Comments on: 10 reasons why the new StumbleUpon irritates rather than inspires http://www.blahblahtech.com/2008/12/10-reasons-why-the-new-stumbleupon-irritates-rather-than-inspires.html Tech' views that are 667% more interesting than the tech' news itself... Wed, 23 May 2012 09:35:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Heidi Cool http://www.blahblahtech.com/2008/12/10-reasons-why-the-new-stumbleupon-irritates-rather-than-inspires.html#comment-4724 Heidi Cool Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:02:01 +0000 http://www.blahblahtech.com/?p=1099#comment-4724 Wayne, Great points it does make for a more awkward user experience. I find myself more perplexed by how SU is working. I was looking at my Google Analytics for <a href="http://pownce2.com" rel="nofollow">Pownce Refugees</a> the other day and saw that my top referring site (other than Pownce which alas is no longer a factor) was Stumbleupon. So I checked SU for the site and saw that it had been thumbed up once by someone who found it in Photography. Yesterday my friend Josh said it showed up as a recommendation for him while he was stumbling so he thumbed it up as well. So now, as of today it's been thumbed up 4 times (including me - I though I'd stumbled it yesterday but had to do it again today to show up - my thumbing doesn't always seem to work.) I'm happy that it showed up but I still find this curious. Is it showing up because some interior page has been more actively stumbled and I just don't know which one? But if so why would the main page be the one displayed? Is there some other factor in play? It has fairly high traffic for a site that is only about 17 days old, but of course it is appealing to a very niche market of former Powncers so 58.95% of traffic is direct, 38.95% is referring and only 4.10% search engines. (I wish I could bottle this marketing strategy but I think it only applies to what in this case was a unique situation.) Obviously I'm not complaining, but it's showing me that just when I thought I had something figured out, things can happen differently. The StumbleUpon visitors have a higher bounce rate at 64%, but that's still not a bad number for this scenario. It's all rather curious, so I'm going to have to do some digging to find what hidden dimension is at work here. Wayne,
Great points it does make for a more awkward user experience. I find myself more perplexed by how SU is working. I was looking at my Google Analytics for Pownce Refugees the other day and saw that my top referring site (other than Pownce which alas is no longer a factor) was Stumbleupon. So I checked SU for the site and saw that it had been thumbed up once by someone who found it in Photography. Yesterday my friend Josh said it showed up as a recommendation for him while he was stumbling so he thumbed it up as well. So now, as of today it’s been thumbed up 4 times (including me - I though I’d stumbled it yesterday but had to do it again today to show up - my thumbing doesn’t always seem to work.)

I’m happy that it showed up but I still find this curious. Is it showing up because some interior page has been more actively stumbled and I just don’t know which one? But if so why would the main page be the one displayed? Is there some other factor in play? It has fairly high traffic for a site that is only about 17 days old, but of course it is appealing to a very niche market of former Powncers so 58.95% of traffic is direct, 38.95% is referring and only 4.10% search engines. (I wish I could bottle this marketing strategy but I think it only applies to what in this case was a unique situation.)

Obviously I’m not complaining, but it’s showing me that just when I thought I had something figured out, things can happen differently. The StumbleUpon visitors have a higher bounce rate at 64%, but that’s still not a bad number for this scenario. It’s all rather curious, so I’m going to have to do some digging to find what hidden dimension is at work here.

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