Earning Money

You know there are few things better out there than free advertising. Unfortunately free advertising isn’t easy to come by. However, there is an avenue you may have not yet explored. StumbleUpon is a free service for web surfers to “stumble” through websites that match their interests. When viewing the site they have an option to vote a thumbs up or down on the site. The more thumbs up a site receives, the more times StumbleUpon will direct stumblers to the site.

Let’s say you have a site about classic cars. If you were to advertise in a general chat room the likelihood of someone being interested in your site is slim. With StumbleUpon people who share your interests are directed to your site even when you’re not actively out promoting. Here’s how you do it:

1)Join StumbleUpon and download their toolbar.
2)Select your interested topics.
3)Go to your site and click the thumbs up icon.
4)StumbleUpon will bring up a window that says you have discovered a new site. This is your chance to give a small review and determine what topic best fits your site.

Congratulations, you have now just streamlined thousands of interested stumblers to your website. Over time you will see your traffic increase as you are ranked higher and higher in StumbleUpon. Remember not to only “stumble” your main page, but some of your more popular articles as well. Keep your pages updated and aesthetically pleasing so you will win over the stumblers who are just “channel-flipping” through websites. You need to be able to catch their attention for them to give you a thumbs up. Good luck with promoting your website and maybe I’ll run onto it while stumbling.

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