Hi,
One of our web pages started getting thousands of visitors per day recently from stumbleupon.com. Is there any way of knowing the exact referrer? i.e. the exact URL that had resulted in bringing the visitors? When we try to trace, it’s going to stubleupon page that says, h??p://www.stumbleupon.com/su/288ack/routersimulator.certexams.com/network-simulator-labs/ or h??p://stumbleupon.com/toolbar/litebar.php or something similar. Thanks.
So in this case the http referer is the Stumble toolbar, not a web page link.
Stumble toolbar? How will the webpage get in to stumble toolbar? The referrers are from unique IP addresses.
When someone who has the toolbar finds a website they like, they click a button to say they find it interesting and what category it should be put in. This is added to the StumbleUpon database.
Then when other users click the “Stumble!” button, it takes them to a random website of their chosen category (e.g. funny stuff, nature photos, whatever). Someone has obviously added your website to the StumbleUpon database and now people are getting to it randomly when they click the “Stumble” button.
I think, if they have stumbled a page which you had bookmarked, then it should be available in the bookmark views.
Raffles, thanks for the reply. I guess that’s the primary reason for the high traffic to the website. Though Stumble bookmarking has increased the traffic by about 3X (that is, if the current traffic is 1000 uniques, it has increased to about 3000 uniques), the bounce rate which used to be around 20% has increased to about 50%. What are the best ways to improve the bounce rate?
You’re going to have a high bounce rate with stumbleupon. You’re getting the traffic for free so you shouldn’t fret too much if they leave after first impression. Not everyone who goes will actually be interested.
the people get the website with the help of toolbaar so here referrer is a toolbar not a webpage or link
i am also a stumbler… always loved it …stumbleupon insanely generates massive amount of traffic.
Have you set up Google analytic tool bar with your site? This is having the features to know from where the traffic sources are coming, May be it a direct traffic or otherwise may be it from the referring sites; That all you will be able to know after setting up this tool bar.
Maybe I do not understand the exact problem, but can’t you find a post with link to your webpage on StumbleUpon’s website?
Surfers on stumbleupon have pretty short attention spans, so if something does not immediately grab their attention they will just click on to the next site. When I am using it I can easily hit 100+ websites in one sitting and will only look at a few in depth.
It could also be that your site has been miscategorised, in which case you might look at working on this.