The Power Of Stumbleupon!

Morten_Madsen · 03-31-2009, 03:21 PM

Hello,

(EVERYTHING I'M TELLING YOU NOW IS 5 HOURS AGO - AND 3 HOURS AGO WHEN I FINISH THIS THREAD!)

I just want to share this with you warriors, and I hope someone can use this, because it just helped me!

So this is my quick story:

I have a website which I didnt use for much, so instead of just leave it and earn me nothing, I decided to make a small website about the keywords in the domain-name, so I used 2 hours on building a small website with google adsense ads!

I was only hoping that it would earn something like $20 per month, so I earned SOMETHING!

I have never actually believed in social bookmarking because it never worked for me, except. . . This time, because:

I bookmarked the website to Stumbleupon, Digg, Reddit, Diigo, Delicious & Propeller, it took about 20 minutes, because I wanted to make it right and get the titles, and descriptions look attractive.

So when I was done doing this social bookmarking thing, this is what I did:

I went to google, to check if my site was indexed, it wasnt, but I saw something funny, because 2 of my bookmarks where already indexed with descriptions and everything, and google was saying:
digg.com/pets_animals/something_something_something - 3 minutes ago

So I was stunned already now, because that was pretty cool.. Well I wanted to take a break so I played Counter Strike for 30 minutes, and went back to google and searched for my website again, and it was indexed.

The newxt thing I did, and here it comes.. I went to my google adsense accound and WTF!! My 5 hours ned ad recieved over 2.500 impressions with a CTR over 7% (7,58% exactly).. It turned out to be 190 clicks and $38,62 earned!! So that's about $0.20 per click... But I thought, where do these clicks came from, because my website was indexed, but not in a highly searched keyword, so I went to statcounter.com and checked out where recent visitors came from and this is where they came from:

Stumbeupon.com !!

Someone liked it and bookmarked, and then some other people bookmarked it, so now over 11 people have bookmarked my website, and the clicks is rising. I don't know if the visitors is going away at some point, I think they are, but I have already made 2 months earnings on this website!

That's the power social bookmarking and stumbeupon have.

Hope anyone could use this!

Best Regards,
Morten

Jared Alberghini · 03-31-2009, 03:32 PM

Great info Morten,

Here's a great site that I use to submit to multiple bookmarking sites automatically:

Social bookmarking service. Fast tagging and posting to all major social websites - SocialMarker.com

- Jared

Michael Motley · 03-31-2009, 03:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jared Alberghini

Great info Morten,

Here's a great site that I use to submit to multiple bookmarking sites automatically:

Social bookmarking service. Fast tagging and posting to all major social websites - SocialMarker.com

- Jared

been looking for this. gracias

Cackle · 03-31-2009, 03:45 PM

that's great. stumbleupon has never been quite that nice to me :-).

Morten_Madsen · 03-31-2009, 03:49 PM

Yep I know socialmarker.. But I really don't like it, I don't know why... But thanks anyway.

Morten

Dan C. Rinnert · 03-31-2009, 03:52 PM

Glad it worked for you. I've never had those results with StumbleUpon. I have sites that do okay with Google AdSense, but when pages on those sites get stumbled, traffic goes up, but ad clicks have been unaffected so far as I can see.

markcarraway · 03-31-2009, 04:09 PM

I have had great results with stumbleupon as well. As you have found out, google LOVES these sites and seems to index them constantly. I have not had such luck with Digg.

rickjh · 03-31-2009, 05:03 PM

I've gotten big traffic from Stumbleupon from time to time, but not much else. But glad it worked for you!

paulwaltz · 03-31-2009, 05:14 PM

Cool info man. Congratulations.

sbucciarel · 03-31-2009, 05:47 PM

I love SU traffic. Have gotten tons of traffic just from stumbling one page that lasted for 3-4 days. Digg ... I hate it. Waste of time in my opinion unless you're a big name site. Most little sites get buried in no time at all. I have to say though ... never saw any rise in income from all that SU traffic ... exciting to watch but nothing to put in the bank because of it.

peter gibson · 03-31-2009, 05:49 PM

I've also had some luck with stumble. Occasionally I'll get a serious traffic spike and wonder what in the #$%$ is going on. When I head to analytics I'm always surprised to see that a post I bookmarked last year on stumble upon suddenly became popular.

gp_classics · 03-31-2009, 06:32 PM

Does it cost to sign up for stumbleupon. How does it work.

crystalq · 03-31-2009, 06:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gp_classics

Does it cost to sign up for stumbleupon. How does it work.

