55,000 uniques, 1,500 links n 10 days from an article that didn't even make it to the front page of Digg. http://www.clicks.ws/blog/2007/11/08/successful-linkbaiting-who-needs-digg/
Very nice - it would help if you showed us the article in question? Congrats on the traffic though! Rich
I'd rather keep that out of the public domain for obvious reasons. If anyone is desperate to know though feel free to PM me.
I just added you to MSN, Matt. As it happens - I work for an office furniture company and would *love* to see the article Thanks for the post Rich
Nice job Matt, I've done some regular article marketing by submitting to article directories but never submitting anything to StumbleUpon before. I had no idea you could get such tremendous results from doing that. Do you have any suggestions for successful submission to StumbleUpon? Thanks again for sharing your results.
That would have to be some hefty link baiting in that article for it to result in that amount of links, I'll give you that. I've experienced close to that amount of traffic from SU, but the visitors they send are rarely responsive, and most of the times it just fades off. I've certainly gained some links as well, but never anything close to what you cite at all! Congratulations are in order, I suppose
I always wondered how people get success with articles. Months ago I wrote an article about "Nudity in Indian Movies". I had that on several article directories. After so many months it started doing its magic, 100+ just from the sites that published it.
Yes that's true, but the initial traffic from any social network site isn't going to convert into sales - that isn't why I submit. From the initial traffic burst I count a 'conversion' as a link. The readership of places like Digg and SU is largely made up of bloggers and site owners looking for something to write about. If you inspire them then you'll get a link. The sales conversions come from the impact of these secondary links on your SERP positions.