StumbleUpon Traffic
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StumbleUpon is an excellent resource for Traffic! But how can you achieve this?
Here’s a quick blast Post on the subject. We’ve also put out a report in the membership area. You can log in here: New Media Membership
Why use StumbleUpon?
There are numerous reasons why you should be marketing with StumbleUpon. The biggest reason that any marketer should be using StumbleUpon is the exponential number of users in its birth. In 2006, StumbleUpon had 540,000 users. This year, so far, they have already almost four million users globally.
Visitors vote one websites they like or do not like, then the system offers more websites that are similar to the ones you like and different from the ones that you do not like. This means it is a more customizable search related tool that users will actually enjoy.
Once you have installed the toolbar you can ’stumble’ through many websites of your chosen category and click the ‘I Like it’ or the thumbs down (No more of this). The votes count and create more demand for your webpages the more ‘thumbs up’ you get.
How do I get even more visitors from SU?
Generally stumbling, rating, adding more friends as well as new pages that other people like will increase your Karma and make your vote more effective, so it makes sense to vote for your own pages.
Add more tags – if your page is in the category of design then add tags for anything related such as graphic design, web design, artwork, illustration etc. SU will then send people that are interested in illustration who may not have listed design as one of their interests.
Send to your friends – They’re more likely to vote positively for your site and this means more visitors for you! Also take note that 10 votes in 10 minutes are more valuable than the same votes in 10 hours.
Positively rate any sites that have links to your pages, as the visitors will trickle through on the strength of that extra traffic.
Stumble only the best pages on your domain as SU takes into account the average quality of pages Stumbled.
Buy StumbleUpon Traffic
An alternative is to consider sponsoring your site on StumbleUpon. This means you pay every time your page is shown to stumblers in your selected category. It’s currently incredibly cheap at $0.05 per visitor (with a maximum of 2,000 visitors per day) although don’t be surprised if this rapidly rises.
This is a great way to get started and you can also earn free traffic this way if you can encourage Stumblers to vote for you, which pushes more visitors to your page or blog.
Our latest report in the free membership area is a quickblast report on stumbleupon traffic and delves into more detail.
