Comments on: Tweet, Stumble and Ping: Driving Traffic with Social Media

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By: Gil Namur

Gil Namur — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:11:17 +0000

Thanks Lyle!

I LOVE thumbs ups!

FB is a very different animal. Remember when you stumble, you have access to 11 million folks. In FB, you only have access to your friends and whoever they happen to mention it to. Just remember to keep your SU ratio at at least 3-1 .. that is, stumble at least 3 things that are not yours for every one of yours. That way you are sticking to the spirit of SU

Cheers,
Gil

By: lyle

lyle — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:05:15 +0000

Gil,

I’ve been using some of these methods with SU and have had great success. I don’t understand why you can’t get similar traffic from Facebook? Maybe FB needs to look at the success of SU and do the same? Again, great article I thumb up your article.

By: Gil Namur

Gil Namur — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 03:30:28 +0000

Hi Lorne,

I would say that 8 out of 10 pop in and pop out. So yes, they drag down the Time On Site metric as I mention in the article.
BUT
2 out of 10 hang in longer AND come back. And 2 out of 10 is STILL much higher than Twitter for a FRACTION of the time invested. I suspect that its not much different than a google search result. 8 out of 10 google searches will come and go. 2 out of 10 will stay longer.
They are different things. Twitter is a better networking tool. SU is actually considered a search engine (of sorts) now.
Hope this helps

Cheers,

Gil

By: Lorne Daniel

Lorne Daniel — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 02:31:16 +0000

Gil, what are your ‘time on site’ stats for Stumble visitors? Like you, I see a huge spike in traffic when a page on my site is ‘Stumbled’ but when I drill down I see that the average time on those ‘stumblers’ is exactly 0:00 minutes. Not wanting you to divulge any trade secrets, but does LAAH manage to hook them for a second or two longer than I do ?

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Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:53:04 +0000

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By: Allen MacCannell @ SenderOK

Allen MacCannell @ SenderOK — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:30:37 +0000

I agree. We can Digg our blog posts and Reddit them, but the only serious traffic comes from Stumbleupon. I think it is the random nature that causes this (random meaning something submitted 30 minutes ago has as high a chance of being seen as something submitted 10 seconds ago). At the other services, if a few seconds go by and you haven’t been favored, you probably never will be. You have more of a chance at StumbleUpon.

By the way, I just stumbled upon this blog post itself (I clicked “I Like It” in my browser toolbar).

It seemed like I was the first to do so when the post was made on February 19th.

Does StumbleUpon, unlike Digg, not tell you whether a given URL has already been submitted?

By: Lorie M

Lorie M — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:06:15 +0000

I’m glad I’ve found your site! Not only do its topics appeal to me, this posting in particular is eerily pertinent to something I’m currently working on! Love the synchronicity! I’ll be back for more!

By: Gil Namur

Gil Namur — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:00:27 +0000

P.S. I should mention one other thing. I had a small service issue with StumbleUpon. It wasn’t a big deal but I e-mailed them anyway. I really didn’t expect a reply.
Not only did they reply, they dealt with the issue professionally, expeditiously and to my total satisfaction. I hope this isn’t sounding like an ad for SU! I just like to recognize good service, especially these days and especially with web based companies. In my experience, seldom do any of them reply to service issues much less resolve them!

By: Gil Namur

Gil Namur — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:30:44 +0000

Hi Keith,

Thank for your comment and your visit. The first time I became aware of SU was at an old music teaching site I have. It usually gets about 100K hits a month even when I don’t publish anything for a long time. One day, a friend of mine was asking for help understanding AW-Stats. So I showed him my stats and noticed that I was up to 450K hits. I looked at the referring sites and noticed that SU had referred 350K hits to me in 3 days! When I dug further, I discovered it was all based on 5 people having reviewed one guitar lesson called – The Spider. That was about 3 years ago. To this day, I still get hits from that event though nowhere near as many. For posterity sake – here is that link: (ignore the 2009 date in the URL – I migrated the old site to WordPress last year)

http://www.synapticstudios.com/2009/guitar-lessons/the-spider-exercise/

Have you had a peek at this link?
http://www.stumbleupon.com/ads/

It may answer a few questions for you. I can tell you that if you submit a page to this service, SU has to approve it first. Typically, they wont approve a ‘product’ or a ‘service’. Its not cheap but if used strategically it can have a nice impact on page views and visits. You can also learn more from their Terms Of Use agreement – http://www.stumbleupon.com/terms/ – in particular section 2.

Hope this helps!

Cheers,
Gil