Comments on: The Most Important Thing on StumbleUpon: Do Not Pose as, Be a Legit User

By: Mike Leiku

Mike Leiku — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:55:14 +0000

Great information, as usual. After reading you post, I began using Stumbleupon, it is very cool and addictive. I tried Digg a year ago and did not like it though. Guess I’m too old for this… :-)

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:13:22 +0000

I used to value stumbleupon traffic until I realized that I had no idea how to properly monetize it. After building a brand new site and getting over 2,000 visitors from Stumble, I had absolutely no earnings. Needless to say, I wasn’t too upset when they flagged my account finally.

By: joe

joe — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:55:44 +0000

Stumble Upon pretends to be user driven, but it’s a corporate whore

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:15:40 +0000

Good advice here. My question is aside from your page being indexed is there really much of a benefit to using Stumble? It brings in traffic but it is mostly untargeted. So if you have a webpage that is already indexed is there a reason to Stumble it?

By: Carson Brackney

Carson Brackney — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 02:43:59 +0000

I like your SEO 1.0 vs. 2.0 comparison.

SEO 1.0, unfortunately, is alive and kicking–and not just with respect to SU.

Eventually, one would hope, people would figure out that trying to “beat” systems that are constantly fine-tuned to award legitimate value is inefficient when compared to just providing decent value in the first place.

Then again, there are plenty of goofs out there who still worship at the decimated altars of many “trick the search engine” tricks, so it might be awhile before we see a wholesale shift.

By: Sumesh

Sumesh — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:41:52 +0000

Posers are aplenty, and the sad part is that most people do not think that the posers could really be posers.

I see posers the most on Digg, though – sites like Mixx, SU have a much better crowd.

By: Andy | West Florida Components

Andy | West Florida Components — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:00:17 +0000

Glad to see I’m not the only one that doesn’t like digg.

Thanks for the reminder about the tags and categories on stumbleupon. I forget to use them!

By: Crystal Layden

Crystal Layden — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:30:46 +0000

I like stumbleupon. But I think this service has very tight registration policy. They don’t allow several account under one IP and computer without permission. Meanwhile I have to share computer with two of my brothers. Fortunately, I have created my SU account before my brothers did.

By: LEADSExplorer

LEADSExplorer — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:48:38 +0000

Our blog has been StumbledUpon and Digged and Mixxed several times.
http://bit.ly/163vGV
It brings a spike in the number of visits, but most bounce.

If our blog gets StumbledUpon or Digged the number of visitors is similar.

It is very important who is the bookmarker as there are leaders and laggerds.

Don’t ever bookmark yourself!

http://bit.ly/OGPaZ

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:01:40 +0000

I’d have to agree. Transparency is becoming more and more important as web 2.0 sites “grow up” and learn from past abuses. There’s really no reason now not to be yourself.