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Welcome to the fifth day of “7 Days to StumbleUpon Supremacy”
Today we’ll look at Creating StumbleUpon ‘Link Bait’
Now that you have a fair idea of what kind of content appeals to StumbleUpon readers, today you’ll try and create content specifically designed to attract SU visitors – and get your blog or website a huge flood of targeted visitors.
Here are a few technical tips to help you get maximum leverage from your StumbleUpon traffic.
1. Longer articles with more links to explore may work better. The more ‘thumbs up’ votes you get, the greater the chance others will stumble across your page. And longer, more informative and comprehensive content is likely to get voted more often than ultra-short snippets.
2. Use eye-catching photos or visual aids to grab visitor attention.
3. Craft compelling headlines to attract readers and suck them into the content.
4. Label and tag every post. Use broad category tags like ‘money’ or ‘health’ which get searched more often rather than less frequently searched terms.
5. Take care to offer most content ‘above the scroll’ – before the visitor has to click a mouse button or scroll down. Chances are they won’t – unless you give a convincing reason to do it.
6. No advertising. Or at least, not intrusively or aggressively. You may use a form to sign up visitors to a list, dangle a juicy gift or run a contest as a hook, and even offer a freebie giveaway. But do not use Google Adsense or other flashy banners or do anything that appears to be pushy advertising.
Keeping visitors engaged and interested is critical. After all, they found you from a click on their toolbar – and another click takes them somewhere else equally interesting!
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