I know a secret. A secret that led to over 1500 subscribers to my blog in just 2 days. And if you pay attention and do what is required, you too can get the same results. (Only by the Will of Allah, of course)
Do you have a blog that’s kind of slow with traffic? Want more people to review your posts on Stumble Upon? Need more Muslims to come to your website? Read on…
Let’s be honest with each other: why would I want to expose my awesome secret to everyone for free? Well, for one, I too have something to gain. (And because I’m nice. And if you disagree, I hate you.) As all of you now know, I have just officially registered my PR company, Minbar Media. This is a PR company aimed at doing public relations work for Muslims.
In order for me to better serve you, we need to develop a way to reach the Muslim masses quickly and efficiently. What does this have to do with my secret? If done properly, not only will this help YOU drive traffic, subscriptions and potential customers to your websites but this will help develop a new era of Islamic Marketing and Advertising.
So what did I do to get these results?
Welcome to the beginning of a HUGE, genius campaign - and it all starts here at EgyptianGumbo.com.
So, bloggers, stumblers and Muslims, this one’s for you:
A couple of days ago I wrote my “Hijab Challenge” post. The attention it got afterward was not what I expected. That, in turn, lead hundreds of people to my site (by the way, welcome :P.) Afterward, I did what I normally would do and submit my posts to Stumble Upon, only this time instead of submitting it to the usual “Islam” category I submitted it to a different category. (you’ll only be able to know the category if you follow the next steps)
Anyway, the result was over 2,000 new people coming to my site via Stumble Upon in a period of 2 days (hey Stumblers :).)
And just to see if this method really worked, I tried it again with some of my previous posts on the Leechon Films Blog. Sure enough, 20 minutes later about 127 people had already come via Stumble Upon.
WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO TO GET THESE RESULTS? Just keep reading:
OK, so what exactly IS this campaign? We need to educate Muslims on Stumble Upon. Why? The very fact that posting my posts in a category other than “Islam” –which in turn drove so much more traffic to my site– shows the lack of Muslims using these social networking sites.
The result was in an increase in traffic and subscribers (which is all great), but not my primary target audience; Muslims.
The more Muslims that use Stumble Upon and who are active in pressing the “Thumbs up” or “Thumbs down” button, the more our content will be read by our target audience; the Muslim masses all over the world. Thus, driving more traffic, subscribers and consumers to our sites.
More importantly, in order for Muslims to really get stronger — especially in the West — we need to know how to take advantage of these sites and use them to their full potential- so those Islamic articles you’ve written for the Sake of Allah, imagine how many more people will be able to read them and how much more ajr you can get, truly this is the best way to utilize these sites. So, after consulting with the PR team, we agreed that we should launch a PR campaign aimed at educating Muslims on “new media”– specifically, Stumble Upon.
WHAT TO DO:
Alhamdulillah, I had already written a post on the Leechon Blog on what Stumble Upon is and a tutorial on how to use it.
So if you haven’t already registered with Stumble Upon, go ahead and read this post I made and follow along:
“Stumble Upon Something Addictive: New Media Part 2”
Once you have the Stumble Upon Toolbar, go ahead and add the “Islam” category to your interests. Then, go ahead and give this post a thumbs up (to spread it around) and then post something on YOUR blog or website about this campaign. And tell all your friends that also have blogs and websites to do the same. Finally after this done, let me know and i’ll let you know exactly which categories I’ve observed get the most traffic via Stumble Upon.
The potential result?
-immediate attention to the campaign, increase in traffic and subscriptions to your blog, very rapid educating of Muslims around the world, and the ability to reach and connect to our brothers and sisters everywhere
Long post, I know. But it’s sooo worth it… inshaAllah.
Shirien
Stumble it!
April 30th, 2008 at 3:06 am
Great Post!
