I have stubmled yesterday on this page that shows a series of answer from top stumblers to two questions:

1. What do you usually look for to stumble (article, video and podcast)?

2. What do you advice bloggers to do in order to increase their chances of getting stumbled upon?

It is interesting to see what the top stumblers say:

- it is important to participate in the community: vote on other pages, discover interesting pages, join groups, network with other users with similar interests;
- have a clean design to your site;
- make the content as readable as possible: stumblers have to be “caught” in your content because another page, maybe a lot more interesting, is at a click of the mouse away;
- catch the attention of the stumbler: use images, use an interesting introduction;
- do not spam other users requestiong votes.

There are more ideas in the responses of the stumblers, but basically: entertain and offer interesting information.

Among these new sites, I used Shoutwire. And guess what: Shoutwire proves to be a great traffic source, even better than Netscape for some subjects (Netscape remains, in my opinion, the best site for getting traffic for news outside of technology). But, what I didn’t really expect is the side traffic Shoutwire sends: I had almost the same amount of traffic (aprox. 2000 uniques) from TorrentSpy. Shoutwire allows anybody to get their news feed and use on their own site and this is what TorrentSpy did.

So, is it worth getting your news on the front page on Shoutwire? If you have a site that targets a younger audince, celebrities, extreme sports, fun, auto, moto and the likes, that is the site to go (I would even ignore Digg for most of the part).

Have fun, I am going back to Shout!