Posted by Susie  on  Mar 04  at  03:53 AM

Widget installed, ready to ROck n RoLL - stumbled as sdk1988 and reviewed.

Great idea!

Posted by Ian  on  Mar 05  at  07:44 AM

Hi, good idea.  I must give SU more of a go than I have so far.

Posted by Bontb  on  Mar 05  at  06:17 PM

Let me ask you, what would you rather have:

A. 50.000 Stumble visits
B. 10.000 Google Visits
C. 5.000 Quality Visits
D. 4.000 Direct Visits?

I think that stumbleupon is great to have people notice your blog, but to generate traffic from stumbleupon and make money from “that” traffic you can easyly forget about it.

Why?

Because stumblers as your self stumbles website and goes to next one in matter of 5-10 seconds. You think SU’s have time to click on google ads? Nope.

I received over 600.000 SU’s visitors in 2007 alone and from that I can say I only generated $350 where my own visitors from google, direct visitors and readers generate me almost 1200 each month that is 60-90.000 visitors.

Hope this clears your template with “SU buttons”

Posted by Kelly  on  Mar 06  at  01:09 PM

Good job on the widgets.  I think is a great idea, I have been a “stumbler” for almost and really need to pay more attention to it. The more traffic I can bring to my site the better.  I am not looking for revenue, but traffic and advertising for my business. 
Thanks

Posted by Kelly  on  Mar 06  at  01:16 PM

stumbled as “Faithwriter”

Posted by Beverly  on  Mar 11  at  04:13 AM

Great idea, my stumble ID bdb3425

Posted by noelevz  on  Mar 11  at  05:13 PM

Count me in, my stumble ID http://noelevz.stumbleupon.com/

Posted by kexbrown  on  Mar 12  at  03:30 AM

I don’t mean to offend here, but, I have a real problem with you offering Stumbles as a bonus for doing anything on your site. Do I want my site Stumbled? Absolutely. Is every article I write worth a Stumble? Absolutely NOT! In fact, about 1 in 20 of my articles are Stumble worthy. I write some good articles, but I write a lot of crappy articles, too. I know they are crap when I post them.

And you know what. If you came to my site and you read one of my crappy articles and then said, “well, that sure is crap.” and then you still went and Stumbled the article, I would be disappointed. Because that means the Stumble system doesn’t work.

Or maybe worse two other things might happen. Let’s say you Stumbled and gave a bad article a thumbs up. Then 3 other people Stumbled Upon that article and gave it a thumbs down. Would that lessen my article and maybe other articles on my site that are worth a Stumble. Would one of the Thumbs down people Stumble to my site and not even read the 2nd article, which was an excellent article, because of the other article which shouldn’t have been Stumbled in the first place?

Or the second scenario, your Stumble reputation gets tarnished so that the pages you Stumble don’t get the recognition they deserve.

I am really sorry to come down so hard on you like this, but, I don’t think a Stumble is something you should hand out like candy to children who don’t know any better.

I have to tell you I love the articles you present when you do your 5th Stumble each week. Would you want to send your readers to one of my crappy articles? I am sure you wouldn’t want to do that. It is all about the integrity of the system. And trust me when I say, I am not Mr. Perfect. I have done a lot of stupid things myself. Hence when you see my site you see I have a Google PR0. I have done stupid things too that have shown a lack of integrity to a good system.

Personally, I think you are an excellent blogger and I hope to write as well as you some day.

Posted by Eric  on  Mar 13  at  12:02 AM

KexBrown,

Thx for your honest opinion and I’m going to try to a give an answer here, that certainly isn’t meant to be negative to your questions about this particular post.

First of all, If I think about an idea that I want to share with my readers, I do think it through. I learned my lesson with my 100.000 EC giveaway where I failed at!

I absolutely agree with you when you say that you don’t want crappy articles to be stumbled because your new readers could get a wrong first impression. But posting these so called ‘crappy’ articles on your own blog is all up to you.
Please don’t get offended here. But whenever I make a post and I feel it’s crappy, I don’t bother posting it. Most of the times I put them on hold and read them again a few days later with a clear mind and most of the times I can transform these crappy posts into something that’s not crappy at all. I’m not saying that in my blog there aren’t any crappy articles, but this is primarily a personal opinion from me or from readers. I can think article x is crap, but you can think it’s the most amazing article you’ve ever read.
And another thing, In my “Stumble me, I stumble you” post I also tell that you can tell me what post you would like to have stumbled. So if I stumble a ‘in your eyes’ crappy article from your site, this is because you provided it to me then. I stumble what you want to be stumbled. That’s the whole idea behind it.
If you don’t provide a link, I’ll stumble your homepage. k, this wasn’t mentioned explicitly, but I think if you can read between the lines you can see this.

To conclude, I like these direct comments, because it says what you’re thinking. I certainly hope you’re not offended at all with my reply, and that you can live with my point of view on this matter.

For the rest thank you very much for the last 2 lines in your comment See you around!

Posted by kexbrown  on  Mar 13  at  01:12 AM

I think I can live with your comments if you put one little disclaimer in your Stumble program. Just say, “I will not Stumble your pages if they suck.” That would make me happy. Then you can be the judge if the page sucks or not. Then I could live knowing that you aren’t randomly out Stumbling horrible posts that I may have to StumbleUpon someday.

Thanks for the feedback. I will keep coming back because the things you write and how you write interest me.

Thanks for clearing up my email address problem. Don’t know what that was all about.

Posted by monkee  on  Mar 23  at  09:30 AM

What a great idea. I have more really cool sites and blogs on SU. I agree that the traffic is a bit less valuable that Google but I would have never fully enjoyed the comp-u-web without it.

Posted by Rahul Pinnamaneni  on  Mar 29  at  10:16 AM

Added the badge, stumbled the 3 blogs mentioned above and the fourth blog i.e yours. I’d be really grateful if you can skim through my blog and give valuable feedback. By the way, thanks for advertising my card.

Posted by Gizelle  on  Mar 29  at  08:50 PM

I always forget to do my stumble badge, thanks for this, Id be posting this in my blog too and of course I’ll stumble you =) Thanks in advance…

Posted by Stephanie  on  Apr 03  at  10:34 PM

Added the badgs and stumbled some of the links above. Many thanks to everyone.

Posted by Franca Richard  on  Apr 05  at  06:36 PM

great contest, I will apply a su account at once.

Posted by PagedLife  on  May 21  at  04:32 PM

Great idea, stumbled this page!

Posted by Greener Pastures  on  May 23  at  02:04 PM

Just added the me/you link.  I’m trying to up my subscribers, and this is a great way to gain visibility. 

Please, only stumble my article if you really like it, though!

Best,
Lisa

Posted by NetAP  on  May 26  at  05:19 PM

I come late~~

Posted by economic development  on  May 27  at  03:03 PM

I think the purpose of stumbleupon is to bring to light any web pages that might be of interest not necessarily whole sites and if one of those interesting pages just happens to lie on a popular website I think thats ok. I can understand the point of not wanting large sites to pollute stumbleupon for the purpose of getting hits, but real creativity can come from any source.

Posted by Bas  on  Jun 03  at  08:26 PM

Hey, just a warning… this stuff’s against SU’s TOS and can get 1) your account deleted (I suppose without warning), 2) your site completely banned from StumbleUpon, meaning that people won’t be able to Stumble your pages anymore, meaning *zero* traffic from SU.

Just a warning. Google around a bit and you can read more about this.

Good luck with the challenge!

Bas