Drive Free Traffic to Your Site or Blog with Stumble Upon

[Andrew Michaels]

Hey guys. I'd love it if you'd stumble my site. It's called Lifecrafting

Let me know what you think

[subfreq]

I am really enjoying this site but I am not sure how people get thousands more hits worth of traffic out of it. Do you stumble several pages from your site to increase traffic site wide?

I really only want to get more awareness of the index page so people know the site exists.

The best thing about Stumble is that it throws up loads of brilliant sites i would never have gone to. I can see myself becoming quite addicted to the site.

[Andrew Michaels]

Oops. Forgot to ad my username. It's DocHolliday2006. Please ad me and I'll ad you back. Mutual reviews all around. My site is lifecrafting

[JohnPlace]

Originally Posted by Andrew Michaels

Oops. Forgot to ad my username. It's DocHolliday2006. Please ad me and I'll ad you back. Mutual reviews all around. My site is lifecrafting

I have stumbled your site and added you as a friend.

[Andrew Michaels]

Dumb question, but how the hell do I add friends? I'm in the friends section, and I can see those who have added me, but I can't find a place to input user names and ad them to my friends list.

[believegecko]

You can go to that person's profile page and click the button that reads "Add as Friend." I think it is in the top right of their profile.

[richie]

I was not able to submit my post to SU since last few days .seems there is a problem with the plugin i used with WP.SU has brought great traffic to my blogs and the visitors of SU are far better than Digg.

[JohnPlace]

If one of you kind souls could stumble this, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Read-Set-Go! Free eBook to the First 50 People Who Ask.

For some reason, I can't stumble it myself. I think my toolbar is messed up. I can vote something "thumbs up" if it's already been discovered by someone else, but I can no longer discover new sites -- the transaction just hangs when I click submit.

Anyway, thanks for the help. I much appreciate it.

Now off to see what's wrong with my toolbar...

[mentalmosaic]

Originally Posted by believegecko

You can go to that person's profile page and click the button that reads "Add as Friend." I think it is in the top right of their profile.

Oh - I'll look! I'm am truly stumbling & staggering my way through this site. Really - hope I don't get a DUI!

[mentalmosaic]

Argh - I am even having trouble just figuring how to get to someone's profile page!

Time to hit up the "Help forum" methinks...

Ciao!

[mentalmosaic]

Well, this isn't exactly kosher... but I am going to profile pages by typing it into my browser, i.e. I found Sagegoat's profile page (finally!) by typing:

StumbleUpon » sagegoat's web site reviews and blog

[Michelle]

The Stumble toolbar makes my browser crash at least 3 times a day. Still, it is a fun concept indeed.

[believegecko]

Becky Prank Calls - Little Becky Barry from Dublin, Ireland
I just added the above page. It's really funny and will brighten up your day. If you like it please stumble it.
Please feel free to contact me if any of you need any help with your pages.

[JohnPlace]

Originally Posted by believegecko

Becky Prank Calls - Little Becky Barry from Dublin, Ireland
I just added the above page. It's really funny and will brighten up your day. If you like it please stumble it.
Please feel free to contact me if any of you need any help with your pages.

Gecko, I was happy to stumble those prank phone calls for you. That little girl is quite hilarious, and those phone calls are mandatory-listening for anyone looking for a good laugh!

I could use a bit of stumble-love for this one:
13 Simple Words that Could Change Your Life Forever

[Chet]

I can't get get the stumble tool bar to download

[Jonathan]

On a related note, has anyone had any experience with advertising on Stumble Upon? Seems like quite a good (and simple) mechanism: people get taken direct to your site, and you pay 5 cents per visitor.

[believegecko]

Originally Posted by Jonathan

On a related note, has anyone had any experience with advertising on Stumble Upon? Seems like quite a good (and simple) mechanism: people get taken direct to your site, and you pay 5 cents per visitor.

Jonathan - I have tried three different pages with paid SU placement at 5 cents per visitor. On each page I set the limit at $5.00 per day, or 100 visitors. I did not see any major positive impact yet, but those pages were pages I personally believed in, but was having trouble getting stumbled. I am interested to hear what experience anyone else has had with paid stumbles.
If I had a large budget I would toss in $50 to $100 per month, but I get most of my traffic organically. My PPC spend is about $5.00 per day - not much.

[Chet]

Ok I finally got a tool bar and stumbled most of the people in this thread.

[JohnPlace]

Originally Posted by Chet

Ok I finally got a tool bar and stumbled most of the people in this thread.

Chet, I stumbled the Batty Old Bat site in your sig, and was honored to do so. It's a great concept and an under-represented point of view.

Just so you know, I tried to click on the link to follow through to your forums, but the link is broken.

[Chet]

thanks for warning about the link ... the one at the top of page or at bottom of article? (could explain why I am not getting comments in the forum :P)

[JohnPlace]

Hey guys, I'd like to throw my two cents into the mix here. I've noticed something about StumbleUpon visitors during the last week: They're truly excellent visitors because they're targeted and they're interested.

They are targeted because they are stumbling through sites in a category that they have chosen.

And they are interested because they are actively searching for new sites and therefore want to explore yours to see what it's all about.

By way of comparison, most Digg users stay on my site for about 2 seconds. Stumble visitors hang around for 3 or 4 minutes -- some of them hang around for an hour or more! (Because they are finding something they like, undoubtedly).

So, in my opinion, Stumble Upon is a truly excellent resource, and we should all be working to keep it that way.

So if we have suggestions for our friends in this thread to help make their site better for our precious Stumble users, we should share those suggestions.

Just my two cents.

Keep the stumble-love goin' round, friends.

[JohnPlace]

Originally Posted by Chet

thanks for warning about the link ... the one at the top of page or at bottom of article? (could explain why I am not getting comments in the forum :P)

The one beneath the article on your front page, in this sentence:

We hope you will visit the forums and share your ideas with us.