Several posts from my blog for Liberty and New Creation have been stumbled by myself, some friends, and from some stumble exchanges on this site. But I'm not getting anything. Not even the initial boost your supposed to see. I've literally had only one visitor from stumbleupon in the last week, even though several people have stumbled my posts. Is there something I don't know? Thanks for the help!
stumbleupon probably won't generate you any revenue. However, I did notice that my site recieved a increase in traffic because of it randomly without me even knowing your site may do the same. It took a while it seemed like for my site to be noticed there.
I have read that, and have been following it. That's why I'm confused why I don't see any traffic at all. zip. zilch. nada. When I first signed up, I stumbled one of my ecommerce sites, and I had 300 visitors over the next 2 days. And that was just with one stumble! But even when I have several people stumbling my blog now, I'm not getting anything.
I took a quick look at your blog and it's just a bunch of stories. Even if they're written well, SU isn't the greatest place for long pages of text. Christianity has been Hijacked by Terrorists looks like a good title, but for SU, it needs some photos to make it appealing to someone that would otherwise be there for 1 second.
Interestingly enough I've started to wonder about the value of stumble-exchanges. I arranged to have a site stumbled by over 20 other people with no real change in traffic. I had my first genuine stumble recently (not someone I had arranged) and I had 300 stumble visitors in the subsequent 20 minutes. I have no proof at all - but I wonder if the stumble algorithm takes account of how visitors arrive at the page (i.e. direct traffic might not the same impact if someone thumbs it up after having arrived randomly) and/or people are weighted differently (i.e. a top stumbler will have more an impact than if you have an account that has only ever been used to stumble your own sites) Anyone else ever experience anything along these lines? Dylan
people are weighted differently (i.e. a top stumbler will have more an impact than if you have an account that has only ever been used to stumble your own sites) Very true.
Think like the Enquirer..if you have something VERY viral to post..then you will get traffic. If your news topic is sedate and ordinary, it will be like dragging a dead horse..and even if you invite friends to drag it..its still a dead horse.
It appears that stumbles which comes not from the toolbar is regarded as non quality stumble. I've observed the same issue for a month and it seems when I get thumbs up from visitors referred by the Stumble button, I get a huge boost. I assume this is a way from SU to devalue artificial stumbles exchange cheat. Here's the definition of quality vs non quality: 1.Quality -Visitors click the stumble button in the toolbar and arrive in your site -Visitors click thumbs up 2. Less quality -Visitors visit your page through any other way beside the stumble button -Visitors then click Thumbs Up A good way to get through this is by building your account and have several friends which are interested in the same topics with you are (you can set this on your preference), then send the page that you think your friends may thumb up via the SEND TO button in the toolbar. So this is a good incentive for people to actually spend time building their profiles and be active in the StumbleUpon community. You need friends, not just friends who become your fans, but friends who have the same interests and may thumbs up your page. In addition to this, your page quality has to be great also to induce the additional viral stumble. This is just a theory without valid solid ground evidences other than my own observation so I stand corrected.
I've gone to your site and it looks like a blog or a site with articles. I don't think a site like this will do that well with stumbleupon as most of the users are looking for entertaining stuff like games to play, videos to watch, etc.
Yes, I know it's a blog and they typically don't do well for retention, but it should at least be sending traffic right? Like I said, I stumbled one of my e-commerce pages, and I got 300 in two days, with no other thumbs up.
It also depends on how many people are subscribed to the category it's stumbled in. Another person made the point that organic stumbles (ie, press stumble, your site pops up, they thumbs up) are *way* more heavily weighted than if someone goes to your site directly, and thumb-ups it. You may think about a stumble ad campaign if you really think it's viral/linkbaity content. That'll expose it to a lot more stumblers.
Stumbleupon works well with controversy. Also use photos. Some funny pic at the top of page will work best .
its not all about you just stumbling it about other well know stumblers that stumble on your page - if other users just stumble your page because you stumbled and your friends do but do not stumble other pages the stumble will not really work - also you will get a high bounce rate with stumble - I tend not to use stumble marketing too much since it is false traffic sometimes