As you probably remember, I provided several entrepreneur training lessons on website promotion in popular social bookmarking services a few months ago. I mean my entrepreneur training course about Digg and Reddit advertising. Today, I would like to provide an online entrepreneur with helpful tips and recommendations on how to benefit from similar online resource – StumbleUpon. The point is that StumbleUpon is one of my favorite social networks. If, for example, you ask me what the most interesting thing that I have ever found in the Internet then I will immediately answer that it is undoubtedly StumbleUpon website.
Why StumbleUpon is an interesting website for an entrepreneur?
StumbleUpon is a good online resource due to the fact that it allows users to find a lot of helpful resources by their interests. Moreover, using StumbleUpon an online entrepreneurcan effectively advertise his/her websites and get high amounts of targeted traffic. According to numerous opinions of SEO experts, StumbleUpon is considered to be one of top 3 social bookmarking services, which are especially interesting for an entrepreneur. Also, it should be pointed out that StumbleUpon is a web resource with constantly growing popularity. Now I would like to tell you one entrepreneur story. It will serve as a good example describing huge marketing possibilities of this social bookmarking resource.
StumbleUpon as Website Promotion Technique for an Entrepreneur
One of my friends, who is also an online entrepreneur, has made an interesting experiment. He has decided to promote a website via StumbleUpon only. Results obtained have exceeded all expectations. Website of my friend had PR3 in 3 months and after 2 months it grew up to PR4. It should be noted that the entrepreneur didn’t use any other methods of website promotion. Despite that fact a website had approximately 150-250 visitors per a day. About 60-80% of traffic was generated by StumbleUpon social network. The maximal number of visits was 700-1200 users per day. It is only one example. In fact, I know a lot of successful entrepreneur stories when a webpage was included in top of StumbleUpon. Sometimes server was even down. This means that StumbleUpon provides every entrepreneur with numerous marketing possibilities. Thus, an entrepreneur has to know a strategy to take the maximal advantages from this resource!
How can an entrepreneur get a lot of traffic from StumbleUpon?
Actually, an online entrepreneur can do nothing to receive additional traffic from StumbleUpon. It is enough to provide visitors a possibility to add your web pages to the social bookmarking service. If pages of website are really interesting then users will save them in bookmarks. Therefore, the traffic will be generated to an online resource of entrepreneur automatically. So, the strategy is quite easy and includes the following steps: creation of web pages with interesting content, implementation of StumbleUpon button to help users save links in bookmarks and afterwards just receive additional traffic to a website.
As you can see, visitors of my entrepreneur training blog are provided with a possibility to save articles in StumbleUpon and other popular social bookmarking resources. As a result, I do nothing and receive additional traffic from many resources to a website. The more interesting my articles for users – the more traffic I get in the end. Since I have posted a lot of articles at my entrepreneur blog I get regular traffic. Comparing with other social bookmarking sites StumbleUpon generates the maximal amount of targeted users. Also, I would like to say that this traffic is really targeted. Having performed analysis of website statistics I found out that people, who come to my entrepreneur training website from StumbleUpon, spend a lot of time on it. They read articles carefully and visit various pages. So, it is quite obvious for me that the strategy works and blog gets the targeted audience.
Does an entrepreneur receive only traffic from StumbleUpon?
Traffic is not the only benefit that an online entrepreneur gains from StumbleUpon social bookmarking service. In fact, each webpage submitted to this online resource by users is an additional incoming link to a website. Submission of web pages to social bookmarking services like StumbleUpon, Digg and Reddit improves indexation of a website significantly. As it is known, incoming links have a positive influence on search engine rankings and increase PR of a website. Thus, as a result of link submission to StumbleUpon an online entrepreneur also receives additional traffic from search engines. So, let’s take a look at the situation now. StumbleUpon provides an online entrepreneur with 3 main benefits – additional targeted traffic from social network, additional targeted users from search engines and increase of website PR. It is easy to conclude that StumbleUpon is a highly effective marketing tool for every online entrepreneur!
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Article by Terje Sannarnes
Terje Sannarnes is an entrepreneur providing entrepreneur training to help entrepreneurs succeed online with internet marketing. He is the creator and author of this Entrepreneur Training for Entrepreneurs blog. Plain, simple, cutting-edge entrepreneur and marketing techniques you can use in YOUR online marketing strategies, right now – today! If you want to get to know him better, read the about page.
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