More On Stumbling

[ThePrizeBlog]

Since posting my last post I have been thinking about more I can tell you about StumbleUpon from the perspective of a blogger. The first thing is that every time I post something, I stumble it. I do the old on the individual post url. I write a summary, give it keywords and then i'm done. About an hour later I will get about 15 visits in a row from stumble. This happens for the rest of about 9 hours, eventually giving me between 50-200 visits in some fashion from the StumbleUpon network. Second, if you have time on your hands check out something like Stumble Exchanges, this can often bolster your stumble traffic. Sometime post that are bland do not get much traffic. But I tell you what, one of my posts on how to Win an Alpaca brought me an easy 300 visits over the course of 3 days. So the better the post the longer shelf life on the stumble network.

[fahren]

I use Stumbleupon in the same way and it brings in loads of traffic, however it's not traffic that buys anything I also use it to get ideas to blog about. It's a great resource for that too.

[mwgr5]

I usually recieve about 100 visitors from stumble after submitting new material. After this initial traffic burst, I don't recieve much traffic. Sites like Digg provide me with less short term traffic but greater long term traffic than stumble.

[fahren]

I use to Digg but they kicked me out for violating terms. Not sure what I did wrong, but I should probably sign up and try agian.

[Bloggeries]

I've been so busy building Bloggeries that I never really looked into stumble beyond what I had heard and one day signed up. Great informative post really opened my eyes, I'm going to start stumbling all of my blog reviews and articles on blogging.

Thanks for taking the time to share this with everyone here; lots of green coming your way .

Edit: I stumbled a few of my blogging articles and I've been getting traffic maybe 5-20 stumbles a day. Also Brian is a stumbling guru listen to what he says, he's been stumbling some of his posts on this site and let me tell you they are getting hit ALOT!

Great work and thanks for sharing,

Rob

Originally Posted by ThePrizeBlog

Since posting my last post I have been thinking about more I can tell you about StumbleUpon from the perspective of a blogger. The first thing is that every time I post something, I stumble it. I do the old on the individual post url. I write a summary, give it keywords and then i'm done. About an hour later I will get about 15 visits in a row from stumble. This happens for the rest of about 9 hours, eventually giving me between 50-200 visits in some fashion from the StumbleUpon network. Second, if you have time on your hands check out something like Stumble Exchanges, this can often bolster your stumble traffic. Sometime post that are bland do not get much traffic. But I tell you what, one of my posts on how to Win an Alpaca brought me an easy 300 visits over the course of 3 days. So the better the post the longer shelf life on the stumble network.

[Betsyanne]

I really thought that if you Stumble or Digg your OWN postings that was not the way to go. I will have to rethink this, and possibly start doing that, at least at Stumbleupon.

I do Stumble interesting blog posts using my Stumbleupon Toolbar on Firefox. It saves me so much time. There is a "I like it" hand and a "not-for-me" etc. thumbs down hand button there plus a Stumble button that brings up new Stumbles for me to see. I like this tool a lot.

[QuirkyJessi]

No Betsy, do not rethink it! Once again, you bumped a really old post. This was from back in 2007, almost 3 years ago. Stumbling your own posts now is bad, so please don't switch to doing it. It'll only hurt you and decrease your traffic, not increase it

[Inspirational Blogger]

Originally Posted by Betsyanne

I really thought that if you Stumble or Digg your OWN postings that was not the way to go. I will have to rethink this, and possibly start doing that, at least at Stumbleupon.

I do Stumble interesting blog posts using my Stumbleupon Toolbar on Firefox. It saves me so much time. There is a "I like it" hand and a "not-for-me" etc. thumbs down hand button there plus a Stumble button that brings up new Stumbles for me to see. I like this tool a lot.

This is a very old post...

but what do you mean stumbling your own post is bad? As in submitting your post to stumble is bad?

[QuirkyJessi]

Yes, submitting your own post to Stumble is bad.

[workinghard]

There seems to be a mixed message in these postings. I have stumbleupon and I click it for posts that I like. I have never used it on my own posts. The earlier posts seems to say that you can use it for your own posts. So what is the rule, please clarify. thanks