Ditto here. I've had an account for years and it never did bring in much traffic. It wasn't for lack of trying. There always seemed to be a bazillion other sites and I felt like my additions got lost in the sea of stumbles. Which is, I guess, what all the social sites are like but for some reason, I especially noticed it on SU.
Yeah, it looks like it's a dying breed: http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/06/report-stumbleupons-traffic-down-53-since-july/ I've always liked the site though.
Like I said, I've always liked the site. I wish only the best to them. I know there was a shift in their leadership some time ago and things have not been going well for them ever since. You can find out more on that online. The fact that the decline in traffic has been since 2012 only confirms that this has been an ongoing issue.
I get some traffic from Stumbleupon. Its not much, but I can stumble on my phone pretty easily away from the computer so I continue to use it.
Stumble upon used to rank pretty fast but I never really got good traffic from it latley, I would suggest that the new place is reddit and subreddits to get alot more traffic and also pinterest and instagram and also keyword tagging your photos on flickr.
I tried Pinterest too and failed to receive traffic from there You need to do some pinterest specific marketing somtimes to get pinterest to get traffic... have you tried tagging lots of related photos and then uploading it to flickr It sound stupid but can get alot of traffi that way.
I've seen people create bucket loads of traffic with Pinterest but you need to specialize in at and maybe pick up a reliable and proven course to find out how is should be done.
Pinterest's audience is, I think, mostly women. They like funny, cute (think puppies and babies), colourful, or helpful (how-to's, sales, etc.) pins. Think along those lines. In my experience, if you can melt their hearts or make them laugh, they'll give your more business related pins a look and visit your blog/site. They very seldom will check someone out who very obviously there just to drum up paying customers. All just my opinion and personal observation, of course.
Sure, it can be. Lots of businesses on there. They sell without 'selling' by pinning pics from articles on how to do things with their products/services, i.e. recipes, garden stuff, fashion, closet organizing, self-help, etc.
I agree with this view. I have tried to use it intensively for about 6-7 months (not to say 1-year) and never received traffic back. Too much sites there!
Nobody answered my question yet. How do you get traffic from reddit? I posted what I thought was a good post there. Waited for an hour or so. Not a single view. I went to post another one, it said something like: "because your first post wasn't viewed yet you don't have the privileges of posting another one..." Or something like that. Ok, then, I didn't care about reddit before, now they totally blew me off.
Stumble upon do bring you traffic but how much value it brings should be the main question. I've tried lots of times stumble upon. The main problem was that, when I submit new articles or urls, I get traffic for the moment and even sometimes a lot of traffic. I've submitted already lots of articles and urls. But the conversion rate was very very low even I can say that it had no value. I got traffic a lot but no conversion. The other thing was that when I submitted something new for 2 days I got traffic but then later I did not get any. The traffic was for the moment but later no traffic.