Okay guys, THIS is how you use social networks to get 100,000hits in under a week. (linkbaiting)

[scott g]

What Brings you to Hedonism that many times Rick?

[dagaul101]

Interesting post, the social bookmarking was all about relevant content, so skipping the middle man of the home page and providing that content via a tool bar, will always have an advantage over the others

[csmcmanus]

This was a great write up on link bait. Thanks for putting it together. I like the graphics, but dude...a speedo?

[DannyDarwin]

Everyone who knows a bit about untargeted traffic also knows how to make big money out of it

[orvn]

Originally Posted by csmcmanus

This was a great write up on link bait. Thanks for putting it together. I like the graphics, but dude...a speedo?

Lol, have you seen the video? Youtube "ripping and tearing"

Originally Posted by DannyDarwin

Everyone who knows a bit about untargeted traffic also knows how to make big money out of it

What about "junk traffic"? Which isn't the case here, but I'm just curious about what you might suggest?

[scott g]

Originally Posted by orvn

Lol, have you seen the video? Youtube "ripping and tearing"

Yeah you know what I'm talking about! OH my GOD toooo funny! I showed this video to "Mrs. Robinson" in my office the other day and she lost it. I'm not thread Hijacking Orvn, I'm going viral here!!! LOL!

YouTube - Hedonism II Memorial Day Weekend...

[orvn]

Originally Posted by scott g

Yeah you know what I'm talking about! OH my GOD toooo funny! I showed this video to "Mrs. Robinson" in my office the other day and she lost it. I'm not thread Hijacking Orvn, I'm going viral here!!! LOL!

Lol, since we're talking memes, I prefer Antoine Donson:

YouTube - Antoine Dodson warns a PERP on LIVE TV!...

YouTube - BED INTRUDER SONG!!! (now on iTunes)

[howinfo]

Infographics do indeed look like a good idea for link bait, as I was reading this thread I did get some ideas for some infographics link baits that I would like to get done now. Can somebody recommend any infographics design service that I can use.

[hijule]

very good writeup and this makes perfect sense. People do want to see oddities and interesting things.

[orvn]

Originally Posted by howinfo

Infographics do indeed look like a good idea for link bait, as I was reading this thread I did get some ideas for some infographics link baits that I would like to get done now. Can somebody recommend any infographics design service that I can use.

I make my own, but it's very time consuming (I get a kick out of it though).

If you're looking for someone to hire, these guys are simply the best: Infographics Data visualization

Originally Posted by scott g

Yeah you know what I'm talking about! OH my GOD toooo funny! I showed this video to "Mrs. Robinson" in my office the other day and she lost it. I'm not thread Hijacking Orvn, I'm going viral here!!! LOL!

The promotion that "Hedonism 2" got from this was absolutely absurd.


Massive spike.

[kayf]

Some of these are funny, it seems like you're really trying to just get people to notice you and like you

[orvn]

Originally Posted by kayf

Some of these are funny, it seems like you're really trying to just get people to notice you and like you

Well, yeah. That's what gets people to link to you!

[Vastidious]

2 things. First, what do you use to create your infographics? I've been thinking of creating a few and just haven't found the best tool yet to do it. Just curious, because I like the look you had there.

Second, a comment. I use Stumbleupon all the time. But I use it sparingly. What I do is when I want a distraction and to kill some time, I log into the website and use the java tool bar instead of the addon tool bar. I don't like tool bars cluttering my desktop. But I can tell you it is addicting. You never know what you're going to get at times with Stumbleupon. You 'stumble upon' all kinds of funny and amazing stuff. And I have quite often found myself, digging through a site I found through the tool to look for more information on the site I was stumbled to. I can clearly see this working rather well.

Thanks for the information. I'm going to percolate on this idea and see what I can think of to put it to action.

[Dan B Rusu]

Hey Orvn,

Thanks for the post, this has opened my eyes to using Stumble upon for massive traffic and linkbaiting.

