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Question For Folks who use Stumbleupon
Posted by ThriftShopRomantic • 7/07/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: indexing, social media, stumbleupon
Hey there-
For folks who use Stumbleupon regularly/have had things Stumbled...
Have you been seeing Stumbleupon's server itself coming through your stats a lot more recently?
I don't mean in terms of people reading your Stumbled pages-- I'm just seeing a lot of visits from Stumbleupon's smtp.stumbleupon.com server coming to my blog lately...
As if it were some kind of indexing bot.
I was curious if any tech folks who follow changes in social media had any idea what it might be doing/what change in their system is causing this?
User Comments
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Nope, just regular SU referrals for me (few though they are, I've got a beautiful 40% bounce rate from them). I don't see anything unusual from them. If they'd like to index my site and send more traffic, I'd be all for it!
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Hmmm...
Thanks for sharing your experience, Sneakerlady!
Now I'm wondering what's up. I'm wondering if it's trying to verify that pages are still active. It seems to be going page by page of things that have been Stumbled in the past, much the way Googlebot will.
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I have not noticed that, mainly because I am stumbler and not a recipient of stumbling
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Nope, nothing strange for me either. Just regular stumblers. Saw someone from digg too that's a first. Had no clue anything was submitted there. -
Well, thanks for the info, ladies!
Hmmm... mysterious. -
Nope. My blog's only been stumbled a handful of times, and it'll only get about a hundred clicks on the same day as the stumble.-
I can't seem to delete this response....
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Stumbleupon has never worked for me. On average, I get two hits per link submitted. So I stopped-
Are you submitting your own links?
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I think I've noticed that as well. There are two that come from San Francisco and Atlanta every time I submit a page.
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I've noticed it. Stumble was being run by some sort of corporate thing and not the original creators. Just recently it was given back to the creators and it's been going through a few changes.
Now people can stumble up on one site exclusively as well. I hope I kinda gave you an answer. -
I am using SU for last 2 month. But I did not notice about it till now. Thank you for sharing your experience. -
I just reviewed my analytics, and have not seen even one instance of that URL in 2009 ..
I did notice that 88.28% of referral traffic from SU is from SU/refer.php and the balance from the toolbar. That's nice to know actually, now that I see that. -
It's funny this comes up today, as just this morning I'd noticed the smtp.stumbleupon.com referring IP in my stats.
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I've seen it, too. No idea what it is, but I first noticed it within the past couple of months.
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How do you get rid of the negative effect from stumbling your own stuff?-
Have you been ghost banned?
Stumbleupon’s Stumbling PR: Banning Loyal Users
"Now let me define “ghost banned” for you. According to this article, shared by some SU employees I will not name, this is what “ghost banned” is all about:
You can thumb up, thumb down, discover… pretty much anything a regular user can do. The only thing is your efforts don’t count. You can tell if you’re “ghost banned” by discovering a page, opening up a different browser, and visiting the review page of the site you just discovered. If it says “Discovered by someone” and not you, you’re a ghost. No word yet on how to reverse this."
www.pamil-visions.net/stumbleupon-poor-pr/23817/ -
If it's too late for that, Stumble other stuff. Good stuff, at a reasonable pace. In other words, act like a legitimate user, and over time you'll start to look like one.
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