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Here are 7 of the best link baits our team have done so far ranked by the amount of traffic they have received from Stumbleupon, IMO the best social bookmarking site for getting traffic.
According to Google Analytics roughly 65% of the Stumbleupon hits convert into unique page views.
1/ 30 of the World’s Greatest Wedding Cakes
This link bait was published on the FreeDating.co.uk site on the 24th of May this year and is by far the most popular bait we have done so far. It’s basically just a collection of amazing wedding cakes that our linkbait guy was able to find around the web. It did incredible on a bunch of social sites and got linked to by loads of blogs.
Stumbleupon hits: 1.2 million
2/ 5 Creepy Beach Sculptures To Scare Off Sunbathers
This one was published on the Premier Holidays website back in December 2008 and everybody loved it. The post features 5 super creepy beach sculptures from round the World: the pictures are awesome. As soon as Neatorama linked to it the post went viral and attracted lots of links.
Stumbleupon hits: 506K
3/ How Not To Clean A Window
We put this one on the Master Cleaners blog on March the 1st this year and as soon as it got published the post set on fire. The linkbait is a selection of photographs of very brave or stupid people very dangerously cleaning windows. It hit the homepage of Meneame and Yahoo buzz and got plenty of links.
Stumbleupon hits: 477k
4/ 10 Beautifully Intricate Locks
We put this brilliant linkbait on the Locksmiths R Us blog on June the 16th this year and almost all of the people who commented on it really liked it. The blog post shows pictures of 10 old fashioned and beautiful locks and at the bottom there is a video. It got featured on some very popular blogs such as Dark Roasted Blend and Mental Floss.
Stumbleupon hits: 394k
5/ 10 Enchanting Tree Tunnels
I put this bait on a web directory I run called Killer Directory on the 6th of August 2009. It is simply 10 photographs of tree tunnels: streets or paths lined with trees where the branches have arched over to form natural tunnels. The post did really well on reddit and got linked to by quite a few blogs.
Stumbleupon hits: 89k
6/ Infuriating Wheelchair Ramps
This funny linkbait was put online on August the 9th 2010 on the RollaRamp wheelchair ramps blog and people on the social networks adored it. The article shows pictures of poorly designed wheelchair ramps that are difficult for people who are in wheelchairs to use. The bait did well and got lots of links from wheelchair bloggers.
Stumbleupon hits: 48k
7/ The World’s Most Unique Headphones
We did this one for online electronics store Crescent Electronics and it went online on the 6th of June earlier this year. The post shows photographs of the World’s most unique headphones including antler headphones, Star Wars headphones and more. The bait was quite successful and got linked to by some decent gadget blogs.
Stumbleupon hits: 38k
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Posted in Social Media News By David Eaves a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
November 25th, 2011
Just been having a look at the Alexa rankings of some of the top social news websites and was surprised to see that Stumbleupon and Reddit are both apparently getting more traffic then digg. Have a look at the graph below:
The results are very close so it is hard to tell who is getting the most by looking at the graph, but if you look at the traffic rank for each site you will see that Stumbleupon and Reddit are both supposed to be getting more traffic then digg. Here are the traffic ranks for each site:
- Stumbleupon – 117th most popular site on the web.
- Reddit – 135th most popular site on the web.
- Digg – 138th most popular site on the web.
I am not surprised that Stumbleupon has come out on top, our linkbait articles always seem to get lots of traffic from the social bookmarking site, one of them that we did a few years ago has had almost half a million visitors from it and another that we did just a couple of months ago has already had 274K.
Up until a few months ago digg was way ahead of both of them in the Alexa rankings, I think the drop in traffic could be something to do with the site re-design that they did last August.
Posted in Social Media News By David Eaves a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
April 28th, 2011
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So about two or three weeks ago I was watching Juice I think and I came up with a couple of IMO really good social media yo mama jokes, since then I have been trying to think of 3 more to get my top 5 list and thanks to a bit of help from Mr David Towers I have them, so here goes:
1. Yo mama so stupid that when I told her I was on digg, she asked if I needed a shovel.
2. Yo mama so fat that when I told her I was on delicious, she asked if she could have a bite.
3. Yo mama so clumsy that when I told her I was on Stumbleupon, she said I took a stumble yesterday and grazed my knee.
4. Yo mama so dizzy that when I told her I was on Sphinn, she said I went for a drive this morning.
5. Yo mama so crazy that when I told her I was on Plime, she said I prefer oranges myself.
Posted in Social Media News By David Eaves a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
July 13th, 2009
So I have been working on this air conditioning website and as you can imagine good air conditioner scoops are few and far between, so when Jeff the owner called me up with a bit of a story I knew I had to do something.
