Stumbling Along with StumbleUpon
Posted on August 16th, 2007 by John Cow under Guest Bloggers, Traffic TipsWant to Learn How to Build a Business Not Just a Blog.. for FREE? CLICK HERE Now to Find Out How!
Post by Becky @ PreBlogging.com. Becky takes the simple approach to explain blogging topics with a no nonsense approach to things.
What is StumbleUpon ?
StumbleUpon.com is a unique website, which allows users to jump from random website to random website. It’s great for idling the evening away. It comes in the form of a tool bar add-on for Internet Explorer, and via this you can rate sites and submit new sites. The more positive stumbles a site receives, the more likely StumbleUpon will send users your way.
What can StumbleUpon do for me ?
Here is a link to my StumbleUpon page for preblogging.com/blog. It was submitted here sometime last week, and has received 11 positive votes, which has resulted in almost 800 unique visitors. StumbleUpon also offers users to pay for views too. Prices run at about 5 cents per visitor. With getting in essence free visitors to your site, you can be sure that the numbers of commentators and the numbers of people subscribing to your blog will increase.
Will StumbleUpon make me rich ?
Sadly, the answer to this is no. StumbleUpon users aren’t known for being great ad clickers (like digg.com traffic), but it can be a good way to increase your traffic and to get some people to start to read your blog or websute.
How to get traffic via StumbleUpon
Some of the more interesting things I’ve noticed in the past is that the more friends you have and the more reviews of the pages you have the better the traffic will be. I’ve also found that contacting the top stumblers and getting them to review your site doesn’t hurt either. You can find the list of top stumblers here.
For More you can go to PreBlogging.com and read my 5 Step Guide to start Blogging
Edit: let’s all stumble this article to see what exactly Stumble Upon can do!
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Really nice post Becky. I enjoyed reading it, simple and to the point. It also is a productive post relating to the intent of this blog. 5 stars
Wonder Why it doesn’t register me as a mybloglog user?
nice post becky, but i also have a question. does anyone know what is the template where you paste your mybloglog code? whats the name of the php file? speaking of templates johncow is switching it up
Thanks John for publishing this & thanks OnPulseIM for your nice comment.
LOL I wonder if she should call him Bob instead.
Great blog, thanks for the tips! I’m digging this guest posting month, all of the different points of view, fantastico!
Thanks for stumble upon tips. I have been using stumble upon for a month now. But I’ve never got any traffic from it yet.
Btw, who won the cowpetition?
We’ll reveal that in about 3 hours.
I hope it’s me!
Nice. When a stumble is done right, it works wonders. It should be noted that most stumblers don’t last more than a few seconds on your site hence giving false stats on number of visitors. If someone lands on your site about as fast as they get off, I don’t think should count, unfortunately any stat tracker would count it as traffic anyway.
Ideally in order for you to retain those visitors longer than the split second they are on your site, you should have something that is attention grabbing.
In my experience StumbleUpon is a lot better than Digg. A few days back I got a few stumbles for a post on my blog and a large number of new visitors visited my site.
Another one of those traffic sources I’ve seen and ignored. At only 11 stumbles for 800 visitors I may have to go back and have another look at it.
It’s closer to 1,100 now. Which ain’t bad at all.
great tips!! MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
Stumbleupon is great for traffic, it seems to be more of a consistent traffic as well.
With digg you get all the visitors in one day with stumbleupon it seems to be spread out overt 4 or 5 days
Stumble Upon is great for traffic, on my site inmoviereviews.com (while it was still up to date and before my computer problems) I had one article on that receive over 15K unique visitors just to one of the articles.
Was great, are they still around ? No, but while it lasted was great.