I'm telling you -- those visitors from Stumbleupon do not click at all. Useless traffic in my view. I am thinking of redirecting them to another site. It might be better for Google's advertisers and me at the same time, as it is useless traffic as far as Adsense is concerned. Is there a negative side to doing this?
A friend of mine has a site that gets tons of stumbleupon traffic aswell and he also reports the same as being useless for google adsense , simply no clicks what so ever from all that traffic generated.
thats not really a news! thats the way it is with stumble traffic. high bounce rate and zero converting
I know everyone knows about the uselesness of SU traffic, but my question was more to do with any possible downsides to redirecting SU visitors via htaccess. I am going to do this: Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} stumbleupon\.com/ RewriteRule ^$ http://www.whitehouse.gov [R=301,L]
it works, the code that will redirect SU to an URL of your choice: Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{http_referer} ^http://([^.]+\.)*(stumbleupon)\.com RewriteRule .* http://www.whitehouse.gov [R=302,L]