Vol.53: Surprise!!! You’ve been Stumbled!!!
February 28, 2008 by BaseGuardian
Filed under Daily Base
Greetings heroes/citizens, today while I was in my blog’s dashboard, just checking up and adding up some plugins, I checked on my WP blog’s stats, and I was surprised to know that I have a very high traffic on one particular day that was on last Tuesday. The traffic was like I never had before, usually I got around 100 to 120 visits a day and mostly are from Entrecard, but this was very different, 418 visits on one day!!! Wow! that was something new for me, first I thought, is this stats for real or what?! Is the stats gone nuts?
Then I checked on the reports and it came to my mind, that’s it! I sent my article to Stumble upon that day. I sent my Ex-Machina is coming this June, my first article I sent to SU that got hits . So, what I’m trying to say here is, that Stumble Upon is one of a very powerful tool to generate traffic to someone’s blog. I know, you must be saying, why should you be proud about ? I got thousands of unique impression a day, well I know you have that much traffic for everyday but, I thought this was my personal achievement so I post here , not to brag about it 
So after this maybe I’ll be more active in “Stumbling” sites, and not just mine and not only focus on dropping EC cards(I maybe will never stop dropping EC cards, it’s too fun).
(Edited version, and thanks to Popular Wealth for the comments)
-BaseGuardian
Popular Wealth on Thu, 28th Feb 2008 7:09 pm
Dropping Entrecards and Stumbling IS too fun. You’re making connections, seeing new stuff you never would have before and losing track of time for sure.
Don’t stumble yourself too much, if at all, and don’t think you’ve hit the jackpot if you find a stumbling “buddy” who stumbles all your posts… eventually it stops working… it’s a great system.
I remember when I first said, whoa… whats going on here ? I had digg like slowdowns on a funny picture page, without the digg.
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BaseGuardian on Thu, 28th Feb 2008 8:26 pm
Thanks for the heads up, I will not stumbled my post only.
p/s: it’s not my first SU article,actually my first article that got hits. I’ll edit it. To excited I guest.
ThinkBlogger on Mon, 3rd Mar 2008 12:17 am
Stumbleupon is a great thing to use. I often get some nice quality traffic from stumbleupon. Usually, the stumbleupon viewers end up looking through more pages than the entrecarders, but that is probably because of the drop vs visit and actually read ratio.
Deimos Tel`Arin on Mon, 3rd Mar 2008 6:50 am
I read that Stumble Upon users like images.
So keep snapping those cool shots of your toys.
Try not to stumble your own articles, this is what I heard also.
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BaseGuardian on Mon, 3rd Mar 2008 3:34 pm
@Thinkblogger,yes you’re right and droping EC cards is fun too
@Deimos, that’s also what I heard from others.
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lynnwei on Mon, 3rd Mar 2008 5:26 pm
my first time to hear abt stumble upon site! coolie!!!! i should try it out too…
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Wan Kong Yew on Tue, 4th Mar 2008 6:38 am
I got Stumbled late last week as well, on Friday my time. Normally my blog only uses about 300 megabytes of bandwidth a month. Due to the stumble, my February bandwidth went to 1.5 gigabytes of bandwidth. I peaked at about 3,500 visitors in one day. It dropped off after that, but was still at about 2,000 visitors the next day. Now it’s back down to nothing, so I’m seriously questioning whether it made any difference. I didn’t stumble it myself. Someone else did it, and I didn’t have a Stumble account at the time.
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Wan Kong Yew on Tue, 4th Mar 2008 6:40 am
By the way another piece of news that you might be able to use:
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=22088
It says that the Tales of the Black Freighter will be an animated DVD extra for the upcoming Watchmen movie. Considering that Watchmen is my favorite comic book of all time, I’m pretty excited about this movie.
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Deimos Tel`Arin on Fri, 7th Mar 2008 7:11 am
Wan Kong Yew:
The stumble upon traffic spike is worth it, if we are able to capture some of it to become recurring visitors, and ultimately, readers?
You got a good stumble spike there, I never reached that amount of visitors per day before.
Thousands! O_O
The best I had was about 1,300 with a few hundreds of visits from Stumble Upon.
Cheers!
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