I have been using StumbleUpon to promote my blog for three months now. It’s giving me traffic more than any other this-type-of-programs in the Internet. But why do I call it bad traffic?
- It gives you a lot of untargeted traffic. You may notice in your analytics tool that there has been more than 20 entries from StumbleUpon in a minute for your first minutes. That’s approximately one (1) visit every three (3) seconds from a computer. Care to waste your precious bandwidth with a bot?
- StumbleUpon visitors doesn’t comment. They tend to just read your stuff, then press the Stumble button (to go to another page).
- They don’t read your ads. Why would they care if they can find more relevant interesting stuff in just a click of a button? [Lower CTR]
Still not convinced? Then try making your own list! Hahaha.
But I’m still very grateful to StumbleUpon, they gave me this paradigm “pageviews are just numbers, what matters most are loyal visitors”.
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your post is ironic seeing as how I came to your blog from your free stumble offer on DP forum. Good luck and thanks.
StumbleUpon works well… if you harness its power properly.
Afterall, there are highly targeted groups in SU. If you build a focused or themed blog, and then make such a blog participate in SU, you’ll discover the targeted groups in SU.
(The same principle can be extended to BlogRush and Entrecard.)
I guess it depends on the blog really. If it’s worth leaving a comment on, no SU user can resist.
There are still works needed to be done to maximize SU.
matry nga// hehehe
The points that you have listed are very true. However, all is not lost for the regular blogger because you can still convert this traffic into your regular readers.
There are many ways to do this, I’ve actually covered some steps on one of my article which can be found here –> http://www.pinoyblogero.com/2007/10/15/marking-a-good-first-impression/
Hope this helps. StumbleUpon is a good source of traffic, as long as you know how to manage it properly.
That’s right… Loyal visitors!!!
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