The Super Coolness of StumbleUpon - Part 2
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August 17th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
[...] More.. Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]
November 27th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
Been using Stumble upon! Cool stuff! I’m following you !
November 27th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
I must say that stumbleupon traffic sucks (from my experience). I like to classify the StumbleUpon visitors as “free loaders”. They come to your site, see what they like, and stumble again. I have very few people who opt-in to any lists (unless its required for them to get their entertainment/whatever they are looking for), they don’t click ads (more or less net savvy and can pick out an ad), and don’t come back. The traffic is also not very targeted. If you plan on doing the ol’ 1:200 sales, SU will bring you 2000 visitors, 300 clicks (if your good) and 0 sales.
November 27th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
Another problem Oleg is the time actually spent on the site. You might see a boost in your traffic, but how many people are actually hanging around looking at your site? I know from experience of clicking through the stumble button, that I might visit between 100-200 sites in quick succession, but I might only hang around on 4 or 5. So those other sites that I stumbled through count me as a visitor despite the fact that I was on their site for literally 2 seconds before moving on. You can’t count that as good targeted traffic. It simply isn’t.
November 28th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
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February 6th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
I am on day sixteen of the challenge, and receiving many tools to use once a website is created. Would you teach us how to build a webpage from home or do I need to get a person to do that for me? I am finding the course very informative and it is all very new… and getting used to jargons and expressions of the internet.
thanks Ed
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:52 pm
I have been using StumbleUpon myself (for recreation and research) for a couple of years now. The site and the whole idea is great. Like Oleg, though, I doubt the ‘quality’ of the traffic it would create… but then again, this is early days. Maybe there is more to this than I can see at the moment. I’m waiting, my breath is baited!
March 19th, 2008 at 4:24 am
Hi, I have tried but can’t seem to work out how you can subscribe to your website? How do you post a blog about your website and then subscribe to it? I couldn’t do anything in the video except for download the program and the bloglines tags. Please help
Cheers
April 6th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
i like stumbleupon, it is quite simple, if i like a page i stay and look around, if it doesn’t interest me i move on. The pages that i like i bookmark and check their ads, a bit of a thank you. Say a page really interests me and it shows some info without having to straight away subscribe i gladly spend time to look through what they offer and then subscribe. Having said that i sometimes go through dozens of pages before i find one i want to check out.
June 7th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
I also get many visitors from Stumble Upon.
August 29th, 2008 at 4:49 am
Hey Ed,
I have been involved with StumbleUpon but
no one actually said how to work it with Bloglines
and RSS Feeds.
I added a review to your 30DC Blog in StumbleUpon
I am sure you will like it.
Have an Inspiring Day
Grant Wilson
September 7th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
I have several site but the problem is still getting to me… I don’t know… How the blog post is really supposed to help me. Anyone have a clue why this is soooo important? This might be considered a dumb question after I ask it and I am sure I will kick myself once I realize what it is for, but for now I am clueless.