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**UM_manager** · 02-21-2007, 06:34 AM

I'am a Stumbleupon member and I have some friends there but I don't get any significant traffic .

I've read that stumbleupon can bring thousands and thousands of visitors daily.

How to get traffic from Stumbleupon ?

**SeLFiE_12** · 02-21-2007, 07:41 AM

put up your link in there by just clicking the "thumbs up - i like it" button and make friends with other people who uses stumbleupon...widen up your network that way you'll receive a lot more visitors...

**ADAM Web Design** · 02-21-2007, 01:24 PM

SeLFiE 12, that is precisely the kind of answer that should be avoided when answering a question like this. The only purpose it serves is to create a short-term measure for the gaining of "popularity" for a site that probably doesn't deserve it and thereby creates an abuse of what could be a good system in concept.

UM manager: I have a site that did exactly what you wanted to do (gained 1000 visitors in a 14-hour period before I even knew what it was.) It has tapered off since then (approx. 50-100 visitors per day), but it's still my #2 traffic source (behind big G).

So...what do you do to draw traffic from Stumbleupon.com? Build something unique that visitors will want to see. That's it. That's the answer right there. Nothing more, nothing less. You'll get traffic, you'll get votes, you'll get love.

Incidentally, I don't use stumbleupon.com, I don't have their toolbar, I don't know anyone that does use it. It's pure organic traffic...the best kind.

**vangogh** · 02-21-2007, 06:21 PM

Check out the second link in Adam's sig and you'll see the pages that got stumbled. If you want traffic ultimately you need to have something people will want to see.

I recently had a page on my site stumbled and it did bring some quick traffic for a day or two and then trailed off considerable. I'm not really sure it was a page worth stumbling myself though someone else must have thought so.

If someone with a StumbleUpon account likes something on your site they'll submit it and then others will start seeing it. If those others also like it they'll give it a thumb's up and your page will continue to get stumbled. If people don't like it they'll start giving it a thumb's down and it will get buried and not seen by many.

So yes to get stumbled someone has to submit the page, but to keep bringing in traffic your content still needs to be good.

Now if I were deliberately trying to get traffic from StumbleUpon I would spend time with the community and gain an understanding of the types of pages that people seem to give the thumb's up to most often. I would then work to create similar content that of a very high quality. After that I would either hope it got stumbled on its own or have a friend stumble it.

If that sounds like a lot of work it is and in the end it's exactly what Adam is suggesting. Build something worth stumbling and it will get stumbled.

**Learning Newbie** · 02-21-2007, 08:25 PM

I agree with both Adam and VanGogh. And I also think Adam was right to say "Don't feed the spammers." I'm not saying the OP in this sense is a spammer, but being told to just go vote for yourself over and over could change that.

Plus, I'm fairly sure Stumble Upon has anti-spam measures in place. Like if they get 20 positive votes for 20 different pages from the same IP address, I'm guessing they can figure that one out. In fact, I'm not sure how they could tell, but I bet they would know if you vote even just once for your own web site.

More to the point, cheating the system robs you of the pride that comes along with being recognized for good work.

**MysteryLeo** · 03-14-2007, 01:43 AM

is stumble upon traffic good traffic, or is it like digg traffic?

**ADAM Web Design** · 03-14-2007, 01:58 AM

Depends on what you mean by "good traffic" and what you're trying to accomplish.

For me, it's good traffic in the sense that visitors from StumbleUpon tend to stick around, refer it to their friends and spread the word about my site organically. I don't do bugger all to promote it anymore (I don't have to).

But it really depends on what your site's about, who it targets, and what you want to accomplish. For a site like your Deal Comet site, I probably wouldn't, simply because it doesn't appear to do anything other than promote affiliate hyperlinks in a misleading way.

Sites that do well on either (or both) tend to be original and have content and explore issues that other won't. I'd also say they tend to lean toward webmaster-type sites, but I'm not really sure on that.

**vangogh** · 03-14-2007, 02:34 AM

Good point my many named friend. It really does depend on what's meant by 'good traffic.' It also depends on what your site is about and if it's on a topic that the community will like.

One thing people keep missing about social media is that each is a community of real people. If you want to get traffic from any of them spend some time getting to know the people there and what they do and don't like. Once you know what the community likes give it to them.

**adquick** · 03-14-2007, 11:08 AM

Have a look at www.stumblexchange.com - From this site you can stumble each others sites and in time your site will eventually get more traffic from stumbleupon.

-- Phil

**ADAM Web Design** · 03-14-2007, 11:16 AM

Well that just killed StumbleUpon, Digg, and del.icio.us for those of us who get organic traffic from any or all of the three.

**willcode4beer** · 03-14-2007, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by adquick

Have a look at www.stumblexchange.com - From this site you can stumble each others sites and in time your site will eventually get more traffic from stumbleupon.

