Comments on: Best Traffic Source – Digg, Del.icio.us, or StumbleUpon?

By: SEPTom

SEPTom — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:23:20 +0000

I love StumbleUpon. From an SEO standpoint, I’ve used it to generate instant traffic and awareness of client websites and, from a personal standpoint, I’ve used it to discover hundreds more websites than I ever could through traditional search.

Here’s everything you want to know about StumbleUpon…and maybe more!

http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/social-media-by-the-numbers-stu mbleupon.html

By: Affiliate Truth

Affiliate Truth — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:19:55 +0000

I prefer StumbleUpon over Digg. I dread hitting Diggs Front page has a nature of trashing servers!

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This Week In SEO - 10/12/07 - TheVanBlog — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:03:37 +0000

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By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:15:09 +0000

The fact that StumbleUpon is listed in this elite group isn’t surprising. Ultimately, if you look at page views and bounce rate, it becomes a bit less impressive.

If you stumble into a restaurant, how likely are you to order? If you planned to go to that business in the first place, the chance for a sale is much better.

By: unTECHy

unTECHy — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:20:59 +0000

I had no idea that ebay owned stumbleupon.com

I’m a stumble junkie. I can spend hours a day stumbling when I’ve got nothing else to do.

It’s how I found your site btw and I love it.

Thanks for the post.

By: Chris [TK]

Chris [TK] — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:18:46 +0000

for the moment I only use Digg & StumbleUpon, but most of my visitors came from StumbleUpon

as for del.icio.us – I think I’ll start using it too

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:40:19 +0000

Micah, that’s an interesting point about the results you’re looking for. Not all traffic is created equal and traffic that’s good for one site isn’t necessarily good for another.

I’ll also say that how you get that traffic comes into play. If you have content that genuinely appeals to the community then they’ll probably visit, like your content, and stick around for more. If you try to submit traffic that the community isn’t interested in just to get the traffic then it shouldn’t surprise you if they visit and quickly leave.

By: Micah Johnson

Micah Johnson — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:46:35 +0000

For having a new blog, StumbleUpon can generate some instant and impressive traffic results. For the most part, I’ve the seen the bounce rates from stumblers lower than other referring sites.

It really depends on the results that you are looking for. If you want ad clicks, it may not be the best tool.

However, if you have content and you want people who will be interested in your content, then StumbleUpon may be a good referrer.

It is also apparent that Digg will not generate the type of traffic that StumbleUpon can even with the larger amounts of unique visitors unless you are on the main pages.

By: money maker

money maker — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:11:40 +0000

for publisher like me, i find stubmleupon user is ad blind

but i welcome any kind of traffic that comes

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:49:55 +0000

Seocracy I actually find stumblers to bounce less than any other source of traffic that comes to my site.

By: Seocracy

Seocracy — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:05:11 +0000

Good call on StumbleSpam.

We have been gaming Stumble Upon for quite a while now. The thing is, with stumble upon all you have to do is get a network of people together to share and trade stumbles. Once your network of friends reaches a critical mass, its easy to get your site over the ‘stumble-threshold’ and see some pretty decent traffic. Lately they have discrediting alot of stumbles that come from the same network of people, so automation and mass account creation looks like it will be necessary in the near future. However, I doubt it is worth the effort. Why?

Because there one critical issues with stumble upon: The traffic bounces like crazy (meaning people stumble to your page and then bounce to another stumble right away) and also, what traffic does actually stick tends to convert VERY poorly.