Stumble Upon?

Not sure how it works? I think people list to the types of sites they're interested in?

I used it once, when I had a site with very wide appeal. I got a ton of traffic and a very small percentage of it converted into sales. Over-all not too bad considering it cost nothing more than a few minutes to set-up, but certainly not life-changing, either.

Been checking my views and now I'm receiving 500 views every 30 mins. Not sure if it will mean anything in regards to making sales, but its nice to see your Analytics page go from 0 vistors to 1500 overnight.

This is my first attempt at IM and I created my first site a month ago. It had Zero visitors up until yesterday so this kinda gives me the motivation to keep trying.

It works by people liking or voting up your share. The more shares and activity on your share the more people stumbleupon will show it too and more traffic you will get.

Wow- that is seriously impressive! Well done!

As others have mentioned, SU works by users sharing content that they like and want others to know about. Without seeing the content you submitted I can't be too specific, but chances are that whatever it was you shared somehow went viral and is being passed from user to user.

Have you been back to StumbleUpon to see how many times your content has been shared?

I only get about 8 - 15 views with stumble upon, but I recently heard something that you can pay stumble upon for more views? Not sure if anyone can add to this

Hi, I would love to see Analytics page go from 0 vistors to 1500 overnight. My experience with stumbleupon was not a success story. I have reached once about 150 visits but analytics showed that the time of the visit was 0. I have never understood why...
I keep trying but it doesn't work very well for me. SO enjoy your success!

IMO StumbleUpon is a crapshoot. I've put that site in the same category as Pinterest, something I personally don't want to bother with at this time but possibly has potential.

Me too had got huge number of visitors from SU, but most of them are on the site just few seconds.... I don't think those visitors can be counted as "target visitors"

Hi there,

I have to say Bookmarking can bring you short bursts of traffic, is it quality probably not. These users aren't buyers, one good thing about bookmarking is that they get indexed super fast and it's a link back to your site, so I would say bookmarking is good for SEO only really.

I had one post get 1000 views but people were only there a 30 to 60 seconds, yet on Twitter people stayed an avg of 4-5mins and have had sales from Twitter.

Talk Soon
Joe

It depends on your topic. My topic isn't really relevant for a Stumbleupon user. It's more for people searching for this very specific topic. Therefore I didn't get much traffic at all from SU.

How much money have you made using this method?

StumbleUpon traffic won't convert. These aren't visitors in "buy mode" who hit your page from a google search.

StumbleUpon by nature is set up to shuffle surfers quickly from site to site.

I've used Stumble Upon both for some post submissions and as a browser. The thing with stumbling is it's addictive. You can hit a button and voilla! you might land on an awesome site. For me, it's fun when you're bored and researching a topic perhaps, but getting the traffic to stay on your site is next to impossible. It's scanners browsing. Unless it's awesome material that's exactly what they're into, they probably won't stick around.

I think for the increase you saw, you might have tagged it with a really broad topic, making it visible to more people. Like profiles with people with interests in "social media" might have a lot of people with that. From there folk have arrived through the stumble button, hit the thumbs up and moved on. The stumbles vote it up and exposes it to more people as a good post worth checking. Boom. traffic increase.

I think that's how it works. It is an addictive site though. I used to spend hours on it.