Site Hoppin Review

This is a free review, the owner did not contact me. I recently found out about this service and am sharing it with you.

Are you addicted to StumbleUpon, Digg, Facebook, delicious, and the many other social networks? If so then you might as well just up for Site Hoppin. This service looks to be really great, though I just started not too long ago. I haven’t yet seen my stats for today to see if I got any traffic through Site Hoppin though.

What is Site Hoppin?

Site Hoppin is kind of the new Entrecard in my opinion. You submit your site, and it will be put in to the rotation of sites displayed. You hop from site to site by clicking the Hop button that randomly presents a web page that has been submitted to the database. Right now there are 141 thousand sites and climbing. When you are view a site, you have the option to tag, rate, or comment on the site. This is similar to the way StumbleUpon works.

The point of this program is to earn beer credits. These credits in turn, increase the hits back to your website. Every 10 credits = 1 hop to your site. 1,000 credits = 100 hops to your site, 100,000 credits = 10,000 hops to your site. These hops are their term for hit. So you get 100 hits if you earn 1,000 credits. Let me brake down the ways to get credits:

• Clicking the “Hop” button to view a random site = 1 credit
• Tagging or Commenting on a site while “hopping” = 20 credits
• A new site submission = 30 credits
• A click from your own site through the “Site Hoppin Widget” = 50 credits

Sounds like a lot of work.

Manually clicking the hop button and viewing a site each time requires some dedicated time in front of the computer. Fortunately there is a “Slide Show Mode” that will keep loading page after page. You can set the time between hops. I suggest 20 or 30 seconds. This gives the page time to load, and it is possible they will come up with a method to prevent this abuse. Set the timing to 20 seconds and go to bed, go watch tv, or write a new post on your blog like chose to do. At 20 seconds, that should roughly get you 3 credits per minute, and 180 per hour. 8 hours of sleep will get you about 1440. This will be 144 hits to your site. This equals a little over 4 thousand hits to your site in one month at that rate. You could probably triple that if you use 5 second intervals instead of 20 seconds.

This sounds great!

Getting an extra 4,000 hits per month does sound like a great deal for free. It is kind of like the Bux.to autoclicker. You load it up and let it run in the background while it makes money. The one thing to remember is that not all of the hits/hops are worth anything to you. It may make your stats look better, but there are many people who are doing the same thing. You may be getting a hit, but the person may not even look at your site.

What you want to do is put something catchy at the top portion (above the fold). If you notice the italics at the very beginning of this post, that may be where you want to add something catchy. You could put something in bold/italics, or put an image to grab the viewers attention. Maybe refer back to an old post that is popular. I could say “I am still offering FREE ADVERTISING. Sign up now!“

What is did was use a mesh of tactics. Odds are your first post will show a few lines. Use these few lines to your advantage! I used italics, bolded FREE ADVERTISING (everyone loves free!), and linked to the article. I told wordpress to open that link in a new window because of people using programs like Site Hoppin. They can click that link real fast and not lose it. Hopefully this tactic will bring you more useful hits.

What is Beer Stock?

Beer stock is the Affiliate side of Site Hoppin. This part does cost a little bit of money. I recommend using money from your site, and not out of pocket money. Buy a stock that looks promising, but not too expensive for your budget. Once payment is received, you then have an affiliate link you can give out. Toss this link around in posts, and they even give you a widget with your affiliate code in it once you sign up for a Beer Stock.

Why would I buy Beer Stock?

There are several reasons why you would do this instead of generating credits. When you buy into a stock, you become co-owner and start receiving a percentage of the traffic from Site Hoppin. Beer Stock pages get 33% of Site Hoppin’s traffic. If the site gets 100,000 views per day and there are 100 Beer Stock pages, each page gets 333 page views per day. This is a great addition to doing beer credits.

Two Tier Affiliate Program:

Beer Stock is a two-tier affiliate program. This means that if you refer someone and they make a purchase, you get 25% of the sale. If that person sells, you get 15% commission off the sale of their stock. So in the end, if you refer a few people that actually will buy and sell, you get money for doing nothing.

Site Hoppin is another way to generate more hits. It can act as a social network, or an affiliate program. The way you use it is up to you. If you have some extra site money to play around with, I suggest buying some decent stock. With this classifying as an Affiliate Program, this is another way to make money online.