Comments on: Is being Stumbled the new Slashdotted?

By: John Hunter

John Hunter — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 22:57:06 +0000

I don’t actually use StumbleUpon myself but I have seen huge spikes in traffic from there. But my guess is that what matters is getting stumbled by the right people or reach certain pages (home page?) – I don’t know really how StumbleUpon works. But with Slashdot it was about making the front page of Slashdot (and still is as well as Reddit and Digg). I know I get low level traffic from StumbleUpon followed by huge spikes. I have also had those spikes be very quick and but also have more of a tail (last longer than a few days – at fairly low levels but significantly above the normal low rates).

By: Vlad

Vlad — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:10:56 +0000

Yes, that is exactly what I had in mind. I just posted on my blog a piece of code for the “jump page”.

So far so good, but it will probably take some time for the data to collect.

By: Keiron

Keiron — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:49:38 +0000

Hi Vlad, Is that Shoemoney's How to Make Money On A Site With A Small Budget? I was interested in that myself, just finding the time I suspect!

By: Vlad

Vlad — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:32:12 +0000

Keiron,

I think it definitely makes a huge difference who stumbles your post/website. In case of Andy, I am sure that majority or at least good number of his readers are “Stumblers” as well- hence the effect.

It will be interesting to see some good numbers of what this traffic worth in terms of subscribers. I am working on something that may give me an idea in that respect.