Comments on: Stumble your way to a Rush of traffic

By: Where’s the StumbleUpon buzz on your site? at Hippo Web Solutions

Where’s the StumbleUpon buzz on your site? at Hippo Web Solutions — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:04:06 +0000

[...] I hope you found this useful – I certainly did. If you did too, why not give it a Stumble and share it around? Also, you may wish to check out my article on how to drive traffic to your site using StumbleUpon. [...]

By: Rodney Smith

Rodney Smith — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 07:24:43 +0000

Dale: same here, which is why I was keen to get my mitts on this course. The power of StumbleUpon for driving traffic lies in the networking aspects, and the author, Caroline, has used it successfully to drive huge numbers of visitors to her site – she’s well up there in the Alexa rankings.

By: Dale

Dale — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:48:49 +0000

Great tip about the Stumblerush course. I’ve never really gotten the hang of Stumbleupon, so will check it out.

Thanks.

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links for 2008-08-22 [delicious.com] | afewgoodpens.com — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:35:34 +0000

[...] Stumble your way to a Rush of traffic at Hippo Web Solutions – "Various sources I have read observe that the traffic that comes from StumbleUpon generally has a different profile from that of other Social Bookmarking sites. Whereas for example Digg traffic manifests itself in a big spike (lots of visitors in a short space of time) that dissipates just as quickly, StumbleUpon traffic tends to be more sustained, and can often continue days, weeks and months beyond the point where an item first became popular." [...]

By: Rodney Smith

Rodney Smith — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:19:51 +0000

Will, I don’t have a problem with someone expressing an opinion (as long as it’s not abusive to either me or my visitors). Good luck with PA – let me know how it goes, as they’re a fairly new network which I’ve only recently signed up to myself.

By: Abrablogger

Abrablogger — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:19:25 +0000

I’ve played around with Stumble Upon before but never really gave it that much attention. Might just give it another go again.

Thanks for the advice

By: Will

Will — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:41:57 +0000

Rodney,

I commend you on first of all not deleting my comment, and secondly on actually replying to it. Many many bloggers are self-centered and won’t accept anything on their blogs that doesn’t jive with their opinion… This is a rare quality my friend!

I have never tried PerformancingAds… I have a couple of general information sites that would be tough to monetize with Google and that would probably be a good fit.

Thanks for the tip.

By: Rodney Smith

Rodney Smith — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 07:58:19 +0000

Thanks for your perspective, Will. Actually I didn’t say anything about the monetization aspects of StumbleUpon traffic, but I agree with you that visitors from social sites don’t tend to click ads. Of course this is not the only way to monetize a site; ad networks like PerformancingAds, for example rely on sheer traffic volume.

By: Will

Will — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:25:56 +0000

Hi Rodney,

I am sorry to tell you that I totally disagree with your article. I have had traffic spikes thanks to Stumble Upon but, as with most social traffic, stumblers don’t have a need. Therefore they pretty much don’t click ads. I’m had almost 1,000 visitors from SU that netted me $6 and looking at my stats, 1,000 search engines visitors net me at the very least $30.

I’m not even going to mention the concept of smart pricing and click through rate… A lot has been written on the subject…

In my humble opinion, the main benefit of social traffic is visibility (which is good for branding) and increasing your subscriber count (which you may be able to make money from later on). But as far as making serious money is concerned, search engine traffic is king

By: Praveen

Praveen — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:59:34 +0000

Thanks for writing this article. It’s very informative!

I am going to check out the course.