Hello, A day ago, I noticed that I had received thousands of visitors from stumbleupon, but I never had even one ever before. Is this normal? Or could it be ddos attack masked as stubleupon? Here is a few screenshots: Remember, I had never received any traffic from stumbleupon before!
Thats what is called stumbleupon my friend, stumbled and gone. Its definitely traffic from stumbleupon.com
Stumbleupon is known to shove you a few thousand visitors then nothing for a few weeks, then do it again. Its nothing to worry about, but then again you should probably worry about finding other ways to get traffic.
I have not yet set up any monitazation for this site. Waiting for a bit more taffic. To everyone else: Thanks for the feed back, I was a bit worried for a while back there EDIT: How long does this surge usually last? PS. just got like 10000 more uniques from stumbleupon...
Why? Makes no sense. In my opinion that's almost like saying, I dont want to get in the shower, I'm not clean enough yet.
Good for you, OP. I only had 1 SU spike, about 240 visits, then nothing. Then about a week later, 100 more. I'd like big spikes like yours, consistently, but hey. BTW do you have a link directly to SU on your page? Or did some visitor just happen to like it and do it themselves?
I second that. Over 4,000 visits and no monetization! I would get cracking and get some related offers up there. Hopefully that traffic will grow and not a flash in the pan. Nonetheless, that past traffic is just wasted opportunity.
For some sites it's better to limit monetization until they have an established visitor base. I don't think SU is the best way to get those regular visitors, but I do see what logylaps was going for. I know I pay more attention to sites that have few advertisements that I can identify, and the chances that I'll bookmark it increase. That means more returns in the future, even if the publisher decides to sprinkle in a few ads here and there.
Hello, About monetization: As dave said, I am waiting for a strong visitor base before putting up ads. Id say its more like saying, I dont want to get out of the shower, I'm not clean enough yet About stumblupon: I think this particular spike was cause because on october 28 a person with many many friends and very good status with stumbleupon stumbled a subpage on my site. If you look at this page http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.findyourblindspot.com/flash.php , you can see at the top the person who "discovered" it. Since then I have received 15k uniques (still more coming, thought not at such an amazing rate), 50 natural stumbles on that page, and 10 natural reviews. By natural I mean i did not go to dp BST and trade stumbles. I am pretty sure that su CAN get you some regular visits if you have enough stumbles/reviews. For those of you who care: Here is an updated screenshot: