I usually stumble my blog posts over a few different sites. Depending on the tags and exact topic of the post, it usually sends me 100-2000 hits every time. Yesterday I Stumbled a couple new blog posts, and they didn't seem to send hardly any traffic to my sites. And these were posts that I think would have been, for me, rather popular. Any idea what may have happened? I wondered if it was because I generally only stumble my own sites... but how would SU even know they're my sites? For all they know, I'm just a fan of the sites. The niches aren't related to each other. I made $0 on eBay yesterday, my first such day in about 4 weeks
Stumble stopped counting my submits and then stopped counting my stumbles totally. Their algorithm picks up if you stumble the same site more then x amount of times, or if its above x% of your total stumbles/submits. You iz banned, brah. Thats a shame. Your site can still get traffic if real members submit / stumble you naturally.
So what if someone happens to like a site, and often Stumbles its pages in order to share them? Isn't that what SU is for? I would have thought that SU also weighs whether or not your Stumbles get a thumbs up from others consistently. But whatever. I have heard of people Stumbling other sites (not their own) that become popular, and getting un-banned. Maybe I can try that.
Building your stumble profile is very important before stumbling your own contents. Apart from being banned from the algorithm, your stumbles will also be more powerful if you had more sites reviewed under your belts.
Yep. On my old URL (a subdomain) my site used to attract 400-3000 visitors a day from SU alone. I moved to my new URL and re-thumbed my pages, now I'm lucky to get 150 a day from SU. That was a year ago now, and my website's traffic has still never recovered. In fact, it's around 50% less than it was back then.
It is like Google. The only difference is that Google has links while Stumble has thumbs up. The content has to be good if you want to be successful.