YAHOO! ANSWERS TRAFFIC GUIDE

One of the easiest ways to generate traffic to your website is often one of the most overlooked methods as well, Yahoo Answers. Not only is it a simplified method of driving targeted traffic to your site, it is also absolutely free to use.

This strategy will be broken down for you in a step-by-step format, making it easy for you to incorporate this technique into your own marketing efforts. You’ll quickly discover just how incredibly powerful this tactic is when you begin to analyze your traffic and see just how much Yahoo Answers is directing your way.

And for those who might be wondering whether Yahoo Answers has a large enough user base to yield a worthwhile response, here is what Yahoo Answers has to say:

à With more than 21 million unique users in the U.S. and 90 million worldwide, Yahoo! Answers is the largest knowledge-sharing community on the Web.

Is that big enough for you? If so, let’s get started!

Step One: Open a Yahoo Answers Account

You will need a Yahoo Answers account to be able to answer open questions. To create your account visit:

http://answers.yahoo.com

You will be able to create your account using your current Yahoo messenger account if you already have an ID:

Step Two: Complete Your Profile

Once you have created a Yahoo Answers account and are logged in, you will be able to create or edit your profile. You should take a few minutes to fill out as much as information as you would like to share and then save your information.

You can choose to allow Yahoo Answer members to contact you via messenger, or keep this information private. You can also enable “email contact” if you would like to receive comments via email, or you can choose to disable all contact other than through the questions that you answer.

When you edit your profile it is recommended that you add a photo or customize an avatar. It’s important to brand yourself and this is an easy way to make your profile more memorable as your photo will appear within your answers.

Step Three: Familiarize Yourself With Yahoo Answers

From the main Yahoo Answers page you will see categories listed on the left hand side. This is where questions are posted and grouped according to their subject matter. This is also where you will go when choosing the different types of questions that you would like to answer, and depending on the niche markets that you are involved in, you might find yourself answering a variety of questions from different categories and groups.

Before you start answering questions you should have an idea of what you plan to promote. That way you can find questions that are relevant to the website that you wish to advertise via the Yahoo Answers website. Each time you answer a question, you can include a “SOURCE” in a secondary box that accompanies your response. This is an easy way to promote your websites and direct people to find out more information about the topic of their question.

You should also browse previously answered questions so that you can get a feel for the way other people have answered and addressed different questions, paying attention to those answers that were selected as being the “TOP” response.

As you begin answering questions, you may run into a series of questions that are no longer open. Here is a breakdown of the life cycle of a question from the time it is first posted:

Questions that are “Resolved” are typically closed from receiving future follow ups while questions that are marked “Undecided” have not yet received a “TOP” vote.

Questions are open for only four days but the original poster can extend the period for a few extra days or if a question has been resolved, they can close it before that time period has ended.

It’s important to answer questions as thoroughly as you can and avoid spamming your websites within your answers. In fact, there are few times where including your website URL within the answer is acceptable at all. If those viewing your response feel that it is spam you will not receive votes and your answer may be removed entirely. Therefore, you should try to keep your websites within the “Source” box only. Those who liked your answer are likely to follow your link to find out more especially if you are careful to answer questions that pertain to your niche market.

Start Promoting!

Due to the large number of people answering questions every minute of the day, it is important that you are quick when responding to open questions. As mentioned above, you must also do your best to answer the question as thoroughly as possible and be sure to address the person who posted the question by name (whenever possible). This has been known to increase your chances of being voted as “best answer” since the original poster feels that you are taking your time to address them personally.

Quick Tip: There is a built in spell checker available. Use it whenever possible to minimize spelling errors.

Remember that the ultimate goal is to be selected as the best answer (Top Answer) because the more often you are selected the more exposure your answer, profile and website will receive.

The Points System

As a member of Yahoo Answers you will earn points for each question that you answer. You will also discover that there are limits on the number of questions that you can answer each day until you build up your levels.

Here is a breakdown of the different levels that you can reach depending on the amount of points you receive every day. (For the first week you will be focusing on building up your levels so that you can answer more questions by increasing your daily limit. Those who reach Level 4 can answer an unlimited number of questions every day.

When you start out you begin at Level 1. You are able to answer 20 questions every day at this level. In the first day it is possible for you to earn 140+ points by answering 20 questions and you will earn more for every answer that is selected as the ‘top choice’.

You will be able to view your Points and Level on the main page of Yahoo Answers (on the right hand side) under your name:

Here is an overview of how the points are accumulated.

When you begin answering questions you should focus on targeting your main niche until your levels increase and you are able to answer as many questions as you like. That way, you can start driving traffic to your site right away, despite being limited to only 20 questions a day.

Locating Specific Niche Related Questions

To find niche-specific questions that are still open for answering, click on the “Advanced Search” link to get started. You will find this at the top of the Yahoo Answers website once you are logged in.

Once you have loaded up the Advanced Search page you will be able to enter in keywords that are relevant to your niche market. You can also minimize any time wasted by being certain to only search for questions that are still open for answering.

Enter in you’re a specific keyword that best describes your niche and set the “Keyword Match” to “Questions” as you are searching for questions to answer right away.

Next, choose “ALL” when selecting your categories as sometimes questions may appear throughout different groups.

