Comments on: Is Stumble traffic really good traffic?

By: bag321

bag321 — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 02:25:38 +0000

I think it can be frustrating get so much traffic, have seen great changes

By: social network ing

social network ing — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:11:09 +0000

I myself do have stumbleupon buttons on my blog. I have got a good decent response as far as traffic is concerned. However I am not too sure if this is more than enough or not.

By: Lifecruiser

Lifecruiser — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:13:23 +0000

Good writing. I agree. I’ve a couple of posts that is very popular on Stumbleupon now. I’m getting worried that Stumbleupon soon has taken over the feared “Digg effect”. (I actually have Digg referrers stopped by my .htaccess file even though I also have a plugin that is said to stop this kind of effect too)

I find no use for this kind of masses of visitors. It’s too few of them that’s giving something back, they’re only wasting my bandwidth.

I’ve also been tossing back and forth with the thought of installing a social bookmarking plugin for WP or not, so far the not-side has won

By: Silki Garg

Silki Garg — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:34:40 +0000

I have been using stumbleupon as a great timepass, as I have never been able to get enough traffic on my blogs from them.

By: Achieve financial freedom

Achieve financial freedom — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:00:16 +0000

My experiences with Stumbleupon are very similar. Just think about how someone uses Stumbleupon; they click on the Stumble! button, see a new website, SCAN! the post (in 99%) and either give it a thumbs up or down AND move to the next Stumble.

People who use Stumbleupon are very bored. They need the fix of a new website every few seconds.

So no real benefits from Stumblers except very few exceptions.

By: Elizabeth Jackson

Elizabeth Jackson — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:19:29 +0000

Interesting post and great points from Dave.

I agree that it can be frustrating to get that much traffic and not see great conversion… But also… even if the Stumbleupon traffic isn’t really “paying out” immediately, you could also ask “why not”? It obviously isn’t hurting a site to get traffic from Stumbleupon, and any traffic at all does help with brand awareness. So even if the traffic doesn’t convert as well as traffic from other sources, it can still benefit in some way, and is worth getting. After all, all it takes is clicking on the Stumbleupon thumbs up.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:06:22 +0000

Stumbleupon doesn’t bring exclusively empty visits (for instance, I stumbled on this site) but the majority of them certainly are. Although I’m surprised that Digg is any better.

I suppose the main difference is the big Stumble! button in the toolbar, ready to take you to another site as soon as you’re finished with this one. It’s so easy to click when compared to clicking the back button or closing the tab you opened for the new site and finding the old tab with Digg in it again.

Of course, the other main thing would be the number of Digg users (and I’m sure this applies to Slashdot and others just as well) who never click through to your site. It’s probably even greater than the number of Stumbleupon users but you don’t see them because they never hit your site and they never even see your advertising.

…and they never cause you any bandwidth or CPU load.

The other thing that makes Stumbleupon different from the others from a webmaster’s perspective is that the hits are slower, but they just keep coming. Digg loves your blog post for the first day it’s up but a Digging rarely lasts more than a day. Stumbleupon won’t send you 150,000 visitors in a day (I’ve seen that from Digg) but it will keep sending 5,000 every day for a month or two.

By: John Hunter

John Hunter — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 20:49:35 +0000

I have had some pages get stumbled with quite huge spikes in traffic. I very all traffic that is real people clicking on real links worthwhile. Yes it is much less likely to get the type of “conversion” (RSS subscribers say) for some random link than say a link in a blog post on a blog that is in your market segment. But I think my sites are good at what they do – a decent percentage of people that come that want that type of info will come back. I am happy to have surges of traffic from Stubble Upon or anywhere else. I’ll gladly upgrade my hosting account to support real live people visiting my sites.

By: LoanShark

LoanShark — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 20:48:39 +0000

Social bookmarking traffic doesn’t convert. It’s good for getting backlinks, however. You’d have to look elsewhere for ‘paying customers’.

By: rob

rob — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 20:09:09 +0000

I stumbled on this post and commented too

I hear you though, sometimes its just a quick transient visit. Thats been my experience with SU too. Still, if you get one good comment or one new subscriber then its a good thing right?