Last December (9 months ago), after my blog had been hacked by a turkish hacker, I discovered in the logs he had used Google to find the exploit. In the post I also showed examples of how people were using Google code search to find exploits on the web. It made the front page of Digg and also was submitted to stumble upon.
As you can see below digg users came… and left. Stumble upon users stuck around:
(btw this is a pre dated post I am actually sitting on a beach with my wife. If you made a comment dont expect me to see it or respond for a week or so)
September 26, 2007 at 9:00 am
Although a predated post the info came right in time for me. I was just wondering and researching on the internet trying to find out which would be more effective and according to your analysis it seems like StumbleUpon. Kudos to stumble upon user, please stick around
September 26, 2007 at 9:02 am
Yeah very true, stumble upon users also tend to stick around my site more then digg.
March 1, 2009 at 9:23 am
Well… I think i will focus more on stumble traffic than digg…
September 26, 2007 at 9:30 am
Well there is more of a community feel to Stumble… at least it appears that way. Digg for me is like a quick scan thru and then on to the next thing on my list only visiting a few diggs at most. I find I tag more things I find in stumble. Great info Shoe
September 26, 2007 at 10:01 am
On articles where Digg visitors stick around for 9 seconds, SU traffic stays for 2 minutes. I love SU
September 26, 2007 at 10:11 am
Once again , Stumblers FTW!
September 26, 2007 at 10:43 am
I’m definitely learning to love Stumble traffic. I have a lot of fun watching my husband use StumbleUpon. He doesn’t know much at all about what I do, and so I find his Stumble habits quite educational.
September 26, 2007 at 10:56 am
If you don’t mind I bookmarked this post in the “BlogSurfer best posts of the week” MindMap (this post and the post from yesterday with Stumbleupon vs Fark stats). Great stuff…
http://mappio.com/mindmap/alex/blogsurfer-best-blog-posts-of-the-week-september-23-29
September 26, 2007 at 11:34 am
This is something many others have said, StumbleUpon users are stickier than the visitors of other social media sites; just another data point to give people a reason to game SU.
September 26, 2007 at 12:44 pm
Interesting to see how the digg traffic is similar to fark, hmmmm
September 26, 2007 at 1:25 pm
I wish I would be on a beach
September 26, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Yes, although the stumbleupon traffic does seem to stay on site for longer duration do you have any stats for the amount subscriptions increase for your blog in 2 different cases :
When a post made to digg homepage and got XX,XXX traffic
When people stumbled a post and it got almost the same XX,XXX traffic
This will be an interesting comparison between the actual conversion of the traffic.
September 26, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Yes, this is what seems obvious from this post but dont be afraid to experiment, it will help you to learn many other things …
September 26, 2007 at 5:17 pm
Why did you remove Shawn Hogan from your BlogRoll?
September 26, 2007 at 5:31 pm
I got one here like 10 min away, the shitty part is that it’s frigging cold right now haha.
September 26, 2007 at 7:19 pm
I lve stumbleupon with digg I am usually prepared for the increase of traffic because I know when one of my posts are submitted but with stumbleupon, all of a sudden I have 10x my normal traffic.
September 27, 2007 at 1:46 am
BlogRoll is very personal, i dont think that Shoemoney should be answerable on who he wants to keep in his blog roll and who is does not want to keep, its very much his personal choice.
September 27, 2007 at 1:53 am
thats right stumble upon is very huge site , we used to get lot of traffic from it.
September 27, 2007 at 1:54 am
This stats helped me lot, this days i,am trying every way how to get huge traffic from major Sbs.
September 27, 2007 at 5:33 am
Do you really want them to stick around ? I prefer them to go away by clicking an ad
September 27, 2007 at 5:39 am
Disregard tendencies to “stick around”, and the so called “quality of visitors”. Just get visits. I vote DIGG !
September 27, 2007 at 11:38 am
Probably because Shawn isn’t posting. His last posting is from May 10th
September 27, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Yo this all depends on the topic , write something about stumbleupon and submit to those two sources I bet you will get more SU traffic then Digg.
I made 2 experiments like that and both of them showed SU is better.
Digg gave me only 150 visits while, Su 17.000 per day!
September 27, 2007 at 7:38 pm
Strange stuff
September 27, 2007 at 8:03 pm
You BLIGHTER !!!
Sitting on the beach with your wife..
Seems to me convertible traffic is what counts
If you read this, don’t forget.. suncream on that dome of yours.. a beacon for all would be visitors.. from mars !
Hope you’re having a great time, and I’m enjoying reading your guest content.. Neil Patel is good value.
Cheers.
September 27, 2007 at 11:11 pm
I think Stumble traffic last longer on your site than digg. However the bottom line is your are getting traffic from both. JMHO
September 27, 2007 at 11:12 pm
However i will vote DIGG.
September 28, 2007 at 12:33 am
Me too
September 28, 2007 at 12:34 am
that would be my guess. Shawn has been kinda quiet for awhile.
September 28, 2007 at 8:44 am
Very strange stuff…
:/
September 28, 2007 at 9:07 am
Haha, that is exactly what I was thinking, but then maybe they would come back and click another ad.
September 28, 2007 at 9:57 am
Loyal visitors are more likely to click an affiliate offer and still come back each day to read your blog you just have to keep the offers relevant.
September 28, 2007 at 11:01 am
Of course DIgg brings more traffic. Stumble Upon is more casual browsing while Digg is like a giant rush of traffic to the site
September 28, 2007 at 11:02 am
Digg is trying to change that and make it more of a community as well
September 28, 2007 at 11:03 am
Same exact users
September 29, 2007 at 6:23 pm
Why would some one hack a blog anyway… Enjoy the beach:)
September 30, 2007 at 12:48 am
I know this is a bit off topic… Well not really since you mentioned it in the post… but isn’t the beach REALLY cold right now? I’m in california and we’ve had a bit of some cold weather recently…
October 3, 2007 at 7:15 am
Digg is a good for traffic but now they changed rules, and exchanging diggs is more difficult. I was banned, and I didn’t too much exchanges. Now is important to digg a good content, that make some alliances for digging
March 4, 2009 at 10:52 am
If you was banned by digg, you still can digg other good content, right..?
October 11, 2007 at 9:41 pm
I’ve been impressed with the willingness of stumblers to really give a site a chance – they spend more time and view more pages than the average viewer on all the sites I’ve tracked… but they don’t usually convert very well – not for sales, and not for contests. Stumblers are also more likely to have the Alexa toolbar installed than other surfers, so a nice stumble boost can show a serious spike in Alexa as well… which doesn’t matter too much unless you’re trying to build stats for monetizing a site.
October 24, 2007 at 10:24 am
I’m really digging stumbleupon.
October 26, 2007 at 1:02 am
Yeah stumbleupon users are always good if there was something attractive
November 29, 2008 at 2:16 pm
StumbleGenius Stumbling on thru, StumbleUpon thumbs up to you, hope to see you in more clicky stumble trips soon. Happy day merry seasons greetings an all that jazz.
Read you later or tweet me on Twitter @StumbleGenius … tweet you soon ???