Be sure to filter out the questions so that you are searching only for questions in your primary language unless you are able to understand and respond in alternative languages.

And finally be sure to set the status of your search so that it generates a list of “Open Questions” only. There is no sense in searching for questions that have been resolved (or are closed) from receiving additional responses.

Once you have completed this step you will generate a search results page that includes multiple un-answered questions found using your keyword(s).

In my example search, I requested the search engine to find open questions relating to “Wordpress”.

Here is what was found:

By targeting the keyword “Wordpress”, 52 un-answered questions are available to me.

To begin answering questions, simply click on the links to load up the “Question and Answer” page.

By answering questions that target my niche market and including a website that provides additional information about the question that I am answering I can easily generate traffic to my site in a few minutes, the time it takes for me to successfully answer the question. Even if my answer does not end up being chosen as the “top” answer, I can still generate traffic just by using the “Source” box.

Remember as well that Yahoo is the most popular search engine, outranking even Google.

By answering recent questions rather than digging through older ones you are ensuring that your website receives traffic not only from the Yahoo Answer center (and those who view your answer from within that section) but also from the Yahoo search engine as well!

Quick Tips To Top Traffic

Tip #1: Focus on answering recent questions, posted within the first three hours.

Tip #2: Always post a relevant website link in the Source box using a URL that sounds similar to the topic.

(example: If I was answering a question regarding weight loss, I would create a landing page specific to that niche and include it in the source box: yourdomain.com/weight_loss_tips.html)

Tip #3: Answer questions as thoroughly as you can. The more specific you are with your answers, the better chance you have of being selected as the top choice.

Tip #4: After your limits are raised and you are able to answer more questions each day, start answering questions regardless of when they were posted (older ones are fine at this point). Every answer you submit will be included in Yahoo’s search engine results page regardless of how old the original question was.

Tip #5: Be sure to include your keyword (that you are optimizing for) in your answer as best as you can. You can also add your URL (using a href tag) but if you do this incorrectly and your answer reeks of spam, you will not be chosen as the top answer and in some cases your answer may be removed completely.

Tip #6: It isn’t just Yahoo’s search engine that will pick up your answers (and links). Google may also spider your answers and give you credit for a back-link to be sure to answer as many questions as you can each day, until you reach your limit.

Tip #7: Stick with it. Building an impressive portfolio and developing your back-links takes time but if you create a strategy where you are answering questions on a daily basis, incorporating your keywords into your answers and linking to your websites within the source boxes you will see results relatively quickly.

The more effort you put into answering questions thoroughly and being chosen as the top answer the more traffic your website will receive. Always keep this mind when you are answering questions.

While quantity is important, so is quality!

Tip #8: Since you are answering questions across a variety of categories and niche markets, be sure that you know enough about the subject to provide a helpful response.

If you answer a question incorrectly, your credibility will wear down. It is important that you focus on answering questions relating to topics that you are familiar with. If you are unsure about a question take a few minutes to research the correct answer before posting. It is not possible to edit your answers once they are published!

There have been times where I was unsure of the correct answer to a question but I was slowly getting involved in the niche and wanted to direct people to a landing page where I was showcasing a product via an affiliate link. I took a few minutes to search out the answer and posted it, only after I was certain it was correct. It resulted in my answer being selected as the “Best Answer” and a nice comment from the original poster:

And one word of caution; Once you begin to receive positive ratings and feedback you’ll find Yahoo Answers quite addictive!

Tip #9: Don’t underestimate the power of custom landing pages. Instead of directing people to the main page of your website, creating specific pages where you can lead people to find out more information, while sticking to the topic or subject that you are answering. This way you will avoid confusing your visitors who are simply looking for additional information about specific topics.

Tip#10: Points & More Points
You will receive points for answering questions (2 points per answer), 10 points for being selected as the best answer and an additional point for every answer you vote on. When you are building your levels it is important to collect as many points as you can so by voting on answers submitted by other people you are able to generate more points quickly, however you must be a LEVEL 2 to be able to vote on answers, so do your best to get to that level as soon as possible.

As you begin to earn points and answer more questions, you will become a top contributor and a badge will appear near your avatar picture. Once you are a top contributor you will be selected more often as the “best answer” and more people will view your answers, profile and your websites.

Use The Answers To Build Your Website

As a Yahoo Answers contributor you will begin to see a pattern emerge where the same types of questions are being asked over and over again. This is a great way to learn about the current topics that people are interested in and if you are clever enough to see the value in this, you can utilize these topics to create interesting blog posts that will capture attention and receive comments.

You can take it a step further and write articles based on the questions that you review. Submit these articles to EzineArticles.com and other directories to generate even more traffic. It’s an easy way to research various niche markets and see just what people are interested in or needing help with!

To make things easier, you can choose to keep track of specific questions that you plan to address by clicking on the “SAVE” option under each question. You can save it to your RSS feeder or to your private watch-list.

Be The First, Every Time

One quick technique that will help you answer more questions before others is to subscribe to the RSS feed available through Yahoo!. You will receive a listing of recently asked questions that are still open and available to be answered, and best of all, these questions will be related to your chosen niche markets!

Here’s how to set this up:

Go to the “Advanced Search” page as discussed earlier. Search for your specific keywords (primary ones that best describe your niche) and view the results page from your search.

