Many people complain that they can’t make a good level of money on Stumbleupon traffic. Actually, there are right points on their thoughts but you are not completely lost. I will give you the best tried method of making money with Stumbleupon traffic.
First of all, Stumbleupon users are more experienced than the others and are able to catch the advertisements on your pages, and naturally escape from clicking especially Google Adsense ads. If your website gets a page CTR of 1% on average for Adsense, for stumbleupon traffic, it can down to 0.10% level easily. So, forget about it.
Maybe, you will not believe much but the best way to convert is Amazon product links. You should write a very specific quality post including innovative, quality Amazon electronics that many people would like to have one. To be concrete, I will give you a real example that I experienced this month.
I have written an article about How to read books at night without disturbing your partner with the lights in one of my gadget blogs. I have given 2 related Amazon products namely LightWedge Paperback and LightWedge Mini as sample links. Stumble users much liked it.
Here is the screenshots of my earnings for latest 7 days only from this article. Amazon Sales Commissions totaled on $42.71
As you see, I sold only 5 of the products I directly advertised bringing commissions around $5. The other items are totally different. One person bought 15 books for $400 and this brought commission of $25.95. I earned around $12 for other products. Note that not all the orders were shipped yet, the commissions will increase. There are 1066 product clicks were at that period and experienced 3.75% conversion rate.
StumbleUpon Traffic + Amazon Affiliate Links Benefits
- StumbleUpon users like to shop on Amazon regularly. Even they don’t buy your direct link, some of them will buy another
- Even you don’t sell that day, you will sell another day because of the Amazon affiliate cookie set on their computers.
- They can’t always understand that it is an affiliated link because Amazon links are (hopefully) really long.
- There is always possibility of a huge spending some of StumbleUpon users at Amazon
These are only affiliate benefits of Amazon. You can make money extra with your traffic using Pay per Impressions Ads. Because your traffic increased, it is likely that you will get more reviews chances and advertisers will approach you naturally. You can convert to RSS readers for a future investment.
Note that if your article is not high quality your StumbleUpon traffic will never increase and die much faster than naturally.
We all know about content scraper sites. You write an article by giving your energy, time and thinking.. And see that someone exactly copies it and runs a website thinking to fool you and earn money. I have recently met a website (I will not give its name for now, it is also in Entrecard system and thinks that I wouldn’t notice it) copying all the content from my gadget website in some intervals:
Maybe, you don’t know how important having good paths on established social networks and on websites that allow you to open SEO friendly login names or article paths.
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