A Quick Traffic Driving Tip With StumbleUpon
By Matt Jones on Sep 23, 2007 in Blogging Tips
I have been using Google Analytics to find out which source of traffic brings the highest quality traffic to Blogging Fingers and I discovered that it was Stumbleupon… but not from pages that are being Stumbled. This small amount of very high quality traffic came from the link to Blogging Figners which I put in the introduction on my public profile.
This link doesn’t send bucket-loads of traffic, it is only my 16th biggest referrer but the traffic quality makes it well worth the 1 minute of effort it took to add it. These are the stats from that traffic:
A very low percentage are new visits, suggesting these visitors are a small group of stumblers who visit Blogging Fingers repeatedly via that link. The important word being Stumblers. Forget the long time they stay on the site and PVs they create, Stumblers are the most valuable visitors a blog can have because of the traffic they can bring.
If you haven’t done this already, go to your StumbleUpon profile page and click “edit preferences” then “edit public profile” and add a link to your site.
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great tip and post cheers m8
Thanks for the tip matt .
No problem guys
yeah I have noticed that stumbleupon brought me some good traffic too
Have to disagree. Putting your link in your profile wont bring you more then 100 visits maximum pe month. But it’s worth the try if you’re using stumble only for self-promoting, mine is not the case. I prefer using stumble to drive thousands to my posts
Tibi I’m not claiming more than 100 visits per month will come from that link, but every visit will be from an active Stumbler. Each Stumbler has the potential to send 1000s of visitors and it only takes a minute to add a link to your site.
I’ve been using this stumble tactic on my profile for a while with great results. It doesn’t result in a ton of initial traffic.
What it does do is send a few very active Stumblers who frequently go on to Stumble my pages resulting in additional views.
Thanks for the tip, I love hearing tips like these which are original (atleast to me)
Cool didn’t know you were from UK and at 18 years old (me 18 too). Though you were like 25 from USA
I really should dress up my StumbleUpon homepage too
Take care,
sean
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great tip - I never thought of that. thanks for sharing!
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I created a profile 6 weeks ago on StumbleUpon. Within days of adding a link of my site in my profile, I received traffic to my site. The traffic is steady and growing. My profile is
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