StumbleUpon users tend to jump onto a website stay for, well on my site, an average of 11 seconds and then POOF they are gone never to be seen again. This same phenomenon seems a lot like the Digg Effect. You get a ton of visitors that really just take up bandwidth.
My hope on a website is to draw you in enough to read and comment. What type of user is the perfect person to bring in for that? What do you think about StumbleUpon users?
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I read it. I don't really have an answer for you. But hey. I read it. And I commented so that you'd know i read it. And now I just look like an ass
maybe if you post something worth staying around for we would.
First, I realize that people care less about what "Everyone else" has to say and spend more thinking about what to say next. Stumble users (Myself Included) enjoy that instant gratification that your site provides in small doses... (I rather enjoyed your blog) but the purpose of a blog is simply to feed your egotistical needs for acceptance by society at large... Simply put "Your Weird"
Thanks! Keep up the good work!
-Captain Underpants!;)
It really depends on the quality of the post and the relevance to me. If it's something to do with important/interesting news, views on a current affair or technology (such as your article) or a series of good photos then I'll be likely to read through and even comment your page - hell, there've even been bands I've discovered and products I've bought because of Stumbleupon!
The main issue is what happens if someone thumbs-ups a website that is irrelevant/insignificant to the majority of SU users in that field, as the bandwidth usage will most likely greatly outweigh the sales/interest generated!
- Dan
I'm high.
This post is my fancy sauce
Look, if your blog is interesting to someone, then they will stay and check it out. But all I've been able to gather in the 11 seconds I've been reading, is that you made a post about stumbleupon. So I'm off to hit the button again, wheeee!
If a page's lead-in isn't interesting enough, people are going to pass it by, whether they're stumblers or not. If it's interesting, they'll stay a while.
99% of sites out there are only worth about 5 seconds' visiting; that's not a fault of SU.
I read the site if it's interesting.
If you're constantly on the search for yet another flash game, then perhaps your site content reflects your limited attention span and not the quality of your visitors.
Well, I would stay on sites longer and frequent them, but I have too many sites to keep track of. Many sites I find on StumbleUpon would be on that list of sites I frequented, if I could remember the names of them and whatnot.
Indeed.
I tend to do that myself as well, but if the title does intrigue me to a certain extent...I'll read on.
I read your blog and checked out your site. Sounds like you are wining about bandwidth use. If the site grabs my attention, I send referrals to my contacts to check it out and I stay for a bit, otherwise I'm off again. Doesn't mean its bad.
Here are the top ten reasons I leave a stumbled site what some may consider "prematurely".
1. Spelling
2. Long loads
3. Poor Design
4. Plain old being uninteresting
5. Things I delicious for later and never go back to but give a thumb up for getting my attention
6. Things I delicious for later and actually go back to
7. I just spaced out and hit the stumble button for no reason
8. I stumble to a site then had to do something outside the browser (seems rare, huh?) or a new tab/window and then get back to it sans interest.
9. Automated videos or obtrusive advertisements (low in the list, I know)
10. Tag stumbling-skipping a good site because its not what I'm trying to stumble happens...it just happens.
That's why...but the good ones, I come back to.
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