I joined a stumble exchange site and it really boosted my traffic in the last two day. But today there are not so many visitors from stumbleupon to my site. Does anyone know how to get stable traffic from stumble?
You can get stable traffic , if you got some fans, for 2000 uniques you need atleast 40-50 fans stumbleupon is a good source of free traffic
Stumbleupon is by definition a spikey type of traffic. It gives a few hundred or even thousand visitors on one day, 10% of that the next, zero the day after. A popular page will come back a few weeks later with another (usually smaller) spike, which then tapers off into near nothingness over the next few days. I was surprised when one of my pages turned out to actually get a consistent number of visitors (40ish) per day from stumbleupon. That's the exception though, not the rule - and I don't expect it to last.
well its been said again and again everywhere that an interesting site/ unique site does get a thumbs up every time to sustain it for a long time.
Overall my site does get consistent stumbleupon traffic - in the sense that it's been my top referrer outside google for two months at least now (measured on a week by week basis). Still, if you look at it on a page by page basis, there are huge spikes and lows.
I get a steady flow of traffic from stumble and one or two spikes per week. So, I get maybe 50 uniques/day consistently with spikes that can be anywhere from 300-2000 in a day. A good number of them stick around the site for a while and I've also noticed an increase in repeat visitors.
It's hard to know where repeat visitors are coming from (stumbleupon does come to mind) - but for me repeat visitors are the majority of my visitors overall.
I don't see think so. You can get outranked very easily on Google. The only way to get a stable amount of traffic from google is to keep up your SEO work. The same with stumbleupon. The only way to get a stable amount of traffic is to continuously get people to give the thumb up to your site.
Well, yes. But the big difference is that with stumbleupon I can just monitor my traffic > give a thumbs up on a page someone else puts in the stumbleupon index > and then add appropriate keywords (tags). That's very little hassle and gets my site exposure from people interested in my topics. With google it's about link-baiting, mailing appropriate links to potentially interested webmasters etc. It's more work - and for my site it merely helps me keep my rankings. Sometimes some change just seems to work, and I get more visitors for that keyword. But most of the time it's hard work and it merely helps me keep a reasonably consistent amount of traffic (overall that is). The work is ultimately similar: build great content that will appeal to visitors. But for google what I probably need to do is to write stuff or publish stuff that will get me more .edu links. I've got a few, but I'd obviously like more. With stumbleupon I can just create content and because my site gets stumbled so much, I can just wait for someone to thumb up a good page. Both have an element of 'luck' to them, but combined it does make attracting traffic easier then if it was just one or the other.
I got my first stumble recommendation the other day on a rather obscure blog post I did... I got hundreds the first day, about 30 the second day, and about 5 a day for the last few days. I went and looked at the site, but I am still trying to figure the whole system out.
Yes, install the toolbar and just thumb up some of your favorite sites (including a popular page on your own). Choose some topics you are interested in and click 'stumble'. Thumb up any page that comes up that you like. Do that an hour a day for a few days, then come back to DP and trade stumbles (well - really you shouldn't, but you can).
What type of sites are you getting traffic to? Are they sales pages, or squeeze pages, or forums/blogs and so on.
Traffic from this type of sites will have lots of peaks and valley's. The trick is to have good content and join numerous social bookmarking sites to promote it.
I think the best way is to make a really really cool site that everyone will have to thumbs-up. Like that one where you don't click at all, you just mouseover for all the navigation. Or keep adding content to your site and every few days submit a new cool page to stumbleupon.
Stumble traffic is strange - a page on my Egypt site about King Tut's death will peak at 16000 visits one day and drop to a few hundred within a week before climbing back up again - it seems to be quite cyclical. I also get people stumbling the weirdest pages too, such as the "About" page. What's that all about?
i would also say, don't bother to stumble your own pages if they are not worth for people to visit. it will give you empty traffic. stublers are looking to saty out of bordom. only stumble a page with good content.... but it useless teaffic in the end. poeple using stumbleupon are also to be ad blind