The Power of Stumble Upon
This blog has enjoyed 25 – 50 unique visitors per day for some time now. I’ve felt blessed to have this amount of traffic and great commenters, because this blog has always served as a way for me to organize my thoughts on business, entrepreneurship, and personal finance. I’m truly honored when someone visits the sight and lets me know that they found some useful information.
I’ve always had the expectation that this blog would slowly grow and gain a couple of new readers a week…AND THEN SOMEONE STUMBLED UPON MY SITE. The graph below shows what that meant for me.
As you can see, two days ago I had a HUGE SPIKE in unique visitors and page views. I quickly went to statcounter.com to see where these visits were coming from. Nearly every one was from Stumble Upon. I have yet to figure out exactly how stumble upon works, but I’m going to, because my traffic has been through the roof since Feb. 2 and so has my site earnings. Absolutely Amazing!
So if you were the blessed person who decided to Stumble my site, THANK YOU! When I figure out Stumble Upon and who you are, I will surely return the favor!
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February 5th, 2009 at 3:13 am
Stumble upon can definitely send you a lot of traffic but it doesn’t seem to always work. Awhile back I did a post that included a video of me delivering a joke and I asked for people to stumble it if they liked what they saw. I only got 5 people to stumble it, but these came complete with reviews which apparently are supposed to be the most valued kind. Unfortunately it didn’t result in any traffic at all. Weird considering that some posts that have only had one stumble are still receiving traffic. Can’t work that one out at all.
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February 5th, 2009 at 3:56 am
Great post! And don’t you just love StumbleUpon? It can send you tons and tons and tons of traffic. If you ever need any help or mentoring on it, definitely let me know! I’d be more than happy to show you the ropes! :=)
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February 5th, 2009 at 4:22 am
I have NEVER been able to get any results from StumbleUpon and yet many swear by it. AlmostMillionaire, if you get the skinny on it, PLEASE hook me up with some knowledge!
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February 5th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
LOL, I had the exact same reaction when one of my posts got stumbled! That was a pretty gosh-darn good day. Although the vast majority of SU visitors will never be back, there’s always a chance that some will become part of a long-term traffic base.
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February 6th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
StumbleUpon is tough. Most people who hit you with stumble upon leave seconds after arriving. And what’s worse, it’s hard to replicate the success you had on stumbleupon. Still, it’s a nice spike and when it happened to me, my daily visitors stayed up slightly higher from then on.
Hope it helps!
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February 7th, 2009 at 2:27 am
I have seen the same type of behavior on my site. One day there will be a huge spike in page hits all from Stumble.
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February 27th, 2009 at 6:25 am
i think Stumble upon is best one to get traffic for websites on wallpaper or images … and its followed by other social bookmarking sites too.
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February 8th, 2009 at 2:56 am
I’ve never signed up for StumbleUpon; not quite sure why. I know why I didn’t sign up for Digg, because it was starting to get a bad rep. The only thing I can think of is that I just hate signing up for so many things that I know I’m probably not going back to. Does that make sense?
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February 8th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
Social Media can get you alot of traffic for sure. Stumble upon will give you crazy spike in traffic and then it will decrease and again a spike will come
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February 9th, 2009 at 3:45 am
I’ve had some tremendous days with SU and some days that have be scratching my head wondering where the traffic went. I think SU loves to keep it a mystery how the traffic thumbs up and review system impacts traffic. I will say that I have some good steady traffic each day from some of my older posts. It’s great to see momentum building with SU traffic and maybe once a month I get a good traffic surge. Also, SU is just like any other social network community where it pays to be social.
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February 9th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
I’ve had some days where I’ve gotten loads of traffic from stumbleupon, the traffic lasted for a few days but it didn’t stay for long. Stumbleupon is great for quick traffic, but it’s tough to keep them coming. Nice job on getting some hits from stumble upon, hopefully it’ll continue like that for a good amount of time.
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February 18th, 2009 at 4:58 am
i use stumbleupon and few other social bookmarking sites as well for traffic on few of my sites … but have noticed that there is loads of traffic but we cannot expect them as a returning visitors in future … very few people from that traffic return back but still i would say traffic from SB sites are for limited period of time.
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February 26th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
I’m glad to see you got some love from StumbleUpon. Although I’ve never gotten “stumbled upon”, my brothers have, and in doing so received a lot of traffic for a few days. If you can get some return visitors from that traffic, you’re doing pretty well!
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February 27th, 2009 at 5:58 am
@ Hip Hop Music :- returning visitors is the main thing which matters for decent traffic which every site owner needs … but i don’t think stumbleupon traffic can be as a returning traffic … as per my site traffic experience from Stumbleupon.
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March 21st, 2009 at 6:16 pm
When you guys figure out the magic behind it please let me know… I’ve Stumbled my on work just to put it out there but may have had 1 click as a result and have since given up chasing it.
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