At the very bottom of the page in the left hand corner, you will see the option to add that search query in your RSS reader, as shown below:

Once you have added this feed to your RSS reader, you will receive updates of new questions relating to your niche market (based on the keywords you just entered).

This makes it easy to be the first to answer new questions!

Repeat this process selecting keywords for each niche market that you are involved in and wish to receive notifications of.

Daily Tasks:

Every day, log into your Yahoo Answers account and view the open questions from the different categories or use the advanced tool to search for more specific questions based on keywords.

Answer the questions that are posted via the feeds.

Build landing pages that you can include in the source box with every question that you answer. Once you have designed a landing page for each niche market, you will always have a place to refer people to based on the subject of the question you are answering.

You should also take the time to create multiple pages for each niche so that if you answer a lot of questions in the same category you can direct your traffic to various places on your website. Writing articles relating to the niches that you are involved in is the best way to generate traffic and continue to address different topics on your website.

One easy way to categorize your articles or create new topics on your website for different questions you answer is by installing a WordPress blog and organizing topics into groups. This way whenever you answer a new question or you find that certain questions are continuously asked, you can create a category on your blog for these specific topics in the event that your blog covers a wide variety of topics.

Tip: Purchase a domain that is generic, so that you can create a multi-topic blog. This will make it easier to direct people to the same website without having to create multiple blogs or purchasing multiple domain names.

Create A Yahoo Swipe File

By creating a swipe file of previously answered questions you will be able to cut and paste your answers and cover more ground. Be sure to modify your answers whenever required so that the person posting the question believes you have answered it exclusively for them.

While this is a time-saver and a method used by a lot of Yahoo Answers marketers, be careful not to simply paste the same answer repeatedly. Every question is different and you need to ensure that you modify to your answer or change it up a bit from time to time, depending on the nature of the question.

Cover Multiple Niche Markets Easily

If you are involved in multiple niche markets, you might benefit from creating multiple Yahoo Answer accounts. This will also help you answer more questions each day under different accounts while building up levels on all of them.

By creating multiple Yahoo Answer accounts you can also create different characters, (men/woman, parents, single men, divorced, etc) which will lend credibility when you are answering questions in different categories.

Yahoo Answers allows multiple accounts so you don’t have to worry about breaking any rules, however voting for your own answers or point gaming is not allowed.

To make sure that you are familiar with the rules, you should read the Community Guidelines overview:

http://answers.yahoo.com/info/community_guidelines.php

In the meantime, have fun with Yahoo Answers. It can be a very enjoyable and rewarding experience and an easy way to generate targeted traffic to your website. Just be sure to log in every day and build up your levels. The quicker you reach a level where you are able to answer an unlimited number of questions the more exposure you will receive.

To your success!

Additional Resources:
If Yahoo Answers isn’t enough for you, here are a few other communities that you may enjoy:

Answer Bag: http://www.answerbag.com

Yedda: http://www.Yedda.com

I hope you enjoyed the information

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A CONTINUATION OF THIS POST

Hey,

So I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about how to stuff with Amazon. I know it’s kind of confusing because they give you a code and not a URL. So basically what you need to do is find the URL in the code.

<iframe src=”LINK SHOULD BE HERE” style=”width:120px;height:240px;” scrolling=”no” marginwidth=”0″ marginheight=”0″ frameborder=”0″></iframe>

So all you have to do is take out the link and stuff that. Anyways, since I’m telling you all this I also thought I might include something that I left out the last time .htaccess cookie stuffing (here is a YouTube video for it):

After you watch that video there are two points I want to make:

1. don’t go to that dudes lame site [http://profitspower.net/blogg/?p=1 (go if you don't understand)]  here is the code:
   

   Redirect /randomimagename.jpg http://www.affiliatecompany.com/affiliateurlblahblah

2. You don’t need to use an FTP client (you can use a free online on at net2ftp.com), you can just use the file manager in you cPanel (just in case you didn’t know)

Enjoy!

P.S. eBay Partner Network is going through some changes in security and trying to prevent stuffing, so I would hold back on EPN stuffing for a while. I’ll get back to you on this…

I was surfing BHW and came across one of these great methods for getting free content. So I’m going to put that here and I am also going to add 2 other ways for getting content. WARNING: THE BLACK HAT METHOD IS VERY BLACK HAT (UNETHINCAL) and we don’t take any responsibility for anything that happens with it or because of it!

Getting content is the best way to promote your site. If it’s good, all you need is to tell a few people about it and they will link to you and traffic will just be generated from that. So, with these ways of getting fresh content, you can increase your site’s SERPs by a lot.

METHOD #1 [BLACK HAT]:

*This guide is for educational purposes only, I shall not be held responsible for any damages.*

How to get tons and tons of 100% Unique articles for free again and again and again.

I will be sharing this trick for the first time with my list, it is unethical, it is blackhat and it is just plain brutal, but this is Internet if we keep acting like “good guys” then sooner or later we will have to give up and find a real job.
Times I think this is too harsh but then I also think well this is life, good thing and bad things happen and for this method , the actions are rather not that unethical as you will see.

This method alone may not be that strong, but quick results are guaranteed right away. Anyway I think a method on its own is not that powerful but if you mix 1 method with another then it becomes great. Same goes for this method, try to mix it with some of your other methods and you might see a loop that will bring you a lot more.

