Stumble Upon, Delicious and others

Someone has mentioned that I should have Stumble Upon, Propeller, Digg on my site.

Can someone explain (in detail cuz I am an idiot) how Propeller and STUMBLE UPON work. Do I have to change the code they give? Is it worth having? What exactly would it do for me?

THANKS!

 

It does very little. Basically people click your site and may or may not stumble it. The traffic you get can be huge but the traffic does not convert and most people just click through your site so they do not even have a chance to see and ad. Since quit using them, I have decreased my traffic but now the traffic is more targeted and my earnings increased.

The main thing they do are increase your traffic which looks good in stats only. They also increases your bandwidth usage. If you are planning to sell a site, the numbers may look good to a buyer if they do not check to see where the traffic comes from.

The codes should be able to be placed right into your site.

 

StumbleUpon needs a free toolbar. First go and sign-up and then install the toolbar on Internet Explorer or Firefox. And then click on the "thumb-up" stumble upon button on the toolbar when you are surfing you website. It will ask you the details

Propeller needs to get sign-up too. Both are free. And then you will go to "submit new" and you will submit your article or your website.

That's all, and free.

 

Someone told me it helps Google find my site and stuff ON my site.

 

Is that true?

 

Essentially stumbleupon lets people say "hey this is a cool site" others can view their recommendation then.

While the traffic might not convert well, it is still free traffic, plus stumble is not hard to set-up on your site.

 

It helps for traffic and link popularity but for a business site ROI is very low

 

SU is useless
By TOS you cant even post links to your site, promote business/services.
Also, if you can get some traffic from them is usually low quality with a huge bounce rate.

 

AH! But does it help you with your Google ranking at all?

 

I would say no, because all links are nofollow.

 

I don't know actually. I think I would probably WANT those links on my site (for people to easily stumble / propel / digg. Ranking wise, I don't think it will help you with Google, no, but I also do not think it will hurt your rankings.

Probably not worth the effort, but it can get you a few more clicks to your site a day potentially (which to me would be worth it).

 

I had ONE PROPELLER link to see what would happen and when I checked my stats, I got 32 hits from it. I'd say that was pretty good considering it was just ONE link.

 

I can't tell about DIGG just yet, but I know that when I personally see DIGG, I just skip it. What's the point? Maybe some people do though.