What a great tool! I know it’s possible to drive great traffic from StumbleUpon but I never dreamed of getting massive traffic to my blog. Many people understimate the power of StumbleUpon and put Digg in the first place when they talk about social bookmarking websites but Digg has never sent me that much traffic.
StumbleUpon is a web browser plugin that allows its users to discover and rate webpages, photos, videos, and news articles. These webpages are typically presented when the user — known within the community as a Stumbler — clicks the “Stumble!” button on the browser’s toolbar. StumbleUpon chooses which new webpage to display based on the user’s ratings of previous pages, ratings by his/her friends, and by the ratings of users with similar interests. i.e. it is a recommendation system which uses peer and social networking principles.
I run two blogs. This one where I talk about blogging once a day and the other one is just offtopic blabbering where I post even up to ten times a day and I’ve stumbled both of them. When I first stumbled marketfederation.com it drove around 900 unique visitors in two days and I was so excited I wanted to tell the whole word about it and when I stumbled my other blog I got over 2,600 unique visitors just the first day! (the chart below shows stats for my second blog and the traffic is all from StumbleUpon)
Remember three most important things when stumbling your site:
1. Good content
2. A lot of content
3. Good niche
Your first stumble is important because StumbleUpon gives you a little extra traffic the first time and then you’re on your own so be sure your website/blog is ready for the market before publishing. Most important thing is that you stumble as many articles as possible every day so you get as much traffic as you can but your niche plays a big role in all this stumbling game since web 2.0 and entertainment website usualy do better than money-making, SEO or programming related websites. The traffic may not be as targeted as from search engines but I’ve got 30 RSS subscribers just the first day of stumbling so I don’t complain.
Don’t Buy Traffic, Use StumbleUpon…
What a great tool! I know it’s possible to drive great traffic from StumbleUpon but I never dreamed of getting massive traffic to my blog. Many people understimate the power of StumbleUpon and put Digg in the first place when they talk about social b…
hello daniel, i already have stumble account, how to stumble, i mean whats the next step after register, please guide me master 
I hear so many people talking about it, and how great it is. However, I have not really had any good luck with it yet. I guess I should start looking more into it. It looks like it’s worh it! Thank you for the motivation 
You’ve got 30 new RSS subscribers from Stumble in one day? Are you kidding me? I’ve got like 30K uniques from stumble in the last month, and very few new subscribers. I doubt there was any coming from there.
Actually, all the studies show up that stumble traffic doesn’t click ads, doesn’t subscribe and is hard to catch. If you’ve not made them interested in the first 5-10 seconds, they’re gone..
August 10, 2007
vangardx: First you should install a toolbar and then watch this short “how to” http://www.stumbleupon.com/demo_flash/demo.html
It’s all true what Mike said but it’s also known that entertainment websites do better than other and this is exactly what I’ve proven comparing my two blogs.
Here is my Feedburner’s screenshot
http://antiwrap.com/x46bc436e48646
and this is from awstats: duration time
http://antiwrap.com/x46bc435da0086
Don’t forget you can BUY stumbleupon traffic from stumbleupon themselves, for $0.10 a visitor. I’d use this to create an initial buzz, then if the article is good enough, it will often take off by itself without having to spend any more of the little green men.
Don’t Buy Traffic, Use StumbleUpon…
What a great tool! I know it’s possible to drive great traffic from StumbleUpon but I never dreamed of getting massive traffic to my blog. Many people understimate the power of StumbleUpon and put Digg in the first place when they talk about social b…
August 10, 2007
Ofcourse Paul, I forgot to mention payed stumbles. Thanks for reminding us!
I have to say, that I could not agree with you in 100% regarding o.us poetry, but it’s just my opinion, which could be wrong
Great Post!
If you want to get lots of traffic from stubleupon, you need to get as many votes as you can!
I have found an easy and fast way to exchange stumble votes and get lots of free traffic. You can check it yourself:
Good luck!
Dina
August 14, 2007
Dina, thanks for your tip! There’s also www.stumblexchange.com and a DP forum.
Thanks for the info, this looks great.. I will be giving it a go
One thing that you didnt mention was tagging and choosing the right category.
August 15, 2007
You’re right but I think everybody knows it wouldn’t be wise to submit your Pokemons site under Sex category :).
I can testify to the mass amounts of traffic StumbleUpon can send you. My [URL=http://www.avgjoeblogger.com/general/the-stumble-karma-experiment/]Stumble Karma[/URL] post got stumbled by quite a few people and I got about 10,000 visits in a few days. I’m still receiving stumbles for that post.
I’ve also got a bit of [URL=http://www.avgjoeblogger.com/link-lovin/join-the-stumbleupon-link-train/StubleUpon Link Train[/URL] going on that was started by Darin Carter.
August 19, 2007
Average Joe Blogger, thanks for posting! People don’t believe me when I say I get massive traffic from StumbleUpon and still getting to this day so thanks for your comments!
My experience is similar to yours, and I’ve written a guide to StumbleUpon traffic your readers may find interesting.
How To Get MORE StumbleUpon Traffic - A Guide For Beginners… And Experts
http://www.InfopreneurBlog.com
All success
Dr.Mani
November 11, 2007
Thanks for your contribution Dr.Mani!
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