I’m sure you know how great StumbleUpon is for sending tons of decently targeted traffic to your website.
The problem is that to get a lot of traffic, you have to have really good quality content. Many people don’t have the time, or even the know how to sit and make content that is good enough to succeed on StumbleUpon. We’ll here’s my tip for you, don’t.
One thing I’ve been doing lately is taking great YouTube videos and embedding them into pages on my own site. WordPress is probably the easiest option for doing this. Once you have your site/page set up with some videos, it’s time to do some stumbling.
Now maybe what I’m about to tell you is obvious, but I’m hoping that this will help some people out. It sure helped me once I figured this simple method out.
Here’s The Key
The easiest way to get your page noticed on StumbleUpon is by getting a large amount of “likes” right at the beginning. What I do is I go to a forum and post looking for people to stumble my page for me. The idea is to get a good influx of “likes” early in the game to boost your rank. What you’ll see is you’ll start getting some pretty serious traffic pretty quickly.
The next step is where most people screw up. The only way to keep the traffic going is by continuously getting “liked” or stumbled. If people dont like your content, they’ll give it a thumbs down and from there the traffic will die out pretty fast. This means you need to have some pretty good content that people are going to want to keep thumbs upping.
You can’t just use terrible content, you need to pick something good. That’s why for me, to consistently, easily get good content I use videos. The rating system on YouTube makes it easy to see which videos are the most popular and high ranked.
Conclusion
It’s really easy to get something like this up and running in a short amount of time. The nice part is that it eliminates the need for you to create your content yourself. I haven’t been able to fully exploit this yet, but at one point without much work I was up to around $10/day (off of multiple pages) just by using Google AdSense. I know there are much better ways to monetize, and I’m sure that if you give it a try you can do much better. This would also be a method you could use to supplement your current website or blog.
Bad example of what I've been able to accomplish with little work using this method.
I’ll be sort of following this up with some PPC tips in my next post. Also, make sure to Subscribe if you haven’t!