Comments on: What do Sumblers Like to Stumbleupon

By: J Dogg

J Dogg — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 06:37:12 +0000

i’m not sure if i’m supposed to be choosing up/down for every page or if i’m only supposed to choose up/down when it’s obvious. what i’ve been doing is only rating it down if i don’t want to see anything like it, and rating it up if i want it in my favorites (i treat it like bookmarking almost). but if it’s something neutral or in between, i just click the stumble button. i do this because if i click thumbs down, it may exclude a related site that i would really like, and if i click thumbs up, it will just be another “why is this in here” site in my favorites.

i really dislike the saving every thumbs up page in your favorites thing (and you cannot remove these sites from your favorites without canceling your thumbs up), because that is the only thing that is preventing me from giving the thumbs up to a lot of pages i like. i treat it more like bookmarking, which i’m not sure if that’s what you’re supposed to do. so basically i give a lot more thumbs down than up because of this. i suggest stumbleupon change this.

By: Victor

Victor — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:22:27 +0000

I’ve only been a stumbler for a few weeks, and I am still searching for ways on how to effectively use it to generate more traffic, and it’s still quite vague to me how it would help me in improving my PR. Your post has some really helpful points in it, and thank you for these very useful tips.

By: shaw

shaw — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:11:57 +0000

You are right on about what Stumblers like. They want quick and fast. Seems like their attention span is very limited. BTW-SU and adsense don’t mix! If you are doing both, then you probably are priced! Shaw

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:03:09 +0000

Stumble is not worth it. I don’t see why people are still interested… the traffic doesn’t convert making it absolutely useless.

By: keyword richness removed

keyword richness removed — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:20:29 +0000

Stumble is great, I like to use the tool often. There are many great sites which can be found from there. Great post.

By: Marty

Marty — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:00:58 +0000

Yeh, if ever you catch a lucky but handy bucket of traffic from a good/useful stumble then i think you’ll be shocked at the poor earnings-return but it’s always good to try.

Good post, thank you.

Marty.

By: laki

laki — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:01:06 +0000

Did anyone tell you that requiring from readers of your web site to login in order to be able to comment is NOT the way to ‘increase search engine traffic’?

Why? Because it discourages commenting. If less people comment, than less people will search for your blog post to see if there are more comments. Why would they search for it? Because they can forget to bookmark it.

Did anyone tell you that ‘Name’ field is for your name, nickname, or pseudoname, and NOT for keyword stuffing.

Now to comment on your comment: if you judge the quality of traffic by the amount of ad clicks that you get from it, than SU may not be for you. However, I do not judge the quality based on that. I also think that it may be inverse proportional to that because I usually click on ad (if ever) when the page doesn’t have information that I need, and ad may have that info. Higher ad click rate would say more about the (lack of) quality of a site, than about the quality of its visitors. In fact, tests confirmed this with a client in the past when degraded quality of a page increased monetization and decreased page views per visitors.

By: keyword richness removed

keyword richness removed — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:10:14 +0000

Stumbleupon can without a doubt send you a nice amount of traffic, but the quality of the traffic isn’t really that great. The traffic very rarely monetizes well.

By: laki

laki — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:19:16 +0000

This blog post was NOT about SEO. Read it again.

What stumblers are saying about this page is this:

People who like this website: 50 (max) visible (reached after less than 2 days)
Number of stumblers who have seen this page: more than 8000 in first 2 days.
Comparison: a page that is not liked by stumblers gets about 150-200 visits at most.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:28:34 +0000

Check out the review page to see what Stumblers are saying about this page, and what they think of SEO people attempting to exploit the system.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/seolutions.net/blog/what-do-sumblers-like-to-stumbleupon/