One of the greatest annoyances with StumbleUpon was the utter lack of an SEO category.
You know SU is a social discovery service that is based on “channel surfing the Web”. Without a matching channel many SEO postings were posted in the Internet category where people got really mad and voted them down. Also the search category is not really intended for SEO.
The best matching StumbleUpon category until now was “marketing” but there are lots of different marketing topics and many marketers don’t do SEO at all.
So finally we got a SEO category on SU. Unfortunately there is a catch. The SEO category is almost completely hidden.
Even I discovered it by accident noticing a post of mine categorized as SEO. Visiting the SEO category page you’ll notice that as of now there are just a bunch of submissions categorized as SEO. So right now the SEO category is a kind of dark room for the SEO perverts, an exile, a ghetto.
We need more people interested in SEO and search marketing to populate it by subscribing.
Otherwise submitting posts there will be like sabotaging them. Subscribe to the SEO category on StumbleUpon now by visiting this page and clicking subscribe. Of course you have to be a member of StumbleUpon in the first place, but believe me it’s worth is, both for business and leisure.
You might argue that there always was a SEO tag on SU. Yeah, right, but you couldn’t submit a post only in using the SEO tag. It would end up uncatgorized, thus send out to completely random people no interested at all in SEO. Or worse being sick and tired of it, mixing it up with spam like many people still do.
I haven’t written for a while about StumbleUpon optimization or traffic for a number of reasons. One of them is that I use SU mainly for non-business topics that do not correlate with the stuff I write about on my SEO 2.0 blog. Nonetheless I stumble several search marketing related posts each week.
By now I’m quite an established user on SU with 14k stumbles so I guess my stumble still has some worth. Also many people who follow do so due to being readers here so I hope my call to action will have some impact.
In case you subscribed please tell me in the comments. I might even befriend you if we have more matching interests.
Check out the SEO category on StumbleUpon now!
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Is it about time that they did this. I kind of annoyed that I couldn’t put articles in this category. I think a lack of being able to put any sort of article in any category you want will threaten your chances of that article being voted up.
About F8%#ing time! I’ve subscribed and encouraged my other my other seo friends to do so as well!
No not have an SEO catagory from the very start does seem very short sighted. At least they have fixed it now.
will adding seo category indeed make sense
Yes thats a definite improvement as I believe they now realize that a lot of content on the web is related to SEO. Pity that Digg still has no category for SEO and you have to do with Programming or Software
14k in stumbles is not a bad record to have at all. I guess now the important aspect is to make sure that the content that is being listed within the SEO category does get sent to the right parties and isn’t confused as spam and therefore discarded.
Your statement about the marketing category could not be more true, how many different aspects could you find that easily fit into the marketing category. The SEO category was definitely long overdue and I hope there will be more people interested in SEO and search marketing that will complete the population of the category with their subscriptions.
Regards
Michiel
Indeed Digg doesn’t have SEO category and it is not good at all. On other hand – SU has made it really wise so lots of stuff instead of being posted in different categories (as you mentioned) now will go straight to teh place they belong.
Greetings from Toronto,
Mike
i dont think have an SEO catagory
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