Comments on: Traffic Growth #5 – What Value In StumbleUpon Visitors?

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:11:22 +0000

I think that anytime the referrer field is blank, Google treats that as a “direct” entry. So anyone going through a web proxy that strips the referrer field, those who have it turned off, get treated as direct visitors.

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By: Robin Cannon

Robin Cannon — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:42:45 +0000

Yeah, I stumbled that article on the Six Degrees of Messenger, thought it was pretty interesting. The impressive thing is when a stumble starts getting a lot of thumbs up – my article ‘Lost On The Internet’ ended up picking up 2k visitors in the first couple of hours of Monday morning because it racked up 20+ thumbs up, but conversion rates are poor.

CommentLuv is a great WordPress plugin. Am increasingly happy I finally made the move across to WordPress, has made my blogging experience far easier and more flexible.

By: Ski

Ski — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:04:44 +0000

Robin, it’s funny that you should mention StumbleUpon, because I just had a very similar experience. Imagine my surprise when I checked my stats to find 320 visitors yesterday, as compared to 43 the day before! Checking the referrer, I saw that 298 came from StumbleUpon. And how many visitors looked at more than one page? That’s right, 22, all from sources other than StumbleUpon.

By the way, what is this CommentLuv tool? It looks useful for building reciprocal links.

Skis last blog post..Six Degrees of Messenger

By: Robin Cannon

Robin Cannon — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:57:16 +0000

Thanks for the heads up James. Having had a look at the blog initial impressions seem good.

Basic idea of the commenting strategy is not that it’s commenting exclusively on those blogs, rather that I’m going to be making a specific effort to see if I can contribute to all their discussions, and monitor the results. I daresay over time there’ll be additions and removals to that list.