StumbleUpon: A Web 2.0 mashup!

StumbleUpon.com is a website that directs you to a random website that was liked by other people with similar tastes to you. Rating these website you like, automatically shares them with like-minded people and helps you discover great websites your friends recommend. It is quite popular with more than 1 million people using it.

Many webmasters have found that StumbleUpon is a great source of traffic, but few people know how StumbleUpon discovers their site.

StumbleUpon and Digg relationship

After starting a new website, one of my pages got posted to Digg. Although Digg did not rate the page very highly, I noticed a reasonable increase in traffic to my website.

In my website statistics, there was another site right below Digg - StumbleUpon. As my site was new, there was only a limited number of sites that linked to me. This is what made the traffic from StumbleUpon so intriguing. That is when I figured that StumbleUpon must add the top and newest sites on Digg to its list of sites.

Tags: Digg, Miscellaneous, Opinion, Stumbleupon, Web 2

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Comments / Replies

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  Stumbler Says:
  22 September, 2006 at 2:35 am

  Actually, a regular old Stumbler probably added your site... any Stumbler can tag a website, which will then be shown to Stumblers with similar interests who will rate it for themselves.

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  Koliedrus Says:
  22 September, 2006 at 6:00 am

  True. In fact you can go here
  www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.pickbrains...b-2-mashup
  to see who added it. The comment "from digg" indicates that being a Stumbler does not exclude
  one from Digging. One simply compliments the other. Unless, however, you consider that a
  "digg-downer" can actually rank highly in Stumble based on user preferences.
  
  So, thumbs up to this one if only for the chance to use the almighty Podium of Clarification.
  
  Kol

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  crazyjeremy Says:
  23 September, 2006 at 6:32 am

  I wondered how that worked. I noticed stumbleupon traffic coming to my sites as well and I didn't know how it found me. I guess digg did it.

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  Como Says:
  24 September, 2006 at 3:47 pm

  no jeremy, the point of kol and stumblers posts was that STUMBLERS did this. When a stumbler likes a site, it gets sent to other stumblers, independent of digg.

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  t3chn0h0l1c Says:
  26 September, 2006 at 9:39 pm

  I'm Going To Explain This A Little Further... For Those Of You Who Don't Know, Stumbleupon Is A Firefox Plugin, ( www.getfirefox.com )( addons.mozilla.org/firefox/138/ ) Where You Can Specify A Number Of Interests, And Click A "Stumble" Button Which Sends You To A Seemingly Random Page Based On Your Interests. What Is Actually Happening Is Some Random Person Who Has Stumbleupon Installed Found A Page They Liked, Be It On Google, Or Digg, Or YouTube, Or ANYWHERE, And Submitted It, By Clicking The Thumbs Up Sign On The Stumbleupon Toolbar, Automatically Sending It To The Queue Of Other Stumblers With Similar Interests. Stumbleupon Is Actually A Large Network Of Internet Nerds, Who Can Even Befriend Each Other And Stumble Things To Specific People On Thier List, Not Just To Everyone With Similar Interests, By Clicking The Share Button. So This Myserious Traffic Is Probably Caused By A Single Person On Digg, With Stumbleupon Installed, Who Submitted It, And It Went Out To Thousands Of People, Who, If They Liked It, Most Likely Sent It To Thier Friends, And So Forth. I Have Been Using Stumbleupon For Close To A Year Now... It Has Eaten Quite A Portion Of My Free Time, And Has Given Me Something New To Do... Just When I Thought There Was Nothing New Online At All. I Was Sick Of The Monotony, And Stumbleupon Cured It. I Love It... :D Hope That Helps Spread The Word, And Clears Up Any Confusion Any Webmasters Might Have. Look Into It... You Won't Regret It... Much.
  
  -T3chn0h0l1c

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  Koliedrus Says:
  28 September, 2006 at 5:41 am

  Gads! The complexity actually makes sense!
  
  Goddamit! It's getting difficult to manage all these eyes on reality when stuff like this opens yet another one. They're like metaphysical zits that evolve into....
  
  Well, eyeballs. I'm not in a particularly literary mood today.
  
  I click, I enjoy. You game with Stumble and Digg, I get your stuff. I'm a nerd (I admit) but I'm ok with the interractions as long as the goal is to promote content and not "the game" itself.
  
  I'm also a realist. If something doesn't work for me, I'll use something else. For instance, Stumble is not just a Firefox Plugin. It also has an IE toolbar. I'm not nerdy enough to give you the history of which came first but it you use IE, you can use Stumble.
  
  I'll use such sevices as long as they're useful. Once they begin to tear themselves apart from the inside out, I'll evacuate.
  
  If you're reading this, you're a nerd.
  That's a compliment.

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