StumbleUpon Traffic Trips
My initial attempt to build traffic for my website involved the use of StumbleUpon for almost a year and I love the concept. I figured it would be a good way to get persons aware of my website easily. There are a number of posts and articles I’ve read which suggest the same and give you tips on the best way to get good traffic from StumbleUpon and some that suggest that StumbleUpon traffic isn’t worth getting. My experience has me between both points of view. I have yet to understand the secret of StumbleUpon traffic. I have used StumbleUpon a total of five times on two websites, one being this blog. I can say for certain that almost all StumbleUpon visitors do not go any further than the landing page. I myself am guilty of that when I am stumbling; I simply review the site and click stumble again, if the website interests me intensely I will bookmark it in hopes of coming back to at some time in the very far future.
Here is a table showing the visitor responses I got for my website and for my blog when i stumbled a few pages. The visitors are those that I got within the first 24 hours of submission.
| Website | Visitors |
| First new stumble | 149 |
| Second new stumble | 9 |
| Third new stumble | 205 |
| Blog | Visitors |
| First new stumble | 124 |
| Second new stumble | 9 |
As you can see there is a fluctuation in the traffic when a new page of my site is newly stumbled. I have yet to figure out what exactly makes a new stumble more popular than another, but I’m guess it has something to do with the tags used in describing the particular page. Another strange thing is there was a time I was averaging about 40 - 50 new visitors a day from stumble upon, a steady flow of traffic without me creating any new stumbles from pages on my site, and then it just stopped suddenly one day.
Granted all of this I currently take the stance that StumbleUpon traffic is extremely unpredictable. I recommend it for ordinary websites but not so much for blogs. StumbleUpon users bookmark as they go along but bloggers are more interested in getting rss subscribers.
I will continue to experiment with StumbleUpon and give further observations when I have much more comprehensive and conclusive data.
Thanks for reading.
