Stumbled, twice.
October 22, 2007
There hasn’t been much going on recently, at least nothing that I felt deserved an update.
I haven’t even been reading my RSS feeds, and I do apologize about that. Now that I am feeling better, I hope to get caught up on that again.
But there was one thing interesting that happened, for some reason, a whole bunch of people found my blog from Stumble Upon, on two occasions. The first spike you see in the picture above represents 252 visits, and the second spike is 394 visits.
One of the strange things is that although the first blip was 252 visits, I registered 496 pageviews. The second blip was 394 visits, and 831 pageviews. They were one week apart, both on a Saturday.
Another strange thing is that these two spikes didn’t translate into a big increase in subscribers.
I have heard other bloggers asking if there has been any long term traffic increase from stumble upon, and I can’t say that there has been. I had about 40 visitors fir the week between the spikes, and 2 or 3 a day since, but the visitors don’t stick around. Maybe my Subscribe to Port 16 icon isn’t big enough? 
Yet another strange thing is that the article that they are all visiting is the “Fortress Forever is Now Available“.
I think the biggest long term effect I have seen here is that my normal stats look really bad now, at least compared to those spikes.
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October 23rd, 2007 at 8:04 pm
I look at Stumbleupon like the online equivalent of channel surfing. You have like 3 seconds to capture people or they are gone to the next one.
The traffic spikes make for an interesting chart but I haven’t seen any real benefit.
Good to have you back.. hope you are feeling better
SB
October 24th, 2007 at 8:19 am
Thanks Scott, I’m glad to be back. I hate being sick. As a matter of fact, I decided I’m not going to do it again.
That’s a pretty good comparison for stumble upon. To be honest, some of the statistics showed quite a number of clicks on ads, but adsense didn’t register them. If it had, then it would have been worth it.
I don’t know if the web pages didn’t finish loading all the way, or if Google considered them fakes. Oh well.
November 27th, 2007 at 8:56 am
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