-- Phil

The funny thing is, the graph on that page shows traffic returning to the original state after two days.

I suspect that most of us are looking for ways to create a steady (constant) increase in traffic. If you spend all of your time chasing traffic spikes, you never get to rest. If you instead, spend your time making your site useful, then the traffic will steadily grow, and not take a sharp dip when you take a day off.

**Learning Newbie** · 03-14-2007, 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by ADAM Web Design

Depends on what you mean by "good traffic" and what you're trying to accomplish.

My man.

Normally it's not a complement to call someone "Captain Obvious," but it seems like having a web site turns people into gerbils running on that wheel, so distracted by the carrot dangling in front of their face, that they COMPLETELY loose sight of the obvious.

Good traffic is traffic that helps you reach your goals. If I drop a link and say "This site is horrid, check it out and let's all laugh at the moron who came up with this" and then a million people click my link, chances are that's bad traffic. But it's a lot harder to say what "good traffic" is. I just read about a guy who got a $300 bandwidth bill after being on the front page of Digg, and made $1 in ad revenue with all that traffic. Unless he has a mighty ego, or a beautiful site people are going to bookmark and return to, that probably isn't very good traffic. If the same thing happened to a political web site with a message to get out, though, the same traffic would be "good" instead of "bad." It's not the traffic itself, but how it fits in with your goals?

On the web, no one can hear you exercise common sense.

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Originally Posted by ADAM Web Design

But it really depends on what your site's about, who it targets, and what you want to accomplish. For a site like your Deal Comet site, I probably wouldn't, simply because it doesn't appear to do anything other than promote affiliate hyperlinks in a misleading way.

I love how you have the huevos to call people out and answer their questions honestly. Cracks me up every time. And it comes back to the common sense thing, who wants to click a "show me cool web sites" button and land on a spam page? I don't see any hands.

**Learning Newbie** · 03-14-2007, 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by willcode4beer

The funny thing is, the graph on that page shows traffic returning to the original state after two days.

I suspect that most of us are looking for ways to create a steady (constant) increase in traffic. If you spend all of your time chasing traffic spikes, you never get to rest. If you instead, spend your time making your site useful, then the traffic will steadily grow, and not take a sharp dip when you take a day off.

I used to work with somebody who ran a porn site for a while. He finally gave up. The guy would go home after work every day, and put in two or three hours of spamming, or, "promoting [his] site." Guy was always discovering new ways to create a short-term spike, and invariably, it would last two or three days. He showed me an Excel chart of his traffic once, I though we were looking at shark teeth.

He finally gave up because it was way too much work, and impacting his life in a bad way. Which is really a good thing, since he just downloaded a bunch of jpeg files and sold membership to look at them. The more people would tell the guy about this thing called copyright, the more determined he became. He's lucky he didn't get sued.

**vangogh** · 05:44 PM

That StumbleExchange site sounds like 100% spam to me. I think it's exactly the opposite of what the intention of social media sites should be. Check this from the exchages FAQ:

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Isn't this against StumbleUpon's ToS?

A member from DP contacted the Co-Founder of StumbleUpon to ask if this site is ok with them and they said that although it is against their ToS, it is ok with them for the moment.

That says a lot doesn't it? So it's against the TOS yet somehow we're supposed to believe it's ok or wll continue to be ok.

If it looks like spam, smells like spam, sounds like spam...

**ORiN** · 03-18-2007, 06:15 PM

Hmm... How do I add the 'Add To StumbleUpon' button to my website then?

**stOx** · 03-18-2007, 08:17 PM

If people spent half the time they spend on trying to scam on building quality content they would end up with a half decent site.

**sheena** · 03-19-2007, 06:43 AM

Social bookmarking site is the good way to increased web traffic for the site like digg, stumbleupon and a lot more. I try stumbleupon, post the blog links and still I do not get traffic for the site. We need to widen up our network and tell them that you updated your blog. Quality and fresh content that is posted to our blog site is still important

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Originally Posted by stOx

If people spent half the time they spend on trying to scam on building quality content they would end up with a half decent site.

**Learning Newbie** · 03-19-2007, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by sheena

Quality and fresh content that is posted to our blog site is still important

No. Quality isn't "still important." It's the only thing that's ever been important.

**vangogh** · 03-19-2007, 07:19 PM

Francis there are different solutions depending on your blog software. For example WordPress has some plugin to handle adding the icon to your site. There are also plenty of sites that will create the buttons for you and offer you the code to use.

Here's what I found on the StumbleUpon Help page.

**sheena** · 03-28-2007, 04:14 AM

Yah your right, It is the best important for the site

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Originally Posted by Learning Newbie

No. Quality isn't "still important." It's the only thing that's ever been important.