StumbleUpon’s New Features for Increased Web Traffic

*This article was first featured at Technorati.com

StumbleUpon.com recently  received a new design and some new features that the social media company is  hoping will increase their web traffic and social stats.

The claims are that they have made changes so that it’s now easier to Stumble  and explore new and interesting content from all over the Web.

New key features include:

~ An improved and easier to use StumbleBar

~ New Channels to explore from your favorite sites, people and brands

~ The Explore Box: just type a word or phrase and see amazing new  Stumbles

StumbleUpon’s management wants the site to be seen as a new way to search the  web, and are attempting to appeal to businesses as well as website owners.

Channels features will now allow every site, celebrity, brand or business to  set up their own profile and get people to follow them on StumbleUpon, adding an  experience similiar to other social sites. Currently there are 250 launch  partners for the StumbleUpon channels.

Their mobile apps have been designed also to pull content that comes from the  new channels, but you won’t be able to manage your channels from the mobile apps  right away, this will come in the future and is expected soon.

Do you use StumbleUpon to drive social web traffic, leave me a comment and tell me about it?

Mark “The Web Traffic Reporter” Brown