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I don’t think it is worth it at all. I tried this out 5 months ago or so and nothing really came of it. I got more traffic for those days but it was short lived.

Interesting post, I understand the details behind StumbleUpon now a little better.

This in an interesting idea. I didn’t know StumbleUpon allowed you to buy your way in. I think ultimately this will diminish the value of the service though. I spent a little time using it today and it already looks like a lot of the sites are coming from advertisers. Of course, that won’t stop me from giving it a whirl. Thanks!

Interesting Post I think it was worth it. It is a good way to grow a website community and get new readers. You have to provide interesting stuff which people want to read.

I’ve had about 1500 people find their way to my blog so far this month. The stuff I submit to stumble is tagged with the keyword seo so most would have found it by searching for seo, or are regular visitors to my stumble page.

So just how useful is it getting people to your site looking for seo information. Very, if you have info available that is. About 70% of stumblers view two or more pages, some even comment. To me that is success as I am not selling anything, merely raising my profile and establishing a brand. The brand being me.

It’s not that it’s worthless traffic, it’s different traffic and you must adapt to it to utilise it. Could it be as simple as finding out what stumbler want and then giving it to them. To define a bunch of people using a tool as worthless is short sited and misses a trick.

I know the comments here are mostly positive but it surprise me to see a lot of online marketers not really trying that hard to maximise the opportunity.

It’s cool that you used the paid for option. Next time save your money and give me a shout, I will stumble your site with my mature, loaded account. It usually sends a few hundred people and if they like what they see and stumble it too the traffic should last for months.

Essentialy I use blogger and google pages for a hobby. But I receive a significant amount of my traffic from stumbleupon according to google analytics. I have to say, not only has it generated traffic, but I really enjoy what it has to offer and the community itself.

I didnt even realise there was a paid inclusion options in stumbleuppon. I actually joined for free, made a profile and I submit all of my pages and blog post to stumbleuppon. the funny thing is, after one particular post I got over 1000 hits in one day from them. Although the Adsense clickthrough ratio wasnt that great, its still eyes on your site which will help for subscribership, members and sales, so i highly recommend it.

PS you dont have to pay anything.

From my experience stumble traffic is quite useless. It results in really low CTR for ads. It’s basically just an annoyance in my stats log. However, it’s good that it’s not all at once like Digg or Slashdot. I don’t mind it, but it’s not good from a publishers perspective. Maybe good for getting track backs.

Hii,
do i really need to pay them to get traffic. I have been using stumbleupon for 2 months, and not getting single traffic though i submitted 4 pages to stumble upon ????

Never did get any real success with stubleupon. In fact all social networking has failed for me so far, sadly.
Regards Don.

I did try them out a few times but just didn’t seem to get any real traffic.
Maybe I am doing something wrong?

My colleagues and I have been having this debate for sometime now and I just wrote a posting about it last night with an example of my normal traffic and then a day of Stumble! traffic. It’s interesting to see the analytics behind it. I get tons of hits but nothing of real value. Most of those visitors are just hitting the Stumble! button repeatedly until something REALLY catches them.

I say, be patient, comment on other blogs and do some SEO efforts – don’t leave it all up to WordPress or whatever platform you’re using.

I found this article by Googling “stumbleupon traffic” so I guess that SU is working!!

I did the search because I notices that I just started the social networking traffic gig and SU has given the greatest number of hits within a very short time. Just hundreds but the other sites DIGG, de.licious, ect are below 10.

I suspected that the quality of traffic was poor as well. I’m not really selling from my blog but do run Adsense and a few other paid ads programs.

I’m glad to read about the experiences of others.

The quality of “visitors” Stumblebum sends is pure unadulterated crap. I know from personal experience both from paid advertising with them and from tagging site pages w/ SU.

SU users seemingly blind to content, haphazardly click their toolbar’s Stumble button visiting websites at speeds up to 10 sites a minute. Zero to minimal prequalified visitors is the norm – and you can forget about any conversions – it’s a celebration of mindlessness.

Their tagging system is a complete joke – you can only see 7 sites for any given tag – sometimes none. Sites disappear only to be replaced by those maybe a year older without even any reviews. Searching SU is even worse – results contain a mishmash of irrelevant nothingness.

Stumblebutt has a really good thing going – for them that is – they sell advertising for a nickel a click – and with millions of users they’re making a killing. Only problem though is that advertisers get zip in return for their money – only elevated uniques in the site stats – no sales, no comments, no clicks, no conversions whatsoever.

Essentially, Stumbleblunder sucks. There are far more productive and measurable means by which to garner traffic – read – visitors that have conversion potential.

Great article – I didn’t know paid inclusion was an option. I submitted my site but didn’t do much after – I’m going to give it another whirl and be a little more ‘hands on’ and see if I can’t use the social networking aspect to my advantage! Thanks!

I think stumbleupon is a good way to get traffic but you should setup your account very carefully.

Good experiment. The question is are the StumbleUpon visitors come back later or not?

We’ve had some good spikes in traffic with 100 – 150 hits in a given day and then nothing for a month.

For our site we have a lot of text which I don’t think works too well for StumbleUpon traffic. The site has to REALLY grab you visually… Not that ours isn’t visually great it’s just that as a community of over 30 film bloggers the content has to be king to give all the bloggers access to the front page which we rotate constantly.

Having said that I personally LOVE Stumbleupon and use it regularly looking for photos.

