Thread: Driving Traffic To Your Website With Stumble Upon

As a vivid reader of tech-related blogs I found something that could be of great help to all of us. It is a bookmarking website called Stumble Upon
Why I think it is useful?
In order to use it you need to register first and install a toolbar. When you encounter a website that you like just click on "I Like It" button and your vote is submitted.
At this stage you can submit your own website.
When you find a website that you like and submit your vote you can see all the people who also like or dislike it as well as all other websites booked by them.
Imagine someone looking for websites in Real Estate Category. He/she finds a website that he/she likes and want to see all the people that like it. He/she can click on your profile and among all the websites that you have bookmarked finds yours as well.
If the user does not want to dig so deep clicking on the "Stumble" button for Real Estate category will show the next bookmarked from some registered member website.
According to one of the founders of Stumble Upon half of all 1600000 registered users are in the USA.
What is the probability someone to find Stumble Upon and find yuor site?
I will describe you my own experience. I read a post about the company at TechCrunch Blog. First I searched Real Estate category and then I went through all web sites booked in Internet Tools category and found a few interesting services I did not know existed and I would have had not found using Google and the likes.
And last I am not affiliated with Stumble Upon in any way, just a happy user.

Not sure stumble traffic is all that valuable for real estate agents. Not the right demographic.

But i could be wrong.

I see they're adding a rel=nofollow attrib to bookmarks. Bummer. Although, there is some question as to whether or not nofollow actually works.

it was not clear to me how this was adding traffic to a site and it does not look to help those in the real estate industry. Could be wrong.
That being said, nice Web 2.0 approach.

ROpenHouse
ROpenHouse.com

I think lot of these companies like wikipedia are catching onto this and adding the no follow tags. Same strategy can be said about del.icio.us.

Originally Posted by mortgagesum

I think lot of these companies like wikipedia are catching onto this and adding the no follow tags. Same strategy can be said about del.icio.us.

Yes, no big sites want to give anything for free...
Anyway, the stumlbe upon idea would be great, theoretically. In reality
the traffic you'll receive is 0.

I have recieved a lot of traffic through stumbleupon but think that it is most important to make sure that you are getting links on other sites so that it will make the search engines look at your site as being more relevent as a source of real estate info for your geographic market. Try being better at creating content and the stumbleupon traffic will find you as well as the inbound links

Seems a good idea for mad surfers, but not really something that I think would benefit my sites.

It is the same with other social bookmarking websites, when it first started I added every single page of all my websites to them and from the stats that I have on my site I can't remember receiving at hits at all from them.

Stick to the SE's.

I donot know about stumble upon but i used furl.net and they show up on yahoo results ... guess its good for SEO..

The traffic from Stumbleupon, if there is any, does not look like the targeted one for real estate sites at this point. But it could change in the future.