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well it’s actually real easy to keep an eye on, and it’s free for up to 10 keywords.

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For this test I was simply interested in seing how long each visitor spent on the blog to try and judge the “visitor value”, again I was sending the visitors to my “internet marketing” and “Blogging” related blogs.

The sample was over 2,000 visitors and on average each visitor only spent 29.4 seconds on the site before leaving, and less than on in each 10 visitors would leave the site via an “affiliate link” of some sort.

Compare this with recent visitors I’ve been getting from two other Web 2 social bookmarking sites and you can see there’s quite a difference:

Sphinn – each visitor spends on average 1 min and 36 seconds on the site and almost 6% click on a “montezied” link to leave.

PlugIM – each visitor spends on average 1 min 51 seconds on the site and just over 11% used an affiliate link of some sort to leave the site.

The PlugIM and Sphinn visitors had come to the site from a post being tagged, so there is obviously a big difference in their reason for coming to the site, they have chosen to click on the link and visit, where as the paid traffic from StumbleUpon ads the visitor is just shown the site, although obviously the ads are, in theory, reasonably targeted.

My conclusion?

Well, I still need to test out Stumbleupon ads for non “make money/internet marketing” niche’s, but I won’t be paying for any more visitors to the “IM” based sites, it simply doesn’t seem to convert.

One additional point that I noticed and thought I’d share, according to my stats, almost 90% of the web 2 social bookmarking site traffic I received recently was using FireFox, not Internet Explorer, so it’s obviously VERY Important to make sure your blog theme looks good in firefox..

I didn’t until last week, when I found out thanks to Yaro Stark.

obviously I needed to go and have a play to see whether it’s an undiscovered gem of traffic, or not…

You can listen to my thoughts about the results I received on the short podcast below, it’s less than 4 minutes long, so you shouldn’t fall asleep..

But I’ll give a quick written summary of my results as well.

first it’s worth noting that you’re not paying for “ad displays” or even clicks on ads, you’re paying for actual visitors to your site, as your site is added to the selection of sites in your chosen category that are presented to Stumbleupon users to “stumble” and vote on

second it’s only $0.05 per visitor, which if you can get properly “targeted” visitors through your selection of category for your campaign, could be very cheap traffic..

I decided to give it a try with my BlogTactics.com blog.

there’s no real tracking built in, so you’re reliant upon whatever tracking you have built in to your site.

as you can choose different categories for you site to appear in within stumbleupn, I decided to run a campaign for 2 days for each of three different categories to see which preformed the best, my aim was to get people to sign up for my newsletter.

my results?

over 6 days I received over 1,500 visitors for a cost of $75

this traffic resulted in an extra 8 signups each day (on average), giving me a toal of 48 new subscribers that “probably” came from Stumbleupon (I’ve no way of being certain that they were however), which gives a cost of roughly $1.5 per new signup.

I then checked my stats in aweber to see how many of those new “optins” had actually confirmed their subscriptions and discovered it was under 50%, so in fact the “Real” cost per new confirmed signup is over $3, which is not great to say the least..

I suspect this is partly because the traffic is not targted well enough, and possibly also because web 2.0 social bookmarking site users don’t tend to like “internet/affiliate marketing” style sites on the whole.

I believe it will be possible to do better with the Stumbleupon ads in non-”IM” markets, so that’s what I’ll be testing next week…

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