StumbleUpon – A Dying Social Media Tool?

From someone that gain so much traffic from StumbleUpon, this word would be considered as mutiny and should be punishable by unsubscribe or remove from your friendly list. Or StumbleUpon may banned me like what they’ve done with Cath Lawson.

I had look into Alexa, and from their graph, StumbleUpon already lose their “audience reach” in the last 6 months. Some blogger had equate this to the emerging of Twitter as a social media tool.

A look at both graphs reveal the following for StumbleUpon,

Over the past 3 months, StumbleUpon audience reach had drop by 62%.

As compared with Twitter, the website “audience reach” only drop by 10%.

We have talk to several bloggers and relates their opinion why this could had happen. On general, all agreed that while StumbleUpon is a good tool to build your blog,  StumbleUpon had unclear policy about “spam” and “promotion”.

In light of this findings, this drop might be one of the following problem:

1. You could be banned from stumbling your own post even if your post is stumble worthy and the ratio of your own post stumble by you is less than 10 %.  What the acceptable percentage? I have yet to found out what is the acceptable percentage.
2. It might not be StumbleUpon problem.  The sudden increase in your traffic with minimum Click Thought Rate may also get you banned from Adsense.
3. Once banned from StumbleUpon, the duration until the ban fully lifted is unknown.  In some latest cases, it could be less than 2 hours or could be more.
4. You could be banned even if you promote StumbleUpon.

Something good turn bad

The purpose of this post was try to bring to your intention why and how something good (as in this case, StumbleUpon) could turn bad.   You may have this experience, and you probably could answer a few remaining question:

1. Have you been banned by StumbleUpon for not being able to stumble you own post?  For how long does this ban remain active?
2. Have you, in good faith, had cause your friend domain ban by StumbleUpon?
3. Have you, in good faith, had cause your friend Adsense account ban or suspended due to your activity related to StumbleUpon?

P.S. It took me almost 48 hours plus some active stumbling to enable me to stumble my own post again.  From this experience, before I stumble my own post,  I will stumble all material related to that post first.

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