OMG!!! StumbleUpon is so powerful!

Its called the SU honeymoon period. Watch it become nothing over the next few weeks/months. The quality of the traffic is crap as well.

That's a lot of traffic for 5 minutes. Never happened to me, but most of my niches aren't SU-friendly.

Yeah most of the traffic is stumblers clicking on the stumble button, seeing your site for 2 seconds, then onto the next website.

I'll echo everyone else's experience here with SU traffic .... non targeted and very poor traffic quality.

I'II try using SU thanks for your information..

yeah, stumble, digg (especially), reddit, delicious... - very poor traffic. Don't waste your time.
Alex
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Yea StumbleUpon is amazing.

As long as you have content that is not "salesy" you can get some really good numbers...

And, if you want to "Jumpstart" your efforts but $10 of ads...which they rotate in with normal StumbleUpon posts. Usually if you do this you can get a lot of "free" traffic if enough people "like" your site!

Stumble is great and if you are good at writing your titles and tags you will pick up lots of views. here are two sites stats for stumble. One of the sites was just built last month.



and the second



Ill share some more examples later when I have time to make some caps. I dont have any huge stumbles but its still great for traffic sends much more then google does in almost every case.

The trick with stumble is to catch the attention of the surfer faster then normal as they will hit that button and be gone right away if your not catching their attention very quickly

THe problem with SU is that people care about hitting the stumble button more than your site.

I use stumble as a search engine, most of the time I find the prefect search results using stumble. I agree you have to be prepared for a lot of people to leave right away unless you have what it is there looking for. get a few likes and your relevancy starts to rise. Good content goes a long way on stumble

Just Find the Proper Way to Take Advantage of this Traffic...

freakin awesome. I remember when my blog got some stumbleupon traffic it's freakin awesome seeing that huge spike. I stumble upon all my sites now. Most people on here say its crap but in reality its good traffic if your sites actually got something of value and grabs their attention. Also convert them via a lead.

Glad to find this out. Now I know not to waste my time on this site.

Martin

Thks everyone... I was too very excited to get trffic from SU... Now its clear that such traffic is useless.

I wouldn't say it's useless, you just have to know how to take advantage of that traffic.

Previous posters have already given some insight on how to make the most of that traffic already.

Here is a hint, people coming from StumbleUpon aren't going to read a crappy squeeze page. They'll hit the back button as soon as they see the big red bold text.

Just out of interest, of the people that are saying how poor the SU traffic is, what sort of websites were you sending the traffic to? Sales pages? Squeeze pages? Blatant affiliate pre-sells?

It's obviously not geared towards direct response selling, but I imagine if you had an informative site or blog with solid informational / interesting / funny / controversial content, then SU could be quite effective. I'd imagine it's more about helping you build your audience / subscriber base that you can then monetize over the long term, rather than simply making a quick buck.

I personally don't have experience with SU yet, but I have a big content site in the works that I intend to try it out on in the near future. I saw that a site that is similar to what mine will be received about 100K visitors to just one of their posts through stumble upon! And it would probably be fair to assume that lots of traffic coming from outside of Google, is actually a good thing in Google's eyes. It will just be another way of measuring your site as quality.

Anyway, back to my original question, could those of you that aren't too impressed with SU traffic say exactly what you were sending the traffic to?

Thanks,

Matt

Stumbleupon is really great if you have high quality and fresh content .

I would guess the benefit of SU is getting your message out there, build knowledge about your brand, and build backlinks to your site.

If you do well on SU, you will get traffic from facebook and twitter as well and your social status will increase.

It does not matter if you do not have the same convertion rate from SU as you get from Google, if you get 300 social visitors in 5 mins.

Yes! Stumbleupon is very good for getting easy traffic! But the bounce rate goes high when i stumble in exchange! But still it's a great thing to 700 visits in 5 minutes!

I added my site to stumble upon only got like 60 hits from it.. How you get it on the main page lol

I have been getting some good results with stumble too.

Its more for gossip of funny stuff, but you can piggy back off that and pick up some nice traffic.

LEVERAGE baby yeah!

The numbers look positive. But.. bounce rate looks unimpressive. I hope my blog also gets visitors like that in minutes. Quality needed though.

Why couldn't my traffic stats look like yours.? Need to work on this issue, very seriously.

Yup, I got just as excited as you did when that once happened to me

My stumbleupon traffic boost