I think maybe you should add a quick addendum showing how exactly to add the Islam category to your “Interests”… it took me a couple minutes, but maybe its just me because its late and I am overwhelmed by the excitement of your PR company
April 30th, 2008 at 3:42 am
Jazak Allah khair Brother!
Ok Before I go into how exactly to add the interests:
Just as a testament to how much this works, It’s only been like 20 min since i first posted this and I’m already up to 1641 Subscribers (from 1500)
So again, do what is above and then let me know and i’ll give you the categories that get the most responses
hehe, i love discovering new things, alhamdulillah.
Ok, So if you’re a little confused as to how to add the “Islam” Category- when you register press the “Home” tab, then go to:
Preferences-> My Interests –> Religion–>Islam
There are a couple of ways to do it, and that is one of them.
wallahu alem. Thanks again for the tip. Lets see this posted EVERYWHERE inshaAllah.
Also remember, that when you write a post about it and when you want to submit it into their database.. all you have to do is press the “I Like It!” button and then fill out the information. the KEY that I want you guys to remember is to submit it into the “Islam” Category. and also in order to catch “Stumblers’” attention… mention them in the title of the post.
pass it on… more secrets and tips later inshaAllah.
April 30th, 2008 at 3:51 am
Stumbleupon is a really important tool for any blogger. As a marketing tool it is even better and easier to get exposure than using digg.com.
Thanks for the post! Inshallah the Islamify Blog will also do a post soon on educating Muslims about the basics of Stumbleupon. Thanks for taking the initiative.
April 30th, 2008 at 4:02 am
[...] and check out sister Shirien’s latest post on EgyptianGumbo.com. She discusses the use of Stumbleupon to increase traffic to her blog and [...]
April 30th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Ok Shiriene…I posted a copy of this in my blog…also directly told other bloggers I know to do the same…I will post their blogs once they do it inshaallah
http://supereid86.blogspot.com/2008/04/secrets-exposed-bloggers-stumblers-and.html
April 30th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
I’ve been using StumbleUpon for months and it has greatly increased my traffic. But I haven’t used it as frequently as I should.
Good post!
April 30th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
[...] Have you used StumbleUpon or heard of it? I’ve been using for months now and it has greatly increased my traffic to my blog, alhamdulillah. They also have many different categories and topics, one of them includes Islam. This is a good opportunity to give a better picture of Islam to a younger audience worldwide that use StumbleUpon. It is also a great dawah tool. The only way it can work successful is if all Muslim Stumblers give a thumbs up for all the Muslim submitted content. For example if you like any of my posts or any other Muslim content online, you should give it a thumbs up and submit it to StumbleUpon. Egyptian Gumbo has written more about this. I highly recommend you to read it here. [...]
April 30th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
mashallah!!
You have a student coming in the next 2 weeks in town….pls make some free time to train her! Inshahallah
Jazak allah khair
April 30th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Please add yourself to the Muslim StumbleUpon list - http://islamcrunch.com/archives/unofficial-official-muslim-stumbleupon-list/
JazakAllahkhair.
April 30th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
keep up the good work everyone! MashaAllah… the more we get the word out the more success we will have, inshaAllah.
Neha, you know i’ll always make time for you! inshaAllah
Br. Mikael,
Thanks for the link, could you explain a little more about your site/project?
April 30th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
You can find out our site here: http://islamcrunch.com/about/
We focus on Muslims involved in tech, web 2.0, events, businesses, social networks, social media and many more in between and surrounding those topics.
April 30th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Alhamdulillah, posted and presented on AlKauthar forums.
forums.alkauthar.org/showthread.php?p=16910#post16910
May 13th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
[...] For details check out Egyptian Gumbo’s post. [...]
June 5th, 2008 at 2:15 am
Wow i just downloaded and installed stumble upon, its great.
Its a great tool to discover new material also to get your material across.
Great post,
Jazakallah
(PEOPLE TAKE ACTION!, Try it!, its free)
Its great
*pinches himself, and stumbles onto leechon film ?