Using stumbleupon to get more traffic might not be such a good idea if you are aiming for targets. First of all when your page gets stumbled you are not likely to make 100’s of dollars since most stumbleupon users just get what they stumbled for and move on. If you thought the attention span of a normal browser was short, you have not thought about stumbleupon browsers. Not the software, I am talking about the user. The average browser’s attention span is five seconds and some stumblers, if they dont immediately see the point in the stumble they just go right on. Page stumbles can get lots of traffic but its not traffic most bloggers want that is in it for the money. Bloggers who blog for money wants to see conversion rates and high click rates. Meaning you want to see more people click on ads for less traffic. You dont want to have thousands of visitors and no clicks on your blog. That defeats the point of running a professional blog. So what I have learned is that you can get a lot of back links by getting stumbled and get the page ratings up for that specific page but as for traffic and making money that traffic is useless.
My experience. I had a blog and one picture got stumbled and some other content. My traffic was 30 000 for that page ( not on this blog) that day. I did not have one click on the ads although the page got stumbled not only the picture. While less traffic that came from search engines got me more money than all the stumbles.
One thing that will make Stumbleupon traffic worthwhile is if you have brilliant stuff to read and you catch the attention of the Stumbler quick enough to get them to read more content and maybe join the rss feed. That is one of the few ways I have tried personally which did in fact work.
What is your experience?
