I have read everywhere that StumbleUpon was the way to get traffic. Well, I don’t get much traffic from it at all. So, I thought I would do a little experiment. Weekend traffic tends to be slower for me, so I thought I would do some Stumbling and some Sphinning and see which brought me more traffic. I also wanted to see if Stumbling and Sphinning would increase the weekend traffic I would get.
The Results
StumbleUpon- 23 visitors
Sphinn- 84 Visitors
I do believe the reason I got more traffic from Sphinn is that everyone there is focused on the same subjects I am. I do like that I can go and easily find articles that interest me and not have to sift through tons of info I would never read. I have become a Sphinner and I will Sphinn you and I hope to be Sphunn! 😉
StumbleUpon is much much better for my DD blog than Sphinn could ever be, but that’s because it targets a wider audience. I’ve been getting thousands of visitors daily from SU over the last few weeks because one article did well there. A great Sphinn day on my SO Scoop blog would be a couple hundred, which would probably trickle down considerably in 24-48 hours. But for SEO traffic, Sphinn is definitely great. Nicely targeted. 🙂
If you decide to create a non-SEO-focused blog later on, give SU another try. You might be pleasantly shocked.
Is there a trick to Stumbling? Maybe I am Stumbling wrong! 🙂
Stumble is pretty straight forward. I suddenly started getting decent traffic from them, and I barely ever used the service.