I have used StumbleUpon (both paid traffic and the organic free traffic) for a few different sites. StumbleUpon lets you buy traffic for $0.05 per visitor and it takes only a few seconds to set it up. Does anyone know any other trusted/non-spam service where you can very easily buy large volumes of traffic for a low cost very easily? (Not PPC ads, to get a lot of traffic volume it it expensive and time consuming.) Thanks for any advice!
I think stumbleupon is the only one of it's kind. There has been no similar services built as of yet I don't think.
Then it's time to create a competitor It seems Google works on something. Try search on "stumbleupon competitor".
i dont think google will compete if it tries, it will have success, but seriously this stumble upon thing is king now..... if you want massive hits to your site instantly its a great resource. age old statement of give people what they want is true (i swear alot of nerds with nothing to do all day sit in front of S.U.) but you give them something funny or controversial and get ready for a fast stream of traffic to come your way. back to the competitor thing, there might be another few pop up and google might compete but s.u. is definatly king at the moment....and you would be silly not to make use of it.
thanks. too bad. I love SU and we use it a lot, the problem is that after a while you run out of traffic in a given category of users and they can't send you any more because pretty much everyone has seen your site.
Agree to you.. This is really true! I think you will going to have lots of traffic if you have to gather friends at SU everyday.. for them to see your favorites because if you will not going to add friends, if you stumble anything they will not going to be interested to that anymore coz they already knew what are the things you always like to stumble probably one of the pages of your site which they had already seen it before..
Our marketing strategy is struggling over this very situation. We were VERY successful for a few weeks using adwords to market the site on many other sites, but after about a month the conversions declined. What happened? We think it's that everyone who is a regular visitor has already seen your site and signed up, and the cost of the additional customers (new ones, irregular visitors to the target sites) is too high to keep the advertising going the same way. We think the trick is to not rely on one advertising medium, and instead rotate them every few months for about a month. One month doing adwords, one month doing SU, one month doing ads on sites where our audience might be present, then back to adwords, etc. Instead of piling your yearly ad budget into one place, keep moving it. We got "stumbled" Friday morning by someone and traffic was up 4x yesterday... but it was mostly traffic to a single blog page on Freelance[Local]Blog and not to the main site where we want consultants to sign up, so it didn't translate into conversions, which is a shame.
You've been doing it the wrong way. You stumble your inner pages, articles etc etc not your main page. This way you get constant stream of traffic, and stumblers will love it since they'll be reading something new everytime.