tinustuff/stumbleupon

From the page: "How to meet people: When you Stumble | From Your Profile | From Other Site Navigation"

From the page: I want to clear something up for those of you who are now afraid to thumb up your friends stuff, or who think they can no longer thumb or review their favorite sites. I am going to explain how the process works from my knowledge in hopes of putting your mind at ease.

Rob is good people. Someone as StumbleUpon really needs to clean out the negative tags he is associated with. The thing I like about him is that he doesn't feel the need to vote positively for something just because he knows someone who knows the person who wrote the content. If he gives a thumbs-up or a review, it's because he enjoyed the content. Two thumbs up for Rob!

Teeg is an active stumbler and a proactive contact as well. She finds great content and is specific about why she enjoys it. Even if your interests don't match up exactly, her stumbles are worth a look.

"Learn from Top Stumblers
The people on this list are considered "top stumblers" for a reason. Check out their profiles and stumbling habits, and learn from what they do."

From the page: "Recently, I received 2,208 visits from StumbleUpon ALONE in just one single day. You can check out the proof below."

I respectfully disagree. StumbleUpon can be a good source of traffic BUT you can't just turn on an ad program and throw traffic at it, nor can you hope that the traffic you're getting is well targeted if you haven't developed a profile, and don't have a network of people with similiar profiles.

Otherwise, you'll be getting a lot of the "thumbs-up" or non-voting visitors instead of the people who go to your site, write reviews and sign up. There's a SCIENCE to doing SU right as a promotional tool. Is SU the best traffic ever? No. But the failure in the example given shows more to me that the person who ran the campaign may not know how to work with SU.

For example, the first time I came to the site where this article was posted was on StumbleUpon. But since I subscribed via RSS, my vote would not have been measured.

SU - not for everyone. But it *does* work.