Blogging Way of Life

I am using StumbleUpon for a while now and I found it a reliable source for traffic especially a boost up traffic at the first times of the page. Although StumbleUpon provides a long term traffic I never managed to get a high volume of traffic, the peak traffic I received for a page was near 400-500. The story has changed last month. I’ve published a hub 10 Science Fiction Movies Every Sci-Fi Fan Should Watch. I was getting nearly 80-90 visitors each day (which is considered as a decent traffic among my Hubs.) Most of my traffic was from StumbleUpon and I was only hoping to keep the traffic steady. One day when I checked my stats I couldn’t believe my eyes. I received 4,200 visitors in a single day. The next day was even more surprising with over 10,000 visitors. The traffic decreased to 1,000 visitors in a couple of week and kept that way for several days.

When I checked for the causes of this high traffic from StumbleUpon, I saw that it was stumbled by a Power User (A user that has thousands of stumbles) has liked my page and his vote has drawn a major traffic to my Hub and the incoming traffic voted (there were many thumb downs). Despite of lot of bad feedback the traffic kept high for a week. The major effect on achieving the high traffic was creating a page which people will react. My page was a list of top 10 sci-fi movies and it’s not a surprise to see people react when their likes and dis-likes are in discussion.

The lessons to be learned from this experience:

• Being a good stumbler brings good traffic. If you use votes to express your impressions, you are more likely to attract more visitors to your Stumbled page.
• Writing on topics which people are more likely to react will attract more people. The more your topics are open to discussion the more visitors you will get.

So be a good Stumbler and give a Stumble if you favor this post

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