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Is Stumble Upon traffic worth less?

By JamesDuthie 408 days ago from http://endeffectit.com.au

Social media is a great source of traffic for bloggers. Stumble Upon is a favourite of many due to its ability to send high amounts of traffic to a site in a short space of time. But is Stumble Upon traffic of a lower quality given that users have not explicitly chosen to visit your site? Does the channel surfing nature of Stumble Upon mean the traffic is less qualified that traffic that comes from social news sites such as Digg?

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written by jclark88 408 days ago

I'm still not sure how good the traffic is from SU. I do know, as you mention, that it's not any worse than any other social media. I've also noticed that my RSS subscribers have increased since my SU numbers have gone up. Of course, I do not know how long that will last...

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written by mikeo75 408 days ago

How do you guys use SU? I have to admit, for some reason, I don't feel like it's right to stumble my own articles all the time because it gives me a false sense of traffic.

I put my "Two Blogging Tools" post on SU and got around 85 hits from there, which is included in the total of around 100+ I had.

I guess I find it seems like false traffic...but maybe I just am not taking advantage like I should?

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written by Court 408 days ago

Jason (jclark88) hit the nail on the head. SU traffic turns into RSS readers. They definitely don't click ads, but keeping them in your reader means that they will turn into links and affiliate sales.

Mikeo75, stumbling your own articles will only work once or twice anyway. After that, new people will have to stumble them to get the same effect. This means you actually have to attract stumblers to your site!

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written by JamesDuthie 406 days ago

I stumbled my blog when it was launched and did not see a single visitor. However, when it was stumbled by other members I saw well over 100 new visitors to the blog each time. Ironically, this article questioning Stumble's value brought multiple stumbles and the highest traffic in the blogs short history.

I agree with Court that the value of Stumble is in your ability to convert Stumblers into RSS subscribers.

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