11 Part Series: Stumble Upon Traffic by the Rich Sage

In my traffic building experience online I’ve focused on the few elements that deliver a lot of traffic — search engines, forums, RSS feeds and building a brand. While my focus was on these, one dark horse has steadily kept rising delivering traffic, and just this month it jumped to #2 all of a sudden.  That “dark horse” is StumbleUpon, a often used website services with 5 million plus members that spend their time rating and reviewing web site.  I happen to have a few ratings and that process is delivering more and more traffic!

I’ll now return the favor to Stumble Upon by reviewing what they do and show you how you too can build vast amounts of web site traffic by working with Stumble Upon.  They also have a paid componenet that delivers traffic, which I plan to use to deliver traffic to my affiliate program.

11 Part Stumble Upon Series Directory to My Articles, Continued…

Stumble Upon 5 Million Plus Members:

StumbleUpon (SU) is a great website review sharing service.  Once you share with SU your preferences, they will deliver you similar web destinations that their members have recommended for your interests.

As your site gets more and more SU Member ratings –usually a “thumbs up” (positive), your site will be featured for more and more SU Members to see.

SU promotes this type of web site discovery as superior to search engine use.  I agree, only based on what you’re trying to accomplish.  I agree that for general “surfing” with endless time on your hands, this is the way to go.  However, in my case, I am online for a *mission* and I only seek exact sites and solutions.  At least this is the case for 90% of my time.  I do “wind down” each day by ’surfing’ and watching a video or two at YouTube.  But, part from that, my Internet and WWW experience is an exact, point-to-point exercise in navigation.

I do agree when SU calls this a “People-Driven Technology”  — I too believe that a combination of spidered data and human eyes make a powerful combination to deliver relevant web content.  You’re essentially becoming a part of a large community that you can depend on to point you to web sites that have similar interests.

Visitors Delivered at $0.05 USD — Case Study Coming Up!

In the coming weeks and months, I’ll conclude my 11-Part SU series exploring the cost and benefit of SU advertising.  I’ll put some money into SU ads in a few select categories and test the effectiveness of sending traffic to my lessons page for the Rich Sage Underground.  SU says that their traffic cost $0.05 cents per visitor. For me that could be a gold mine or an empty shaft — time will tell.

Apart from that a major part of my 11-part series covers how to build traffic to your web site from Stumble Upon!  Stay Tuned as I keep updating this post.

Carpe Diem,
RIch Sage