Christopher Ryan Parker » stumbleupon http://www.christopherryanparker.com Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:43:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The StumbleUpon Effect http://www.christopherryanparker.com/the-stumbleupon-effect/ http://www.christopherryanparker.com/the-stumbleupon-effect/#comments Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:33:38 +0000 admin http://www.christopherryanparker.com/?p=31 Many have heard of the “Digg Effect”.  This is when your Digg article becomes “worthy” enough (perhaps it is about Sarah Palin and Obama giving birth to an alien), and all of a sudden your website receives an ungodly amount of traffic.  Well, one of my sites, BeersInBoston, received a similar  boost from StumbleUpon the other day.  A site that is lucky to garner 40 visits a day (in time..), reached upwards of 700 visitors last Tuesday, and another 400+ on Wednesday.  According to Google Analytics 85% of this traffic was referred from StumpleUpon.

Great.  That’s good/bad news for me, since this site is still in its infantancy.  I’m not really sure that there is a call-to-action strong enough for 700 visitors, and this spike proved my theory to be correct.  Not a single person commented on a blog post.  I’m not shocked, but this confirmed my hypothesis.  Big things are in store for that site, so I’m not alarmed. It’s just slightly disheartening that 1100 visitors only yielded 13 cents from adsense.

Regardless, the Stumble Effect is real.  Apparently  it can be quite rewarding if you have a site that is monetized properly, or at least lead-capturing. Hopefully I see this again in the future, after the site is complete.

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