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While I deeply share your sentiments on this one, you should consider that Stumble provides the best traffic quality-wise from all other social media giants.

True, I don't use many other Social Media sites apart from Digg but I would say that StumbleUpon brings in the highest quality and number of visitors even if they don't really stay on your blog for very long.

I'm happy with the traffic. Sure maybe they don't always stick around… but maybe they do. I find lots of neat blogs when I am stumbling and I have subscribed to a lot more…

Yeah, I am happy with the traffic, but I just don't think that it is the best way to get people to comment on your blog or subscribe to your feed.

I normally read more than just the landing page of a blog when stumbling, but normally only if I like what I had landed on. When I say that, I don just mean content; if I like the content but hate the design of the website, most of the time I won't read more than just the landing page. Whereas if I like the design but don't like the content I will skim across some of the other posts. It's weird…

I agree with all your observations. I was excited at first when I saw all my blog traffic from stumbleupon, but I've since decided to focus on gaining quality readers.

Actually i believe traffic on your blog depends on your blog. By stumble upon you can bring traffic, but you can not hold them, so it depends on your blog. If you are not having good traffic on your post then you need to improve your blog.

For the least part, traffic generated by stumble is traffic and bloggers need it. But whether you hold this traffic or not is entirely up to your blog. If your blog is good people may actually bookmark it so they can comeback to read and comment etc.

You make a good point and ask a good question. I don't have the answer. However, I will say…StumbleUpon is bringing people to your site that would normally never be there…and as stated above, if your site is good, you might get some unexpected subscribers out of it.

Good luck to you!

It's true that SU users won't be staying for a long time but from my experience, it can bring a constant traffic to a blog compares to Digg, for my case I can get quite a decent amount from SU for a whole week if I write an interesting article

If you have a quality blog then you will get more readers. StumbleUpon could be the best way to get more traffic, because if readers find it interesting, there's a possibility that they will subscribe and bookmark your blog.

I don't quite agree with you on this one. For sure, search engine visitors are more likely to stick around but you will still get them as well as visitors from stumbleupon and I think a short term visitor is better than no visitor at all.

Some of my posts have had some massive traffic spikes from stumbleupon and I can see a direct relation to the amount of subscribers to my feed following a surge.

a recent post of mine has received more than 30k views from stumbleupon and my subscriber count went up by more than 50 just from that page (I set a goal for my subscribe page and analytics shows many of them were at the stumbled page before they subscribed)

I agree that it's not the be-all and end-all of traffic sources but, every bit helps!

Agreeably, short-term visitors are better than no visitors at all, because it helps to populate your blog even if the visitors don't read further than just the landing post. Some StumbleUpon visitors do subscribe to your feed, but as you have pointed out it is a very small amount; you received 30000 visitors to your blog from StumbleUpon and your subscriber count only increased by 50, that means that only 0.0016% of those visitors subscribed to your feed.

I am not really sure whether normal visitors would have a higher percentage, but just thought I would point that out.

I obviously don't benefit as much from StumbleUpon as you do, though. My blog isn't as well-known or popular as yours; I only get a mere 1000-3000 visitors a month. Maybe if my blog was a little more active and popular, I would benefit from StumbleUpon visitors and they would probably stay on my blog a little longer.

Anyway, thanks for taking the time to leave a comment.

I disagree with you about that the people only come to read an article and then leave, this ain't true, I go through the website and read more about it sepcially when the writer is writing about attractive things and I may learn something new, many times I went to a website because of an article but then I find out that there are many things inside that webiste that are really interested, it is just depend on the reader him\herself,
About subsribing to the feed, well the only problems with that is the e-mails they gets. I guess those people who do those spam things made people really hate to type or register or subsribe anywhere in the web, not necessary in blog site but I mean everywhere on the internet,

For me I believe the article you wrote is nice even if I disagree with you, should you stop because only few subscribe? I don't think so,

Take care,
Regards.

Yeah, I agree with you. StumbleUpon could be a good start to get notice especially for the new bloggers. But I don't think that this is a good source for reliable traffic. But somehow it can contribute to the traffic that your website is getting.

I guess StumbleUpon can be used as a secondary traffic generator for your website. Because it still provide you with quality content and large number of visitors.
At the end of the day, SE still the primary source of traffic generator (in my opinion)

I can see that there are huge differences between quality traffic versus quantity traffic (huge numbers but might not be targeted). Depending on the purpose of your blog, one or the other will be more useful for you. To me StumbleUpon traffic is equal to quality traffic.

I concur with Joomla Guy. Thanks for posing this question. I think it inspired some good dailog. Keep on posting.

Extra traffic is never a BAD thing, they may not be the highest quality of hits, but if stumbleupon brings you 10 quality readers a month, or even every quarter, its ten more than you had.

I just checked my stats, and I have to agree with you to a point. the last 140 visitors from StumbleUpon stayed for an average of 5 seconds. I too got excited the first time 40 people showed up in a matter of hours from StumblUpon only to be dissapointed. Having said that, some of my stuble entries have caused Google to rank me higher on certain keywords which appear both on my site and in the Stumbleupon directory. That accounts for hundreds of visits per month.

I use stumbleupon and other social networks to increase traffic towards my website.I think this traffic is reliable and adsense safe. However , if someone will try to spam stumble. His account will be automatically deleted.

I think the best quality visitors are by DIgg
also I knw that stumbleupon visitors are of low quality some of them just click stumble and then again stumble and they are counted to the visitors
even when they dont stay for much

But I think if even out of 25 visitors even 1 stays for more than 3 – 5 min that means SU has succeeded :)

Stumblers stumble for fun so when you look at the stats their bounce rate is just obscene for monetization purposes or to grow a blog readership it really is worthless.

Absolutely stumble upon users very rarely subscribe to your feed indeed! And this is also true that Stumblers stumble for fun. The best quality visitors are no doubt from digg and delicious indeed!

r u sure su traffic is not that good?i have been benefited a lot from it.some of my startup sites have gathered steam from su?i think its very usefull.

I have to agree with you that Stumble traffic is not that great – I've lately been getting around 4000 visitors a month to a particular page on my blog that was stumbled a couple of months ago. They don't stay for more than about 23 seconds on average and certainly the vast majority don't bother to read anything else, comment or even click on an ad to leave the site. So what purpose do they serve? Well by my reckoning, a few people make comments and a few people will subscribe to my feed by email or reader, so slowly but surely I'm building up a community. There are probably other ways to do it, but sometimes it's enough to write a really good post and then stumble it yourself.

As part of a healthy diet of promotion, every little helps!

It is the best traffic in my opinion. Create good content and they'll stay. Pedople on SU aren't technically driven… they are typical internet users… not programmers and wed designers… get that through your head and you wont have any problems…\

Do diggers subscribe? redditors? Nope… and the time spent on a page is higher for SU when compared to either of those to. Kind of an inane post here.

I think stumbleupon is a great tool to bring users to a site if used and tagged properly. However, failure to do so could drive poor traffic and promote high bounce rates,

I really don't care about stumpleupon. In the past my websites received thousands of visits from stumbleupon, but such traffic lasted only a day or so. So it's a big boom one day, then one or two months nothing, and then again. Let's compare results… During the last 30 days Google sent 140K+ visits (that's just text search!) to my primary site. Images.Google.something sent almost 20K visits during these same 30 days. And stumbleupon? 13 visits.

For me, Google rulez!