Cheers
Davin

Thanks for the tip

For some reason my blog doesn’t like your comments when they include URLs. Here are the URLs you provided

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZnYRaQfjK4
http://www.semlabs.co.uk/rank-check/

I like your idea and I will see if I can come up with a good use for it. Thanks

Personally, I think your viral ideas will be more successful if you make it appear that there is no real benefit in it for you. Saw a good video by Seth Godin speaking at Google about getting people to care about your brand as the best way to market yourself. I have been aware of this for some time, but Seth has some great insights, personal experiences and cases studies to really expand your understanding in this area.

One viral idea I came up with recently, I’ll give you an example first. I have this site that lets you check your rankings on search engines. I thought I could add a button that would allow people to email their rankings to friends once they have been found. The idea behind this is that people want to brag or inform other people about their own achievements. If you have some article about SEO on your website and it has a button to email it to a friend, it is unlikely that many people will send the article to a friend because it is not about them. If you can create personalised information about them on your site that they will be proud of they are much more likely to tell other people. The instigator may be someone who only uses the internet for poking and email, they might not use Digg, have a blog etc., but the people they send it to might have a Digg account, a blog etc. Using this method could potentially tap into a new source of promotion that is hard to use – people who don’t have the ability to link or bookmark, but do have an email account.

I can’t really think of any other good instances of where this could be used, but i’m sure a seasoned marketer like yourself could come up with something.

Out of interest, how much success have you had with viral marketing?

I just laid out a plan and started testing. I thought it would be good to share these tips as I discover them, vesus later when they might not be as effective.

Will Stumble reconsider if its moved to an entirely different page, or will there be a cool-off period for the whole site?

You can submit the page with a new URL and it will be treated like a new one (after they approve it).

You will probably want to make the changes to the actual page and keep running the same campaign. Why? If you resubmit the same content with a new URL, the page can be seen again by the same users and they will probably vote you down. Not good.

Will Stumble reconsider if its moved to an entirely different page, or will there be a cool-off period for the whole site?