Savvy Affiliate

Day 45 of The 100 Days To Building A Great Website Guide

How Can She Drive Traffic To Your Site?

This girl can help you drive hundreds if not thousands of visitors to your site from Social networking sites like Digg and Stumbleupon. It all stems from participating in those sites, and building up your friendships

The Best way to drive traffic with Stumbleupon is to actively participate.

You can not effectively game the social networking sites. If all you do is promote your own site your influence will quickly diminish. The top social networking sites have algorithms set up to catch exactly that. If you don’t actively participate, and promote other sites than your own, you will eventually have no influence over other Stumblers, and no influence in sending a page to the Digg frontpage.

To get traffic to your own site from Digg or Stumble, you have to have influence. You have to have friends

So if you have to dive in and participate, what should you use?

If you are going to take the time to actively participate in either Digg or Stumbleupon you probably won’t be able to do both. So which one should you use? I have recommended Stumbleupon in the past, it is much better than Digg. Recently Problogger has come to the same conclusion, Stumbleupon is better at driving traffic than Digg.

So once you start using Stumbleupon, what is your goal?

One of the main ways you gain influence in stumbleupon is by having people befriend you. If they befriend you, they will be sent the pages that you stumble. Blog-op recently posted a great article on how to build stumbleupon friends. And he was right on almost everything. You build friends over time. You need to recommend pages and interact with the community and build up a network.

But there is one more essential thing you can do to build friends. Be Hot.

Lets be honest. It is a simple fact that a lot of people will interact with a girl just because she has a hot profile picture. Many of the highest followed Stumblers on Stumbleupon are attractive girls. And that is no accident. All other things being equal, who would you be more likely to add as a friend

I don’t think it is much of a stretch to think that more people would add the picture on the left as their friend. I know I sure would.

So you aren’t a hot girl, don’t have too many hot female friends, what can you do? Well that is where Stock xchange comes into play. You can go there to download free images to use.

So is all this immoral?

Perhaps. This may not be the most ethical way of driving traffic. I won’t argue that. I think it can be an effective way though. As an experiment, why don’t you open a new Stumbleupon account and try your usual methods of getting some friends. If you have a hot picture up right now, put up an ugly picture. If you have an ugly picture, put up a hot one. Spend 5 days working each account, and see how many new friends you acquire.

I would be interested in hearing the results.