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**helpessay** · 12-26-2007, 03:49 AM

I have been using Stumbleupon in the past few days. Its been driving some traffic to my site - however my question - is the traffic coming from stumble upon quality traffic? Or is it just people flipping through websites?

Also - How can I make Stumbleupon.com work best for me? Do I need as many people as possible to give me thumbs up?

Thanks!
Aaron

**ADAM Web Design** · 12-26-2007, 03:57 AM

Usually the latter. The only way you can make it the former is to have quality content (which often gets you Stumbled organically in the first place), and even then it's a roll of the dice.

Based on your first few posts, you sound like someone who understands that he wants as much traffic to his website as possible, and you also sound like someone who's been reading a lot of the advice that's out there and trying to follow along as best you can. This is in no way your fault (it's a systemic issue), but most of the advice you seem to be following is the typical crap SEO/marketing advice propagated by people who don't know their *** from a hole in the ground (as is evidenced by the silly shortcuts they insist on trying to take.)

I'll tell you again what I told you on your site review: you've got a good site and a good idea, something that looks pretty original and with the right type of marketing could easily generate a few extra bucks in your pocket. Don't blow it by following the prevailing SEO "wisdom", and use good judgement and common sense when trying to understand how to market yourself and your site.

**wokaka** · 12-26-2007, 08:17 AM

SU is good but not all of them (visitors from SU) are targeted traffic

**jamestl2** · 12-26-2007, 11:57 AM

In a Nutshell, SU traffic likely won't convert, if that's what you're asking by quality traffic.

You can get hundreds and thousands of hits from SU, but won't make one dime in sales.

**Elisor** · 04:15 AM

You can target ads on SU a little, although nowhere near as much as on, say, adwords. But even then the traffic you get is very unlikely to convert, unless you've got a site that would appeal to a broad mass of people. We tried it with one of our sites as a test and it resulted in a lot of traffic but few convertions.

Better to spend your advertising $ on adwords or similar.

**dotservant.com** · 01-09-2008, 04:20 AM

IMO, most SU traffic is looking for something that is interesting, fun and it has to catch the attention of the visitor at first visit, this sort of traffic might not convert well for most websites but there might be some that is doing well with it.

**Rondo** · 01-22-2008, 01:48 AM

It's a great way to get your site seen by a new audience but it's not the best quality traffic.

Andrew

**MaanDAW** · 01-22-2008, 08:39 AM

some of your traffic could be quality although not most of the traffic and it also depend on how you will treated the stumbleupon, make it as a good source and as always relative for your users.

**ScottHughes** · 01-24-2008, 11:23 PM

Most of the StumpleUpon traffic is not that good, but it is real people. Whenever I have had a burst of StumpleUpon traffic, it has usually resulted in my website getting a few links from other webmasters and bloggers who liked what they saw. So it isn't useless.

**Shadow Fax** · 01-28-2008, 05:33 AM

Here's a good way to get some great SU traffic to your site...

1. Get 10 people who are willing to give a thumbs up to your site. 
2. Next, log in to StumbleUpon and stumble your own site. 
3. Make sure those 10 people login to SU and visit your site and **immediatley** give it a thumbs up. 
4. Sit back and enjoy the traffic. It's really that easy.  

Stumbleupon determines which sites will receive the most traffic based upon several factors - however the MOST important factor in my experience is the amount of thumbs up that site recieves within the first hour or so after it has been originally stumbled. That's why getting 10 friends to give it an immediate thumbs up is key to having your site explode with traffic.   There are other factors involved too such as the actual weight of the user's account who is giving your site a thumbs up, but this factor is trivial at best. Some other people claim the more active you are on StumbleUpon, the more your submitted sites will get stumbled, but I haven't found this to be true in any way, shape, or form.  Give this method a try and you'll probably get blasted with 5k uniques your first day. As far as the quality of your visitors it's pretty various. Content is king, so make sure your content is solid and unique.

**dmdelectronics** · 01-30-2008, 02:12 AM

It's traffic, but not quality traffic.. I guess it depends on your website. If you need good turnaround (i.e. an e commerce site) you won't find it with stumbles...

**jnrcorps** · 02-01-2008, 07:27 AM

I just sign up to stumble a few days ago i did see some traffic but nothing to sing about. i would agree stumble can bring traffic but i think most of it is not quality traffic.

**MarketLeverage** · 02-08-2008, 12:58 PM

I think the traffic is quality because in your settings you select the categories of pages that you would like to Stumble. The traffic is more targeted that way. I have received a good amount of traffic from Stumbleupon. If you have good content the reader will click the the "thumbs up" which will give you more traffic.

**frost** · 02-08-2008, 05:21 PM

This is what getting stumbled (organically) often looks like:

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/8...bleuponkr4.png

I don't call that quality traffic-- I'm getting hardly any more traffic than before, and not very many returning visitors.

**Chronicle** · 02-08-2008, 08:09 PM

SU can bring a lot of hits but the quality depends on your niche. If your site is the kind which sells something than you won't get the conversion you needed. IMO, SU can be great if you're trying to promote your blog.

**carloncho** · 02-08-2008, 08:21 PM

In my shrt experience, this site send important traffic, but im not sure if this traffic take me clicks

**pow-wow** · 02-15-2008, 03:36 AM

StumbleUpon drives more traffic to blog, its sends traffic for long term.compare to digg

**SportsAgent** · 02-18-2008, 04:46 AM

I agree with Frost. I don't think SU traffic is really quality traffic. When a post gets stumbled, its about a particular subject that people want to read about. Like, with my blog, a post I did on hockey has been getting stumbled fairly heavily for the last 2 days. My site, being about sports business has information about all sports. I don't see (at least not in my subscriptions or page views or anything) any of those people reading anything but my one hockey article. Although maybe I need to give it some more time.

**dougadam** · 02-21-2008, 06:46 PM

I have been impressed with the quantity but not the quantity of traffic.

**jamestl2** · 02-22-2008, 01:08 AM

Traffic Wise = It very rarely immediately converts into clicks and sales. But at the same time, you can meet new people who share similar interests as yours.

The actual SU link itself (for "perceived" SEO benefits) is worthless, and isn't what's important, it's the people who view and share the link with others, and other webmasters, bloggers, etc. may link to your content this way.

Content Wise = Who really knows with SU, they can like quality content, and they can like crap. Take this very old post of mine for example:
http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.t...elieve-in-god/

Looking back on it now, I think it was one of the worst posts I've ever written, I was just trying to get ten reasons in. Yet at the same time, tons of people on SU really liked it (except the reviewers, who I'd probably agree with now).

So you can't always tell whether you'll find quality stuff on there or not.