NO all social bookmarking sites are free to join even socialmarker

alpalino · 03-31-2009, 06:48 PM

I am still looking forward to see that kind of effect. Weldone anyway. Your content must be good so people bookmarked it.

yesacpow · 03-31-2009, 06:51 PM

Congrats glad you work paid off for you.

ryanmacca · 03-31-2009, 06:55 PM

A great way to boost this is to get a group of about 10 webmasters and once a week send each of them a link to a post you have written and get them all to stumble it (and then you will stumble theirs). That way you get 10 thumbs up right off the bag and a big influx of traffic, hopefully leading to more thumbs up

gp_classics · 03-31-2009, 07:15 PM

just signed up for stumbleupon. Was pretty simple .I hope it works.

GeorgR. · 03-31-2009, 07:18 PM

interesting. i always underestimate stumbleupon.

peter gibson · 03-31-2009, 07:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ryanmacca

A great way to boost this is to get a group of about 10 webmasters and once a week send each of them a link to a post you have written and get them all to stumble it (and then you will stumble theirs). That way you get 10 thumbs up right off the bag and a big influx of traffic, hopefully leading to more thumbs up

This is a powerful technique. I've yet to actually try it but friends of mine say it is really helpful to drive traffic. The problem is you can go too far with it - apparently. Bookmarking groups should always be in small numbers and always bookmark at different times so it doesn't look like an obvious campaign. This is the advice I received anyway.

gp_classics · 03-31-2009, 07:47 PM

Hey I would be interested in getting prople together and doing that. anyone else?

JamesFrancisIM · 03-31-2009, 08:38 PM

Awesome, thanks for the advice.

Just goes to show that you learn something every day!

- James.

Morten_Madsen · 04-01-2009, 03:48 AM

Thanks for the replies folks..

I just wanted to share this with you, because I have never really believed in SU because it never worked for me.

The traffic is steady right now and I have made something like $80 so far with a CTR about 6,9%, so I think the time was well spend, to be honest.

Morten

urbt · 04-01-2009, 04:32 AM

The problem with StumbleUpon traffic is that they tend to leave as quickly as they came. They just click Stumble, find your site, read the page, then Stumble onto the next site.

However, those results are impressive.

ElysiaB · 04-01-2009, 06:27 AM

Interesting stuff!

I've had very mixed results from those social media sites (especially StumbleUpon) so it's good to hear some positive news.

Maybe I'll have to give it another spin

abelacts · 04-01-2009, 06:27 AM

I have had good results with SU and Propeller. You can really see the traffic spikes if many users "stumble" or "vote" for your articles.

nzdealer · 04-01-2009, 10:47 AM

stumble upon is always bringing in about 500 hits for me per week. it has to be done the right way

tonywarrior2 · 04-01-2009, 10:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Morten_Madsen

Hello,

(EVERYTHING I'M TELLING YOU NOW IS 5 HOURS AGO - AND 3 HOURS AGO WHEN I FINISH THIS THREAD!)

Cool story Morten! Keep going with more!

MommyEnterprises · 04-01-2009, 11:10 AM

I have seen good results with StumbleUpon too! This is one of the social bookmarking sites that I almost use daily.

nmh · 04-01-2009, 11:55 AM

Do you have to sign up on ALL of these site FIRST before you can use socialmarker.com?

Morten_Madsen · 04-01-2009, 12:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nmh

Do you have to sign up on ALL of these site FIRST before you can use socialmarker.com?

Well yes, you need to sign up for all of them, or the one you chose to submit to at least.

Thanks for all the replies folks.

Morten

Ryan700 · 04-01-2009, 12:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gp_classics

Hey I would be interested in getting prople together and doing that. anyone else?

Nick started something here and the commenters are also stumbling each others web sites too.

I will stumble your urls for FREE... No Cost... No Signup...

Morten_Madsen · 04-01-2009, 12:22 PM

Ryan - Nice post there!!

