{"id":370,"date":"2008-09-09T17:31:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T00:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wellmedicated.com\/?p=370"},"modified":"2009-01-30T14:35:01","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T21:35:01","slug":"how-i-got-100000-pageviews-for-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wellmedicated.com\/how-i-got-100000-pageviews-for-25\/","title":{"rendered":"How I got 100,000 Pageviews for $25"},"content":{"rendered":"

The newbie blogger is faced with quite the “chicken and egg” conundrum.\u00a0 It’s tough to write something that you think nobody will ever read, but in order to be read it first must be written.\u00a0 It’s a catch 22 made in heaven.<\/p>\n

I, too, was feeling the newbie blogger blues.\u00a0 After spending 8 hours researching, writing and assembling a blog post about Polish film posters<\/a>, I awoke the next day to a whopping two visits<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Now I know these things take time but c’mon!\u00a0 I decided to take measures into my own hands…<\/p>\n

Stumbleupon – the gift that keeps on giving.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wanting to get the best bang for my buck (and not having many bucks to use in the first place) I opted to utilize StumbleUpon Advertising<\/a> as my weapon of choice.\u00a0 I setup a campaign in about 30 seconds, shelled over 25 bones and watched a couple hundred people quickly come and go – and I do mean quickly<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Then I thought to use demographic targeting.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I paused the campaign at about 350 views and around 4 “stumbles”.\u00a0 That’s not too bad, but I noticed that 3 of the 4 stumblers were male<\/em> and between 18 and 30<\/em> years old.\u00a0 With only a 150 paid views left, I tweaked my campaign to only show the article to males between 18 and 30.<\/p>\n

The article ended up getting more stumbles from the last 150 targeted viewers than the first 350.\u00a0 Demographic targeting is a genius component to the Stumbleupon advertising machine, use it.<\/p>\n

From there it spread like wild fire.
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Well, maybe not “wild” fire per se… more like a reasonably paced “city” fire.\u00a0 The beauty of Stumbleupon is that it’s designed around the viral nature of the internet.<\/p>\n

Some very kind people told their friends, submitted the article to other social networks and wrote about it on their own blogs.\u00a0 The article has been featured on quite a few higher profile sites and just recently was on the front page of delicious.com.<\/p>\n

But craziest of all, today the article has passed 100,000 views!\u00a0 It’s safe to say that it all<\/strong> stemmed from those original 500 visitors.<\/p>\n

That’s $25 well spent I’d say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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