I have some organic traffic. I have some links from friends and associated bloggers. I've joined online blogging communities like Bloggst, MyBlogLog and others. I participate in other blogs comments. But all that results in about 25% of my traffic. (or less).

Stumble upon provides the rest.

This is fascinating and relates back to my earlier post on Virtual Schrödinger's Law.

This traffic generating engine that is Stumble Upon represents a shift in the way traffic is garnered on the internet. You used to have to cultivate relationships, you used to have to suck up to power users. Now you don't.

Create a piece of content that is compelling enough, interesting enough, well written enough and get it submitted into Stumble Upon's database of URLs and let the horses run wild.

Democracy of Crowds

It's the democracy of crowds. I don't want to use "Wisdon of Crowds" because I have had both "wise" articles and foolish ones explode into a link spike from stumble upon.

The key then of course becomes to continue to generate quality content and feed the mouth of stumble upon.