My question is, I checked the main site in you examples searchanddevelop [.] ca in yahoo SE and got 7 total backlinks. While not bad considering you didn't have to do much, it's also not great either.

Have you had better results with other sites? Have you tried using this method exclusively to rank for a competitive keyword?

Thanks!

[LarryHaywood]

Thanks Orvn for this post! I can't wait to give this a try and see if I can get some extra traffic.

[Dan B Rusu]

Originally Posted by Daniel7rusu

Hey Orvn,

Thanks for the post, this has opened my eyes to using Stumble upon for massive traffic and linkbaiting.

My question is, I checked the main site in you examples searchanddevelop [.] ca in yahoo SE and got 7 total backlinks. While not bad considering you didn't have to do much, it's also not great either.

Have you had better results with other sites? Have you tried using this method exclusively to rank for a competitive keyword?

Thanks!

Is this thread dead? I'm still curious about my question.

[rowanman28]

I guess Stumble Upon is kind of like You Tube, you need something really interesting to get a good response, and organic links, as you say, but I don't get how you get so many. I can barely get ten stumbles. Do you have a lot of followers?

[timpears]

I just don't see how you monitize this. You say you enjoy the sudden rush of traffic, but what good is it unless you can convert it to revenue?

[yukon]

Originally Posted by timpears

I just don't see how you monitize this. You say you enjoy the sudden rush of traffic, but what good is it unless you can convert it to revenue?

If your selling Ad space on your site the traffic could boost your analytics traffic count + page impressions.

[orvn]

Originally Posted by Daniel7rusu

Is this thread dead? I'm still curious about my question.

Hi Daniel! I took a break from WF for a few months (I had amassed the knowledge I wanted and it was all implementation for some time).

To answer your question: links aren't showing up in link searches as standalone images are generally hotlinked rather than backlinked. This is admittedly a flaw in my experiment: I should have put up pages of content as testers rather than images.

This really only happens to images, so in case you might have an image you don't want hotlinked, just splice it into sections and paste into your web-page.

Originally Posted by Vastidious

2 things. First, what do you use to create your infographics? I've been thinking of creating a few and just haven't found the best tool yet to do it. Just curious, because I like the look you had there.

Second, a comment. I use Stumbleupon all the time. But I use it sparingly. What I do is when I want a distraction and to kill some time, I log into the website and use the java tool bar instead of the addon tool bar. I don't like tool bars cluttering my desktop. But I can tell you it is addicting. You never know what you're going to get at times with Stumbleupon. You 'stumble upon' all kinds of funny and amazing stuff. And I have quite often found myself, digging through a site I found through the tool to look for more information on the site I was stumbled to. I can clearly see this working rather well.

Thanks for the information. I'm going to percolate on this idea and see what I can think of to put it to action.

For infographics: I have been using Photoshop, it works for me because I'm a hobbyist graphic designer. This process is slow, if you find an alternative that is aesthetically pleasing with fast turnaround, please please please do let me know!

Originally Posted by rowanman28

I guess Stumble Upon is kind of like You Tube, you need something really interesting to get a good response, and organic links, as you say, but I don't get how you get so many. I can barely get ten stumbles. Do you have a lot of followers?

Are you syndicating content? Fresh original content is the key here.

Additionally, yes. Having ten or so power-stumblers with whom you can share stumbles is very helpful- it gets the ball rolling. Most people will thumb up content they like, so it's just a matter of finding niche followers (you can send them a message asking if they wouldn't mind several shared stumbles a week).

Of course the alternative is to find a specialist in these things via Fivver gig.
Feel free to add orvn.stumbleupon.com and send me a few. If it's interesting, I'll pass it around

[musclemaker]

Thanks for the info. I have only got my feet wet as far as social networks go.

[Moondive]

This is very interesting.Thanks for posting

[rankey]

That's a new kind of strategy to me, thanks.

