Comments on: StumbleUpon Traffic Stopped

By: onreact

onreact — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:02:58 +0000

Eliot: So you really think all bloggers are spammers? How old are you? Expressions like “cool sh*t” make the impression of early teens. When you grow up you will realize that the world is not black and white only.
Look up this one please: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_opposition

By: Eliot

Eliot — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:42:31 +0000

i guess soo many people are trying to game them now with gargabe sites they have to start cracking down.

I hope they manage to find a way to do it, cause it would be a shame for my favorite site to be lost to spammers

i think the site should be limited just to cool sh*t, and they should hand edit out all the nonsense

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By: myBerry

myBerry — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:34:39 +0000

I realized the traffic was drop,some of my stumbled doesn’t appear it was frustrated.

By: mark

mark — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:01:59 +0000

Hey Tad - I have notice a significant drop in SU traffic, even though some of my posts recently have received good reviews and quite a few “thumbs” up.

Strange…

By: Steven Snell

Steven Snell — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:38:46 +0000

My SU traffic is up and down, but over the course of a month it’s always the #1 referrer. I have noticed in recent months that if I only get thumbs up from friends and from people who consistently give me a thumbs up, it really doesn’t send much traffic. I did have a post 3 or 4 weeks ago that was a collection of Photoshop tutorials and it got a lot of thumbs up from users I had never seen before (I’m guessing some random stumbles) and that got a ton of traffic.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:37:46 +0000

Brian Wallace and I were having a discussion about this the other day and yes, traffic has really slowed down. It could be because the same list of friends have been stumbling the same posts or the same people are discovering posts– who knows but it is frustrating.

By: onreact

onreact — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:43:04 +0000

Hey, thank you all for adding your perspectives on the issue. So it seems that some people are affected while others are not. Tell me more. What kind of posts succeded recently on SU, which ones didn’t?

By: Aaronontheweb

Aaronontheweb — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:39:41 +0000

No more traffic from StumbleUpon? Jesus I was just in the middle of writing a post about whether or not it’s acceptable for bloggers to game SU for traffic then I stumble across this.

Damn you Tad!

By: Jonathan Fields

Jonathan Fields — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:34:08 +0000

Interesting, my article two days ago got about 30 thumbs ups and 8 reviews within a few hours and sent me comparatively little traffic.

I chalked it up to the fact that most of those people were my SU friends and it seems SU discounts it when your friends like your stuff.

Hmmm, I wonder if there is something bigger happening?