Secret behind Stumbleupon?!

[badhairdude]

I'm not generating any views for my website on stumbleupon, i know there are people who are successful with this site. What should I do?

I favorited, stumbled, added friends, edited my profile picture..

what else?

[Cephus]

It depends on your content and how many people want to go look at it. Stumble depends on more than you stumbling your own posts, but of *LOTS* of people doing it. If you don't have a following of people who are already putting your posts on Stumble, it's not going to work.

You need to have a way on your blog where people can just click a button and Stumble your post directly. Very few people are going to leave your blog, open up StumbleUpon and post your article, it's too much work.

[Nathan]

The secret to success on StumbleUpon is never to stumble your own articles. For that matter I don't even use StumbleUpon, yet I have received thousands of hits from them. StumbleUpon only delivers hits when other people stumble your blog, not when you stumble it yourself.

[Cephus]

Originally Posted by Nathan

The secret to success on StumbleUpon is never to stumble your own articles. For that matter I don't even use StumbleUpon, yet I have received thousands of hits from them. StumbleUpon only delivers hits when other people stumble your blog, not when you stumble it yourself.

I wouldn't say never, I'm Stumbling at least a portion of my own articles as an experiment and I've been getting 300-400 hits off of my own Stumbles, but I'll agree that my biggest hits from StumbleUpon have come from other people.

[Nathan]

Originally Posted by Cephus

I wouldn't say never, I'm Stumbling at least a portion of my own articles as an experiment and I've been getting 300-400 hits off of my own Stumbles, but I'll agree that my biggest hits from StumbleUpon have come from other people.

What you will see is that over time you will get less and less results. StumbleUpon assigns less and less value to your "vote" every time you vote for the articles on the same domain.

Self-submission goes downhill over time. If you get 300-400 hits is because you were probably lucky enough to have other people restumble it, strengthening the final vote.

[Cephus]

For the moment, it's working, but if it stops, so be it. I'm not one of those "I have to have 500,000 hits a day or I'm a failure" kind of people, I don't really care. Like I said, it's an experiment, people either find me or they don't, I'm just looking for a quick and easy way to get on people's radar. From there... whatever happens, happens.

[WeddingDances]

stumbleupon doesn't work well for me, i get more traffic from Twitter and facebook, and digg..

[wordgeist]

I think is depending on the content of you site. For me I gett more traffic from stumbleupon, I get some traffic from twitter and digg but nos us much as stumbleupon.

[badhairdude]

yeah, im just trying to get SOME traffic haha.

oh ya, feel free to stumble my site

[DianaFreedman]

Have you tried using the StumbleUpon URL shortener yet? It's like bit.ly, but su.pr instead. This way, you don't even have to actually stumble your own posts (which is bad for your blog if you get caught, anyway). Instead, use the su.pr shortener when sharing the link to your latest blog post (via Twitter, forums, etc.), and people who click the link will see the StumbleUpon toolbar at the top of the page. This will hopefully encourage them to stumble your site, since the option to do so is very in-your-face.

Here's an example of what this looks like: su.pr/1XNehk (since I'm a newbie at this forum I can't actually post a link yet, haha, so just copy/paste into your browser URL bar).

I've only just discovered this today, coincidentally enough. So I can't personally report on how effective it really is for getting more traffic to your site from StumbleUpon, but from what I've read it works pretty well, so I'm going to give it a shot.