Comments on: 3 StumbleUpon Traffic Myths Debunked

By: Ultimate StumbleUpon Resource

Ultimate StumbleUpon Resource — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 03:26:21 +0000

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Your Ultimate StumbleUpon Resource: : tzuvelli.com — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:57:09 +0000

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By: alibata

alibata — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 10:39:26 +0000

I agree that more SU = more traffic.. that is my once cent..:)

By: MarcusBrutus

MarcusBrutus — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:43:26 +0000

As a regular user of SU (no websites of my own to promote) I personally don’t have a problem with people who discover their own content, so long as it’s not;

A.)StumbleSpam, defined as pages made just for SU that contain affiliate links, “made for adsense” content, etc.

B.)A StumbleExchange, the absolute scourge of SU, perpetrated by webmasters who cannot get thumbs up on their own merit and must sink to bribing other failed webmasters with promises of reciprocal stumbles. (Shame on you DigitalPoint)

C.)StumbleAids, you’ll know when you find one. It will be a post about stumbleupon, either how to game the system to get traffic or recommendations/tips on how to stumble (who to befriend, how much to stumble etc.) to maximize your own self promotion.

D.)StumbleBait, this covers a variety of topics, from putting a gallery of popular pictures on a content-less site with nothing but ads to accompany them (ahem.. ), making a “shit stirring” page with the intention of creating some sort of controversy, and, of course, the obligatory blog entry about SU itself (nothing wrong with that, just don’t add it to SU yourself please, it makes you look stupid).

SU spammers need to realize, as a regular user of SU I see sites like theirs twenty times a day, and getting my intelligence insulted twenty times a day is rather frustrating. The majority of us can see your BS a mile away and we don’t appreciate it. Furthermore, you’re ruining it for your peers in the SEO topic, it ruins the little trust we have for people pusing an agenda that involves someone else profiting from us.

By: DesignForProfit

DesignForProfit — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:29:02 +0000

“Lyndon brought me traffic before I was active on SU. Then he stumbled me once again along with others and brought NO traffic while I was already an acclaimed SU poweruser. So something has changed fundamentally.”

I stumbled two pages from the same site the other day, both equally interesting, just expresing different opinions. One got lots of stumbles, the other not one.

It may be that stumbleupon doesnt like rating too many pages from a site per stumbler rather than anything more sinister.

By: SEO 2.0 | 1000 Pages Liked on StumbleUpon

SEO 2.0 | 1000 Pages Liked on StumbleUpon — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:10:25 +0000

[...] still not sure what to think about it. The more you stumble and the more friends you get the more difficult it gets to gain traffic via SU as your friends are counted as neutral votes. So I attempted to curb my StumbleUpon addiction: To [...]

By: Ric Raftis

Ric Raftis — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:33:22 +0000

I have used SU a fair bit on many sites. If I come across a good one, I give it the thumbs up. I have never given a site the thumbs down. I’ve got a few of my own sites listed, but the traffic is pretty ordinary when you analyse it. Sure, they come, but they are only there for 2 seconds and gone. That hardly ranks as a worthwhile visit and certainly not one worth counting.

Cheers,

Ric

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I Love Links - September 29th | The Internet Experiment — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:24:49 +0000

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By: onreact

onreact — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:25:34 +0000

Yuri, although I agree with you, it seems that you have overseen some aspects of the situation: Lyndon brought me traffic before I was active on SU. Then he stumbled me once again along with others and brought NO traffic while I was already an acclaimed SU poweruser. So something has changed fundamentally.
I think about the value first, but I have the right to be dissapointed when after 4 positive reviews and a dozen “like its” a post of mine gets zero traffic.
Read about that here:
http://seo2.0.onreact.com/does-stumbleupon-crack-down-on-seo-already

Basically I got penalized for being too active on SU. So I take a step back and concentrate on creating value instead of relying on a community that will bar me from harvesting the fruits of my hard work.

By: Yuri

Yuri — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:53:01 +0000

As a matter of fact, SU friends is who view the page once it is stumbled. The reason Lyndon sent a massive amount of traffic is that he has 355 fans.

SU has a small community of SEOs, designers, marketers and even social marketers, so if you tag your posts right, you should be fine. SU is a noticeable part of my traffic pattern.

So deliver value, target your audience, tag right and you’ll be fine. Thinking about whether you’ll be getting more traffic while communicating and delivering value is counterproductive (the same way it is not good to think about money, when you are helping a lady cross the street).