StumbleUpon posts get Stumbled a lot

So I was stumbling along when I was supposed to be working as usual when I stumbled on this article about getting stumbled. Whatever, I give a lot of seo/webmaster/affiliate stuff the thumbs up so that makes sense. But wait! I stumbled back into my memory (yeah I know, but its funny to me) and remembered this SU vs fark shoemoney article that I stumbled on a few days ago. Must have worked well for shoe cuz he followed it up with the oh-so-classic digg vs SU post the next day. Seems to me that Stumblers like stumbling on stories about StumbleUpon!

Zeropaid gets a lot of traffic from StumbleUpon, and we are featured on the front page of digg about once a week on average. Here are the main differences between Digg traffic and SU traffic:

• I get about 3 times as many visitors from digg as I do from SU
• Digg users have a bounce rate of 90.27% and SU users have a bounce rate of 31.69%
• Digg users spend an average of 28 seconds on the site (we are a tech news site, I’m guessing all they need is the first paragraph?), and SU users spend on average 5 times that
• Neither of them are all that good for making adsense revenue

The lion’s share of Google Adsense clicks come from visitors that get to our site from…. Google Search. This is the real beauty of SEO, the holy grail of leisure income: get users from Google, send them out through Google and every once in a while check your bank account. Great in theory, but harder than it sounds. So why bother with Digg or SU? Well, I like traffic. All kinds of traffic, I don’t discriminate!

Real reason? People blog. And link. And what do they blog and link? The things they see every day, on their favorite news site or through their favorite website discovery toolbar. So get stumbling!

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