Comments on: How to be a success in online networking part 2, Stumbleupon

By: aubergine

aubergine — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:50:49 +0000

Basically I made the error of befriending too many people and now I do not get any traffic anymore because most people who stumbled me before do not count anymore.

By: Icon Expert

Icon Expert — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 04:43:00 +0000

Hi,
Its a informative post.Actually i am a newest member(Sabelina) to stumble upon.You had cleared all my doubts.I know StumbleUpon drives a lot of traffic, and the traffic, and as DoshDosh reports, StumbleUpon traffic is generally focused and of great quality.You have bring all good points.Thanks for your valuable and precious information.
Good Luck!

By: mcrilf

mcrilf — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:00:44 +0000

Thanks for the tips…SU is a bit confusing I have to say. I tried stumbling your faves and although you say you only stumble SEO/SEM sites, I got this… http://www.abandonedrailroads.com/ Hmmm… interesting ;)

By: Tino

Tino — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:01:29 +0000

Good article, it’s always to read useful info like this to keep SU fresh in my mind. :-)

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By: digital music recording

digital music recording — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:22:48 +0000

SU, just like WOM (Word of mouth) gets mileage but like the same phenomenon it has positive as well as a negative result to it. The negative is that repeat visits decline.

By: Rob Malon - Automating Websites

Rob Malon - Automating Websites — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:17:01 +0000

SU is a little confusing but it looks like its worth investing your time into. I actually found you through it and can now keep up with your blogging :)

I wrote a similar article to this recently. Mostly about how to get traffic by stumbling places where you’re mentioned.
http://www.robmalon.com/expanding-reach-social-book-marking-limits/

Your advice is right on with the rest of it. I need to spend much more time playing with SU.

By: Caroline Middlebrook

Caroline Middlebrook — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:46:47 +0000

I find SU to be really confusing. It is my single biggest source of traffic to my blog and yet there seems to be no pattern to it. There have been posts that have had several thumbs up and received no traffic – perhaps that it because they were stumbled by friends.

I thought it was the ‘right thing to do’ to befriend people who stumble my stuff but perhaps that’s not the way to go about it. I’m trying to get into the habit of using more but I often forget as I tend to read a lot of good posts in my feed reader which is an offline application.

One thing I have started doing though is Stumbling with the ‘friends’ option selected – this tends to give me a lot of highly relevant stuff that I like.

By: Lyndoman

Lyndoman — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:27:43 +0000

I did a test the other day where I sent a page to everyone on my list, I then monitored who thumbed back and how much traffic it sent. Luckily no non friends thumbed so it gave me a good sample. I got teeny tiny traffic from stumble, whereas another post, The list of social bookmarking site was left to its own devices and got huge traffic.

Looking at the people who thumbed it was 80% non friends, so yeah. Non friends are the people you want to stumble your stuff, which presents a dilemma.

The reason I like my friends is I get sent cool stumbles through the friend feed, if I unfriended them I lose that.

But a thought occurs, Stumble does not know this is my blog. So it does not know the people who stumble it are friends or not of the owner of the blog. So perhaps it is the “Send to” function that negates the stumble.

Hmmmm, I think more tests are needed.

By: Tad Chef

Tad Chef — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:09:49 +0000

I think the crucial phrase is: “if it?s only your friends that stumble a web page, not much happens.”
Basically I made the error of befriending too many people and now I do not get any traffic anymore because most people who stumbled me before do not count anymore.
In this way you hurt yourself and your friends by befriending them. It’s paradox but it’s the way it is.

By: Steven Snell

Steven Snell — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 02:41:53 +0000

Some good advice. I have the same goals with SU as you do, but I probably haven’t been quite as active. I’ve started doing more reviews rather than just giving it a thumbs up. I noticed that I paid more attention to who reviewed my pages/posts, so I’m thinking others do too.

By: theGypsy

theGypsy — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:59:09 +0000

Alas, I haven’t made much use of SU monsieur Lyndon …. I shall see what I can do since ye have me motivated…. ?.. see what fun can be had!!

I have seen some folks that stumble all kinds of stuff from related, to pictures and so on… I try to only hit reasonably related pages… I hate stumbling into strange/useless crap.

How much time do you spend on the SU activity? I am always obsessed with ROI for time spent… :0(

O.. I gave ya ‘I Like It’ for this post of course… :0) …. L8TR M8

By: David Hopkins

David Hopkins — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:12:37 +0000

A humouros post and some very good tips. *stumbles*

Your idea to make your avatar red was a clever one. As Rob pointed out at Yack Yack, you are a farmiliar face to stumblers. When I stumbled your site I used the review ‘The unoffical face of StumbleUpon’ because I can be guarenteed to see your face at least once a day; either garishly grabbing my eye from someones blog log or hogging the space in the ‘People Who Like Seo Sites’ section.