I've recently become a convert. Anyone else here addicted? I've been stumbling through random sites for about an hour now. Share your StumbleUpon url, and let's be Stumble friends. Yup, my dorkiness knows no bounds. I'm at http://thelisashow.stumbleupon.com. Share your site traffic stories.
(I got 300 hits daily from StumbleUpon when two readers stumbled my blog on photography. That blog is five days old. I don't even have a banner up yet. You can see my fascination with it. Hehe.)
SU was really confusing when I first tried it earlier this year, I'm getting more used to it. I haven't gotten too many hits off it, but I think it helps that Lisa's photo blog is a great reference site and more people are searching for those keywords and topics.
Permalink Reply by Lisa on November 21, 2007 at 4:28am
Yeah, I thought about that. I guess more people are searching for photography-related blogs these days? I guess more people wrote photography as an interest in their SU preferences, so when they click on the Stumbling button, there are more chances of it popping up. I keep trying to find a comprehensive guide on the SU site without much luck.
Wow, that is awesome that so many people are stumbling to drive traffic to your page. I think StumbleUpon really helps those blogs that are niche-specific. I know I got an insane jump of traffic when a reader stumbled one of my posts "What My Mother Taught Me About Sex," lols...and since then I've been paying more attention to it (but definitely not enough)...as I recently got sidetracked by 20somethings and the Weblogs awards, haha.
Although from what I've heard, the more you stumble other pages yourself, the more likely your page/blog will show up for others when it gets stumbled/searched for.
SU is the way to go to get traffic, you oughta give Digg a shot, too! =)
Bart is a good friend to have on SU as well. He'll send you great internet marketing links, and if you send him links he's happy to tag and review them for you.
I just decided to join the stumbleupon craze based on my dh's stats from it to his weather blog. I have a few hits from it so far, and I suppose I'll get more when I start poting a lot again. Here's my url: http://mom2twinsplus1.stumbleupon.com
Permalink Reply by Lisa on November 30, 2007 at 12:46pm
Added all! :)
Our record remains at 1,145 in a day. This happened last week. Digg helped, too. I've never experienced traffic like that. It's quite a rush.