StumbleUpon Advertising

[blackrizo]

Advertise & Promote Your Site with StumbleUpon

just saw this on fb ad board what you think ?

is this new or what? perhaps im just out of date.

 

[Minderbinder]

it's been around since at least 2007

 

[blackrizo]

lol sorry about that.. just wondering why it was on advertised on fb

 

[cardine]

Because they want more people advertising on it.

Why the hell else would they be advertising on Facebook?

 

[kingfish]

Rofl I tried to use it once with something completely legit and actually pretty cool for a client and they declined it so I was like fuck it and never tried again. It sounded like they only wanted you to advertise funny pictures and shit like people would normally stumble anyway. But I'm not very good at making money off funny pictures.

 

[7Radu]

But I'm not very good at making money off funny pictures.

noob! :banana_sml:

[serious stuff]
Tbh, I tried StumbleUpon a few days ago and it sucked. Sent around 200 clicks and found none was converting (on an offer that I had converting at 30% with other social networks).
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[iambrody]

I think the key to using stumbleupon is to have a page that captures the users' attention (that part is obvious). seems like their users have very short attention spans and can move on to another webpage quickly, so i've heard you have to have "good content". or, build what appears to be good content around a cpa offer. the key is to not be so obvious that you're trying to sell their users something.

 

[efeezy]

If you're looking for the worst possible, untargeted traffic that won't convert if your life depended on it, then by all means, advertise on Stumbleupon. Idiots who actually use SU are just looking for random, mindless bullshit and couldn't care less about what ads are showing on there.

Now for the actual SU service itself...it's the same shit. I've stumbled hundreds of my pages...I got decent traffic to ONE of them for a single day...and that was it.

 

[Icecube]

I have used stumbleupon to drive traffic to a photoblog ( via stumbles, not advertising ).

If you can get some people to stumble your stuff you get traffic, 100s/1000s in 1/2 days and after that it goes back to zero, with a couple traffic spikes/year when some drunk stumbler hits that thumb up button again. At this point you get few hundreds hits. Stop.

This is what you can expect with a photoblog, btw that photoblog is collecting dust at the moment, maybe doing it regularly would bring some returning users, I don't know.

You can assume that most stumblers have the attention level you'd have while eating and having a single hand to obsessively click that 'stumble' button.

Probably there's a way to make it work, maybe advertising something 2.0 or some VERY ATTRACTIVE ( and fast loading ) flash landing page where you collect an email address?

Just a couple ideas.