I Stumble Over My Mistakes Again!
And I Just Keep Getting My Nose Rubbed In It
I recently wrote a post about how Digg works best out of all the social networking sites. In that post I lorded Digg over sites such as Reddit, Del.icio.us, and Stumbleupon. And while I’m still fairly confident Reddit and Del.icio.us are a waste of electricity, I’m afraid I have been shown that Stumble Works Great
Since my post where I ripped on Stumble I myself have been stumbled twice. Although neither of these have been large stumbles, they still boosted my traffic and gave me very strong days. More importantly I have found that Stumble traffic tends to recur. It seems that while Digg can drive traffic but the traffic disappears the next day, Stumbleupon traffic tends to keep coming for a while.
This is anecdotally true with other blogs. Self Made Minds recently posted about Stumble driving continuous traffic to his site. Chris over at Blog-Op has told me the same thing in several comment threads.
So I hereby officially retract any negative comments I may have had about Stumbleupon. Long live Stumble!
on May 15th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
The best way to get traffic on your website is to have something decent on it.
That’s why I’m gonna give this a StumbleUpon THUMBS DOWN.
Boring, useless, vacuous, unimaginative, self-informed advice.
Please retire permanently from the internet.
on May 15th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Alright I’ll be getting right on that.
Thanks for stopping by! Come back again soon!
on May 16th, 2007 at 6:58 am
At least he engaged in dialogue
most stumblers don’t, and that is perhaps the biggest difference, stumblers are much more “voyeurs” then commentators and while they ring high volume of traffic, few stay more then a couple of seconds before stumbling to the next site, only stopping if something jumps out at them.
I wouldn’t discount del.icio.us either recently I had a site on the front page for a day or so and the popular for another day while the traffic that came in was not quite the same as digg
it still was 10k worth and certainly a lot more links came from that then I have ever seen from even a very successful Digg piece (the article by the way was buried on Digg the moment it became popular)
on May 16th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Based on what I read on your page I tried Digg. It was pathetic. I’m here to enjoy the internet. At age 55, I find that more and more places are preaching Progressive Politics and doing their best to spread venom about anyone or anything that does not meet their free speech cut in stone laws. How can any society survive when differing points of views are ridiculed. Just because I’m 55, a machinist, non unionized, protestant, straight, married moderate, I’m worthless. When did this happen? I gave moderate ideas and thoughts on Digg and was actually embarrassed at the vulgar and crude slams thrown at me. Digg is so far left wing learning, that George Soros must be wetting his drawers with joy. Or I hope it’s joy….. Oh no… you don’t think he’s……. OH Gross!!! Rick