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Being a StumbleUpon member for four years and three months as of this posting, I have certainly seen the evolution of spam proliferation on this ever-increasingly-popular social bookmarking/ reviewing/ networking site.
All of these violations are considered straight up spam or spamming tactics.
Now for the caveat: True. Some or all of these sneaky under-handed techniques may, indeed, get you bucketloads of traffic from StumbleUpon; Every internet marketing blog is beginning to pay attention to StumbleUpon and the value it can bring to them in terms of traffic. These reputable blogs and websites are not spamming the system and yet they still have StumbleUpon accounts and famous blogs. Just a couple:
Now, what both of these bloggers/blogs, if I am not mistaken in my memory, have written about is the phenomenon of bucketloads of traffic from StumbleUpon but no money was made. I can vouch for this strangeness, myself , with my own websites. I check my statistics and will have copious amounts of StumbleUpon traffic! They will have arrived through non-spamming means - because I do not spam - but upon following these Stumblers I see they purchase nothing, and click no ads.
This means I can verify the "almost fact" that StumbleUpon can bring loads of traffic but to make money from them is a different story. Spammers - or potential spammers - of the StumbleUpon system take note: Spam is not tolerated on StumbleUpon and now you have another reason to not bother spamming it; It's just not profitable.
This is How the Spammers End up Paying: In fact, to spam on StumbleUpon, will not only get your fraudulent accounts deleted but will also result in the website you spammed getting banned from the system. Another item to note is that some people [anti-spammers or the StumbleUpon Spam Fighters - of which there are many ] will go so far as to inform Google -via your AdSense ad- that you employed spammalicious practices in driving traffic to your site. They will also contact the people you got your referral ID from and inform them of the same thing. Some people will go so far as to find out who you really are and ...well... I guess it can get complicated from there.
In case you haven't guessed it by now, I enjoy my StumbleUpon and I dislike the spam I see infiltrating and evolving. Spambots are now being employed thanks to the script-writing efforts of someone who wanted to put their commercial interests over the overall quality of StumbleUpon. This makes me sad and mad at the same time. Many people count on StumbleUpon as being the one place they can find respite from looking at sites trying to sell Viagra and Vicodin.
An Anti-Spamming-on-StumbleUpon Request: So if you're considering spamming StumbleUpon, please don't. Please learn about SEO and/or concentrate on building, slowly, your base of readers or customers like the successful ones have done. A spammer has never gotten famous in his trade by spamming; He's only famous for spamming and at that, sometimes arrested, fined, or jailed.
If you are currently spamming the SU database, or inboxes, or forums, please stop. Please do the honorable thing, and also delete your fraudulent accounts so someone else, worthy, can adopt the name. Then, become a part of the Stumble community and people will flock to your quality content. There are even forums on SU that deal with SEO, internet development, and marketing; and people more than happy to help you!
...Provided, of course, you're not a spammer....
- Links of Interest:
- StumbleUpon: How to Deal with Spam
- StumbleUpon: Sp@m-Free Group on Stumble
- StumbleUpon: "Anti-Spam" tagged sites on Stumble
- StumbleUpon: Frequently Asked Questions
- Newsvine: Latest News on Spam - Arrests, laws, trends etc.
