SumbleUpon traffic is quite useless. THose folks gaze at your site and live 2 seconds later. I am getting consistent traffic from SU but it does not give me anything. Anyone has other experience?
Yes, it is correct. I know it from my own experiense (I like to stumble much). Unless the site I visit has very, very, very interesting content or pictures to keep me to it, I stay maximum 5 seconds, because the next interesting site is one stumble away.
I'm curious too, forcer... is this traffic worth anything? Do you think they're just glancing and closing?
Most stumbleupon traffic is not good quality, but you never know. It is semi-targetted, so it's not all bad. Certainly better than some dumb bot crawling your site.
My video game news site has been receiving a ton of traffic from Stumbleupon lately and I also can't seem to wrap my mind around it. I'm obviously not complaining but I just don't completely understand how the system works. I assume the more people that Thumbs Up a page, the more it'll show up when someone Stumbles.
I find the complete opposite to be true. A Stumble user sets up their interests and then are sent sites within that category.
I had a single Stumbleupon spike a few days ago - about 300 visitors over a 48 hour or so period. Then it stopped and there hasn't been a single visitor since. I have no idea what it was all about, I can't find the site, music-nerds.com, on SU. I created a profile, moved around a bit, and submitted a few pages, including one of my own. I got one more hit from it!
That's why I say semi-targetted. The typical stumble user isn't really "looking" for anything in particular, unless they use the StumbleUpon search option (very handy!), but is just randomly stumbling along. They can narrow their stumbles, but it's not entirely controllable by you. The reviews help to narrow it based upon the tags. Reviews are a critical part of getting stumble traffic, it seems.
It's worth a shot contacting them. They will probably not reply back, but try it anyway. Give them a couple of days to reply back. If they don't, try just one more time. If, IF it is correct, you need to tap into it, so you can repeat it! Who knows, they may even show you how you got that many. Try it. You've got nothing to lose anyway.
Not if the traffic stopped, like it does and WILL with such a site. Will he or anyone in his situation know how to tap into it for more hits? It would be a shame not to at least try.
Ok, it seems that I got over 1.5k visits to my blog, just for posting some crappy picture. I guess stumblers prefer to give thumb up to more "easy to absorb" content such as images. This kind of big, but not converting traffic opens some great opportunities for using CPM advertising. PS: Can you recommend a good paying network?
fatgadget 45257 stumbles yeah that's major, I get good consistent traffic from SU after a Digg/Reddit front page experience. But nowhere near that. Congrats. Is the traffic paying well?