I have always promoted stumble as much as possible because I do honestly think the traffic good quality. The bounce rates are low, you always receive good friendly reviews and you generally get a good vibe, something that I honestly feel is lacking from Digg, Reddit and other social bookmarking sites.

The second wave

This is from my personal experience, when I initially make a stumble I usually expect to see a traffic range from 100 – 5000, depending on the topic of course. A lot of other people have also seen these kind of figures from a simple click of a button. However a lot of people believe that stumble traffic is a one time affair and dies out pretty quickly, this is not true. There seems to be a “second wave” of stumble traffic that occurs around 40% of the time when my site is stumbled.

This usually happens a week or so after the initial stumble and can produce some good numbers once again. This seems to be cause by a high ranked stumbler giving the thumbs up to one of your submissions. Once again the bounce rates are low and the traffic is again of good quality.

What about after the “second wave”?

Well personally I continue to get between 10 – 100 hits per day on this blog, from various other stumbles made on the site. So to answer the critics, stumble traffic is not a one time affair and is well worth pursuing.

I was going to write a piece on this subject when I came across some findings on Search Engine People. According to a recent survey by Prospero Technologies, nearly 9 in 10 marketers already using social media said they plan to “increase” or “increase significantly” their spending.

As you can see by these results 88% of people expect to spend more money on social media spending in 2008. I had already suspected that business heads and directors of small and medium sized businesses had started to catch on to the social media “craze”.

So how will it work in terms of SEO companies making money?

Well, like most blogs, including this one explain, it’s really not hard to get traffic from these sites – it just takes time. I do currently control social media campaigns for various companies which are still in the early phases of development and the clients are purely billed on time taken on the project. As well as time you may need to kit your blog/website/feeds out with social bookmarking options, this can cost a small amount if you need custom layouts etc, but generally the price will still be low.

I personally think you will start seeing a lot more “seo” companies offering numbers for cash, for example 10,000 hits via social media for $1000 or something as equally unrealistic. Like all good seo methods the social media and bookmarking requires constant attention and time to build up relationships with users and profiles. Of course its no good if you sell health insurance that you buy 100 “Diggs” either – you have to know what kind of users view each different social media site – you have to know your audience.


If any reading this is considering creating a campaign please don’t be tempted with quick fixes, you won’t see a ROI – it’s simple. Speak to agencies or trusted seo workers that charge you by there hourly rates and provide you with proposals and reports on all results. Remember if they’re good they will get large amounts of relevant traffic, not all at once but on a gradual increase.

I use to be a pretty heavy user of Myspace back in 2006 as were most of my friends. As i was reluctantly converted to
Facebook I’ve never looked back and here’s why and why Facebook may have just reached the same point:

These are the reasons I left Myspace:

1. I didn’t like Tom, he would never reply to my messages
2. I would get friend requested by random naked girls who were just after my money
3. I could never log on to Myspace when I wanted it was always when Myspace was ready for me
4. I started getting wall posts by the hour that made no sense what so ever!
5. Myspace would destroy my sence of reality by being “online bling”
6. I had to listen to music everytime I loaded a different page
7. I started getting a bit too obsessed with my profile views, but I was the highest ranking person out of my friends(ignoring point 2)
8. I didn’t own Myspace although the name contradicts it
9. Myspace looks like a billboard of adverts
10. I had to keep saying I was happy to use my current Myspace even though there was a “Uk” version.

Reasons why FaceSpace is evolving :

1. I don’t like the fact the owner of Facebook is younger than me
2. Facebook should be called Closedbook it’s never working!
3. These applications are all and good and well when they work but most of the time you ust get an error message
4. Im getting friend requests from naked women again
5. Im getting random friend requests and pokes then feel used as their profiles are just advertising
6. I find myself refreshing a screen to see if anything has happened – im never going to get this time back!
7. I got “tagged” kissing a girl which my ex-girlfriend didn’t like (even though we wern’t together)
8. When I get drunk I forget about Facebook then have to see how bad I looked the night before.
9. I don’t get the name
10. Vampires don’t exist

As you can see im on the brink of finding the next “un-spoilt” thing. A complete social nightmare.