Anyone have any ideas on how to outsource StumbleUpon?

[kevkos]

I've been having some success driving traffic to my blog goldmoney.wordpress.com through stumbleupon. However, this takes a lot of time to do right! More than 4 hours a week. :eek:

Is anyone outsourcing this? How would you go about that? Pay someone per friends added, stumbles, time? It seems like something that is hard to outsource, since it involves personal pages and preferences.

Thanks!

[padma]

Personally, I think automating this would be a mistake. If you want to use social bookmarking to build your business in full or in part, then you need to be the person behind the curtain. I don't know what you do to use 4 hours, but if you do it right it shouldn't take much time at all. You simply build a network, build a good portfolio, and submit your sites selectively. If you write good content, then the thumbs will come.

Just recently I wrote an innocent post on a blog of mine that I didn't expect to go far...well it got over 2000 hits in 24 hours and keeps getting strong numbers. I've gotten over 40 thumbs up in that time. Now other posts that I thought would blow up, fizzled out and died immediately.

So in my opinion, don't automate it, use it as it was intended to be used.

[padma]

btw, I see we are already friends on SU, I'll hit up your sites.

[jonparker83]

Just a quick on from me but you can speed up your social bookmarking using a number of sites:

socialmarker.com
onlywire.com
socialposter.com

Also outsourcing social bookmarking can be found at the following forums in the buy/sell sections.

Digital Point Forums
Warrior Forum

Cheers

Jon :)

[JFrenzel]

Keep it up yourself, it is supposed to be personal...


Jose and his friend called thoughts....

[repguy]

Formula:

(Initial stumbler audience / # domain) + ((% stumbler audience / # domain) + organic bonus – nonfriend) – (% stumbler audience + organic bonus) + N

Description:

The initial stumbler "power" (Audience of the initial stumbler divided by the amount of times that stumbler has stumbled the given domain) is added to the sum of all the subsequent stumbler's powers.

Subsequent stumbler power is ((Percentage of audience stumbler makes up divided by the number of times given stumbler has stumbled domain) + a predetermined power boost for using the toolbar - a predetermined power drain if stumblers are connected) + (% of the stumbler audience + a predetermined boost for using the toolbar)

N is a "safety variable" so that the assumed algorithm is flexible. It represents a random number.

original source: http://blog.venture-skills.co.uk/2007/09/19/stumbleupon-mathematics-for-stumblers/

That pretty much sums up what I have seen in my stumbles as well, so outsourcing it probably would not get you all that great of results. If you write good content you don't need to work on stuff like this, it is automated :)

[Stallion]

I'm not sure how reliable getting traffic from a "web 2.0" site is for sales. My personal experience is people are there for a flat 4 seconds and are gone.

As for automating it. I saw people at digital point, buying "stumbles".

You could probably send people the pages in an email and pay for them 50 cents per stumble.

[andyYY]

I think making a good marketing campaign with web 2.0 will be the ace.

But it's must be played good,since it's easy to generate a good amount of traffic but it's hard to generate good traffic and good sells.

I mean,everyone may spam but if you have 5.000 hits and 2 sales,this mean that's wrong way to drive the campaign.

I much more prefer 500 hits per day and make 50 sales than see my site as a top ranker but with low sells.

Btw, I would ask to everyone,It's better to buy an ebook from a site or using something like lulu,when you buy and receive a paper book?

[Stallion]

There is only two good things I can say about web 2.0; it will get your page indexed at google fast and give it a little boost at first. It is also a way to spread viral things fast, which generates backlinks and makes you have more authority at google.

Traffic = crap for sales. I use stumbleupon to find cool pages, no one used it for something to buy because pages are just about as close as you can get to random.

[padma]

Well, just to highlight the power of SU, today between my few sites I received over 10,000 visits...My jaw is still dropped.

[nghs22]

Well, just to highlight the power of SU, today between my few sites I received over 10,000 visits...My jaw is still dropped.

how did you do this mate? I put my site in SU (i think) and haven't gotten much of anything :(

[padma]

how did you do this mate? I put my site in SU (i think) and haven't gotten much of anything :(

I wish I knew, the content I think is golden turns out to be crap, and the content I don't expect much from goes viral. I use twhirl/twitter to get some help, same with digg...but 90% of the "thumbs up" are from random users.

[webgal]

Sometimes the traffic is killer. I had a knee arthritis article that pulled in tens of thousands but I can't figure out why that did so well and others were much milder.

[Stallion]

Viral stuff does good. There are people that use stumbleupon for years that have very powerful push. If they like it, a lot of people will see it and there's even more chance of another powerful person stumbling it.

It isn't the most profitable traffic though.

[zhongguohua88]

You can look for someone in India/Pakistan/Bangladesh that will generate you fake thumbs up. I see similar things all the time on Elance; people who want to generate fake votes for their videos for some contests, fake Diggs for their website, etc. If you don't mind using unethical ways to promote your website, you can post a project on Elance asking people to give you hundreds of thumbs up or Diggs from different IP addresses. You can also pay a virtual assistant in the Philippines to research and write your articles for you.

A good trick is to write (or have some else write) an article that links to your website and submit it to a big articles directory like www.goarticles.com and let websites with automated scripts copy the article. Hundreds of websites will then have the article linking to your blog.

[andyYY]

:eek::eek:

I saw a indian company made 16.000 facebook posts for a company only for 2.000 USD.

:eek::eek:

there are several ways to do viral marketing,most of them will take time,with few bucks you can automate them

[mfornas]

If you are still interested in automating StumbleUpon there is a new tool:
http://www.autostumble.net/

I believe that is like a P2P2 networker tool.
Your client votes some pages and you receive the same number of votes to your desired page.

Hope it helps