Now this is a great lead. For some sites, especially fledgling forums, this could be a great way to draw new members.

Well thankyou Mr. Money!

Glad the post was post-worthy and glad I could contribute and help you get some other work done this week … least I can do for all the great value I’ve gotten out your blog.

Great idea! - although I prefer my free Stumble-storms to paid ones, it’s still something that is cheap and probably well worth it.

Thanks for Sharing. Stumbling With Dollars is a cool think to get some traffic. By the way your blog is in my top alexa ranking list.

Cheers

another good tip. thanks for the heads up. I’ll check out the stumble program too.

thanks for your money tips. I never know that Stumble upon provides this service. Great review!

Indeed it is. Thank you so much for sharing this tip.

Great tip, definitely going to be trying this.

Great post! I never knew such a service existed but i see the immediate value in it. Thanks!

Excellent article on SU. I’ve been using SU for over a year with good success. It rarely increases my revenue, but what it does do is get my pages “out there” so that people can view them. This, in turn, brings me more inbound links stumblers personal sites, bookmarks, and emails from stumblers to their friends and family. I have done well with Gecko Tales thanks to SU.

Wow, I thought that they accepted ads, but didn’t know exactly how it works. The real question is, though, “does it convert?” Isn’t the stumble traffic a little like digg traffic…which doesn’t click on ads?

It is a great tip but be warned that you will be surprised that many sites you will not be able to advertise. they are very strick and your site usually has to already have good feedback in the stumble community.

This is a very interesting post, thanks Shane. I use Stumble ‘organically’ but didn’t know there was a paid option.

Bill has a point about the quality of traffic, though. Even if you organize by category it’s still not as targeted as Google AdWords. If you purely want to boost your numbers then paying for Stumbles might be a good option, but you can’t control how long the Stumblers will stay on your site.

Thanks for this. I’d never heard of StumbleUpon and will definitely be checking it out.

SU is great to drive visitors on the cheap, but those visitors don’t do much. They don’t buy, they don’t click ads, and they rarely comment.

So while SU may be good for eyeballs, it is less than ideal for revenues.

Rich,

Bill makes an excellent point. It’s not the place to go and advertise for arbitrage. StumbleUpon is about traffic and exposure. Branding basically. If you click through the link about Freelance Switch I put in the post, you can see where the real potential value is.

Would need to read the finer print, but overall it seems very doable. Thanks for the info!

Thats an excellent tip. I had never heard of this.

My observations and experience with SU has been as follows:

- you need to have a lot of ‘friends’ and ‘connections’ in SU to get any value out of SU
- the traffic from SU converts *very* poorly (if at all)
- most stumblers are just looking for a quick stimulation/fun
- SU is best for promoting entertainment/media (images, music, online games, etc) sites than news sites

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