He found the story on a website called KRGV.com, you can read it here. It’s about some women in Texas who found an image that she believes is the Virgin Mary on her air conditioner.
There weren’t very many details really so I just re-worded it pretty much, blew up the tiny photo to a decent size and published it, you can see my post here.
I really didn’t expect it to go anywhere, I mean look at the image, it does in fact look more like death then the Virgin Mary, but to my amazement it did. The bait was just about crap enough to actually work. I got people talking about this image all over the web. Check out the discussions at Reddit, Propeller, Mixx and Plime.
I went to bed last night thinking oh well it’s not going to get any good links but at least it sparked a bit of discussion and sent Airconco a bit of traffic. When I woke up this morning and checked the stats, everything looked pretty normal, 1,500 from Reddit, 90 from Mixx etc. but then I saw Twitter.com 500 clicks. Now I don’t know a lot about Twitter, but that looked like a lot of traffic, my previous actual decent baits had gotten 50-100 clicks from Twitter at the most.
About an hour later I refreshed the stats. again and now Twitter had sent over 1,000 clicks. I decided to do a bit of investigating and found the URL that was sending the Twitter traffic: http://bit.ly/NVE6h, I searched Google for the URL and found Ashton Kutcher’s twitter profile aplusk.
Ashton Kutcher is a big time movie star, he was in that movie Dude, Where’s My Car and he is married to Demi Moore. He is one of the most popular Twitter users with over 2 million followers. Getting some of my work linked to by him is awesome.
The Airconco website has had 5,172 visits from Twitter.com so far and he only linked to the story about 9 hours ago – Link
Update: The traffic has started to calm down now and the post has had just under 10,000 unique visitors from Twitter.com, about 4,500 uniques that are unaccounted for and a couple more thousand uniques from other social networks. Altogether the story has had over 16,500 visitors and there are 60 comments on the post.
Posted in Social Media News By David Eaves a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
June 9th, 2009
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Around about a week ago I was happily stumbling away when all of a sudden this warning page came up, telling me that my account had been disabled:
Stumbleupon warning
Stumbleupon has been temporarily disabled, because you have used it too much.
- Stop stumbling and disable stumbleupon toolbar
- Do your work
- Don’t think about stumbling
I feel really stupid now, but I fell for this thing hook, line and sinker. I thought that I had been caught stumbling my own blog too much and that someone at stumbleupon was messing with me.
The page is possibly one of the most popular stumbles ever, it was discovered about 8 days ago and already it has received 351 reviews.
I wanted to find out more about the page and who created it, so I used the form on the website to contact the creator. He kindly agreed to answer a few questions for me, but wishes to remain anonymous:
Question 1: How long have you been a member of StumbleUpon?
Answer: I have used stumbleupon since April 2007, So it is about 1,5 years ago.
Question 2: Did you create the page for fun? profit? Or both?
Answer: It was just for fun, I was bored and playing with new firefox 3 and surfing on the “about:robots” page. I noticed how easily the source of the about:robots page could be copied, I remembered those funny “stop stumbling” images and got the idea. I created the page, uploaded it to my site, added it to stumble and forgot it.
Question 3: How many unique visitors has the page had so far?
Answer: Here are my traffic statistics according to AWStats and Google Analytics:
- AWStats – 101,789
- Google – 89,901
Question 4: Has the amount of traffic you have received surprised you?
Answer: It was a big surprise to me, because I almost forgot the whole page… The last popular page I had: a joke about vista’s source code, only received 9,240 visitors.
Question 5: Have you ever thought about a career in viral marketing?
Answer: Nope.
Going off this page’s performance, I would definitely be interested in taking this guy on for his social media skills. He is not a professional and as far as I am concerned he hasn’t even marketed the page – One hundred thousand unique visitors and going strong.
Here is a link to the warning page and the 350+ comments at SU.
Posted in Social Media News By David Eaves a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
July 14th, 2008
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