When I got legit stumbles (people who found my site via the stumble button) I got a lot of traffic from stumbleupon.com. When I joined a stumble exchange and recieved lots of direct thumbs up but not legitimately stumbled, I got very little traffic from stumbleupon.com. It appears to me that if the site wasn't found by a legit stumble click, then it is ignored by stumbleupon.com. If my assumption is true then is it worth doing? Are the piles of PR0 links in google worth something? These exchanges seem very popular these days, but Im not convinced they help at all. Any input on this subject would be greatly appreciated.
One main reason why it might not be doing so well is because if others stumble your site throuhg your exchange, they dont leave tags, so the traffic you get isn't much (from what ive tried). Dont know if its cheating, but I usually stumble my pages first, give them a good review, add some relevant tags and then stumble. Usually get good results by doing that.
I get about 80 Visitors a day from stumble upon doing stumble exchanges here on digital point, the thing that bothers me about the traffic is google drop my cpc and some days they don't count any clicks at all like yesterday 8 clicks on mybloglog and google counted 0
They do get you some traffic, quite a bit of traffic. This traffic does not always do much like click ads or sign up for something but any traffic can be of some value. If you do not discover and tag your site with a good review prior to an exchange, you end up with whatever the first person does as far as tags. The other problem as of late that I see is that a lot of people do not stumble your site as they said they would. You stumble them and they do not stumble back. For the time it takes, it is still worth doing them to get some traffic from stumble and to get your site circulating through Stumble Upon.
Are you sure you are getting that traffic because of the stumble exchange. Could It be just legit stumbles? When I first added my site I got a little traffic, then I got a few legit thumbups and then I got a lot of traffic. It went a little while with out any additional thumbs up, and eventually the traffic stopped completely, as if I failed a trial period. That's when I got involved in stumble exchanges. I recieved several thumbs up from that, but I still have yet to get one legit person from stumbleupon since that initial period. I really think that Stumbleupon ignored these thumbs up because my site was manually entered or at least given a much lesser value.
You could get a lot of traffic from Stumble. And there was one guy a few days ago who said he managed to boost his rankings by using SU.
i started using stumbleexchange about 9 hours ago. i noticed a spike in my unique hits and guests online so i went over to cpanel and noticed this: - http://www.stumbleupon.com/refer.php 55 55 i went to /refer.php and it told me
I've found I'm getting OK traffic from Stumble exchanges - the traffic doesn't seem to last very long when it's from exchanges - back when I was just getting the occasional 'real' Stumble it did seem to last longer. I do think it's worth it though.
I agree with the original poster: stumble exchange isn't a good idea because it doesn't actually link the page to a tag - also, the people thumbing up aren't likely to actually be interested in the topic of the page - so their friends aren't - so the viral thing just doesn't work. Starting with thumbing a page up yourself is only going to work if you don't have too many pages on the same website to thumb up. SU has a filter for one account entering pages to the database from the same website. So the best thing to do is only to enter material you suspect will go viral - and thumb up stuff other people have entered into stumble. What also works reasonably well (depending on the quality of the material) is to send pages to your friends. Don't do this too often, to the same friends > but that can certainly get a page started. Once it's thumbed up by someone go back and thumb it up yourself and make sure the topic and tags are OK.
50+ is nothing. You being happy with that means your site is still in its infancy (or not doing well at all otherwise). 50 untargeted visitors are totally worthless from any perspective. They aren't likely to return, because they are untargeted. They aren't likely to click ads, because they are untargeted. They aren't likely to thumb the page up, link to your site etc. because they just aren't interested in your subject.
stumblers will just go to your site and drain your bandwidth. they'll look at your content, then click stumble again and move on to the next page. 2000 hits from stumble, and 10 clicks on adsense. sucks.
Yeah but it will improve your alexa ranking and then you'll be able to get much more for selling links and sponsored reviews etc
the traffic i get frm SU and my sig here at DP is just moderate..not that it makes some real difference..just say like some extra visitors thats all.. but i doubt if as someone posted above that it decreases the CPC, i didnt notice that in much detail..
No the SU traffic is just improving your Alexa rank. You can earn some money if you're running CPM ads. Digg, SU, Delicious traffic don't convert well. Almost no clicks, sales, whatever...
Yes, this is very true. I get about 300 visitors per day from SU, and I can't say if anybody left even a comment
this is true! same thing happened to me.. my adense went very low when i started stumble but my traffic went up..just a little..