How I Got 2000+ StumbleUpon Visitors Using My 10 Step Strategy

On December 3rd I published my 10 simple steps to increase blog traffic via StumbleUpon strategy. The article received good feedback and now just before Christmas time and the New Year 2009, I thought it was the good time to look back and analyze my blog traffic from StumbleUpon since then.

My StumbleUpon account facts

Currently 54 people subscribe to my StumbleUpon account updates and 11 Stumblers have reviewed my account. I also have 205 friends at StumbleUpon.

I have been fairly active Stumbler by discovering / thumbing / reviewing 52 articles that I found useful around the net since December 3rd.

I did not need to give thumbs-up, stumble nor review any of my blog articles since December 11th get your blog article on top of Google results today post.

HowToMakeMyBlog traffic stats

StumbleUpon sent a total of 2298 visitors in 19 days. This is almost 45% of my total blog site traffic in these 19 days.

The traffic is growing in general as by increasing the number of friends and subscribers you increase the exposure of your blog. The spikes in traffic are because of my blogging schedule lately where I have been publishing new posts every second day.

This is a good point to remember and it helps me understand why probloggers like Chris Brogan publish articles daily and most days several times a day. By not posting daily, your traffic drops because of RSS readers and social media traffic, which in these days count for a big part of the total traffic of most blogs.

Lesson to learn is to post as frequently as possible to not lose the momentum of your traffic.

But always have a strict quality control. Never post for the sake of posting, always make sure that you have something useful and knowledgeable to share. 

StumbleUpon Blog Traffic Details

All in red, which means that the numbers are worse than the total blog site average. Comparing to my Problogger guest post stats analysis which were all better than the site average, StumbleUpon traffic is worse than the average.

Social media does have a bad reputation in regards to stickiness, but still a reader spent 01:45 per visit on average. Pages per visit and the bounce rate correlate and I will be looking into how to improve those numbers in the future.

Top 10 Most Popular Articles

Thing to note is that in the top 4 there are two of my last 3 published articles, another sign that the total exposure of my blog in StumbleUpon is growing.

The things that stands out the most is the 05:55 average time spent on the case study analysis of the effect of the ProBlogger.net guest post on my blog traffic.

Lesson to learn is to analyze and provide facts and stats in articles to keep reader’s attention.

Conclusion

For a new blog like mine any source of traffic is good, even the social media sites that some bloggers do not rate highly. I would recommend other bloggers to start to incorporate my 10 step plan to increase StumbleUpon traffic into their daily marketing activities and see the blog exposure and traffic increase.

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