The Best StumbleUpon Resources Outside of SU
This is an updated post. To enhance your StumbleUpon experience there are great third party StumbleUpon resources. Resources made not by or outside of StumbleUpon itself. Here are the best:
- StumbleUpon Search is a Google Custom search engine that allows you to search StumbleUpon
- StumbleUpon Add-ons is a site that collects SU add ons, plug ins and scripts
- Userscripts.org offers more than 20 different user scripts for the popular GreaseMonkey Firefox plug in. These scripts allow you to customize any web page, here the StumbleUpon site ;-)
I've explained the ins and outs of StumbleUpon optimization numerous times. More such resources can be found here:
Does it still make sense to use StumbleUpon in 2010 from a SEO or social media optimization point of view? Not really. It's OK for wasting time stumbling random sites privately but business users are better off with Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn which encourage business usage.
StumbleUpon does not allow using its platform for business purposes.
Promoting your own content on a blog is even forbidden. So it does not make sense to use SU for that purpose because sooner or later your account gets banned.
It's OK to offer ways to stumble your site for SU users though. You may still get some traffic from the site.
Trying to become a part of the SU community is useless though. That's not the way StumbleUpon works. Bizarrely the votes of your friends don't count so it's better to not have any friends there.
For inspiration I'd recommend Tumblr and image bookmarking sites. SU is just like a US TV station on the Web, you get only the American main stream there.
Originally published on October 1, 2007. Last updated on June 19, 2010.
Thanks for the resources.
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stumbleupon is still quite good for traffic point of view. If many visitors are what you are looking for, then stumbleupon is useful if done properly. A single link stumbled effectively is worth hundreds to thousands visitors (with acceptable time on landing page) within a day.
You hear so much about stumbleupon being a great bookmarking resource. But you’re right, when they crack down so hard on commercial stuff or even your own stuff it’s really hard to justify the time investment to even build a meaningful presence with them.
roshan: It’s still a nice influx of traffic when someone stumbles you but it doesn’t make sense to waste your time stumling yourself and trying to contribute. That’s not the way SU works.
In case yoyu want to share with your followers and fans use Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn.
Wynne: StumbleUpon is not bookmarking. Don’t mix that up. Delicious is bookmarking. SU is social browsing or discovery.
Asides of that you’re completely right. Investing your time in SU and having to hide your business affiliations is absurd. Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn allow you to be who you are.
Using SU is like watching TV. It’s a good time waster when you’re too tired to do anything productive but you won’t get ROI from watching TV and trying to engage with it.
Well..joining the SU community may not count the votes of my friends but making friends much matters to me than to have plenty of votes.
Maricar: You can’t really make friends on SU. The contrary is the case, it’s very difficult. SU is not social networking.
Yea stumbleupon is good to get some traffic anyhow!..but I think that people is doing stumble in blind way. Making friends and getting stumble from same person every time or by requesting someone whom you already know through some other resources. Seems boring..I’m agree with onreact somehow!…I’m just raising a point here that stumble is not good for bounce rate except the web page having exiting images or animation or so…
What you guys think??
I love using SU when I’m bored. It is a fun way to get some traffic!