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Sitehoppin is a cross between a paid-for Wiki, like the Million Dollar Wiki, StumbleUpon and Entrecard all rolled into one. 
And does it deliver. I bought a couple of pages from Max, the founder of Sitehoppin.com, and I am not disappointed in the least. I got 2,916 unique page views to our two sites in the last week. Max has also offered the viewers of the Unconventional Marketing Blog a 25% discount on all purchases using the affiliate link I have provided, here.
Getting Started
First, I signed up for a login to the site and got to know the layout. Being one of the first people to join in purchasing beer shares from the site, I had the pick of any word(s), letters or numbers I wanted. I picked a small handful of numbers and relevant words for my site (1-10, MLM, Marketing, Dogs, so on). I believe that some of the alphabet is still available, otherwise double numbers and letters are easy. I think first picking up a couple of good keywords for your blog would be the best. The pricing breaks down like this.
I spent about $40 on different shares that I listed above. Spending $40 for the 3,000 page views comes out to about $.013 per page view, and every day that drops. Each Beer Share that you purchase is equal to one page. That page can then be left alone and content will be provided for it, or you can have it redirect to a page on your site. I picked about 10 different high quality articles to be linked to. After you purchase your share(s) on Sitehoppin and set up your page by linking it to whatever site you chose, that site and page will start receiving traffic to it. How does that work?
Driving traffic
Driving traffic to your site is really simple. Your page can receive two different types of traffic from Sitehoppin. The first is by people randomly landing on your page when they hit the Site Hoppin button shown in the picture. The second way is to purchase Beer Shares.
What’s the difference between randomly hopping your page and buying Beer Shares?
Beer Share pages on Sitehoppin will receive 30% of the total traffic. This means your page and the others like it that have been purchased will receive about 1/3 of the traffic on Sitehoppin. That might not seem like a lot, but there are 95,000 pages submitted to Sitehoppin (at the time of writing). Currently, 80 Beer Shares have been bought from Sitehoppin. These 80 pages are getting 1/3 of the traffic from the whole site. Every time I log in to the site I see at least 40 registered users logged in and about 2,000 non-registered. With an Alexa rank of 17K, I know Sitehoppin is getting the traffic it boasts. I have had 3,000 page views to our sites from Sitehoppin in the last week. I don’t think there is another place that you can by a few $1 pages (Beer Shares) and get that kind of return. The fact that the traffic keeps coming in and I have invested nothing more also means that it is consistent. It is easy to see that as more people start Sitehoppin, good steady traffic will be generated.
Other benefits
• You can site hop on your iPod Touch or iPhone.
• You can submit each article you create, like StumbleUpon without the backlash.
• Watch the creator of the site with all of his funny video posts.
• Sell Beer Shares for real money, Buy Low, Sell High.
• Set Sitehoppin on “slideshow mode,” in order to surf the web in fixed intervals. It is real easy and fun
• Drop Entrecards while gaining traffic for your own site with “Tag Hoppin.”
• Gain free traffic from your own “Beer Widget.”
Results
I have gotten far more traffic from Sitehoppin when compared to Entrecard. The bounce rate between the two sites is comparable. The major advantage Sitehoppin has over Entrecard is the amount of time invested. I probably spend 1/4 the time on Sitehoppin for the same number of visitors. The Ability to Tag Hop on Sitehoppin allows you to collect Entrecredits and gain extra traffic by collecting beer credits (very cool, two birds one stone). Hurry, while it lasts, because this site is giving away a lot of traffic to be kept hidden.
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Josh,
Thanks for the discount I am a stock holder! Cool idea and looks like fun!
Nice review. I also own a few stocks.
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Wow, you sure like beer. I’m not a big alcoholic, but it’s a cool idea nonetheless.
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That’s funny, because I actually don’t drink. But I guess you could say I get drunk off of traffic
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It only takes a couple of bucks to really drive some traffic to your site continually. Plus my bounce rate is half that of Entrecard.
Josh, I think it’s interesting how the Internet is evolving. As I was reading your post and thinking about how funny it seems to me that people are paying for traffic now. I wondered where the readers come from for Site Hopping. I was there a couple of times and could not figure out how to look at more than one site. I’m sure I was just missing something.
Then I wondered what sites would likely join it. Most likely they would be sites about making money, SEO and marketing. For me there are only a couple of such sites I want to read. So many of them are copies of each other.
So, if your main sites and readers are all creating the same content are they really reading anything or is it all just more click through traffic? Do you think anyone is reading your site as they pass through? Seems a shame to pay for traffic if all it does is give a rise to your hit counter.
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I have to say that the traffic from Sitehoppin is better than the traffic from Entrecard. Visitors from Sitehoppin are more in number and have half the bounce rate of Entrecard. My bounce rate from EC is about 87% whereas SH is about 45%. That is almost half. I also have noticed an uptick in comments on posts, small but noticeable. So if a few bucks saves me an hour each day (dropping cards) and has better results. I might as well spend $10 bucks a day on Sitehoppin. Time = Money that is the least I feel that I am worth. I should probably make a post out of this.
Hi Josh, I believe there are 2 types of traffic from Sitehoppin, the viewers and the visitors. As mentioned in my blog, for the past 5 days, I received about 356 viewers (as shown by the number of hops) and 64 visitors (as shown in Feedburner). So are your refering to viewers or visitors? Thanks.
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