Comments on: SEO tests with Stumbleupon

By: Peg Corwin

Peg Corwin — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:21:56 +0000

I found you on Stumbleupon, and I’m subscribing to this blog’s RSS. (and your Stumbles.)

You’re in my niche, you appear to be smart and I’m always trying to figure out SEO, so I bet I’ll link to you, too. Count me as a sample of one.

By: Lyndoman

Lyndoman — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:27:04 +0000

Yuri, it confirmed something I knew. Traffic generation needs to have an holistic approach. There is a lot of misguided advice given on this matter, the reality is there is no one thing that works.

The experiment was flawed as it’s not the best thing that Stumble does, it is great for boosting your rss feed subscribers, which may turn into links later down the line.

Thanks for asking this as I will post regarding this later.

By: Yuri

Yuri — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:45:10 +0000

So, what are the results of the experiment now? Did you keep posting and stumbling the site?

By: pete

pete — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:48:29 +0000

I don’t think Stumble is any good for SEO, but it can drive traffic to a website.

By: seramar

seramar — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:43:05 +0000

Hey, just to let you know I am running an experiment like this right now myself. I am not sure if it is because of the stumbles or not but I did increase my feedburner reported subscribers from 4 at the start to 10 in just a few days by stumbling a few articles.

Right now I am playing with different keywords and topics – the trick, I guess, is to make the user feel they have come across a real resource.

I found your website by stumbling, btw, and subscribed to the feed after a quick browse of the content. I also once read an article about how a company got a website to some ridiculous number of rss subscribers (10,000 or more I think) in just a few weeks (a month, I think) by using stumble upon paid ads and digg. There is potential, it just hasn’t been unlocked.

By: Matt Ellsworth

Matt Ellsworth — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:20:10 +0000

interesting test – i would like to see a few more like it.

By: Matt Keegan

Matt Keegan — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:14:26 +0000

I found your blog through Stumble Upon. In fact, I found several of your articles and have read through quite a number of them.

A few weeks back I shelled out 20 dollars for paid stumbles dividing that small amount between two sites with 75% of the traffic allocated to one site, and 25% to the second site. I received a thumbs up, but I cannot quantify whether the traffic generated were one time visitors or not.

Still, I like to stumble every now and then and have turned up useful SEO information that I may not have easily uncovered otherwise.

Regards,
MattK

By: Simonne

Simonne — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:35:00 +0000

Hi, I have some data from my personal experience with StumbleUpon. I hope it may be of interest for your readers.
http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/blog/2006/12/08/how-to-get-longlasting-traffic-for-your-blog/

By: BadiJones

BadiJones — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:49:23 +0000

Hi there.

I have had the same experience with Stumbleupon. Thousands of visits, but I never really saw any substantial linking. Personally, I?ve linked to several of the sites I?ve found on Stumbleupon, but I guess the majority of people who use SU just aren?t the linking type.

By: Lyndoman

Lyndoman — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:37:40 +0000

If anyone else has tests running feel free to drop a link in the comment. It may even be worth posting a collection of them and drop the no follow.

By: ogletree

ogletree — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:55:48 +0000

I did an experiment as well.

http://www.ogletreeseo.com/144.html

By: Financial Aid Officer

Financial Aid Officer — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:11:50 +0000

How can you tell if the traffic is qualified or not from this basic test? It seems to me you should try to get them to do something relevant – buy a book on the subject from Amazon through tracking links? Depending on the site, 300-800 visits per day is good regardless of what they do on the site. Eventually, one of those visits will convert into something – right? I guess it depends…

By: Lyndoman

Lyndoman — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:47:27 +0000

Backlinks are now at 44 (Yahoo)

Cached pages in Google 23

Site was last cached on Feb 18th

No other changes.

Unique visits from Stumbleupon fluctuates between 300 and 800 a day.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:17:32 +0000

Very interesting. I have been using SU to promote articles on one of my sites and am considering not doing so any more just because the bump and run visits are screwing up my traffic data and making it hard to see what people really like on miy site. I’ll check back for the updates.

By: Lyndoman

Lyndoman — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:59:22 +0000

I agree Andy. If every seo blog did a little experiement here and there we would soon build a good library of data.

The update on this experiment is that the number of cached pages are up to 41, even though I only added 3 new pages. The clearest effect of the Stumble upon traffic is to increase the number of cached page.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:38:20 +0000

This is the type of testing that really needs to be performed. Very few of the SMM specialist blogs discuss anything about how to convert traffic ibto something valuable such as subscribers or income.