The Method

It is rather simple, I am sure all of you guys have heard of and used GetAFreeLancer.com before for hiring writers and coders or whatever. I never hire people from there, as you can get most of your work done for free by the coder with some tricks for this instance we will be getting free articles.

1. Go to www.getafreelancer.com

2. Create a new account — “Provide all fake details —>TIP make sure you are from France or some other european country where they dont speak english. Use only European counteries like Sweden, Germany, etc. Remember you are a FIRM so come up with a corporateName like Chister Co Limited.

3. Start a new Posting. Title should say that you are hiring writers

4. In the field where it asks you to choose 5 options, select the following for optimal responses —>

a. Data Entry
b. Market Research
c. Proofreading
d. Web Promotion
e. Copywriting

5. In Database and Operating System select “none”

6. Body of your posting –> Mention that you are a firm and hiring 5-20 writers to write on their different blogs over different subjects and you guys need about 90 articles a week. Try to be as professional as you can in your listing that will get you tons of reply. Also mention that you pay through Escrow and Paypal only and no other payment option is supported. Fruther clear the fact that you want people who can actually provide at least 10 articles a week.

7. Budget –> Select very large budget >3000

8. Days –> 60

9. Select the option - I want my project Featured –> $30

10. Select I want to hide all bids on my project from other users.

11. Make sure you have check marked the square box for the 2 options, featured listing and hide all the bids.

12. Click preview project.

13. Make sure all is good.

14. Post the project.

It will cost you $29 - $30 to post the project because it will be featured you will make back your $30 do not worry about that, further you want to make it featured because you will get a lot of bids in short amount of time.

Go out for a while, or just do something for an hour or two and come back and you will have at least 50-60 bids there. Now this is where you will use the tactic to get tons and tons of articles for free.

Once the bidders have left bid, PM them and write them something like this, change the wordings please..

===========================================================================================================================

Hello “bidder Name”

Thank you for showing interest in our project. Before we hire anyone in our company, we go through a series of questions which we expect to get a reply within the given time frame which would help us classify every bidder on the scale of 10 because we have well over 90 bidders and we would like to give everyone a fair chance and not just hire a bidder based on reviews.

Time Frame we expect to get a reply : 1-2 days

Your Name

Your Country

Age

Years of Experience Writing

Info about Old clients

Degrees and certifications

Hours you can work weekly

Are you ok writing articles on adult material?

Are you ok writing articles on sports material?

Provide us one unique article of about 500 - 550 words on the topic of “YOUR NICHE”, this must not be an old article from your old client or a copy version from the internet, our team of proofreaders go through your work in order to rate you in your writing skills.

Mode of payment you prefer Paypal or Escrow

Number of articles you can provide weekly

Turn around time of articles

Your pricing

And any other background info that you can provide that will help us make a positive decision on your case.

Sincerely

YourFirmName

=============================================================================================================================

Points to be noted ——-

1. In “YOUR NICHE” give them the exact article title that you want written.

2. Change the title for your article to each next bidder but keep the questions same. You want to make sure you get 100-200 different articles and not the same.

3. You may ask why da heck I have asked them all these stupid questions? Well simple I am trying to be formal and trying to show that we care about information and we do not want to hire anyone, further I have slipped in the REAL QUESTION within all those stupid meaningless questions. As you can see our point is to get a free sample article from them, if I were to ask it straight they will get sort of suspicious but what I have done is provided tons of questions then slipped it in between and further I did not end the list of questions after it, I asked 4-5 other questions to keep the flow. The human brain is too weak to handle it, they read through it so fast and because the first 4-5 questions are so innocent one that the 6th one slips through as 5 > 1, but not only that the way brain works and the way this sort of job “article writer” works they do not have time to think much about it, they get the point and they think you are legit.

4. Once you get the article from each writer, just send them a PM saying thank you for prompt reply, we will get back to you as soon as possible. Then ignore them and move on to other bidders.

5. TIP - If you get bidders with 100+ reviews just ignore them, they usually know the trick and you will have few so just ignore it, but this system will fool even those suckers but just to be safe I usually ignore and go after all the other bidders with low profile.

6. Once you get the article you can submit it to AssociateContent and get cash for it. But in order to get cash for your Article you must have an account that is from USA, so the trick is to create an account and select country as USA they never verify it, so if you are canadian or african or indian or from somewhere else just choose USA anyways.

7. You should at minimum get 50 Unique artilces of 500 - 550 words. Which in today’s market at minimum is $4 per 500 and if you do 50 x 4 = $200, so you will have a $170 profit + more if you submit it to AssociateContent.

Now this system is in hands of well over 1500 people on my list now, so I hope you guys will use creativity and not just spam GAF but all the other sites that work like GAF, such as Elance etc.

Also change the wordings and after each time make a new account and make up a new listing and just make your demands specific.

MAKE A NEW EMAIL JUST FOR GAF ACCOUNT DO NOT USE YOUR OLD ONES YOU WILL GET IN TROUBLE, USE NEW ACCOUNTS IT TAKES 2 MINUTES TO GET A NEW GMAIL ACCOUNT.

