Be careful when requesting stumbles, you can easily get your account and blog banned from stumbleupon,
and that would be a big impact, you could lose traffic and money. Stumbleupon usually gets mad on a blog when it receives stumbles/discovers only from the same group of people. This is considered spam and you must avoid it!
I know good and strong blogs that have been banned from stumbleupon, for example dodevice.com which was is still is a powerful tech related blog, but the traffic had a significant decrease because of that ban.
How should you protect your account and blog? Well don’t ask for stumbles anymore, make some big breaks in requesting stumbles and naturally grow your profile! Stumble/discover/review everything you like! Spend some minutes per day doing that, and you’ll grow in strength.
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Bamboo Forest
May 19th, 2008
This is a great word to the wise. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. At the same time… What if a blog has a few die hard fans - that discover each entry over and over again? Such a scenario would be completely natural, and something the blog author wouldn’t really have any control over. In this case, it would seem unfair. Something to ponder.
Alex
May 20th, 2008
That’s so true! Well, it depends on how many die hard fans that blog has. If there are many, it won’t be a problem, if there are just a few, like 5-10, there might be a problem.
Stumbleupon became very tricky, it is written at their rules that it’s denied to use stumbleupon as a promoting system for your blog/site/forum .. anything else. It’s just a way of discovering sites .. that’s what they say.