Comments on: StumbleUpon Sells Advertising?

By: Matt Ellsworth

Matt Ellsworth — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:01:02 +0000

Stumbleupon has been doing this kind of “advertising” for a long time now. I don’t know anyone who actually used it and turned it into a profit.

As a SU sponsor user you can disable the paid stumbles.

By: Trai Davenport

Trai Davenport — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:38:52 +0000

I think one of the keys would be to send those targeted visitors to a “targeted” engaging page/post on your site. I am gonna give it a shot with some other sites.

@Fred
Cool…how is Entrecard working out for you?

By: Costa

Costa — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:13:35 +0000

hmm.. sounds like a good idea to me. I might just take a shot at it.

I bought a campaign from StumbleUpon before for 500 visitors, also at 5 cents per visitor and within 3 hours, my campaign was over. The 500 just came and went! LOL!!

Maybe I will spend 25 bucks to try this one out.

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:59:28 +0000

I have my concerns about stumbleupon traffic too. However, it can be extremely targeted traffic. But, I think when people of stumbling sites, they just keep stumbling and moving on to the next site.

By the way, I found your site through entrecard!!

By: Ruchir

Ruchir — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:29:45 +0000

It’s actually not worth it. Paying for social media users is dropping money in the sewer. I’d rather use that money to advertise on AdWords…

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 08:44:03 +0000

As someone who has used StumbleUpon advertising, I can say that it it much more effective than Adwords.

By: Trai Davenport

Trai Davenport — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:34:18 +0000

@Alex & Lizzie
That’s why I said this approach was a little sleazy. At least people who are paid to write reviews (through reviewme or payperpost) have to disclose it is a paid review. With the kind of advertising that SU is doing there is no disclaimer to the user, except maybe in small print in their TOS.

And thanks for visiting.

By: Lizzie

Lizzie — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:49:06 +0000

Uh-oh. I see problems with this. Isn’t it a little reminiscent of search engines selling traffic (or something along those lines)?

Thanks for the info.

By: Alex @ Web 2.0 WordPress Guide

Alex @ Web 2.0 WordPress Guide — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:01:45 +0000

Yeah, this one can have you scratching a head … it is against their TOS to submit your own content – UNLESS you pay for it.

Kinda two faced approach here. They say they want to keep network clear and pure and yet for a small fee they don’t mind your ad filled page to be part of it …

Maybe its just me but seems like many social networks now days talk about integrity only to cover something else.

Alex