Ok. So I recently had an article hit the top of http://www.sphinn.com (the article is here) Now, I would expect some traffic from that, and traffic has been awesome. However, the number of sphinn.com's showing up in my referers has absolutely paled in comparison to the number of stumbleupons. I have absolutely no idea what's going on. Are all of these unique stumbles? Is it people stumbles for my article? Or is this stumbleupon sending people to my article? Or just some glitch? I'm showing 218 refers that are http://www.stumbleupon.com/refer.php?url=(my_url_here) in the past 24 hours. 94 in the past hour. Now awesome as that is, I'm showing maybe 50-60 sphinn.com referers, and that's really the only place I publicized the article, and my standard user base of "regulars" do not really do the whole stumbling thing too much. Does anyone know what is going on here?
I'm with you xmcp123! Stumble Upon can just randomly bring in tons of traffic. I am also kind of confused about the source of the Stumbles...It seems from my experience that the people who make it to my blogs from Stumble Upon have not been there before. Maybe there are more people who actually search on SU and find related sites that have been voted on, or I am simply confused on how their site actually works.
Yeah..I'm trying to figure out the same. I don't even know if those URLs are people stumbling it, or people being sent there BY stumbleupon..whatever it is...it's effin insane...anyone else have insight?
200 plus traffic is small, I got 500 to 1k + stumble traffic on my site in just 1 day. if someone like your site and he/she has a big networks/friends, the probability of getting traffic is big.
I am slowly starting to see the effect of a good stumble on my blog also. It is a great way to get random traffic you probably never would have reached otherwise.
And I thank you for that! Not sure if my poor server does though... haha 1)Don't steal my sunshine, I know 200 isn't huge. But compared to the number of sphinn clicks(once again, the only place I was publicizing... I was confused, not bragging) 2)This article hasn't been front paged for too long(well, it's been front paged, but it used to be at the bottom, with very little traffic. It jumped to the top a couple hours ago)...give it time.
I know stumbleupon works but about Sphinn. I joined that a few days ago, been experimenting with it. Any tips on getting more sphinns?
Notice the times that everyone else "went hot", submit about an hour beforehand. It seems to have 2 hot times. 2-7AM(eastern), and 4-7(eastern). Presumably the earlier time because it is the work day in india. Also notice what people are talking about, and put something unique on it. Really, it hasn't been corrupted yet like Digg. Content, and a catchy title will get you up there. Or so it seems. Oh yeah, friending/stalking me (SlightlyShadySEO) doesn't hurt I'm on there pretty constantly.
Jesus. does it stack up? For instance, if I get a bunch of stumbles this time, the next time I get a stumble attack, or whatever you want to call it, will it have more than the previous time? or is each an individual basis?
SU is awesome! i just lauched a new site and stumbled it. I am already starting to get traffic!. 13 visitors in no time to be exact!.
Congrats to all... Can any body... I am not getting traffic from Stumble & Digg... How can I gain maximum Traffic for Stumble & Digg... 3-4 days pass but not a single visitors from stumble & Digg... Can any body guide me in this issue...
You mean you need something like How to effectively use social media sites from a Webmaster perspective?
No, I need to understand how stumbleupon shows up in referer logs...I know how to use social media. Yeah are they at least seeing the page though? It's odd. My blog stats are showing 30-40% of page sessions have multiple views. Possibly more. Does that fit in with Stumbleupon? Oy.
There was an interesting thread on here a couple weeks back that someone had done some research about StumbleUpon traffic: They said when you are stumbling through sites with the toolbar, stumble loads up the next page before you see it. It counts as a page load on your stats, but the person often doesn't actually view the site. Sucks because it saps your server for absolutely no reason. This is merely what some blog said; when I Stumble I get lots of slow and non-loading pages, so take it with a grain of salt. What's more, from my own POV, stumblers are doing just that... going quickly from site to site, pressing up or down, for fun. I bet quite a few of the genuine page views are for a very short time. I don't really understand why SU is so popular; I guess people sometimes use it just to find cool new sites, but the traffic isn't all it's cracked up to be. It is fun though... I started a new site a couple days ago, did some Stumbling on DP (which I no longer recommend!) and got like 800 stumbles in a day! No conversions of course, but some did indeed click affiliate links, so you never know.
And do google let stumble viewers clicks ? Is this traffic allowed in adsense ? Can it be counted as autosurf traffic, ptc traffic, or any other rubbish traffic which gets you banned from adsense ?
I had over 1.7k UV's on the first day of my proxy sites release (yesterday), mostly due to StumbleUpon.
Perhaps if they click affiliate links, it'd be worthwhile for ebay or amazon.com. The cookie drops, and they could buy something later. Since it's not a shady drop(invisible iframe), I don't know if they'd ban for it...something to ponder.