then you can go to your profile tab to complete the profile.
- There are mainly two way to add content to Mix.
- You can either use their web version and add content under category
- You can use their Google Chrome Extension to add contents while browsing the content. I personally use this feature cause it is convenient and easy to add content as you go.
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Adding Content in Mix using web version:
Once your are signed in, to add content, please click on the “+” which is showing on the screen below:
Then a new window will appear on the right sidebar. On that window, you will have to copy and paste the link of the post that you want to add under your Mix Profile.
Now, click on POST and it will pull up the content from the site and just below that you will be able to see some categories. At first, if you do not see any Category, please create one which is most relevant to the article and click on Done same as shown in the picture below:
Once you click on Done, your content will get added and it will be visible to other Mix users. Suppose your content is related to Search Engine Optimisation and another mix user search with this keyword, there might be a chance that you content will come up and they will visit your link to know more about your content.
Adding Content in Mix Using Google Chrome Extension:
The second and more convenient option to add content to Mix (StumbleUpon alternative to drive traffic) is using their Google Chrome extension. Simply install the Mix extension from this link and add to your chrome.
- Then click on the extension icon
- Choose a suitable tag or create a new tag which is relevant to the content and click on Done.
- You are all done! The content is added to Mix.
I hope the above article will help you to drive more traffic to your blog. I believe within no time Mix will become a big hit among the blogging community and people will use quite frequently to drive traffic. It will become the best StumbleUpon alternative to drive traffic to blog. Feel free to share this article with your fellow bloggers or in social media.
If you’d like to full StumbleUpon experience including automatically being taken to a new site each time, please check out Gimmeserendipity. I’ve built this as a clone of StumbleUpon (with minor differences) after StumbleUpon shut down. This is probably the closest site to offer the full StumbleUpon experience as of this writing; see the link for more details.