Comments on: Five Reasons Why You Might Not Want to be a Top Stumbler

By: Your Ultimate StumbleUpon Resource: : tzuvelli.com

Your Ultimate StumbleUpon Resource: : tzuvelli.com — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 19:00:22 +0000

[...] Five Reasons Why You Might Not Want to be a Top Stumbler Author: Teeg of SUComments.com Insight from a top stumbler on why you may not want to be a top stumbler. [...]

By: 21stcenturyman

21stcenturyman — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 08:28:13 +0000

Hi Teeg,
You’ve probably answered this question somewhere between your posts, but anyways…
I use entrecard and sometimes on their forum we have like “I Stumble you while you Stumble me” sort of thing. One day someone stumbled me (just one person) and my traffic went to the roof almost immediately, I’m talking about thousands of people coming from StumbleUpon! On the other days I tried to do it again, even with more people involved and no actual return compared. Was it because of THAT person in particular, was it because of the time of the day or else? I haven’t got a clue, have you?

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By: Teeg

Teeg — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:16:43 +0000

Eddie, I changed your comment from all caps since that is considered shouting online.

By: EDDIE

EDDIE — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:37:03 +0000

Seems like a symptom of an addictive personality. Unless money is involved, realize that a top stumblers position means absolutely nothing. Ive never even checked the list or knew there was one. Every now and then i get a email in my stumble inbox thanking me for checking out their sight and always thought it to be somewhat strange. I suppose that you are not hurting anyone so do what you wish but it is a sign of something greater going on that you might want to keep an eye on.

By: laurie

laurie — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:18:02 +0000

Top Stumblers? Haven’t found that yet. Trying to figure this site out, not having much luck, like cruising it though, great place to get ideas.

It’s not unusual to get addicted to sites, they are going to have to open up a cyber addiction clinic wing at the Betty Ford Center.

By: Bracey

Bracey — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:08:18 +0000

God man… I stumbled onto this page and please why are people so bothered about being the top this and the top that. Do you realise how geeky it sounds? Get outside kick a footy about, drink a pint, have a laugh. You never know when it might be your last day and you shoudnt be wasting most of them in front of your comp worrying about your online “rep”

By: Teeg

Teeg — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:26:33 +0000

@Mortal Light: I didn’t add reviews into the equation here, although a friend recently mentioned that I should have. Photoblogs may be different also, I don’t know.

@Ayopeju: You didn’t mention your SU page, so I’m not sure if this fits or not, but I think if you ask yourself the question, “If I didn’t have a blog, how would I use StumbleUpon?”, and use it that way even as a blogger, you’ll probably find that the spam question is moot. Traffic from SU is often more of a sideways issue than a straight forward push to gain more traffic. As you immerse yourself into the SU community and make real friends, you will probably find that traffic to your blog grows naturally without having to be pushed there by you.

By: Teeg

Teeg — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:00:53 +0000

@Xtine: I didn’t notice that the number of visitors I received increased a lot, but I did notice that the quality of visitors I received changed. I don’t remember visiting any that posted lesbian porn (perhaps because I have mine set to a G rating) but I did rapidly learn not to return a visit to everyone after seeing a few with pictures I still wish I could remove from my memory. I also learned that a G rating sometimes just means not enough people have complained about a page yet to have it set to R or X.

LOL I know what you mean about hitting the SU button. I was thinking today that outside of looking up a specific topic I was interested in, I haven’t actually “stumbled” in ages.

Uggh…your final thought is scary…and easily foreseeable too.

@Matt Ellsworth: That’s the way it should be, I think.

By: Nicole Simon

Nicole Simon — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:56:25 +0000

In the end, it is a pure number game.

People being around for a longer time have the advantage of a) having the network of getting new stuff to be submitted (you rather want to have the powerful stumbler to stumble it) and b) the experience and the ease to deal with it.

But in the end ‘power stumbler’ only means something to me, if that is in the area I am interested in, and for somebody being able to stumble and process a lot, this tool has some very hard limitations.

So it is a balance between what you want to get out of it and what it brings you.

And Michael: Yes, some people do earn money with social media, but it is not that they earn money because they are on stumble upon. It is because of what they do and are good at that they earn money, and SU is just a part of that toolbox.

By: Jana

Jana — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 03:03:29 +0000

I would have to disagree that it is “work” being on the top stumblers list, I just happen to spend a little time most days websurfing. I do find a lot of original content, but I thumb up other people’s stuff too! I agree with Mortal Light, I don’t think it has hurt my ranking. I just enjoy the process. I think Stumble is the greatest thing ever.

If this were my blog post there would be only one reason not to want to be a top stumbler, and that is increased spam in my inbox. I don’t know anyone who enjoys getting that.