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2,208 Reasons Why StumbleUpon Is Your Friend
October 11, 2008
A while back we touched on StumbleUpon, the social bookmarking site, and its do’s and dont’s. I spoke about how you can use StumbleUpon to leverage traffic to your site.
I’ve mentioned how I get a steady flow of traffic from SU that ranges from 200-500 daily visits and that you can too. In the post mentioned above I wrote how you can achieve the same thing.
Some people explained how they weren’t able to do this, but were after they read my post. Now they haven’t reached steady consistent traffic, but they’ve had some nice traffic spikes here and there using the strategies described in my post.
Some of you still haven’t gotten around to do it yet. Maybe it sounds too good to be true. Maybe it seems like a lot of work.
Really, it’s not.
But here’s some encouragement as to why you should. Now, I must mention I’m not bragging — everyone’s a critic nowadays so I have to make that clear from the beginning.
Recently, I received 2,208 visits from StumbleUpon ALONE in just one single day. You can check out the proof below.
In the picture above you can see straight lines with about three spikes popping up. The straight lines represent traffic at around 150 to 250 daily visits from SU alone — traffic coming from SU has actually been slow the past several days. It’s not what we average.
You can see Google Analytics showing that on October 8, 2008, StumbleUpon sent 2,208 visits.
No Big deal
Now that’s not that big of a deal compared to other sites, but it’s just to encourage my readers to take advantage of, what I consider to be the best social bookmarking site, StumbleUpon.
So you might be wondering if there is anything specific that happened that sent me that much traffic on that particular day. Well something did. My post, StumbleUpon Do’s and Dont’s, received its 30th review that day.
So, 30 reviews, and next thing I know I get 2,208 visits from SU. Some other factors could have been the cause of this, but I’m pretty sure that’s what did it. The review was made before the traffic showed up.
I know because I had already checked my stats for the day and it was normal.
I check my reviews on the post (by chance), then I go to my dashboard in my WP to check on comments, and come to see my WP Stats graph up to like 4,000 something pageviews.
That’s when I went back to Google Anylitics and came to find my 2,208 reasons why StumbleUpon is your friend.
Now are you ready to use StumbleUpon?
What are your thoughts on this? Was this enough to get you using StumbleUpon? Or do you still, if you did, think it’s not worth your time and effort? Please, enlighten us in the comment section.
The thing that I get a kick out of is opening the WP dashboard and seeing that there are “Currently: 257 users online.”
Wow, you have awesome bounce rates. I mean 33% on SU traffic?..
I am no actively using SU mostly because it’s pain to work with it in Opera. Maybe when they polish new in-page toolbar. I do get occasional traffic spikes when someone does initial review on post but spike dies in few hours.
I started using Firefox this week, just so that I could use the StumbleUpon toolbar. Once I build up my network, I’m going to pull one of my best posts (Maybe Eighth Wonder of the World) and see if it will blow up.
I’ve gotten some good traffic spikes fro SU, too, though it’s been a while. The thing that impresses me is the residual traffic I got from SU (RSS subscriptions went up) and I still get some traffic from those old “Stumbles.”
True. My presence in Stumbleupon has created a stable and steady quality traffic over one year which has made our site come in Number One listings on front pages of Google searches if somebody searched for our town information like “Rajahmundry Information” . Our website is only one year old and the major sites who have 10 to 12 years web presence left behind and sometimes pages behind us. But Digg failed us !!!
Wow, Luis! That is outstanding. Yes, that is enough to get me to use SU, LOL! I am believer in the numbers. Before I get into SU deeply, I need to get my Permalinks in order, so I will taking care of that soon.
Thanks for article, good stuff!
SU is a great source of constant traffic even if you do get a rush and it dies down. Caroline Middlebrook offers a Traffic Rush course centered around StumbleUpon. There are, I believe 10 free lessons and more paid for. Worth checking out - http://www.caroline-middlebrook.com/blog/.
I am amazed. I have been a SU user since ‘06 and it’s crazy to see that it’s actually taken this long to realize the potential of it. I spend as many hours clicking that little button with the logo that does a head fake so you don’t know where you’re going. It’s cute. Also, firefox. And utorrent. =]
Everyone needs friends like this!