I love Stumbleupon and have been using it for quite some time. Many people in the comments complain about the lack of ad revenue they receive from stumblers. This is probably true because many stumblers are relatively savvy users and have Firefox and Adblock plus. Stumbleupon is a new way of searching for things you don’t know you might be interested in. If your business is in providing a service (which can be things like webcomics, lolcats, etc…) where money is made through sales of tangible goods related to your site, and not through traditional ads, I think you will have better success (I purchased an xkcd t-shirt after repeatedly stumbling upon comics of theirs that I enjoyed). That said, I understand why some people are upset, and perhaps stumblers aren’t the users they are looking for.

Thanks for sharing this interesting information about paid StumbleUpon services. Though I have used StumbleUpon previously for a client’s web site to direct traffic to their site, I never knew about the paid option before I had read this post.

Many people stumble their website and sit back and wait for something to happen. This doesn’t work because the real power behind social marketing is in the network.

Are you building a big network of friends who are into the same topic as your website? And if so are you using the Send to: feature to get your Stumble friends to help propel your Submissions? These actions are key to having success with Stumbleupon.

My only real problem with google analytics is that it doesn’t work very well with a lot of ASP pages, which a lot of clients use nowadays. It can also get kind of hairy when trying to get it to understand what a conversion is. Instead of just any click, it needs to be one specific click haha.

I tried StumbleUpon a few month ago. Did get some traffics, but not worth it at that time. Most users just stumble through… I’m trying it again. Will see.

I think most of the traffic from StumbleUpon is irrelevant, as i use it for six months, no doubt in it that my site get reasonable traffic, but traffic is useless until it is targeted and goal oriented. I also change the look of my page couple of times to attract the customers, but failed to get the desired results. It does not mean all traffic of Stumble is useless, but results were not according to expectation. Any ways thank you so much for this post.

Thanks for the share. The channel surfing attitude of the stumble upon community makes it a not so desirable traffic for webmasters. Sure you can increase your visitor rate. But if that visitor does not convert to a reader for my blog , then i see no use in promoting my site using stumble upon. I prefer to get digg traffic.

The thing I am most interested in is search engine traffic. But pertaining to the discussion here if you would ask me if i consider stumble upon traffic worthy my answer would be a plain big NO

Paid stumbles just as adwords or any other promotion will only give sustainable results if you got a quality website with quality content, because what you want is people who will like your content and bookmark you, review you on stumbleupon, LINK TO YOU from their blogs or website and maybe tell their friends about you if you’re worth it, .. Promotion is just a way to get more new visitors to your website and have faster sustainable results, if your traffic drops down after you stop the campain, it’s not stumbleupon’s fault, but yours for sure!

I think it worth a little, but this sort of traffic is not enough in order to achieve targets, as you will get mix up of traffic, means site will not get targeted traffic.

I think that stumbleupon traffic is kinda good in case you’re looking for better alexa rank…

I tried it myself and my rank went much more better..

Yes traffic always worth for a site, but it really depends what sort of services or products are you selling on your site, if you are selling generally used services or products that stumble traffic worth a lot for your site, but if you are selling some thing for a specific group of people like designing products, then it may not be much more useful, but still it worth.

I got SU’d by someone and all of a sudden got 300+ hits in two days, but they looked at my site for less than 30 seconds each. It was a nifty boost, but not much help otherwise.

No doubt in it, that stumble drives a lot of traffic; but the question how could you get benefit from mix up of traffic, means stumble will not drive specific type of traffic according to your site or products, what i think best way to utilize the stumble traffic; we can generate a lot of affiliate programs along with our own product about the relevant stuff to your niche. I think this is the best use of stumble traffic.

I noticed not a single cent of conversion despite a huge leap in stumbleupon generated traffic. Not worth it unless you are in the sole business of counting hits

Paid stumbles just as adwords or any other promotion will only give sustainable results if you got a quality website with quality content, because what you want is people who will like your content and bookmark you, review you on stumbleupon, LINK TO YOU from their blogs or website and maybe tell their friends about you if you’re worth it, .. Promotion is just a way to get more new visitors to your website and have faster sustainable results, if your traffic drops down after you stop the campain, it’s not stumbleupon’s fault, but yours for sure!

I recently tried the system “tumbleUp”, but haven’t got response yet!
I don’t know how effective it is?

Document very successful. But a little more detailed information should be.

It sure is some kind of art to get visitors from stumblupon (without paying). First I submitted my page to SU I got around 600 visitors on single day (that was great). After that it was like visitor or two every now and then. After couple of months I added some tags and got 1k visitors within 24h – I was like wtf. After that SU visits again dropped. Tagging more didn’t do any difference.

Guyz u don,t need to pay to stumble for bringing visitor to ur own site stumble automatically bring visitors to ur site when u stumbled sum of the content of ur site
like i stubled 1 of muu url i got 1 to 5 visitors for each stumble… not continusly thtz thz sh… in the stumble

Chck my blog for visitors i m now gettin more thn 700 per day

Thanks for sharing your experience.

I read on another blog about using StumbleUpon traffic, and I was googling some experiences (that is how I came across this post).

I appreciate you breaking down how it worked. I am sure the vistors may behave differently depending on the site, and I will definitely try it. $0.05 per click isn’t all that bad really.

I’m not getting anything out of it. I can’t even “stumble”- if I do I cant get out of their site and I can’t vote up or down-nothing. Pretty worthless. There should be a step-by-step process to make sure you know what your doing.