I don’t normally post on weekends because we entertain my in-laws pretty much full time. (My mother-in-law is progressing into Alzheimer’s and my father-in-law needs company.)
Still, I knew I got a few Stumble’s last evening. I just checked sitemeter and I’m amazed to see this:
This pretty much goes on for the 100 recent hits Sitemeter shows.
I was planning to send out a few thank-yous for the Stumbles. I think I’ll manage to get a few out- but most of my thankyous will be sent on Monday when the weekend entertainment frenzy is over for me!
I’d planned to publish statistics after trying my own advice for a week- but I’ll be needing to take a look through Google Analytics on Monday. I’ll report more thorough stats then. 
It’s quite amazing isn’t it!
Not necessarily. There is a fine line between what is going to be approved by everyone, and what may generate a few negative reviews.
Some of the people whose preference is Stumbling adult pictures and other content have this habit of organised thumb downs.
Hehe, and don’t think you’re quite gone of them yet. They’ll probably keep on coming for a while
. It’s a great way to get visitors in numbers and can definitely bring a couple of thousand of viewers. The good side is it’s more spread out than with systems like digg and such so stress on the site is less.
People stumble their friends stumbles using the friends channel. Based on Tim’s algorithm this collectively makes all your friends more powerful stumblers and if they are reciprocal and do the same, that helps boost your Stumble juice.
It is very incestuous, thus you have to try to bring in fresher content to ensure the gene pool doesn’t mutate.
Even helpful posts about social news and bookmarking sites can totally bomb. My Digg friends post is a classic, I got loads of Stumble traffic, but it got buried.
It did however highlight that most people didn’t know how to see who had friended them.
Whilst it might have been buried, the new interface does highlight friends a lot better on Digg. they seem to want more casual users to use the friends features.
I gave you a stumble yesterday, but I doubt it generated a whole lot of traffic. Your recent post on StumbleUpon was a good reminder that using it the right way can generate quite a bit of traffic.
I’ve been using it over a year but I never really looked into it much. I honestly didn’t even know what it was all about, but now I do.
I think my biggest problem was that I wasn’t stumbling things just because I thought they were interesting. Yeah, I know! I’m not a spammer but with things like this I end up submitting my stuff and leaving it.
The only articles I stumble of my own from now on will be those that I know would be interesting to others. At the same time I’ll be stumbling others interesting posts because they deserve it.
I can’t wait to see what your stats showed. My own showed a remarkable jump as well!
I just wanted to say thanks for a great article… ones with a ‘call to action’ and positive result are fantastic!