Had to emphasize that…

[CREATED BY SOME DUDE THAT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THIS SITE: www.blackhatguidez.net]

METHOD #2 [GRAY HAT]:

Fake Info (some work involved, great traffic outcome)

I remember a guy a while back who made a fake blog post. You probably think: what are you talking about? It was a real blog post… but it had fake information that couldn’t be proven wrong. If you don’t understand, keep reading while I explain how to do it and then you will definitely get it:

What you want to do. Find something that is really unknown… like one example is “icy tower hacks”. Most people that play Icy Tower know nothing about hacking software/games. So you could post on your blog:

How To Get Super Jump on Icy Towers - JUMP 100 Floors!

Open Icy Tower Folder

Create a new file name “asdfg.txt”

Change the name of “icytower.ddl” to “icy-towers.ddl”

type: <jump action>==super/ddl.vb.edit.file</jump> in  “asdfg.txt”

Run Icy Tower

Close it

rename icy-towers.ddl back to icytowers.ddl

Play and jump 100 floors!

(this is based on a real blog post)

See how stupid that was. It doesn’t even make sense!!!!!!!! but guess what. People will fall for stuff like that. One guy on BHW talked about a glitch in digg where you can automatically get you site dugg when you visit the page. But he didn’t want to share it. (it was less than 100 words)

This is an EASY way to get content that is short and will get you lots of backlinks!

[CREATED BY ME]

METHOD #3 [WHITE HATE]:

Use a Freelancing Site! (Money Involved)

Here is a good list a the best freelancing sites:

1. GetAFreelancer
2. Elance
3. Project4Hire
4. Digital Point Forums (BST section)
5. Guru

All you have to do is sign up and start hiring!

[CREATED BY NOBODY]

Thanks for reading! We appriciate backlinks, bookmarks, and comments! I hope you enjoyed it!

Hey, this is an eBook that comes with  full rights (sorry for the weird font, I’m too lazy to change it):

[YES] Can be packaged with other products
[YES] Can be offered as a bonus
[YES] Can be edited completely and your name put on it
[YES] Can be used as web content
[YES] Can be broken down into smaller articles
[YES] Can be added to an e-course or autoresponder
[YES] Can be added to membership sites
[YES] Can be offered through auction sites
[YES] Can sell Resale Rights
[YES] Can sell Master Resale Rights
[YES] Can sell Private Label Rights
[YES] Can be given away

and here it is. (I just copy and pasted it)

STUMBLE UPON EXPOSED

What Is StumbleUpon.com?

StumbleUpon is a popular social bookmarking community, owned by eBay that is used by thousands of people all over the world. As a member of StumbleUpon, you are able to rate websites, video clips, articles, photos and more. Members within the community are known as ‘stumblers’, and they highlight websites that they have frequented by clicking on the “Stumble!” button that is located in the toolbar of their browser.

The more ‘stumbles” a website receives, the more popular it becomes throughout the StumbleUpon community, and in turn, the more traffic it will experience from the constant exposure of new Stumbles.

In essence, StumbleUpon is a recommendation-based system powered by the members who visit websites and decide which ones are worthy of a notable stumble.

There is also a one-click blogging ability built in as well. Users can rate, or choose not to rate, any webpage with thumbs up or thumbs down options.

Clicking the Stumble button resembles “channel-surfing” the web with a series of websites in a system rotation of sorts. In addition, there are tool-bars available for those who wish to simplify their “stumbling” by implementing an existing toolbar into their browser. Then, with just a single click they can rate the websites they visit.

They can also provide a personal review on your website and categorize it based on the subject matter, all within a few seconds of visiting a site.

To get started, you will have to create a Stumble Upon account:

Create Your StumbleUpon account at:

http://www.stumbleupon.com/sign_up.php

Currently, there are tool-bars available for Firefox, and Internet Explorer.

As soon as you have created your StumbleUpon account, you will be given the option to download the toolbar. I suggest doing so.

Once you have it installed, you will see a button that will allow you to stumble (highlight for others to view), sites based on your selected preferences and options as indicated in your StumbleUpon account profile.

Just visit your website and click on the “I Like It!” button (with the Thumbs Up icon) that appears in your browser toolbar. This will open a pop-up window that allows you to rate it, and categorize your site, with a short description and tag with specific keywords.

Once you do this, your site will be entered into StumbleUpon’s database instantly, and will appear when other users with similar interests (as the tags you use) use their StumbleUpon toolbar to surf the Internet.

Not Seeing The Pop Up Rating Box?

When you, yourself Stumble Upon a new site that hasn’t been found or rated before, and you click on the “I Like It!” button, the pop up window will appear. If you rate a site that already exists in the Stumble Upon database, this window will not appear although you can still rate the site and you can also see what other Stumblers have found and rate it as well.

How Can StumbleUpon Benefit Me?

If you are looking to send a surge of traffic to a new website or blog, Stumbleupons advertising options may be a lucrative and easy way to achieve instant results.

StumbleUpon Ads allows webmasters to submit a page on their sites or blogs that is shown to StumbleUpon users as they stumble through a series of websites. It has quickly become a popular choice for bloggers who wish to advertise their new blogs, as the traffic received is purely organic, the best type of traffic you can get.

