Stumble UponSocial bookmarking is one of the best methods today to increase our blog usability and its popularity. i.e. to make our blog known all around the blogosphere. And there are several social bookmarking sites which can produce from a few to thousands of visitors at once, all depending on the number of positive reviews or votes it received. I decided to give some try with each of the social bookmarking sites and see what kind of traffic i am getting. The first one i tried is StumbleUpon. Is it some good quality traffic that comments in my blog? Or the visitor is just come-and-go one which eats up bandwidth!

StumbleuponFor those who don’t exactly know what SU is, it is a social bookmarking website available in browser as a plugin, and when a page is liked by us, we can just click on the “I like it!” thumbs-up and you may see some traffic flowing in if its your own site. The plugin is available for firefox and internet explorer. You can get traffic for free, or can try their paid traffic service @ 5c per click. The below post i am doing is related just to the free service of SU.

So here was my small experiment -
This post of mine was stumbled and reviewed with tags by just 2 people - Stumbleupon google search tool
It generated 4,400 views till now, just within 2 days but none of them gave any perfect visitors who would actually comment in my blog, or at least stay in my blog for some time to explore the blog. And this number is still just increasing with around 30-40 visitors per hour.

Stumbleupon in my view -
A free traffic exchange site where we can get thousands of visitors instantly but as in automatic traffic generator, the visitor visits the site and just leaves. So there is no valuable traffic through Stumbleupon! For the post which i tested, it had about 180 visitors who actually stayed for longer time and then browsed to some other pages of my blog. The other 4000+ visitors just came and went within a minute.

It would just be helpful for those who want to see some great changes in their visitor count, but those who want to make wonders with their blogs should just forget stumbleupon and move on to try the other things and social bookmarking sites.

StumbleUpon Experiment

Btw i had started my blog with traffic from stumbleupon, being happy that i am getting visitors in a fast rate, but realise that its not that traffic what i am expecting.


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