... Is it legit? I have a somewhat new website, and today I've had over 1000 visits from Stumble upon. I can't see in particular where abouts on Stumbleupon the traffic is coming from. I'm curious if the traffic is legitimate viewers. Or whether I'm being trolled by a script? As earlier today my website was visited by an army of internet spam bots.
I don't recall publishing anything. I don't use Stumbleupon. I've been getting limited traffic from the website though, say 10-20 hits a day. But today It's gone insane. I'm up to 1000 hits from it. My only worry is that I was also bombarded by some sort of spam-bot earlier. And I'm not sure if the bots came via Stumbleupon?
where are they hitting... it might be a good read I get email newsletters fro su recommending sites I might like... and I tell you, I usually like the things they recommend. su is a great social media site.
Maybe someone read an educating article on your site and published it on SU and a lot of people thought that it was good and voted for it.. Is it human traffic or bot traffic?
My website adress is www.documentariesonline.net, and they traffic is hitting my index page. I'd usually have no reservations except for the fact earlier today i was victim to an attack from bots trying to sell viagra. Which leads me to think the traffic I'm receiving from SU may be related. But I'm not familiar with Stumbleupon and can't find much on spam via their site.
Human traffic. And I hope you're right, would be great if it's real traffic. I was attacked by an army of bots earlier today though, so wondering if it's related?
I use Stumble upon for all my marketing but that is very good traffic for not even is using Stumble Upon yourself. I do it totally white hat and get good results. I advise everyone use it. In our modern age we can not overlook any social bookmarking service!
If a "high-value" user of Stumbleupon, if I can put it that way, (one that has an account with a lot of followers) gives your site a stumble and a thumbs up - then yes, you can get thousands of visitors in a short burst. It tails off after a day or so, but it does mean that other people have seen your site (they're not quite all human eyes, SU has a prefetch system that means stuff that's been cued may not actually be looked at), and SU users typically click through to a site and on to the next one in a second - but in essence - well done - you've cracked StumbleUpon!