Hi Marcus,

You mentioned "stumblr upon marketing" and I think you meant Stumble Upon? Tumblr is another site entirely that is more of a micro/photo blogging platform that I think you may have been thinking of as well.

I haven't actively used stumble upon too much, but I'd suggest not going the multi-account route. This in the end will be more work for you to manage, and most of these sites are smart enough to detect most conventional 'gaming' attempts.

Bookmarking was pretty bad for this back in '07-'09 and could really impact rankings - but Google has devalued those types of links a long time ago. Now, you need to mimic activity that looks like a real human is using the account; you'll also need to bookmark properties other than your own or it will leave too much of a footprint that reveals what your true intentions are.

At this point, I think ranking is more about merit (providing relevant content, solving problems, adding value, caring about your audience etc.) then it is about faking out Google. It used to work, and probably still does to an extent - but I question how sustainable it is and now it requires more effort to trick Google then it is just to do what they want and provide good content for other human beings.

Just my two cents.

Thanks for your reply guys!

I am not talking about ranking on my site, Im not doing this to increase ranking. I meant to use Stumble upon to drive traffic to my squeeze page, so I think we had a misunderstanding there.

So my question is, how do you use stumble upon to drive traffic to your squeeze page?

Best Wishes

Marcus

Scott James said
Hey Marcus,

 

StumbleUpon traffic has a very short attention span. You'd have to hook them quick and hard on anything that they'd share. It works best with things that are funny, especially useful, or remarkable in some way. You'd have to have a pretty remarkable squeeze page to have it shared on SU. Not likely that any squeeze page would ever get much play on SU unless it was riddled with unintentional comedy. IMO it's not worth trying.

But what about this guy Paul in one of John's podcast that drove 45000 ppl to his page in a month?

Marcus Carlzon said

Scott James said
Hey Marcus,

 

StumbleUpon traffic has a very short attention span. You'd have to hook them quick and hard on anything that they'd share. It works best with things that are funny, especially useful, or remarkable in some way. You'd have to have a pretty remarkable squeeze page to have it shared on SU. Not likely that any squeeze page would ever get much play on SU unless it was riddled with unintentional comedy. IMO it's not worth trying.

But what about this guy Paul in one of John's podcast that drove 45000 ppl to his page in a month?

If this is true, it almost certainly wasn't direct to a squeeze page. It was probably to a blog like the way John has his Music Marketing Manifesto setup - with a huge optin offer in the side bar.  Most people will bail if they're sent cold to a squeeze page unless it is highly targeted and enticing. 45,000 people to the page is great...but not if 44,990 of them 'bounce' and never return!

Maybe John knows where to find the episode with the guy using stumble upon to drive traffic? It sound vaguely familiar...

I guess one of the factors that Paul gets such an insane amount of traffic is that the music that Paul write is so HUGE right now, I mean Avicii & Swedish house mafia are really huge artists. It may be that he used them as keywords that makes people interested, I mean Avicii sold out biggest arena in sweden, 65 000 ppl two nights in a row. Swedish house mafia to. I'm not trying to come up with guesses to why he is successful, but that might atleast be one of the reasons that Paul gets alot of traffic from stumble upon.