6 Tips For Driving More Traffic From StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon, facebook, twitter, digg and Mixx (Someone like Yahoo! Buzz) are the top 5 social media sites which do most helpful to your online business. For me, these 5 sites always drive lots of traffics and profits.
Post OptionsFor facebook and digg marketing, we have wrote something before, however, StumbleUpon marketing is the first time. In order to get as most as traffic as you wish, you need follow some StumbleUpon tips.
- Make friends, join groups and the communities. For the site default setting, make friends on StumbleUpon is much more difficult than any other social networking such as twitter or facebook. However, you can post reviews, customize your profile and subscribe to other stumblers’ links so that get more subscribes.
- Share. Send your favorite links to your friends via mail or other ways. I personally recommend not send your own links directly. You can suggest a great site/link while drop a link to your own sites.
- Use the toolbar and stay active. You must let the readers’ know you are an active member so to get more hits from stumbleUpon.
- Content is king. Be sure to create original, unique and intriguing stories. Concept websites are best, because they offer an intriguing concept in an engaging fashion that captures user’s attention right away.
- Always stumble interesting story pages with relevant tags, not only the homepage. No stumblers like to look for interesting content when they are stumbling, they want it to be given. You’d be avoided trick them stumblers by sending them something they are not interested in. Use tags to relevant your stories.
- Stay white hat. Black-hat ways or automatic tools may gives you more traffic short-time, however, in the long run just stay away from it or you will be got banned.
All the 6 tips above are all from my personal experience, if you have any other ideas for driving traffic from stumbleUpon, feel free to leave a comment.

How to Make $60,000 a Year with Amazon

hris Guthrie just shared his experience on how to make $60,000 a year with Amazon, it’s really worth a reading. Here it is:
Best Tactics to Make Money
1. Use in content linking as users are more likely to click links from within your blog posts or web pages (just simple HTML) than banner ads etc. – 45% of my earnings this way
2. Write bestseller list posts (i.e. Bestselling LaserJet Printers) – 15% of my earnings this way
3. Make any/all images clickable affiliate links to the Amazon product. I’m surprised how many people will get point #1 right but not make the image a clickable affiliate link. – 13.8% of earnings this way
4. Use buy now buttons in the content – 5% of my earnings
5. Focus heavily on shopping periods. HEAVILY. People want to be told about the best deals and if you take the time to write a great list pertaining to your niche people are grateful not annoyed by your consistent deal content during these times of the year. I also send out numerous emails via my newsletters on all the various websites during Black Friday / Cyber Monday – again people like getting this information so hit your lists hard.

Worst Tactics to Make Money
1. Don’t bother using Amazon’s banner ads. They convert poorly. People rarely click them in almost every niche I’ve tried and you could use that space to sell direct ad space or *gasp* simply display nothing.
2. Don’t bother with Amazon stores – they convert terribly. If you can even get a visitor to click a store link congrats. If you get them to actually buy something congrats again you got lucky.
3. Don’t promote products that aren’t related to your niche (should be obvious, but again I still see this when I’m roaming the web).
4. Don’t use Amazon Associates if it doesn’t fit with the type of visitor coming to your website (i.e. are they just looking for general information? If so Adsense will probably work better. Or are they looking to buy something? Amazon will work better)
These are tips I confirmed based on data gathered over the course of the year with the help of tons of tracking codes and I genuinely believe it should help you refocus your efforts into the areas that matter or to abandon Amazon Associates if it doesn’t fit your visitor profile.
Important: Remember the tracking cookie lasts only 24 hours. Target potential buyers not lookers.
Feel free to post your questions or comments. No I won’t post sample URL’s of the websites I run for obvious reasons. Just do keyword research, build a good website, link build and rinse repeat.