Comments on: A Stumbling Improvement

By: Goran Giertz

Goran Giertz — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 09:07:26 +0000

SU has received much less mention lately, due to the popularity of both FB & Twitter causing them to get all the attention. I’ve found SU to be very effective at driving lots of traffic quickly, but the bounce rate is usually just crazy. It does look very impressive on analytics, but how effective it truly is is debatable.

By: Bill Perry

Bill Perry — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:39:27 +0000

I made something very similar a couple years back for my own sites.

One thing that I think may be missing from the one here is checking for traffic from StumbleUpon user pages.

Example, my StumbleUpon page is http://williamrperry.stumbleupon.com

Anyone who clicks to a page from my profile, the refer shows up as http://williamrperry.stumbleupon.com

I got around that by basically taking the refer string and reversing it, then checking to see if it started with “moc.nopuelbmutS”

By: Mike @ Diet Blog

Mike @ Diet Blog — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:47:45 +0000

Wow, really cool plugin. I suppose you could tailor that to any site? Very very cool. Thanks a lot. Definitely don’t want to mess with Stumblers.

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By: Cavitenio

Cavitenio — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:38:28 +0000

I love that plugin. How I wish i can use it on blogger.

By: Bingo Live

Bingo Live — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:49:03 +0000

Thanks for revealing the code. The plugging is very helpful to further improve page design, content and even a rough idea about number of visitors. The plugging will help in web development. I love positive development.

By: bill perry

bill perry — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:59:08 +0000

The problem with that code is it won’t catch ALL traffic from StumbleUpon.

If people are actually on a StumbleUpon user’s page and click the link to get to your site, the REFER URL will be username.stumbleupon.com where ‘username’ is that person’s name.

I played with this last year and had to develop a custom script in PHP to handle that.

I lost the script with hard drive problems, and have yet to rewrite it.
Basically, I parsed the REFER URL as above, then used a concatenation string to reverse it, so it showed as moc.nopuelbmuts.emanresu//:ptth

Then the script would merely look for the part of the URL that says ‘moc.nopuelbmuts.’

This way it would catch all traffic from http://www.stumbleupon.com and username.stumbleupon.com, and even the SU “Buzz” page (buzz.stumbleupon.com).

By: kouji

kouji — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:47:05 +0000

i do need to find a way to leverage stumbleupon a little bit more for my blog. even just a little bit of traffic from there would be welcome.

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By: Goran Web

Goran Web — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 08:47:52 +0000

Thank you for sharing, this is an awesome find.

By: cori- www.lyricalcontent.net

cori- www.lyricalcontent.net — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:20:51 +0000

Hi, I just installed the plugin. On the config menu, where it says your custom site, do we change that to our url or keep yours there? Also, the code to hide adds, do I just add that to each of the boxes in the config window with the rest of the message? And how do I put a subscribe to my feed link there? Sorry, lot of questions I know, Thanks in advance for any help!
Regards,
Cori

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By: preblogging

preblogging — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:03:40 +0000

Thanks for the mention Al. As the text that is displayed is flexible, you could add an RSS button, or a bookmark reminder and link, or even a link to your StumbleUpon profile.

Which plugin uses
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