I've been a fan of StumbleUpon for almost 6 months, and here's why:
The above image shows the traffic stats from the StumbleUpon toolbar to SEOmoz since the beginning of the year. While these numbers are by no means overwhelmingly large, my impressions of StumbleUpon is that the traffic is fantasticaly well-targeted, savvy and looking for viral content. Stumblers tend to have accounts at Digg, Del.icio.us, Reddit and others and more than once, I've seen Stumble traffic lead to a re-surgence of traffic to a particular site or page that Stumblers have given high marks.
To be honest, I'm also a user of the toolbar. I have it installed on my laptop, home machine and work computer and will occasionally "stumble" while chatting on the phone, waiting for a process or when I feel burned out. It may seem counterintuitive to use the web for random navigation - something that only Stumbleupon offers - but to me, it's relaxing, fun and exposes me to content I'd never see on my own.
Last Sunday, i submitted links to a few articles from one of my sites. At the same time, I also sbmitted the same links to digg. Within 3 hours, I had received about 250 hits, with the vast majority, around 85%, being driven by stumbleupon.
We're relatively new to blogging definitely new to the tricks of the trade. We're told we've outlasted your average blogger and that they tend to quit after three months if they don't get good results. We've got 90 posts or so on SU and while it's made up about 15% of our recent traffic...our traffic has never built up much past 20-30 visitors a day so far, a few times we've gotten 70 or a hundred but that's it, haven't noticed any one page getting a huge influx from SU yet. We don't have an SU icon on our main page though, let alone each post. Do you think that's necessary to see major traffic or is it all just a matter of content not coming across well? Does anybody know for sure if the number of thumbs up for a certain page increase the likelihood of getting randomly stumbled upon? I'm curious about how their little algorithm works for what comes up when you hit that button at random. I'm a big fan of SU as a user but not as a blogger.
Thanks for sharing the info. I have beenn using digg, delicious, etc but have not used stumbled upon. Judging by peoples experience it seems like a good method to drive extra traffic. I am going to give it a try for sure.
OMG I've just discovered StubleUopn this afternoon (I know slow but hey 2 1/2 months in SEO without tech OR marketing background? I needed sometime to catch up!) and I've managed to waste an entire day. But at least I can log my time as "research" and it truly is an awesome thing. I'll have to watch it though. I could easily get lost in this wonderful world of awesome content. Love it! Ok I'm done now. :)
I went and drop about $60 in the stumble ads and my initial thought was that the ROI was not worth it. How ever after the ad stoped i found that i was still getting traffic from Stumble. I ran the ads on 4 of my sites and it gave me a good indication of what sites people liked and which ones i needed to work on. Im still waiting to see how long the increase in traffic lasts.
Wow. That's pretty impressive. Heard a lot about Stumbleupon lately. I really should check it out. It could really help my blog.
Hey! how can I follow you on twitter? Can't find a link anywhere (yet)
Thanks.
By the way, any ideas how I can create more traffic for my blog at https://dtechweb-blog.com.
Dear Rand Fishkin Sir ....
Thank you very much for the article on Stumbleupon . I have a simple question with you. Since, I was using or submitting article from my blog www.myhsebnotes.com , The result visibility on Google Search is getting down. So I want to ask that, it is good for the Search Engine Optimization or Not ?? Does Google likes or Not to be links in Stumbel. Please reply me, Thank you.
i have sent out a few pages of my website http:www.hummingbird-guide.com to StumbleUpon. I have received a few hundren visitors each time. Then my page always dies.I seem no further traffic. What am I doing wrong?
Can anyone explain to me how this Stumble upon works? Everyone keeps saying they submit their sites and get 2k 4k traffic I have submitted a few article and site links and have not gotten a single view! I find that very strange. Can anyone help?
Thanks guys!
Check this article out: https://www.doshdosh.com/a-comprehensive-guide-to-stumbleupon-how-to-build-massive-traffic-to-your-website-and-monetize-it/
The trick to getting the most out of Stumbleupon is to be active on it. If you have more friends and use stumblupon before you submit your own articles, you will get more credibilaty and more initial visitors.
Also don't submit to many articles from the same website or you articles will get blocked for a small amount of time.
