The Other Search Engines

**ozziedave** · 04-25-2007, 06:53 AM

Hello,

Anyone here had any previous dealing with stumbleupon. I am doing some PPC advertising with them and I'm pretty sure that someone is milking my hits and I mean all of the hits.

Here's what they have to say on their site

"How does StumbleUpon prevent click-fraud?
StumbleUpon doesn't syndicate paid listings to third parties - the primary source of click-fraud in pay-per-click networks. We also don't have any mechanism by which someone can force your site to come up as a paid result, so a competitor can't drain your account."

**ozziedave** · 11-20-2007, 07:01 AM

Hi All,

I take back anything critical I have said about Stumbleupon they're certainly not fraudulent ....just ordinary

**chrishirst** · 11-20-2007, 08:21 AM

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just ordinary

You know, I think that's the best description I have heard yet about StumbleUpon

**giftedwon** · 11-24-2007, 05:47 PM

when you stumble you get a lot of traffic. there are just a large amount of people rushing in to your site.

**ozziedave** · 11-26-2007, 04:28 AM

...and rushing straight onto someone elses site at the click of a button.

**chrishirst** · 11-26-2007, 07:07 AM

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there are just a large amount of people rushing in to your site.

and rushing away again.

**NightCrawler** · 12-03-2007, 02:13 AM

ozziedave, but is it still worth it to advertise on stumbleupon? What if you compared it with the visitors from your Google adwords campaigns?

**ozziedave** · 12-04-2007, 06:42 AM

For me Google is more expensive but is worth the extra expense.

I guess everyone will be different and are trying to achieve different things - but as I see it a customer via Google would be worth 6+ times as much as a Stumbleupon customer.

Stumbleupon customers are browsing - anything, Google customers are looking for something specific or at least a subject. That's the difference.

Perhaps if you have a website that people are mesmerised by, then Stumbleupon could be better - or cheaper anyway.

**ForrestCroce** · 12-09-2007, 11:39 PM

Stumblers are window shoppers. Googlers are at least far more likely to be customers.

I'm actually considering to buy some traffic from Stumble. I don't actually sell anything, but I'm working on a book, and need name recognition to get it published. Stumble has been very good to me in the form of free traffic - they love unusual photography - but if I can reach 400 more people for $20, considering my nich and aspirations, Stumble is a good avenue.

For most sites, though, the traffic is pretty low quality. Even on a photo blog, Stumblers view less pages per visit and stick around for less time.

**luukmuu** · 02-10-2008, 10:07 PM

thank you ....guys for worth info .....I focus on the social bookmark traffic

**full house** · 02-12-2008, 08:04 AM

well, stumble upon is a really great social bookmarking site!Just stumble and wait for the traffics to come.

**chrishirst** · 02-12-2008, 02:36 PM

... and leave straight away.

**jamestl2** · 02-12-2008, 05:37 PM

....and never return.

**ADAM Web Design** · 02-12-2008, 06:13 PM

But wait, you guys! You've got SU all wrong! People see the sites and link to them, which is good for SEO. For every hundred Stumblers, you're bound to see at least 25,807 inbound links, because Stumblers spread the word.

Now pass de Dutchie on de left 'and side!

**jamestl2** · 02-12-2008, 06:19 PM

The sad thing is Adam, some SEO n00b might come along, read your post, think it's true, and they'll start doing everything they can to get as many stumbles/diggs as they can (because they'll think it's "good" for SEO).

**ADAM Web Design** · 02-12-2008, 10:29 PM

That's the joy of sarcasm, James...it's lost on the stupid.

**aathuls** · 10-22-2008, 07:07 AM

Stumbleupon a good marketing tool and it's uses positive and negative user ratings to form collaborative opinions on website quality.It gives more traffic.

**jabo** · 10-22-2008, 07:16 AM

The only reason why I go to stumble upon is to make a lot of friends with some pretty ladies, I have been stumbling user profiles but not websites-lol what a waste of time- and recently got banned because of doing so...lol...

**juliensimon** · 10-22-2008, 06:43 PM

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Originally Posted by jabo

The only reason why I go to stumble upon is to make a lot of friends with some pretty ladies, I have been stumbling user profiles but not websites-lol what a waste of time- and recently got banned because of doing so...lol...

so you are a shallow creepy stalker...and proud of it?

**jabo** · 10-23-2008, 07:10 AM

lol... I guess you can put it that way...lol.. just kidding. wonder why it takes so long for them to reply to one of my message.

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Originally Posted by juliensimon

so you are a shallow creepy stalker...and proud of it?