I was looking around at the newly revamped StumbleUpon.com home page and seen a link in the footer entitled “Website Reviews“. I gave it a click and it told me to provide my site’s URL. The results page displayed my site title and also the images of people that have reviewed my site. Not too many at all for this blog… yet, but my other sites showed multiple reviews and thumbs up’s.

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Are you a junkie for the latest facts and figures on your web sites? I’m on a downward spiral of addiction the more I get into managing my own sites. Whenever I turn on my computer, I need to check my sites and see how they are doing. It sets the my mood for the rest of the day, as well as a plan of action, if needed.

My first stop is Google Analytics. All my sites are tracked there. I know it’s not the best application for analytical statistics, but you can’t beat the price for the amount of features. One gripe with GA is that they are so slow in updating their stat information. My sites are usually 4 hours behind, at least. If there is a way to default to the current day when selecting a site profile, please let me know. It would be a nice convenience. I am constantly checking the referring sources. Marketing Optimization > Visitor Segment Performance > Referring Source, if you are following along. Usually, if I see a new referrer, I’ll visit the site to see where I’m linked. StumbleUpon always beats out Google in volume for all my sites.

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Many people including Rand Fishkin at SEOmoz.org have raved about the volume of traffic they recieve from StumbleUpon.com. On many cases, the number of StumbleUpon referrals out number those of the major search engines.

This blog is no exception. Since transferring a small handful of blog posts to this domain less than two weeks ago, 50% of my traffic has come from StumbleUpon and less than 2% from Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask combined. I have received a bunch of clicks from a mention on reddit.com that recieved “arrow up’s.”

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