I’ve submitted a few of my own posts before and spent a while stumbling other sites but only really had minor spikes in traffic (roughly 200 or 300 new visitors and usually on the same day I submitted the post)… then things would die-down to normal again.

The post that generated a weeks worth of huge traffic was actually submitted by someone else – I think that makes a bit of a difference because people think it’s interesting instead of seeing it as a shameless piece of self-promotion.

I’m going to continue playing with StumbleUpon and try and use it to gain greater exposure for a couple of my work-related sites too, so hopefully I’ll have more success stories in the not-to-distant future.