Comments on: More on Advertising on StumbleUpon

By: refe

refe — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:57:59 +0000

I have had active StumbleUpon campaigns for about a month now. I usually limit it to about 100 visitors per day. It took a little bit for any of my content to catch on, but I was consistently getting 2 or 3 ‘thumbs up’ each day and eventually one of my posts ended up as the second suggested website for the ‘Music’ category on the StumbleUpon homepage. It resulted in about 2,300 hits in three days and the hits keep coming. All this for a post that I wrote 2 months ago!

It’s just tricky – I never would have expected THAT post to get the attention. You just have to experiment and see what catches on.

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:47:47 +0000

Hi
I really like this site and it has been useful o me in my attempts at blogging so far. I have a question about StumbleUpon. I have created a campaign but it is in pending status and I cannot seem to find where to pay for it. Am I missing something? Must it be taken out of pending status by Su themselves prior to me being “allowed” to pay. I really want to do this in order to get traffic to my site. Any advice would be sincerely appreciated.
Thanks

By: Retro

Retro — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:43:40 +0000

SU says they don’t send a page to a stumbler more then once, also that stats programs will often under-report stumbles for a number of reasons they explain on their faq.

By: jimbo

jimbo — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:26:40 +0000

I’ve noticed that taking SU paid programme over, say , three days, delivers good thumbs up on the first day and much lower on the following two days. Either the sample is too small (200/day) to make it statistically predictable, or my pages are being shown to some of the same stumbers on days 2 and 3. Anyway, seems to work much better spending money just on Mondays. Week by week, the organic SU traffic is creeping up on Tuesdays-through Sundays.

By: engtech @ internet duct tape

engtech @ internet duct tape — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:38:09 +0000

I tried out a pay campaign and it was very so-so… I didn’t spend as much (only $20) so I may not have captured the full potential viriality.

Being an active stumbler has gone much farther for me. I can usually drive about 600-800 hits to a page by stumbling it myself now.

http://internetducttape.com/2007/07/07/ways-to-advertise-your-blog-on-a-shoestring/

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:48:33 +0000

I put together a $50 campaign, with traffic capped at 250 readers per day. SU shows that it has referred 836 visitors so far, while Google Analytics shows 644. Interestingly, while the SU visitors aren’t going deeper into the blog, they are sticking around for a bit, with an average time spent of 4:17.

It will be interesting to see if these readers come back & what residual traffic there is once the campaign is done later tonight.

By: sandossu

sandossu — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 19:12:55 +0000

Every social network can bring you traffic and all you need is content.

I think you all know that “content is king”

By: fivecentnickel.com

fivecentnickel.com — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:35:47 +0000

@Max Pool: While the average person might not know about RSS, pretty much everyone online has an e-mail account that they check regularly. Do you encourage subscriptions via e-mail? I’ve integrated an e-mail subscription signup field immediately after each post. I wonder if that would’ve helped.

By: J David

J David — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 03:00:09 +0000

I have been an avid stumbler for a while now, but I never realized that you could pay for visits… man am I dumb. I mean, I have done alright with natural stumbling (you and a few friends give your article the thumbs up, and if it is quality content, it will spread on its own). I want to try a little campaign myself and see how things go.

By: Bryce

Bryce — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 00:13:42 +0000

I probably should try this one time, btw – your images don’t come out well in feeds.

By: Skelliewag.org

Skelliewag.org — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 00:04:57 +0000

Interestingly enough I didn’t get much more than the 100 stumbles I paid for and was inclined to see the campaign as having failed, but woke up to find 20 new subscribers. This is quite a lot because I don’t have plenty of subscribers to begin with. But at the same time, I’m not sure whether these are SU subscribers or those who’ve come from elsewhere.

I’m not sure I’d be willing to risk $50 on something going viral because it’s just so hard to predict.

By: Jay Tillery

Jay Tillery — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:50:36 +0000

I got stumbled once on http://www.gymtops.com now my traffic is snowballing like crazy. One stumble can lead to alot of traffic. I’m still going strong off of one stumble. Save your $$ and start trading links.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:28:36 +0000

@Bill McRea, Don’t underestimate reddit either. If you get popular on reddit, it can potentially send you just as many readers as a nice stumble.

By: Max Pool

Max Pool — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:25:05 +0000

@fivecentnickel

I would disagree that .05% is under-average. Depressing yes, but not under-average. Here are some more metrics of the experience:

~100k – Unique Visitors
~50k – Readers that stayed longer than 10 secs
~15k – Readers that didn’t bounce

Knowing that only less than 10% of internet users use RSS, the applicable target of people that will subscribe has now diminished to 1500.

If we look at it this way, I am happy that I converted on 33% of ‘realistic’ subscribers. A surge of traffic, does not always mean that it is a quality traffic.

When blogs about bloggers go viral, the target audience are already RSS-centric and thus may have a higher conversion rate.

By: Bill McRea

Bill McRea — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:52:48 +0000

Honestly I find that just posting a “thumbs up” on new content at my site results in a ton of free traffic. I think digg and stumbleupon are the two best immediate legitimate sources of traffic anyone can us.

Great post.

By: Matt Jones

Matt Jones — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:47:53 +0000

Is there a Problogger-readers freebie!! I demand a freebie!

By: Robert Irizarry

Robert Irizarry — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:47:26 +0000

I wonder about StumbleUpon’s value. Has anyone seen numbers indicating if StumbleUpon traffic is stickier for particular niches? Are folks seeing better results (ad conversion, page views, subscribers, etc) with certain niches?

By: Mike Panic

Mike Panic — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:32:32 +0000

Last Friday an article I wrote got a small, one line listing on lifehacker.com. It was quickly pickedup by the SU users and then made it to the front page of del.icio.us and then dugg. Over the last 7 days, SU users have generated nearly 24,000 unique visits, digg barely made an impression. What is super crazy is that the traffic is still coming! The other really nice thing is the trickle down effect. Many people going to that article are indeed clicking other articles and catagories on my blog. The Digg wave is long since over.

Now I haven’t paid for anything yet, but this sort of experiance with the SU community opened my eyes to how powerful they can be and I will be running small, targeted campaigns for certain articles over the next few weeks / months. I figure that spending $5-10 per article on up to 5 really good articles should bring enough traffic to the site that the “everyone else is looking, so should I” kicks in. That’s the goal at least.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:03:01 +0000

I’ve been running StumbleUpon campaigns on a few of my websites recently and I even wrote about gaining StumbleUpon users yesterday, and while none of them have gone extremely viral, in all cases I have received more visitors than I paid for.

By: Got 7.000 SU Visitors 1 Day

Got 7.000 SU Visitors 1 Day — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:02:18 +0000

I ran an experiment on SU and I got one day 7.000 visitors just because of that 1 content.

Resoults
http://www.bontb.com/2007/06/stumbleupon-experiment-results/

Experiment
http://www.bontb.com/2007/06/one-day-stumbleupon-experiment-traffic/