StumbleUpon = lots of visitors

Recently I had the luxury of having on of the posts on my blog featured in some way on StumbleUpon. It was a post describing the lighting setup with three lights for a business portrait.

The day before, I had 426 visits, the same day the link was found by someone using StumbleUpon, 2918 visits were registered by Google Analytics.

A nice increase by 685%.

A quick peak and a long tail

Most of the new visits came during one hour, but after a few days, I can see that it does not stop there. A week later, there are somewhere between 50 and 60 daily visits from StumbleUpon, and that is not bad at all.

According to a infographic on their blog, links from StumbleUpon has a lot longer life cycle than from Twitter or Facebook, and it seems to be correct for my blog as well. Only links from other blogs or forums tend to live on like this.

Market yourself with StumbleUpon

If you have a photo blog, signing up for a free StumbleUpon account might be a good idea. Adding some friends from Twitter and Facebook, as well as posts or items from your blog that might be of interest for others, and someday someone with a lot of influence might find it.

I’m not really sure why I got all this traffic, probably someone with a large network on StumbleUpon pressed the “Like”-button. Some of my posts I have added myself, but not this one.If you know more about how SU works, you might have a better explanation.

If you are on StumbleUpon, please add me to your network, here is the link to my profile. Or just search for “stefantell”.