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Low Quality Traffic from Social Media

Discussion in 'Social Networks' started by mattkpeters, May 9, 2008.

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    I have noticed on my own site and on the blogs of some of my clients that there is an extremely high bounce rate on traffic from StumbleUpon. What methods (if any) are people using to decrease bounce rate from your social media traffic?

    Thoughts and discussion greatly appreciated...
     
    mattkpeters, May 9, 2008 IP
  2. snowbird

    snowbird Notable Member

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    You need some very very good content to get the attention of visitors coming from SU. And even if you do that, the traffic quality will still be poor.

    Good luck
     
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    wokaka Peon

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    Yes. And don't forget not all niches work well with social media sites.
     
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    magda Notable Member

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    Stumbleupon is always like that - think about how people are using it.
    Look at a website *click* next one
    *click* *click* *click*
    It's very rare for anything on stumbleupon to get looked at for more than a couple of seconds.
    That's why people use it, so they can stumble through loads of sites very quickly.
     
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    HostColor Well-Known Member

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    Social media are places where you reach General audience!
     
    HostColor, May 9, 2008 IP
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    Ikaruga Active Member

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    You're better off with trying to use Digg and targeting a smaller niche within it.
     
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    mattkpeters Peon

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    I use many social media sites (including digg). I have gotten 3 things to the front page of Digg in the past couple of months and the swell of traffic was great, but still had a very low conversion rate because once you hit front page, there is really no targeting going on. I think there are going to be some good steps forward on this front by places like Mixx where even the "front page" is still highly segmented.
     
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    angilina Notable Member

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    Traffic from social bookmarking sites is like automated traffic.

    This traffic do not help much in increasing the earnings. Try to get traffic from search engines.
     
    angilina, May 9, 2008 IP
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    If the content deserve the quality to get noticed, it will.
     
    bobchrist, May 10, 2008 IP
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    Wayne Liew Banned

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    Prompt an action such as subscribing to your blog for some goodies that you offer all the time to your readers.
     
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    PlateFish Banned

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    Viral stuff works with SU. Nothing else does.

    I get 200 visitors from SU in one day on my site that only gets ~30 uniques a day. 80% bounce rate and 20 seconds average time on the site. Don't even bother with it.
     
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    Find related ones. That would work better.
     
    webcosmo, May 10, 2008 IP
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    Absolutely amazing content will help decrease bounce rate of the social networks traffic.
    I would focus on getting traffic from search engines as it converts much better ;)
     
    zexy, May 10, 2008 IP