Comments on: StumbleUpon traffic really isn't all that good

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:41:35 +0000

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!

By: Simmons

Simmons — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:16:42 +0000

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,

By: Nick Cobb

Nick Cobb — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:55:31 +0000

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.

By: Dan O'Neil

Dan O'Neil — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:13:59 +0000

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!

By: Sonix

Sonix — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:09:28 +0000

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.

By: selena12321

selena12321 — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:50:52 +0000

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!

By: Mary Red Ring

Mary Red Ring — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:13:35 +0000

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.

By: Siddharth

Siddharth — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:35:30 +0000

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 :)

By: muzammal

muzammal — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:00:25 +0000

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.

By: Kit

Kit — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:29:28 +0000

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.