Does StumbleUpon Ads Work For You?

by Nail Yener

Posted: 14 years ago 14 replies

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Hi warriors,

So, I decided to make a test with StumbleUpon Ads for a CPA offer and see if it will be profitable or not as some people claim to be. I am sure if you can do it right it will be, but needed to see it myself.

Here are the steps of what I did:

- I chose an offer from Maxbounty - iphone 4 related pin submit offer.
- Created a landing page on one of my blogs with a link to the offer page - the landing page was an informative post about iphone 4.
- Set up the ad campaign and waited for approval - adjusted daily budget to 100 visitors($5)

And here are the results:

- I got 100 visitors from StumbleUpon - visible in Google Analytics, about %95 bounce rate
- I got zero clicks and hence zero conversions.
- Loss of $5.

Conclusion:

Either the problem was with my landing page or the quality of the traffic StumbleUpon sent to me. I don't want to think that the problem was the landing page as I have other well performing CPA landing pages for other sources of traffic.

So, do you have any experience with StumbleUpon Ads? Mind sharing with us?

Thanks,
Nail

#ads #stumbleupon #work

Whothar 14 years ago

I can only speak from my experiences, but it seems StumbleUpon is filled with kids - a vast majority of kids bored and surfing the internet. It is not as targeted as it seems, since kids usually don't like to give out their info (even an email) so easily.

I'm not sure if that's the actual case, it was just based from my experiences.
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cpace32 14 years ago

I've never used Stumble, for the exact reasons listed above. With my particular niche, it is completely incompatible with Stumble.

Good luck in your efforts, though!
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tobiasosllc 14 years ago

stumbleupon.com - Quantcast Audience Profile

The demographics aren't really for a free submit type offer. Downloads, cartoons, toolbar type offers work well.
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Nail Yener 14 years ago

I never promoted download or cartoons type offers before, could you please tell which network I can find such offers?
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J Bold 14 years ago

Lots of networks have download offers. It's become a popular type of offer, I would say. I see 15 now on affiliate.com, and I see tons at EWA and other networks. Look at offervault.com and you can find where all these types of offers can be found.
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caksut 14 years ago

i think your traffic come with low conversion , PPC is still the best way to drive targeted traffic!!
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ddwebx 14 years ago

I might be wrong... but I think most of the downloads offers are not accepted by StumbleUpon, because they are Windows application, and if you're offering files in your ad, it must work on both Mac and PC.

Regards,
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elrascal

13 years ago

I have had a litte bit of luck with s.u. The key is to not drop them on a typical landing page. Drop them on a page With strong link bait (they love graphics and images). I spent $20 on S.u adds for a page. Because it was interesting it got thumbed up many times and went viral. I have gotten thousands and thousands of people now for free. The conversion rate is low at around about 1 in 1000 but I am happy because it only cost me the origanal $20 and it was almost no work!!

It will take a bit of practice to get it right. And you will find it is easy to have a big flop!

I have been an active stumbler since 2003 so I think that helped me because I understand what stumblers like.

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Traffic Eagle

13 years ago

Originally Posted by elrascal

I have had a litte bit of luck with s.u. The key is to not drop them on a typical landing page. Drop them on a page With strong link bait (they love graphics and images).

I think this is the answer with SU - create a page with graphics and images to get their attention, then grab their email address rather than try to get an email submit on a cpa offer.

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mtmjohn 13 years ago

I've used SU before, no great results with them. $100 sent, zero conversion!!!!
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- jeffrey73 13 years ago
  
  So it's about as effective as RevTweet or MagPie traffic then? LOL
  
  And everyone thinks CPV is bad quality.. :rolleyes:
  
  Originally Posted by mtmjohn
  
  I've used SU before, no great results with them. $100 sent, zero conversion!!!!
  
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frankweerasinghe 13 years ago

Yeah, the reason is the low quality of the traffic. They are just like playing a clicking game. But the viral part is so powerful.
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imback 13 years ago

Yes SU is simply "bad" traffic for CPA....I also have tested the platform with very little success.

Good Luck,

CHAD
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