Comments on: Know your visitors: StumbleUpon

By: Nike Blazers shoes

Nike Blazers shoes — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 01:35:02 +0000

In my opinion social traffic is very weak for making money.

By: metal siding prices

metal siding prices — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 06:03:16 +0000

I agree with you about social traffic, especially StumbleUpon. While some marketers automatically write off most social media, it takes a special breed of businessmen and communication to make social media work. CPM ads are a good idea, particularly if you design the site to encourage extra page views.

By: newbiesblogger

newbiesblogger — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:10:05 +0000

In my opinion social traffic is very weak for making money. They are far overrated and frankly you are better off investing your efforts in SEO or even PPC. Having said that however, If you pick the right low competion keywords you can use social sites like webmasters use article submission websites like ezinearticles for SEO. That is, you target keywords that get your post, digg, tweet etc. which will be ranked well on google. The blog poster summed it up very well and anything that comes as easy as social traffic has little value.

By: Online seo Company

Online seo Company — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:56:54 +0000

Good point! No doubt alot of people focus their attention on getting loads of traffic, which isn’t a bad thing…But if making money is the goal, 1000 targeted visitors is always going to be better than 10,000 untargeted visitors, at least in my opinion. But then again, for bloggers any type of traffic is good traffic since a portion of those people will no doubt become regular visitors.

By: nike dunks sb

nike dunks sb — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:36:46 +0000

A very good observation about StumbleUpon and a good analysis about mentality of SU users.

By: AlanO

AlanO — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:36:37 +0000

Nico, another good post. It’s interesting…there’s so much more than just quantity of traffic. And I can speak from experience…I have a few friends will waste HOURS just browsing all the bookmarked sites at StumbleUpon, Digg, Fark, etc. Sure, they are traffic to those sites…but they’re not clicking on ads. They’re not buying anything. Thy are not qualified traffic. They are simply bored with lots of time on their hands!

At the very least, one thing bloggers can do is to make sure you submit to the proper categories/subcategories when you DO submit your blog posts to various bookmarking services. That way, if you have a cooking blog, at least you’re more likely to have someone who is interested in cooking visit your site (and hopefully be more likely to take advantage of your site’s monetization).

By: Money Maker

Money Maker — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:18:44 +0000

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By: Money Maker

Money Maker — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:44:35 +0000

yes social media is good source for traffic and the best thing that is free.

By: derekengavin

derekengavin — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:37:36 +0000

howdy!…many would say that, digg is currently the top bookmarking site, but i have to agree with you though… StumbleUpon is really a thumb up!

By: Milwaukee SESO

Milwaukee SESO — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:10:00 +0000

Must be nice to have enough free time to be bored and not know what seach for next! Finding even 15 minutes of free time to myself is a challenge these days.