Stumbleupon has gone nofollow

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by qazu, Jul 23, 2007.

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    Looks like the free backlinks from top social bookmark sites are comming to a rapid end. Stumbleupon is the latest to add nofollow to its links :(
     
    qazu, Jul 23, 2007 IP
  2. Noddegamra

    Noddegamra Peon

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    #2
    lets hope digg doesnt follow suit.
     
    Noddegamra, Jul 23, 2007 IP
  3. mightyb

    mightyb Banned

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    #3
    As far as i know stumble has been no follow the day it came out. I was there trying all sorts of things. I was then banned after a little chat with the admin himself.
     
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  4. Soccerplayur012

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    Can someone explain what nofollow is?
     
    Soccerplayur012, Jul 23, 2007 IP
  5. mightyb

    mightyb Banned

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  6. wyattt

    wyattt Active Member

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    #6
    AFAIK, StumbleUpon was always better for getting traffic than optimizing the search engines, so this doesn't really affect me all that much. I don't think many people, if not anyone, will stop using SU because of this.
     
    wyattt, Jul 23, 2007 IP
  7. etali

    etali Well-Known Member

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    #7
    I hadn't thought of using Stumble for link development - did the pages even have decent PR or anything? As others have said, Stumble is still a great way of getting traffic, so I don't think I'll be stopping using it.
     
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  8. trump

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    #8
    Yeah, stumble is great for traffic. I first learned of it by checking my referrer logs :D
     
    trump, Jul 23, 2007 IP
  9. trichnosis

    trichnosis Prominent Member

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    #9
    * do you know how to use google? there is a search box there. use it pls :)

    * i think social bookmark sites are good traffic i never made seo profit from social bookmark sites
     
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    john269 Notable Member

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    #10
    lol, stumble has been nofollow for quite sometime. I guess you are a little bit behind.
     
    john269, Jul 23, 2007 IP
  11. gigidawg

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    #11
    You can still get lots of links from people linking to your story or images in their blog posts, so it's still a good source of traffic and links.
     
    gigidawg, Jul 23, 2007 IP
  12. priyakochin

    priyakochin Banned

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    #12
    oh NO!
    I can't believe it.I was using stumble for getting more backlinks.So its an end.
    I think we should start some Social Bookmarking sites without nofollow and move fast ?
     
    priyakochin, Jul 23, 2007 IP
  13. just-4-teens

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    #13
    this is the result of people abusing an spamming the service, only a matter of time before it happened.
     
    just-4-teens, Jul 23, 2007 IP
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    ichigo Well-Known Member

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    #14
    i just really really hope that digg wont be the next to add no follow. based on my experience, digg really helps in my ranking especially for my targeted keywords.
     
    ichigo, Jul 23, 2007 IP
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    #15
    That's too bad. I hope the others don't follow suit.
     
    cool_78, Jul 23, 2007 IP
  16. dedsused

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    #16
    I use SU for targeted traffic, so nofollow doesn't bother me much.
     
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  17. Googledeez

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    #17
    This is great. Personally, I banned all traffic from this site as I did not want worthless impressions that could lead to a ban. Now stumbleupon is even more worthless.
     
    Googledeez, Jul 23, 2007 IP
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    #18
    ?????????? lead to what ban? since when are unique visitors worthless...

    stumbleupon has been nofollow for quite a while now
     
    oseymour, Jul 24, 2007 IP
  19. riverrun

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    I was just about to us Stumble upon for some backlinks. Glad I read this thread.
     
    riverrun, Jul 25, 2007 IP