Stumble Your Way From 10 To 4000 Readers

Following on from my post the other day titled “Build Massive Traffic With StumbleUpon“, I thought I would give you an example of how effective it can be.

As I said in that post, this blog is very new, which means it can be very difficult to gain any descent amount of traffic. In that post, I mentioned how effective StumbleUpon can be to generate massive amounts of traffic, even on new blogs. Let me show you how effective it is.

First to put things in perspective, I have done no marketing for this site, no commenting on forums or other blogs in the niche; I was starting clean and naked so to speak. On Tuesday I had 10 visitors to the site.Pretty dismal really, but not unexpected. Late on Wednesday, I wrote this post, about a Gold MacBook Pro.

From 10 – 4000

At about 8PM I decided to Stumble the story. 8PM is not an ideal time to post to StumbleUpon, but I did it all the same. As you can see from the image below, with just a few hours left in the day, the 266 users coming in was not exceptional, but still better then the previous day. The next day however, saw a massive increase in users, topping out at 3,164 for the entire 24 hour period.

All up, this one post has brought in nearly 4,000 users, which is vastly more then the 10 I had on Tuesday.

What About The Actions

What was even more pleasing, was to see the actions of these users. As you can see in the image below, Tuesday the site received 57 actions. This jumped to 574 on Wednesday, and went up massively to 5,994 on Thursday when the Stumble had a full day of recording.

I think this reinforces my claim about StumbleUpon having the ability to drive massive amounts of traffic to your blog. Some points worth noting though, and which I mentioned in the previous post.

• Ads on the site received very few clicks
• Your users come in a massive spike, and drop off nearly as quickly after the spike
• I am still receiving a good level of traffic from this one post
• Your stats and ranking get a nice boost

40 Stumblers added the site as a favorite for this story, which is not too bad for a first up Stumble on a new site.