Regards,
Vunky from https://www.vunkyblog.net
Stumbleupon is very cool. I submitted my personal blog to stumbleupon just for kicks under the "arts" category. It sent me nearly 200 uniques in 24 hours, which for 0at is quite a bit of traffic.
good article and advice. just one person reviewed my site yesterday (shameless plug: www.cymru66.com) and my hits went from about 50 a day to almost 1000! hopefully some of them will return.
now if i could just find a few more people to write some reviews...
any offers?
--steve
I really use it to find new websites/content on a certain subject. I feel like it's walking in a librarie full of books on a specific subject, and you randomly pick a book here and there and take a peek in it..
I use it for my SEO Blog as well, and it brings in nice traffic if you have good articles and other people are giving you the thumbs up as well :)
Stumleupon does bring good quality traffic - a very nice surprise when seeing these referrers for the very first time. :-)
It also helps them become even more popular - Webmasters are checking out where this substantial amount of referrers are coming from - then spreading the word via blogs and word of mouth.
I agree that stumbleupon is great for discovering new sites related to topic X, and a great source of locatin potential readers/subscribers/customers. However, I think (from my limited experience/dataset) the traffic is far off from being well targeted.
If I compare clickpath depths (ie. how deep users go to site) and CTR between users coming trough search engines vs. users coming trough SU, then the search engines totally outperform SU traffic in both metric. I don't know if this what rheinstein says - stumblers require a better quality page than normal users, or then they are just techies looking for specific information and leaving the minute they find it.
I'd definetely love to read what others have noted about SU traffic *quality* vs. SE traffic quality.
I agree, Stumbleupon is really a cool tool. I tried it for a page of mine. But to be honest: i got some visitiors, sure - but unless you haven´t got a real outstanding website the visits won´t last long... ;-)
A few more numbers... one of my sites had 1007 stumble visitors in June, 1445 in July, and 845 for August (as of last night).
On this site Stumble visitors view more pages than average and spend just a little less time than my average visitor.
A few month's ago I was getting a couple hundred visitors per day from stumble Original stumble article. But that has gone down - perhaps because I have given the thumbs up to lots of other sites in my theme. lol
Thanks for the original stumble article EGOL. I installed the toolbar after reading that and had quite a bit of fun. I credit stumbleupon with leading me to pandora.com which I now use almost everyday.
As a side note, IMO it is a great idea to mention stumbleupon here on your blog. If you persuade your readers to install the toolbar then you have likely increased the number of your pages that will get a thumbs up which will increase your traffic. Good move.
only negative thing is that you need the toolbar..
It would be great if you just could add 2 thumbs to your blogposts where people can click on to 'stumble-rate' your posting..
One of my sites receives consistent monthly traffic from StumbleUpon but it does arrive in clumps. I can go days where the activity is less than 20 visits and then it will explode to 5000 over the course of 3 days only to return to the lower level for a few more days. I find it interesting.
I'd say my use of the product is similar to Rands. While I may not Stumble every day, when I do I generally find some interesting content.
I've had some great traffic, but have seen that stumbleupon readers do not translate well into subscribers. After a stumbleupon driven traffic spike, I will see my subscriber stats triple or quadruple for a day, but then they always churn away within 2-3 days. A very fickle audience.
I've had some really surprising increases in traffic from StumbleUpon - in 3 days I got about 24000 hits directly referred from stumbleupon. Check out the graph here: https://mattbloguk.blogspot.com/2006/10/stumbl... Its pretty remarkable I'm sure you'll agree!
After an initialy 'stumbling' as I like to call it, there seems to be a background noise that is maybe 2 or 3% of the peak hits that carries on afterwards. I'll have to wait and see how long this affect lasts!
Interesting stuff.
Ironically, I just submitted this page to StumbleUpon. We'll see how it does **Wicked Grin**
Stumbleupon sent over 2000 uniques to an article of mine of one of my sites in just under 48 hours. In addition, I still have people coming in slowly but surely.
Stumbleupon is great - the traffic is targetted, because people are profiled according to what sites they like and dislike. Therefore, if they get to your site, it is because it has been predetermined that they will like it.
I fully agree ...
One of my niche site got a surge in traffic. I created some code for webmasters to add StumbleUpon button into any website.
https://www.articlestools.com/articles/stumble...
The code given by SU are mainly for blogs.
Hope my script can help you guys to get more submissions !
Well, the secret lies in various online advertising programs. And one of the most popular programs is the 'ADSENSE' PROGRAM. Adsense program works by serving 'targeted' ads on website. Whenever someone visit your website, those ads are displayed and you earn $$$$$s.