Everybody’s Stumblin’
September 5th, 2007
After spending a good part of the day stumbling myself, I’ve come to the conclusion that today must in fact be the official (or possibly unofficial) blog about StumbleUpon Day!
It makes sense to me that those of us in the US might be stumbling a bit the day after a long holiday weekend, but the trend seems to be international.
But I digress…I don’t claim to be an expert on my newest addiction (seriously, over 5 hours today), but I will testify to the power of the Stumble as my traffic has definitely been skyrocketing these last few days. I thought for the benefit of anyone who stumbles by my blog I would just share with you a collection of the great posts I stumbled into today that gave me a much better understanding of how the whole thing works…
- A Definitive StumbleUpon Guide- Driving Traffic To Websites from Shaun Low
- Building a StumbleUpon Power Profile from Cristian Raiber
- The Importance of Building your Stumbleupon Network from Blog About Your Blog
- Analysis: StumbleUpon’s Top 50 Stumblers and Interview with a Top StumbleUpon User from ViperChill
- The Secret Features of Stumble Upon from NowSourcing
Note: not all of these were posted today…but they are all from within the last week!
Anyway, sorry for the lack of original thought, but I want to make sure everyone possible is hooked up with my latest habit. To be sure, I will be advising all of my clients to start Stumbling right away too. Now if I could only master Blackberry-stumbling…that would be Stumbleriffic!
Want to Stumble together? Be my Stumble friend!
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StumbleUpon is as you say Stumbleriffic. I’m no expert either, but from what I’ve learned so far - the potential is enormous if used properly and my statistics show that a great deal of traffic is coming from StumbleUpon.
I’ve just spent 20 mins Stumbling - found some pretty impressive sites that I would most likely never have found without SU.
Good Post Dana - thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the mention
I’m glad that you found my article interesting enough to mention it here.
Regards,
CristianR.
I struggle with SU sometimes. I’ve found some great stuff there, but I’ve also gone an entire session without seeing anything that interested me, and it often seemed way off topic for what I’m actually wanting to see!
On the other hand, as a website owner, it sends some great traffic! So someone out there must be seeing things they like!
I think I just need to get the hang of the ‘community’ there a little better.
Jayne, I used to have that same frustration with SU. What I’ve found recently is that spending a little time finding Stumble friends via blogs that you read and enjoy regularly can be a huge help.
Instead of Stumbling tags, I’ve been Stumbling friends and found that I stumble across a lot more things that actually interest me enough to read and comment.
But I think it’s just the nature of the beast that you have good stumbling days and days that would have been better spent writing than stumbling!
I’ve added you! I think the more you stumble and rate sites and fine tune your interests, the better quality sites you get when click the stumble button.
Thanks Sara! I agree with you. The more stumbling I do the more sites I get that I’m actually interested in reading!
StumbleUpon is my favorite. Much better than Digg. The people who come from SU actually take the time to read your post, and even browse a little through your blog.
I’m a fairly new SU disciple, but that’s what I’ve been thinking too. I thought it was just because I’ve been Stumbled way more than I’ve been Dugg!
Are you getting a lot of traffic from StumbleUpon? I also use it and get lots from it, but the visitors only stay less than 30 sec
according to stats for my blog.
WarriorBlog, I have been getting a nice amount of Stumble Traffic. Sure, a lot of those visits are very brief, but I have also seen a good number of longer visits and many more comments and subscribers. Although, I don’t think StumbleUpon would be a good marketing plan alone, personally, it has opened this blog up to a new, much larger audience. And for the minor amount of effort SU takes, I think one or two new readers per post is a pretty nice ROI!
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hmm..this is something new for me. Thanks for pointing it out and sharing some useful links.