The Power of StumbleUpon
Posted on May 15th, 2008 by GrandmasterB under Social NetworkingYesterday, I posted my Month in Review a few days early because I had some great news to share with my readers. I decided it was time to put the test the full power of this battle station…err blog. In order to maximize my viewers I tested really hammered the StumbleUpon crowd. With the help of the EntreCard Forums (Daily Stumble…check it out) and my blogging buddies the site saw it’s biggest traffic day ever! When I wrote the Economic Stimulus and Another Year Older I ran a small StumbleUpon campaign asking friends and the EntreCard crowd to Stumble the post, but I’ve never really focused much on StumbleUpon before that. After reviewing the numbers for the past 24-hours I will definitely be using it more.
Alright GrandmasterB Get On With It…Let’s See Some Numbers
Yesterday’s post (Miley Cyrus’ Got Milk Advertisement Gets Hugh Hefner Excited) was the ultimate in boosting my numbers; I completely blew my previous record out of the water. Prior to yesterday, my record number of visits was 259 for a single day…just 41 visits shy of my goal of 300 that I set for myself back on April 17 (One Month Already?). Within a few hours of publishing the post yesterday (2:45pm MDT) the site had racked up 245 views and by the time I’m writing this post (within 24 hours) the site has received a whopping 551 views. Yesterday’s post alone has received 459 views…holy crap! These numbers are from the Wordpress Stats plug-in, which tracks based on GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). I chose to use these numbers simply because it gave me the ability to track within a 24-hour time period.
To give you an idea of how much of yesterday’s traffic can be attributed to StumbleUpon and the viral (in my case not quite viral) effect it can have on a post you have to look deeper in the stats. The total number of referrals (top10) was 397 for the day; StumbleUpon accounted for 382 of the total referrals. That is some Freakin’ Amazing, Fantastical Power! Forest of The Random Forest was looking to start a StumbleUpon Network of buddies, but it didn’t take. Perhaps now we can get something rolling with numbers behind it.
So what do you guys think of StumbleUpon? Have you had any success with getting posts stumbled in the past? Do you have any secrets you’d like to share with the masses? I’d love to hear what you guys/gals have to say…light it up!
May 16th, 2008 at 6:53 am
that is all great news. I stumbled this one btw. It took me awhile to see some SU waves but they do happen. I find they are more common with posts that are focused on photos.
keep up the good work GMB.
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May 16th, 2008 at 7:54 am
I’ve had a few small waves come through from SU, but this one was like a Tsunami! I attribute the success to my blogging buddies though. We’ve formed quite a team to help each other out.