Stumbleupon Traffic Source

As many people have noticed stumbleupon has become a pretty good source of organic traffic. For me stumbleupon is 10-20% of the growth of my paper airplanes site at the moment and I know I am by no means the most popular paper airplanes site on stumbleupon right now (btw that wireframe rocks... a future project for me too I think).

I may not be the top paper airplanes site in stumbleupon and it certainly isn't my biggest source of traffic but it is now a significant enough contributor with lots of potential that I want to spend some time on it. The main issue as many people have seen is that traffic from stumbleupon is very bumpy indeed:

What is interesting though is though each bump is adding up to hundreds of visitors (sometimes near 1000) they are interspersed with long periods of zero (or v. low) traffic. The last spike you can see was followed by some level of sustained traffic, not huge but a significant part of my daily unique visitor growth. The main reason for this growth seems to have been adding a stumbleupon button to every page of my site.

I guess I will see how this sustains but for now things are looking pretty good for a new sustained source of traffic to paperairplanes.co.uk. Why don't you give it a go too?

Comments

[Dan Wilson]

Alex,

I've certainly found stumbleupon to be a good source of incremental traffic too. And it's pretty good quality traffic, but my reckoning.

In appreciation of your typically illuminating and eloiquent post, I've done some stumbling for paperairplanes. ;o)