StumbleUpon Just Flooded My Blog with Visitors

TechieGuy · #1 (**permalink**) 12-05-2007, 07:18 PM

Hi all,

I write reviews for blogs and Web sites on my blog on Mondays, and this past Monday I wrote a review for a travel-type blog.

Today I checked my Web site statistics and noticed that I had over 200 visitors from StumbleUpon visit my site. Those visitors viewed my latest review on the travel blog.

I usually get 40-50 visitors per day in total at this moment, so the 200+ was a surprise to me. I'm guessing the author of the blog stumbled the review and then others picked it up. I'm sure everything will be back to normal tomorrow, but I wonder what else will happen with future reviews.

lisa · #2 (**permalink**) 12-05-2007, 07:42 PM

TechieGuy that's great! Every now and then I'll get a surge from stumbleupon too and even though it's short-lived, it's still nice to get the extra visits. Just think... even if only a handful subscribe to your RSS feed that's still well worth it. Congrats!

I didn't realize you wrote reviews for other blogs. Great tactic. I've heard a lot of people finding success doing that. Good for you.

Seems like a great way to build traffic long-term.

TechieGuy · #3 (**permalink**) 12-05-2007, 08:05 PM

Writing reviews was something I thought about for some time. My blog is about technology, but I wanted to review more than technology blogs and sites, so I thought about it a little as many of them won't be related to my blog.

I did decdie to do it for several reasons:

1. Provide others with at least one backlink from my site. This will help new blogs or those starting out with their sites. In return they may provide a link to my blog form their's. It has happened on one blog.

2. Provide some additional visitors that I may not otherwise get from technology searches alone, such as the StumbleUpon from today.

3. Get to view some interesting blogs and sites that I may not have found on my own.

4. Brush up on my review skills, just in case I decide to do paid reviews.

I usually try to be somewhat detailed in my reviews and it takes me about 2 hours to write one. The authors of the blogs/sites that I have reviewed have provided positve feedback to me, which helps to keep me going.

siyab · #4 (**permalink**) 12-06-2007, 07:31 AM

stumble upon is a great source of visitors. Whenever i write a new article on my blog, i always submit it to stumble upon and digg. stumble upon always crushes digg like a fly, in terms of traffic.

But only a fraction of that traffic gets converted into real loyal viisitors

Bingo · #5 (**permalink**) 12-07-2007, 03:06 AM

Stumbleupon is a great way to gain lots of traffic fast but for the most part it can be very difficult to convert the traffic into either long time readers or even customers. I always try and use catchy title that stands out from everyone else.

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Originally Posted by TechieGuy

I write reviews for blogs and Web sites on my blog on Mondays, and this past Monday I wrote a review for a travel-type blog.

On a side note Techie, make sure to get yourself up to speed on how Google view blog reviews etc.

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/sellin...pass-pagerank/

TechieGuy · #6 (**permalink**) 12-07-2007, 08:57 AM

Thanks for the info Gavin. I'll read up on how Google handles reviews.

siyab · #7 (**permalink**) 12-08-2007, 10:54 PM

well stumbleupon is a traffic source alright! I got 211 visitors from it yesterday(8th Dec). Only 1 day and 211 visitors!

But sadly, most of them didn't convert...

mclintst · #8 (**permalink**) 12-08-2007, 11:55 PM

Stumbleupon is amazing for traffic. One of my recent posts about fast food received over 5000 visitors in just 4 days. They averaged just over 2 pageviews each (10,819 total views).

Converting that traffic is not easy but I did pick up more than 20 new RSS subscribers.

I don't know if anyone else has had a problem with this, but I think google hates SU users. I track all the outgoing clicks (mybloglog does that for me too). In that 4 day period I had a ton of adsense clicks (can't post exact #'s because of TOS) but they were in the triple digits. Anyway adsense recorded all the impressions but I was credited for 0 clicks. I wrote to them but haven't heard back yet.

Back on topic SU is great for finding new sites too. Check me out I have the same user name there as I do here.

Techie guy thanks again for the review of my blog. It brought quite a bit of traffic to me.

Lisa how much traffic does SU generate for this site?

lisa · #9 (**permalink**) 12-09-2007, 02:06 AM

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Originally Posted by mclintst

Lisa how much traffic does SU generate for this site?

Zilch for this site, but it does wonders for my Site Build It! site.

TechieGuy · #10 (**permalink**) 12-10-2007, 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by mclintst

Techie guy thanks again for the review of my blog. It brought quite a bit of traffic to me.

Glad I could help.

TechieGuy · #11 (**permalink**) 12-15-2007, 04:00 PM

I got stumbled again today for the same post. A few hundred more users were sent to my site.

gdisites.com · #12 (**permalink**) 12-25-2007, 07:02 PM

I really need the room and can't stand having another toolbar taking up space I need to see financial charts and accounts (when browsing). Can I do anything with SU without another toolbar?

Quote:

Originally Posted by TechieGuy

Hi all,

I write reviews for blogs and Web sites on my blog on Mondays, and this past Monday I wrote a review for a travel-type blog.

Today I checked my Web site statistics and noticed that I had over 200 visitors from StumbleUpon visit my site. Those visitors viewed my latest review on the travel blog.

I usually get 40-50 visitors per day in total at this moment, so the 200+ was a surprise to me. I'm guessing the author of the blog stumbled the review and then others picked it up. I'm sure everything will be back to normal tomorrow, but I wonder what else will happen with future reviews.

Theresa · #13 (**permalink**) 12-25-2007, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by gdisites.com

I really need the room and can't stand having another toolbar taking up space I need to see financial charts and accounts (when browsing). Can I do anything with SU without another toolbar?

As far as I know you have to have the tool bar to use stumble, but you don't have to leave it up if you don't want to. I downloaded the toolbar and I just turn it on when I want to use it.

I am having a strange problem with my del.icio.us toolbar right now. It won't stay off. Every time my browser reloads, it re-appears, even though I uncheck it in my toolbar settings. I may have to give up IE7 and try out Firefox.

siyab · #14 (**permalink**) 12-25-2007, 09:38 PM

I found this cool Firefox plug in which allows you to hide the menubar! The menubar is only visible when you press the Alt key. I think that's great since I dont use the menubar so much. I use keyboard shortcuts. If you want to save some working space, this plugin is for you:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4762

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