does this convert???

Has anyone had any luck getting conversion from stumbleupon traffic?

 

What do you mean by "stumbleupon traffic" ?

 

I've been doing stumbles for the past week. I havent had any sales yet but my traffic has jumped. Although that could be the stumbles exchangers right now. I would like to know the answer to this as well as my tests have not converted.....yet

 

I think marketing with stumbleupon, although free, is wasted time. By it's very definition, Stumbleupon, is for fairly random web-surfing, and random surfing means untargeted, and untargeted means few sales.

 

Forget about untargeted visitors, it's absolutely 100% wasted time. In order to make sales, you need TARGETED traffic, that's the most important rule for success.

 

I wouldn't call it totally untargeted, since through stumble you select the categories of sites you wish to see, but personally about only 1 in 20 sites I visit may ever get a couple deeper clicks....

 

No, no. This is not serious.

Focus on PPC, if you know how to use it and SEO.

Also start building your Opt-in list.

 

Its ok for adsense clicks but not making sales.

 

I also ran a recent test, one of our products got an extra 450'ish uniques on its prime day, 2 sales, then traffic faded. My conclusion is as above - rarely, undependable, untargeted, ok for awareness campaigns, not ok for sales or customer acquisition cycles (unless you've mined stumble well and see gaps to fill/monetize with...). I will notice my affiliates convert the odd stumble sale as well. I guess if you have the time/resources it doesn't hurt to throw it into your marketing pallete once in a while.

Cheers,
N.

 

I too got some traffic from stumbleupon
but that didn't convert into sales.
I think they are just casual visitors

 

Extremely Rare. I've sent well over 10,000 visits to one of my pages and it has brought in a total of 5 sales. If there were a way to bring 5,000 daily visits by SU (in a reasonable amount of time, of course) then it would be worth the effort. But from my experience, SU isn't good for sales - perhaps for converting new visitors in returning visitors, but that's about it. In that respect, it's not too shabby for a site relying heavily on ad revenue.

I have found Digg to be very good for SE traffic an in turn sales. But they (the staff) can be a pain in the ass at times.