Jake@iHeartBudgets.net said:

WellKeptWallet said:

I just recently found out how to submit my posts on StumbleUpon through the Social Metrics plugin for Wordpress. In the past 7 days I have had 240 unique hits from Stumble upon. Who would have thought?

Have you written posts for Oregonlive.com? If not how are you getting traffic from their site? Thanks for chiming in!

 

Thanks, just installed this plugin and started stumbling! :)

That is awesome! Another thing that I like about the Social Metrics plugin is that it tells you how many times a post has been mentioned on Social Media like Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Etc. This way I can see what people are sharing and what they are not. It has been super helpful in this regards.

I just did the exact same thing... I'm impressed stumbleupon does so well!

I have such a difficult time figuring out stumble upon...for some reason it just doesn't make much sense to me and i cant grasp how to use it......kinda like calculus... 

I just "Stumbled Upon" how to use it. I got the Social Metrics plugin for Wordpress and under the Stumble Upon heading there is a button that says Submit. When you click it, it takes you to a page where your can submit that post. If people like it, it will get more "Stumbles". The key is writing unique and interesting content and submitting it in the right category. I use the Financial Planning and Banking category for my Personal Finance type posts.

My top ten:

1. google/organic

2. direct

3. lifehacker.com

4. feedburner/feed

5. google.com

6. businessinsider.com

7. rss

8. t.co

9. getrichslowly.org

10. community.thenest.com

You get referrals from TheNest.com? That is interesting. Do you just comment in the forums and get traffic that way?

1. Google/organic

2. Direct

3. Bing

4. Yahoo

5. Stumble Upon (all mostly from my best books for entrepreneurs post)

6. Investment News.com

7. Google.com/referral

8. Aol

9. Houseofroseblog.com  <<< The wife's blog- haha! 

10. Ask.com

That is awesome that your wife's blog is one of your top 10 referral sources! I have been using StumbleUpon much more lately and by the looks of it, it has been sending you quite a bit of referrals. Do you use the Paid Discovery or is that organic from people Stumbling and liking your posts?

1. Direct
2. Google/Organic
3. Modest Money
4. Facebook
5. Google/Referral
6. t.co
7. Financial Samurai
8. Facebook Mobile
9. Twitterfeed  (I’m guessing they track twitter/facebook
   clicks or something...)
10. Work Save Live

Have you written posts for Oregonlive.com? If not how are you getting traffic from their site? Thanks for chiming in!

No, they just link to me every once in a while. They usually drive okay traffic for a few days. I probably get a thousand visitors or so per link spread out over the next week or so. Not bad. They follow me on twitter so I'm assuming that's where they see my content.

Dlvr.it is a content delivery service - you set it up ahead of time to pull from your RSS feed, and when you have new posts, it publishes them to Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/whatever automatically. I wrote a post (link) awhile back about how easy it is to set up; I really like it!

1. google/organic

2. direct

3. lifehacker.com

4. feedburner/feed

5. google.com

6. businessinsider.com

7. rss

8. t.co

9. getrichslowly.org

10. community.thenest.com

2. Direct

3. Bing

4. Yahoo

5. Stumble Upon (all mostly from my best books for entrepreneurs post)

6. Investment News.com

7. Google.com/referral

8. Aol

9. Houseofroseblog.com  <<< The wife's blog- haha! 

10. Ask.com

1.	google / organic	
	2.	direct
	3.	google.com / referral	
	4.	freemoneyfinance.com / referral
	5.	consumerismcommentary.com / referral	
	6.	lenpenzo.com / referral
	7.	t.co / referral
	8.	bing / organic
	9.	yahoo / organic
	10.	retireby40.org / referral

I'm totally lame at doing guest posts, so all the referrals from blogs are mentions and/or blogroll listings (I guess?).

First Million is the Hardest said:

1. Google/organic

2. Direct

3. T.co/referral

4. Feedburner/feed

5. Bing/Organic

6. Google/referral

7. Wisebread.com/referral

8. Modestmoney.com

9. Sooverthis.com

10. Facebook.com

Hey Jay! Are the referrals from Wisebread from a guest post, comments, or Top Personal Finance Blog section? Just curious.

The wisebread referrals are all from the Top PF Blog section...I have no idea why because I'm pretty buried over there, but I get a handful of clicks each day from it. 

1. Direct
2. Google organic
3. t.co
4. google referral
5. facebook
6. Simple dollar
7. Modest Money
8. Feedburner
9.I will teach you to be rich
10. Frugal rules