Morten

03-31-2009, 03:21 PM	#1
Morten_Madsen Banned Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Dennmark Posts: 303 Thanks: 0 Thanked 38 Times in 12 Posts	The Power Of Stumbleupon! Hello, (EVERYTHING I'M TELLING YOU NOW IS 5 HOURS AGO - AND 3 HOURS AGO WHEN I FINISH THIS THREAD!) I just want to share this with you warriors, and I hope someone can use this, because it just helped me! So this is my quick story: I have a website which I didnt use for much, so instead of just leave it and earn me nothing, I decided to make a small website about the keywords in the domain-name, so I used 2 hours on building a small website with google adsense ads! I was only hoping that it would earn something like $20 per month, so I earned SOMETHING! I have never actually believed in social bookmarking because it never worked for me, except. . . This time, because: I bookmarked the website to Stumbleupon, Digg, Reddit, Diigo, Delicious & Propeller, it took about 20 minutes, because I wanted to make it right and get the titles, and descriptions look attractive. So when I was done doing this social bookmarking thing, this is what I did: I went to google, to check if my site was indexed, it wasnt, but I saw something funny, because 2 of my bookmarks where already indexed with descriptions and everything, and google was saying: digg.com/pets_animals/something_something_something - 3 minutes ago So I was stunned already now, because that was pretty cool.. Well I wanted to take a break so I played Counter Strike for 30 minutes, and went back to google and searched for my website again, and it was indexed. The newxt thing I did, and here it comes.. I went to my google adsense accound and WTF!! My 5 hours ned ad recieved over 2.500 impressions with a CTR over 7% (7,58% exactly).. It turned out to be 190 clicks and $38,62 earned!! So that's about $0.20 per click... But I thought, where do these clicks came from, because my website was indexed, but not in a highly searched keyword, so I went to statcounter.com and checked out where recent visitors came from and this is where they came from: Stumbeupon.com !! Someone liked it and bookmarked, and then some other people bookmarked it, so now over 11 people have bookmarked my website, and the clicks is rising. I don't know if the visitors is going away at some point, I think they are, but I have already made 2 months earnings on this website! That's the power social bookmarking and stumbeupon have. Hope anyone could use this! Best Regards, Morten

03-31-2009, 03:32 PM	#2
Jared Alberghini Godson of the Godfather War Room Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: The NorthEast Kingdom - Vermont, USA Posts: 2,073 Blog Entries: 25 Thanks: 581 Thanked 788 Times in 369 Posts Social Networking	Re: The Power Of Stumbleupon! Great info Morten, Here's a great site that I use to submit to multiple bookmarking sites automatically: Social bookmarking service. Fast tagging and posting to all major social websites - SocialMarker.com - Jared
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03-31-2009, 03:45 PM	#4
Cackle Active Warrior Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: California Posts: 42 Thanks: 1 Thanked 2 Times in 1 Post	Re: The Power Of Stumbleupon! that's great. stumbleupon has never been quite that nice to me :-).

03-31-2009, 03:49 PM	#5
Morten_Madsen Banned Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Dennmark Posts: 303 Thanks: 0 Thanked 38 Times in 12 Posts	Re: The Power Of Stumbleupon! Yep I know socialmarker.. But I really don't like it, I don't know why... But thanks anyway. Morten

03-31-2009, 03:52 PM	#6
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03-31-2009, 05:47 PM	#10
sbucciarel Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: , , USA. Posts: 1,166 Thanks: 51 Thanked 176 Times in 130 Posts	Re: The Power Of Stumbleupon! I love SU traffic. Have gotten tons of traffic just from stumbling one page that lasted for 3-4 days. Digg ... I hate it. Waste of time in my opinion unless you're a big name site. Most little sites get buried in no time at all. I have to say though ... never saw any rise in income from all that SU traffic ... exciting to watch but nothing to put in the bank because of it.
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peter gibson clikddclik War Room Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Singapore Posts: 571 Thanks: 122 Thanked 105 Times in 63 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: The Power Of Stumbleupon! I've also had some luck with stumble. Occasionally I'll get a serious traffic spike and wonder what in the #$%$ is going on. When I head to analytics I'm always surprised to see that a post I bookmarked last year on stumble upon suddenly became popular.

03-31-2009, 06:32 PM	#12
gp_classics Warrior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 24 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: The Power Of Stumbleupon! Does it cost to sign up for stumbleupon. How does it work.

03-31-2009, 06:48 PM	#14
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gp_classics Warrior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 24 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: The Power Of Stumbleupon! just signed up for stumbleupon. Was pretty simple .I hope it works.

03-31-2009, 07:18 PM	#18
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03-31-2009, 08:38 PM	#21
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04-01-2009, 03:48 AM	#22
Morten_Madsen Banned Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Dennmark Posts: 303 Thanks: 0 Thanked 38 Times in 12 Posts	Re: The Power Of Stumbleupon! Thanks for the replies folks.. I just wanted to share this with you, because I have never really believed in SU because it never worked for me. The traffic is steady right now and I have made something like $80 so far with a CTR about 6,9%, so I think the time was well spend, to be honest. Morten

04-01-2009, 04:32 AM	#23
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04-01-2009, 06:27 AM	#24
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04-01-2009, 06:27 AM	#25
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04-01-2009, 10:47 AM	#26
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04-01-2009, 11:55 AM	#29
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04-01-2009, 12:22 PM	#32
Morten_Madsen Banned Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Dennmark Posts: 303 Thanks: 0 Thanked 38 Times in 12 Posts	Re: The Power Of Stumbleupon! Ryan - Nice post there!! Morten