Stumble yourself
I’ve gotten small boosts of traffic cause of stumbleupon. How did i do this? Well my first stumble was done by a visitor. I didn’t even know my humble blog could get stumbled. It brought me around 130 unique visitors. Stumble doesn’t bring in quality traffic, but it does bring traffic. For a new blog, quality traffic isn’t that important. You first want to pad your stats and traffic, any traffic will give you a nice boost. It’ll also give you the energy to keep working on your site.
When i got my first stumble, i didn’t know how it happened. So i researched cause i knew i wanted to get in on this action. An easy way to get some stumble traffic is by stumbling yourself. Set up a Stumbleupon account and start stumbling yourself. Review your blog and review each individual blog post. It’s a simple way to drive traffic to your blog. I do this for bloggernoob and i do it for a few of my other blogs.
How do i know this will work for a new blog? Cause i tried it on a new blog i just set up. This new blog had only a few posts and traffic in the 2-7 unique visitors/day range. But when stumbled that blog, i got around 120 new visitors in one day. Of course the traffic died the next day, but that boost was all free and something i will up my stats.
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January 2nd, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Greetings - this is a great post and one that should be read by many who think that Stumble Upon will bring you a flood of traffic everyday…
I just put up a post about “Value Added Blogging - The Art of Growing Traffic Organically One Reader at a Time” and it was inspired by my SU spikes and then subsequent traffic downfalls.
All the best for 2008,
Mark
January 2nd, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Stumbling your own blog is alright. But if you do it too often your stumble ranking gets messed up in their algorithim. I got nearly 6,000 stumbles to one site last month, not bad for not promoting it.
January 2nd, 2008 at 9:43 pm
I have stumbled a couple of my own posts, but what I have found is that you need to get in ca-hoots with a couple friends and have them also stumble the same post. (it’s like a Stumble gang)
I did this on one particular post about growing grass in heavy shade. This post has been stumbled by 3 people other than me and it is getting 2-300 hits per day consistently for the past few weeks.
I think that I have a little advantage here because there are basically zero lawn and garden blogs on stumble so I get all that traffic. JMHO.
AL
January 2nd, 2008 at 11:43 pm
I used to stumble my own posts but now it won’t let me, so I think there’s a limit.
January 3rd, 2008 at 12:48 am
I thought the same thing at first, but haven’t taken the plunge yet … i hesitate b/c it’s a bit of shamelessly self-promotion, esp since i don’t have useful content (advice) like you do here
January 3rd, 2008 at 12:57 am
STumble yourself, well hell, I trip all the time, what do I want to stumble for..Oh that Stumble! :p
I haven’t done it yet, but I should, because I know I have at least 100 golden posts in the 500 I have, or close to it.
January 3rd, 2008 at 4:00 am
I do that when I write on Helium or Associated Content. Doesn’t seem to work with my Blogspot blog though. Either I ran into the same problem as Laura or Blogspot is banned.
January 3rd, 2008 at 4:35 am
Hmmm, I was thinking about joining StumbleUpon…think I’ll definately take a closer look now.
January 3rd, 2008 at 6:41 am
Consider yourself stumbled.
January 3rd, 2008 at 5:36 pm
SU is also a great way to get some ideas for a blog post. I will spend an hour Stumbling and will often get so inspired or so pissed off at something I have found that I immediately need to write a post.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Thumbs up from me!
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January 4th, 2008 at 5:01 am
Hey, you need to stop stumbling all that traffic, BN . We don’t want you reaching your under 100K Alexa goal you know
Not until 12th of january anyway …lol ..
See you’re getting PRETTY close !
January 4th, 2008 at 5:07 am
I dropped from 580K something to 362K something yesterday, so getting there
Looking forward to be fighting about the #1 spot with you sometime this year! LOL..
Making this a personal contest !
(although, you have a pretty good headstart..)
January 4th, 2008 at 8:52 am
mark- thanks for the props mark
ryan- u again??? 6000 to one site is amazing. i better cut down a little bit on my stumbling. everything in moderation. ryan u should stumble me sometimes bro. scratch my back i scratch urs too.
allyn paul- u should join chris’s “crkian” group on blogcatalog.
laura- hmm. i didn’t know that. thanks for the headsup laura
chica- chica, that joke was corny. but since it was you…i will let it pass. i’ll stumble u later.
berryvox- do u like helium or AC? haven’t tried yet. but maybe i’ll give it a shot later. just been busy trying to build up this blog.
SD- yup u should
tom- thanks tom. Cruise?
missburrows- yeah. i should have mentioned that in my posts. nice comment. great for ideas
victor- thanks victor!
gusland- haha. thanks. alexa updated yesterday i think. hopefully it’ll update before the 12th or i am screwed. haha. ur stats are not too shabby. keep up the good work
June 12th, 2008 at 1:25 am
Hey whatever gets your blog exposed to other people. no shame in this game!
June 12th, 2008 at 1:32 am
chimbles- yup, no shame in this MMO game
June 12th, 2008 at 2:20 am
Absolutely amazing Noob. Thanks for sharing this. Hopefully this tip can give me positive increase in traffic.
Well done and keep on sharing.
July 9th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
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