I recently run a 7 days test study on social media marketing using MyBlogLog and wrote about the marketing findings on Wednesday. SBA point out a good question on his comment. But what I forget to mention, during this time I also test Stumbleupon. This post detail the showdown between the two, read on.
How much time do I spend for this exercise?
I normally open 5 page – each page have about 35 people therefore I’m looking at 175 people. I spend about 30 minutes to add 175 people.
The overall result
As from the above graph, the green lines represent the period between Sept, 12 to Sept, 19. The blue line represent the period between Sept, 20 – Sept, 27. As you could see, at one point the visitors to the website reached more than 150. The ups and downs will be affected by the days and the batch selection quality. Not all Mybloglog follower were actively log-in into there account.
Some of Entrepreneur’s Journey community had never log-in into their account almost a year and some register twice with different e-mail and different avatar or different e-mail but same avatar. 
For the duration of 7 days, I had added about 1,225 contacts (5 x 35 x 7 days) from the community. Only 1%-2% will join the community but I do expect this could be the result.
During this period, my blog visitor increase by 181.51% as compared to previous 7 days period. Pages view also increase by 266.59% and pages per visit had increase by 30.22%.
But all visit during the test period consist of both mybloglog, stumbleupon and others. We’ll look into mybloglog and stumbleupon result next.
Mybloglog vs stumbleupon
During the test period, I had submit three of my post to stumbleupon:
- What I Learn From Miley Cyrus Death Hoax
- Between Apple, Brad Pitt, Viral Marketing And Award That Break The Window.
- The Success System That Never Fails
- The Beatles And Internet Marketing Success
Of course, along with that 4 posts, I also included other stumbles. I need to be fair to my subscribers, fans, and my friends. Also reply to comments and giving thumb-up on others stumblers’ blog.
The showdown result
Stumbleupon bring 275 new visitors an increase of 281.94% as compared to previous 7 days period.
Despite that page per visit for stumbleupon, only increase by 5.17%. Since I have 200 friends, on average, 39 (275/7 days) of my friends’ visit my blog daily during the 7 days period.
Mybloglog visitor had shown a dramatically increase by 4,500% as compared to the previous. However, looking back at the number of contact I added during the 7 days, the percentage of visit from mybloglog contact only about, 11%. This translate into about, between 19-20 people per day (138/7 days).
In term of percentage of traffic, stumbleupon bring more traffic as compared to mybloglog. The snapshot below explain this.
Which one is the best tools?
I’ll leave that decision for you to decide. In my experience, stumbleupon had bring me a lot more traffic than mybloglog. you could have a different experience. Which one had bring your more traffic, mybloglog or stumbleupon?
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other stumbleupon news-
http://www.blogtogreat.com/2008/10/stumbleupon-to.html
Great information, backed up by statistics that are easy to read. I’d measure the overall study of traffic by your increase in subscribers — raw traffic is nice, but return visits are better. As far as which site is the winner, that’s hard to measure. One factor should be the increase in pages per visit by site, but Stumble Upon seems to be about the same and the increase in MBL is not significant. I wonder why the SU increased traffic by promoting only 4 posts and the usual level of reciprocity. There was also an increase in direct traffic, so your blog in general is on an upswing — better SEO, better content (excuse the expression)… etc. Bottom line, a good investment of your time, and good choice of targetting your ‘competition’. Thanks for sharing.
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