photo blogging+Stumbleupon for more traffic

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Here's what I found out about Stumbleupon. Articles with average size pictures submitted there tend to get a lot less views rather than big pictures that fill the preview screens of Stumbleupon board completely. Just compare: ( click to enlarge )

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People are better attracted seeing an impressive picture in the preview screen rather than a mess of text, images, charts, etc.

OK. here's how to promote your blog on Stumbleupon . Get high quality inspiring, shocking, weird, beautiful, crazy pictures relevant to your marketing niche from free or paid sources. Make a photo post in a separate section of your blog or start a free photo blog on Blogger. Insert a wise quote into your large image, put it in a post, keyword optimize it for search engines, add a short message below introducing the post you're promoting or make it a short tip of the day or something and finally add call to action linking to wherever you want your new visitors to go on your blog.

Photo blogs are extremely easy to update, photo blog posts are churned out in seconds. So you don't have to miss out on Stumbeupon traffic if your next regular blog post is not ready yet. Make unlimited photo posts around your existing blog content and stumble them. Though, it doesn't mean you gonna spam Stumbleupon. Make high quality photo posts with short valuable textual messages.

You can also use other sites to share your pictures if you want:

pinterest.com
weheartit.com
thefancy.com
manteresting.com
juxtapost.com
tapiture.com
springpad.com
piccsy.com
pinspire.com
clipix.com
learni.st
gentlemint.com
fffound.com

What do you think?
#photo #pinterest #posts #stumbleuponanother
  • Profile picture of the author Curtis2011
    How exactly do you monetize photo blog traffic that just came because of a few pretty pictures and an interesting quote?
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    • Profile picture of the author Max Greenflame
      Originally Posted by Curtis2011 View Post

      How exactly do you monetize photo blog traffic that just came because of a few pretty pictures and an interesting quote?
      First, they come not only because of pictures because you use headlines and detailed descriptions in Stumbleupon posts to let them know what exactly your content is about, second, your images must be relevant to your niche - if your niche is fishing there should be fishing rods, fish, fishers, not flowers and kittens. Just have a look at Pinterest or Google Images there are lots of examples for pictures that are clear to belong to specific niches. For example, a picture of a beautiful girl holding a box with the name of a SEO software on it obviously belongs to SEO niche. If you wanna monetize a photo blog -just put affiliate ads in its sidebar.
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  • Profile picture of the author jameer
    Thanks for this awesome post. I was looking for way on guest blogging and this new method of photo blogging will help me a lot.

    Regards,
    Jameer
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  • Profile picture of the author BellaT
    Thanks for this info. I have been trying to figure out StumbleUpon & Tumblr...they just don't "click" for me but I'll keep trying.
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    • Profile picture of the author point2
      Originally Posted by BellaT View Post

      Thanks for this info. I have been trying to figure out StumbleUpon & Tumblr...they just don't "click" for me but I'll keep trying.
      Same here for StumbleUpon.. I could not really find ways to get traffic from them..
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  • Profile picture of the author doriono
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  • Profile picture of the author natebunger
    I find Pinterest the best site for photo blogs. The site is growing and because it's known more to people, it's a bit easier to manage compared to other photo blogging sites.
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