The cost is also quite reasonable at just 5 cents per impression, meaning, for as little as $5.00 in advertising credit, you can receive 100 Stumble Upon users visit and review your website.

It’s also an easy advertising vehicle, in fact, it doesn’t even require you to manually create advertisements, but instead, you simply select a website URL that you would like the traffic directed to.

Advertising with StumbleUpon is also quite flexible. You can target your pages to be seen throughout specific categories, or base it on demographics. This enables you to really target who sees specific pages .

As for price setting, you can choose your maximum daily spending limit, to ensure that you stay within your intended budget, and best of all, you can pay using either a credit card or via Paypal, if you choose.

Note: If you are particularly careful when creating your ad campaigns and target your visitors as best as you can, expect to receive a lot more traffic then you actually paid for. The more people who like your website when they visit (and therefore “Stumble! – it”) the more traffic you will continue to get, at no extra cost. Therefore, be careful when targeting specific categories, groups or demographics.

As an advertiser, you will be given full stats including a visible chart on how many visitors actually viewed your website, how many gave you a “Thumbs Up!” (or down) and so on. This helps you test the effectiveness of your ad-copy and modify if needed.

It’s truly a great source of traffic. In fact, traffic is quite long term. I am still receiving traffic for web pages that I stumbled weeks ago.

How Popular Is StumbleUpon?

StumbleUpon is growing at a rapid pace (currently over 3,000,000 members), and considering eBay and Google were in a bidding war to obtain the site, you might say it’s rather popular.

However, the potential for targeted, organic and steady traffic with StumbleUpon is quite under-estimated, especially by newer bloggers who aren’t aware of just how feasible social networks like StumbleUpon really is.

Don’t make the same mistake. An ad campaign doesn’t have to have loads of activity to become a popular choice by Stumblers. All you need are a handful of “Thumbs Up” to reach hundreds of visitors.

The key is to focus on designing your website so that it attracts your Stumbler visitors within the first few seconds of their landing on your page. Sometimes, that’s all the time you have to make an impression and encourage them to vote for you, or to return to your site.

Here are some tips that will help you capture their attention:

Tip #1: Clearly Define Your Blogs Subject Matter

You need to be clear about the subject matter of your blog. If your blog looks cluttered, or has too many categories, it could confuse the visitor and end up costing you a vote. Be exceptionally clear about what your blog is about. If your visitor can see exactly what your blog is about within the first few minutes of visiting, they are more likely to stay and look around, not to mention return to your site.

Tip #2: Eye Candy

Every aspect of your blog is important, especially the header. That is one of the first things your visitors see. Make sure it is crisp and attractive. If you are unable to create a customized header yourself, hire a graphic designer to do it for you – it’s THAT important.

This also goes with your blog’s theme template. You want one that actually represents the subject of your blog but is also attractive and professional. Don’t use the theme that comes by default with your blog, take the time to scout out an alternative replacement so that your blog appears to be unique.

Tip #3: Content Is King

Don’t start advertising your blog until you have enough content to justify a visit. You want your visitor to spend as much time on your site as possible, so be sure to include at least a few categories and at least two weeks worth of content, to start.

Tip #4: Pretend You Have A Captive Audience

Be sure to put your best effort into your blog. Even while you might feel as though you are talking to yourself when you first create your blog (and most likely you are), remember that every article, every bit of content that you publish must be interesting to those in your niche.

Do not skip this by plugging in saturated PLR articles that you purchased somewhere. Take the time to write your own stuff, people WILL notice the difference.

If you follow these tips you WILL increase your chances of having a successful advertising campaign with StumbleUpon. Taking the time to create the best blog possible will indicate to your Stumbler-Visitors that your blog is a useful resource that is both informative and unique. If they feel they can get the same information elsewhere, why would they stay at your site?

Tip #5: Copy From Those That “Do”

Check out what types of headlines the most popular sites in your niche market are using and simply design your headline to use a similar style.

Don’t Just Pay For Traffic – Earn It

You don’t want to continuously purchase traffic via StumbleUpon that should never be your ultimate goal. Instead, you should utilize the advertising services there to jumpstart your blog traffic with the goal being to encourage Stumblers to vote for you, which will in turn, push other visitors to your site, for free.

Some bloggers fail to do this and end up paying for traffic longer than they would need to, if they just focused on creating a useful blog. Even though the advertising costs are lower than typical PPC campaigns, you can save a ton of cash if you make your blog worthy of a stumble.

Set your blog in motion and watch the traffic continue to pour in, day after day!

Catch Them Before The Next Stumble

Since stumblers are similar to television channel surfers, you might not be able to hold their attention for long, no matter how compelling or interesting your content may be. To get the most out of their visit, offer a subscription form on your site where you offer a free report, eCourse, something – Anything – to encourage them to leave their information.

That way, you can work on growing your list as well as growing your site.

Your subscription box should be placed in a highly visible area of your blog. You should also utilize graphics, or compelling headlines to make sure it’s noticed.

Take Baby Steps

Don’t spend a ton of cash on your first StumbleUpon ad campaign, instead, test your ad copy with just a small spend. Once you see it working, you can increase your daily budget.