[website12]

This method works and i have used it before and i have seen digg.com is also good.

[online4cash]

Hey I Added My Website In Stumble Upon But Doesn't Get The Views Like You have ..!!
Will U Pls Suggest Me...!!

[orvn]

Originally Posted by online4cash

Hey I Added My Website In Stumble Upon But Doesn't Get The Views Like You have ..!!
Will U Pls Suggest Me...!!

Is the content fresh and interesting?
It won't happen unless your content is superb.

If you're still having trouble, add orvn.stumbleupon.com to stumbleupon and use the "send to" button to ask me about your page specifically.

[rankey]

Thank you for sharing your technique Orun!!
I have obtained 1200 views so far on one of my blog posts.
I'm not sure how many links I've gotten because I was link building along side it but there have definitely been a few that were clearly other bloggers linking to me

[bobrichards]

I'm new to this. I get the advice about the infographics. But assuming I don't sell anything and don't care about conversions, all I want is a lot of backlinks to boost my PR (so that the RIGHT market does find me and its not stumlbe users). I don't get how this does it? Is the assumption that some small number of people who visit my site from stumbleupon will then put a link in their blog or web site OR does clicking the stumble button create a backlink to my site or is the Google spider able to "see" that 100,000 people clicked the stumble button and give me some PR for that? I just don't see where the SEO juice comes from and that's all I want. Thank in advance

[orvn]

The links come from people linking to your blog, as is typically done in the blogosphere. The anchortext tends to be "via blogname" most of the time.

Pagerank is a measure of authority, yes. But you shouldn't treat it so absolutely. It's really not that important.

This tutorial is made for promoting your site/page on the social web at an astounding pace, and yes, there is SEO benefit to that. I don't know about Stumbleupon, but Google does check Twitter and Facebook shares (along with user authority) for ranking sites, especially under the query deserves freshness (QDF) algo.

There is definitely an SEO benefit to being the talk of the social web.
But like I said in the beginning of this thread, it's probably not for you if you're very adsense oriented and have no interest in creating stimulating web content.

[DancingHamster]

Great strategy, because it uses creativity! SEO is a lot of bland repetitive work, nice article!

[thanhlan]

hi Orvn! thanks for your tutorial, I found inkscape to create infographics, I'll post back with my results!

[amritrr]

I am sorry I still did not understand how stumbling my own website can get so much traffic. I mean I did not understand the logic behind it. After I stumble my own website what happens then.

In my understanding it just boils down to interesting content after all. I will try it nevertheless, but with original interesting content that is already there in the website.

[Srinagarhouseboats]

These all social bookmarking site are really great way to drive traffic to your blog ,but for that you will have to create a content that can attract the readers

[Inari]

lol interesting idea. totally orthogonal to what we usually do, but seems it would be a very nice addition to our otherwise mostly technical and bland SEO approach. must hire a good linkbait PR guy...

[xxxJamesxxx]

This seems like a good method to get people to link back to you helping to add the overall authority to your site

...All I need now to think of some juicy linkbaiting idea!

Thanks

James

[marlon]

Hi,

Unless I'm mistaken he isn't saying the primary purpose
of this is to get and convert Stumble Upon traffic.

He's saying the PURPOSE is to get BACKLINKS.

Backlinks = traffic from Google

And THAT traffic DOES convert.

Marlon

[orvn]

Originally Posted by amritrr

I am sorry I still did not understand how stumbling my own website can get so much traffic. I mean I did not understand the logic behind it. After I stumble my own website what happens then.

In my understanding it just boils down to interesting content after all. I will try it nevertheless, but with original interesting content that is already there in the website.

Essentially, the more people that stumble it and thumb it up, the more people the site reaches.

To be honest, the limits are based solely on the quality of the content.

Ever been to cracked.com? Their articles hit up to a million views from Stumbleupon alone. Just because the content is so f'n awesome.