Stumbleupon Social Bookmarking Case Study Update

After going off the results from the Stumbleupon experiment that I started yesterday I was very surprised at the results. I only submitted 2 of my blog posts and the traffic nearly tripled, I plan on doing a few everyday to keep it steady for the next week. The bounce rate was actually lower then the days before. This leads me to believe that it may actually work with blogs, in the past I have used it with forums, proxies, and web hosting. Proxies worked great and got me thousands of uniques just from one time. As expected it did nothing for the forum in terms of registrations and view time. The amount of time that visitors stayed on the site only decreased by about 40 seconds, which means that the users are actually reading my posts. I even noticed a few people blogged about the post after reading about it on Stumbleupon. That means that I also increased the backlinks.  Take a look at some of the results below and let me know your experience by making a comment!

Bounce Rate Lower

 Unique Visitors 3x Higher!

 Sources Stayed the Same!
United States, United Kingdom, Canada are Top 3

Posted in: Case Studies, Increase Traffic, Make Money Online, Social Networking | Date: November 21st, 2007 | Posted by: Derek | No Comments »

Sphinn: A Digg Style Community for Internet Marketers and Webmasters

Sphinn is a community based popularity site designed specifically for webmasters. On first impression it looks to be a very well designed site with a good following. The best part is that the majority of Sphinns visitors are going to be into marketing, search engine optimization, and building traffic. The same topics that this blog is about. Therefore I joined and hope that it can bring more traffic. If there is a post that you found helpful hit the “Sphinn It” button at the top of each post and help me reach the Hot Topics. It will be interesting to see just what kinda of traffic it will bring but the conversion rate should be very suprising and should bring a great deal of repeat visitors.

Posted in: Blog, Increase Traffic, Make Money Online, Search Engine Marketing, Social Networking | Date: November 20th, 2007 | Posted by: Derek | 1 Comment »