Do Not Underestimate the Power of StumbleUpon
Thu, Apr 17, 2008
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How did Tech Suave go from 0 unique visitors a day to over 5,000 a day in 3 days? StumbleUpon.
StumbleUpon is one of my favorite free website promotion tools out there, and in just 3 days our brand new site that has just launched is bringing in thousands of unique visitors daily. (Its 11:35am right now where I’m at, and TS currently has 5,417 unique visitors for the day with no sign of slowing down.)
I was a little shocked when I checked my Statcounter summary last night. I stumbled the very first post of our site (10 Most Expensive Domains Ever) a few hours earlier, and was surprised that thousands of people had already checked it out. Within a few hours we got 50 stumbles.
Some things to remember:
1. If you want traffic from StumbleUpon MAKE YOUR POST INTERESTING. Post something that people will find interesting. If its not interesting no one will stumble it.
2. The more people that give the site a thumbs up, the more your site will be selected to show on people’s browsers. Don’t post something that we have all seen before. Show us something new and fresh, something that really gets our interest.
3. Keep the post short and too the point. People looking for something cool on the internet have short attention spans.
4. Turn your visitors into customers. So, you made a post that got 50 stumbles… you have thousands of visitors a day. Awesome! But that doesn’t mean anything if you don’t keep updating your website. The traffic from StumbleUpon will die after a few days or weeks, so you better do your best to get these visitors to stay here while they are still pouring into your site. Encourage users to subscribe to your RSS feeds, digg your pages, write comments, etc.
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Tags: Getting traffic, StumbleUpon
April 17th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
This is incredibly lame. Out of all those unique visitors, how many *actually* liked the content? Iv’e looked at this site and all I can find is two articles (besides this one) and only one was remotely interesting.
Overall, this site is simply ‘another site’ that doesn’t really give a shit about the content — just statistics and advertising revenue. It’s simply spam but on another level.
The fact you had to create such a post pretty much proves you’re already out of decent content and are crying for more statistics and ad revenue.
Come back when you actually have decent content, please!
April 17th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Oh, Janitor.
Well out of the unique visitors that stumbled on our page, I’m pretty sure at least 50 of them ‘actually’ liked the content since they took time to give it a thumbs up and give their thoughts.
In no way am I saying that this 3-day old site is great and revolutionary, this post was showing how powerful SU can be. (Did you care to take 2 seconds to read the title of the post?) This post is informational for those who don’t know about stumbleupon.
And I disagree with your comment about this site being ’spam’. Myself, the other guy that runs this site, and the 30+ new RSS subscribers beg to differ.
April 17th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Once upon a time there was a gnome.
He walked for centuries until he met a nasty goblin.
The goblin poked in the gnome’s beard and said: ”I wish I had a big beard like yours.” Then the gnome answered: ”I am afraid I cannot help you.” The goblin said: ”What a shame,now. Well gnome, listen to me. If you cannot give me a beard like yours, you will be dead soon probably.” The gnome said with a small voice: ”I could cut my beard off and give it to you. Then you will have a beard like mine. Do you agree, my dear goblin?” The goblin took the gnome by his left hand,shook it and said: ”I think I can live with that.” And so the gnome cut his beard of with his knife. He gave it to the goblin which was very happy with it. He said: ”Thanks, we should deal more often.” And he laughed with a raw voice and walked away. The beardless gnome was happy that he was still alive. He walked away too,but in another direction. He thought in an optimistic mood that he looked younger now he had lost his beard.
April 19th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Gud article!
April 20th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
My blog is on alexa 68,000 and I am getting almost 90-95% of my traffic from SU…I am loving it!!
June 24th, 2008 at 7:48 am
It’s 3rd article i am reading on this website and its really good, i am your regular visitor now
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June 25th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
I agree with you. SU is most traffic I get. And secondly is digg. Thanks to SU.
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June 26th, 2008 at 9:43 am
I too prefer SU and Digg for huge traffic they provide on our sites or blogs … but its worth for only few webmasters for whom traffic from such sites are important …
Traffic from SU and Digg are not much useful at some extent … i think so.