Hi all! I run a humor blog, and many of my readers use stumbleupon (which is also the source for about 1/4 of my daily visitors ... sometimes it sends me up to 5,000 visitors in a day). Since reviews are stored on users' pages (almost like a blog), I was wondering if anyone knew if reviewed/stumbled pages help Google rankings? My thought is 'Yes', as many of my highly stumbled posts also get decent Google traffic within minutes/hours of being posted. On the other hand, some posts that I think are very funny don't get listed in Google for a longer period of time (up to days). For example, the following two new posts haven't yet been stumbled, and haven't been crawled by Google (as of time of writing): Post-It Note covered car Sheep on the run ... Strangest Race Ever? Thoughts? Anita (also, I'm always looking for fun/cool/interesting sites ... if you have one, post the link)
StumbleUpon is a great source of traffic, but i'm curious to know if it helps ranking also.. My guess is that it probably does a little..
Well it has helped me a lot for getting traffic. But if it helps in google or not that I don't know. If the stumble upon pages are being crawled and if google bot finds a link to our site and there is absence of no follow tag then it might be helping in the google index.
stumbleupon.com is a social-networking site/community where members post websites they like.. other members see these links then come check your site. it can generate huge amounts of traffic.. And FYI, i just check the page-source on a few pages, and it's full of rel="nofollow" So it looks like it's PR value isnt what I thought it would be.
So it dosn't help PR. but as long as it brings trafic to your site..... right? because after all, that's our goal by doing SEO in the first place
All stumbleupon links are rel-no follow, so they should NOT help you directly with google. On the other hand, in the humor category I would not be surprised if some bloggers stumble regularly to find good stuff to link to. So indirectly yes - exposure means more likelyhood of links that do count.
And that's exactly what google really likes. They initial assumption is that if you have good content people will want to link to you - and that means your content is good and therefor should be ranked highly. Of course this has changed a little in the past few years....
as was written here, it dosn't help directly if it has the "nofollow" attribute. but if someone thinks your contect is good and link to you then it helps.
As what has been mentioned by some of the members, Stumbleupon will not help SERP directly but if your site has good content, users will eventually link back to you
Hmmm ... this is strange. After posting this, a couple people clicked the thumbs up in StumbleUpon on those links. Within minutes (literally), the page got crawled by Google. This morning, if I type in "Strangest Race" (without the quotes) in Google, my site comes up #1, while even if I typed it within quotes last night it didn't show on the first 10 pages. Is this just a coincidence?
Since it gives back links my theory is that it helps your google ranking though it may be in a very small way.
when submitting your site to stumble how to you get it viewed by the surfers? I'm not all that familiar with the site.
PR is passed on from being on other folks stumbleupon blog but you don't get PR passed from the categories (i.e Humor, Strange, etc...) those have the no follow attribute.
yeah, you get the one back link from stumble but if many people like it they may choose to blog/write about your article therefore more links can be generated.
congrats on a successful blog--you rank #1 in humor blogs on topsite. Catchy web name too---fits humor well!! How long have you had the site?
Hey Plotu! I've had the name parked for a year, my brother always wears plumber's pants and I'd say "Say no to Crack" when he leans over ... one day I said that and he suggested I register the domain (which luckily had just expired) ... but the site has only been running since mid-October. So far it's been pretty successful, had a couple days with traffic exceeding 30K (got dugg, farked, etc. for a few posts). Best to you in the New Year! Anita
I would say it doesn't since you have to login to access the sites. I don't believe google would be able to crawl the sites listed with stumbleupon.
Actually google does index stumbleupon pages (search kh7 and you will see what I mean). But ALL links (I checked this personally) have rel no follow on them. Then again, someone tested whether links with rel no follow pass the link-text in the serps. And guess what, they do. So a page that already has decent google trust rating from other links, might rank better for new keywords if people stumble it. Which means that indirectly stumbleupon can help your ratings (not your PR or trust rank). I think that also explains why Anita's page suddenly made it to the top for relevant keywords.