Originally Posted by someguy

When you have no chance getting decent rankings in Googles organic index, go for social traffic. You need some sites with fresh, slightly sexy or funny content. They even do not have to look too professional. Make yourself an active, authority stumbleupon profile (many friends, many votes, many discoveries). This may take some weeks, but it will pay out. Then review your site with that account. Many people vote anything up. I managed to get 180k visitors with a copypaste-meme (slighty adapted), which came on digg and reddit frontpage, which is forgotten a few weeks later. The rest of social bookmarks (digg, reddit, etc.) will come by itself via other stumbleupon users. When it did not work, make a review of another site. Good sideeffects: Will will get many links to that site, but many are nofollow-links. But I still see traffic coming through those links.

Important: Do not place ads on your site, which you want to show stumbleupon. When the first 50 or 100 good reviews by other stumbleusers are there, the heat is on, the rest of the stumble-community will follow. Now you have the critical numbers of good votes and reviews, the big traffic will come and you can monetize your site with some ads.

Btw: You need good nerves and an anonymous stumble-account. Some responses will be very harsh And it does not hurt to have a stumble-profile picture with a sexy lady, because many users are male. But do not be too obvious.