Be sure to pay attention to the available stats to determine how many people voted for your site and continuously tweak it for the best performance you can get out of it. Testing isn’t fun but it’s important because you want to get the most votes you can. Once you are consistently receiving votes, you will start receiving a flood of organic traffic and when that happens, be prepared to pause your campaign before you purchase traffic for nothing.

What To Avoid

Some bloggers believe that sending Stumblers to the very front page of their blog is the best choice, when advertising with StumbleUpon. I would suggest that instead; create a landing page specifically for each campaign. If Stumblers have to seek out solid content, they’ll be gone before you know it, assuming it’s a paid advertisement or sales pitch.

Solution:
Choose a thread or page that carefully relates to your specific group of visitors (using categories and demographics), and choose a post that you feel is absolutely compelling. Make it spicy, entertaining, controversial, whatever you have to do to make that page stick and become ‘viral’.

Also remember to add your sites to StumbleUpon by creating an ‘alias’ account and Stumbling onto your own pages, after first checking to see if they have already been Stumbled.

You can check by visiting:

http://reviews.stumbleupon.com/

No Ads

Do not fill your landing page with banner ads, text ads or any ads whatsoever other than perhaps Adsense, but be careful with that as well. As a Stumbler myself, if I come across a website that looks like Adsense is their primary content provider, I will not stay there and might even consider giving it a “Thumbs Down”.

Inappropriate Categories

Make sure if you “Stumble” your own websites that you choose the appropriate categories to put them under. Remember when people stumble onto sites and rate them, they are given the option to categorize them based on the subject matter. If you incorrectly categorize your website, it will get poor reviews from visitors feeling cheated or misdirected.

You’re A Stumbler, Not A Salesmen

Make sure that your writing is personable and friendly. Do not come across as a salesmen, Stumblers aren’t out looking for things to buy, you need to earn that by first capturing their attention and drawing them in deeper. This is why I suggest writing articles instead of directing them to your front page. You need to GIVE them something, make them feel that they are benefiting by rating your site and returning to it.

How can I convert a Stumbler into a regular visitor?

One thing you will need to understand right from the start, is that you lose the majority of “Stumbler visitors” once they have reviewed your front page.

That being said, StumbleUpon can send you SO much traffic that even if a small percentage are converted into subscribers or regular visitors, it more than makes up for it.

Here is how you can increase your chances of obtaining new regular visitors and opt-in subscribers using Stumble Upon.

Tip #1) Make certain you have an RSS button AND an opt-in email subscription box visible on your landing page. Don’t clutter it into some side-bar that is difficult to see, make sure it’s upfront and center, surrounded around good, solid content.

Also, because a lot of visitors will be scrollers, make sure to have a link to your opt-in box towards the bottom of your landing page as well.

Tip #2) Implore a Call For Action

Either direct them to a product or service using a cloaked affiliate link, send them through a CPA offer, send them to another one of your websites, articles, or blogs - just be sure to prompt them to take action.

Don’t leave them wondering what to do next.

Tip #3) If possible, and you have created a customized landing page for your StumbleUpon advertising, personalize it by mentioning StumbleUpon on your page. For example:

“Stumbled Across Any Decent Sites Today?”

They’ll love it, and feel you are part of the community and not just some advertiser. This will increase your conversion rate significantly.

Recommended Free Resource:

I would also strongly suggest, that if you use WordPress you consider installing the plugin, “What Would Seth Godein Do?”. It’s a plug-in that encourages all new website visitors to subscribe to your feed.

You can get it here

Tip #4) Everyone Loves Contests

Create a contest on your landing page. Who doesn’t love the chance to win a free digital product, cash, service, etc? Have them opt-into your subscription box to be entered into your draw. This is an easy way to convert one-time traffic into repeat visitors who want to find out more about the contest or receive updates.

Getting Traffic From StumbleUpon At No Cost

SureFire Method #1

Multiple Accounts For Multiple Niches

You should always have one account for each niche market that you intend to target (example, one account for fitness, one account for health, etc). There are also categories that you can pre-select using StumbleUpon and this is critical for the type of niches that you would like to obtain traffic from. You will need a unique username (which is an email address) for each StumbleUpon account that you create.

IMPORTANT NOTE:
If you are logged into one StumbleUpon account and you attempt to create another, you will receive a warning advising you that you may lose your original account by creating multiple accounts, so be sure to log out of one account before creating a new one.

Sure-Fire Method #2

Copy Already Successful Stumbled Sites

If you look on a person’s favorite website list you can see what people have recommended in the past. Use that to your advantage! You won’t see a lot of squeeze pages or one page sales letters. Check it out for yourself and see the types of landing pages that are popular and are highly recommended by other members.

Then, create your landing page with the same style or layout.

Sure-Fire Method #3

This is a great way to build your list quickly and people are already doing this on places like YouTube with great results. To start, create a short video teaser clip and call it Part One, with a link that indicates in order to see Part Two, they need to enter their name and email address into your opt-in form.

Try it out and see how fast you build your list =)

Sure-Fire Method #4

StumbleUpon allows you to join groups and choose friends with similar interests. Be certain to only add friends who are interested in your niche market!

For instance, if you are promoting a Health related blog, you should only add friends who have similar interests listed, since you are able to recommend they visit the sites you stumble (and of course, you are going to Stumble your own =)

Joining a few groups relating to your subject matter is a great way to obtain instant traffic to your blog. Look for the larger, more popular groups.

Remember, the more friends you have, the more traffic your website will receive, since the more people will view your recommendations and visit your listed sites, but if you want TARGETED traffic (and you should) choosing only those within your niche categories is the only thing that makes sense.

Warning: Be Careful With The Friends You Add!

StumbleUpon restricts the number of friends each of your accounts can have, currently it is a 250 maximum limit, therefore be sure to only add friends from categories that serve your niche market.

Make Money With StumbleUpon:

You can make easy money with StumbleUpon and CPA offers. You can also build your list quickly this way.

Locate good solid CPA offers, and then write interesting articles about the product, prompting them to take action by clicking on your CPA link. I have found that building articles that are focused on “How To” guides, or “Lists (example: Five Sure-fire Ways To Get Traffic, Ten Super-Charged Methods Of Building Profitable Blogs, etc) work best.

Also, limit the number of links on your article page so that the only links visible are ones that will lead them to an offer where you get paid.

What To Expect:

How many visitors you get will depend on the way you have created your landing page, but on average, expect to receive between 100-8000 daily unique visitors.

STUMBLE EXCHANGES

There are StumbleUpon related exchange programs available where you can create a free account and exchange ‘stumbles’ with other members (you stumble their site, they stumble yours).

http://www.stumblexchange.com

http://www.linkyme.com/faststumbles/

http://www.avuw.com/index.asp?page=register

Other free ways to get your site stumbled without having it tied to your account (so people don’t see you are stumbling your own site) is to exchange stumbles with other people. You can find free-stumble offers at:

NamePros: http://www.NamePros.com

Digital Point Forum: http://www.digitalpoint.com (not anymore, they are no longer allowed here so please don’t

Site Point: http://www.SitePoint.com

Remember, this will not be targeted traffic but it’s a great way to jump-start your stumble campaigns!

I hope you have enjoyed the information contained with the Stumble Upon Traffic Guide. Being both an advertiser and stumbler of the Stumble Upon community can be an enjoyable and rewarding way to browse interesting websites while promoting your own.

Have Fun Stumbling and Being Stumbled!

Thanks to one of my favorite people on BHW, lamlam, we have all these cracked softwares:

Facebook Friend Bomber

Friendster Friend Bomber

MySpace Friend Bomber

YouTube Friend Bomber

Bebo Blaster Pro

Tagged Blaster Pro

They’re all basically the same thing except for different social networking sites.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Download
2. Unzip and extract (use WinZip or WinRAR)
3. Open folder
4. Open next folder
5. Open the exe file (not the one that starts with “w”)
6. It will look like the trial version but it’s not. Click Register
7. Click Continue
8. Google the software to find out how to use it

I usually say You’re Welcome and the end of posts that I share files and software, but this time I am going to say Thank You lamlam!

As of today, My site will be back up! Sorry for the inconvinience.

DO NOT EXPECT UPDATES FOR A FEW DAYS. I’M LEAVING THE SITE ONLINE SO THAT YOU CAN STILL VIEW THE CONTENT ON IT!

THANK YOU!

Hi,

There is so many things I could post onto this blog. I really don’t know where to start. So I’m going to ask YOU! If there is something you want to know how to do, just post it here as a comment or on the contact us form, please keep it website/online-money related. I will consider all requests but reserve the right to not answer whichever ones I choose not to.

Thanks for visiting my blog!

(P.S. The response will be posted on this blog)

I was searching around for some tools that will help me create bulk email accounts and I found this freeware:

http://rs260.rapidshare.com/files/110660315/Gmail_Yahoo_Creators.rar

I’ve used both of them and they both work. I don’t like the gmail one that much, but it’s good for freeware. I think the best account creator bots are ones you buy (or ones that are cracked). If you are interested in buying, here are a few I came across:

• Jiffy Creator (GMAIL)
• YH Account Creator (YAHOO)

You can also just google it!

Your Welcome and Thanks for Reading My Blog!

I am not the creator of this method and I don’t want to take credit for it. This is a unique method that I found out about on BHW, then modified it so that it is more reliable. I’ve gotten a lot off complaints about my last black hat method that I posted, so I would like to say this before I tell it to you: Black Hat = unethical and against “the rules”. You can get banned from whatever site you use it to take advantage of. If you get caught with this, you can get banned from adsense. I highly doubt, however, that you will get caught with this method. It is pretty much untraceable because of the use of torrents. So for those of you who don’t mind making some money, read on:

Most torrent methods involve PPI (Pay Per Install), but this one uses PPC (Pay Per Click) [For Example: Adsense]. The first thing I’m going to do is explain to you what torrents are, how to make them, and how to use them.

Torrents are small files that are used in P2P (Peer 2 Peer) file sharing. Say you have a file that you want to share, you could create a torrent that links to that file. Once you create the torrent then you become a seed. Now say that you want to send the torrent to you friend so that he can download it. Your friend would use his torrent software to download the file through the torrent and he would be called a leacher (because he would be leaching the file through you, a seed). Once it’s finished downloading, he would become another seed so that new people can leach of you and him. You might be thinking So? How does this help me make money? and I’ll tell you! Torrents don’t have to only contain one file. They can contain as many as you want, so you can send people the file they want and a little extra something.