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StumbleUpon Spring Cleaning: Accounts Banned

Started by Vlad Zablotskyy · 4 months ago

Evidently StumbleUpon has been doing some heavy duty spring cleaning, banning some users from the system. I would generally pass this kind of news without paying too much attention to it. However, there is one thing puzzled me a bit. Namely their PPC advertising. I advertised using this option a ... Continue reading »

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  • TrishaLyn

    4 months ago

    I've found that SU traffic is good only in the sense that it gets people there. For someone like me who's mostly looking for exposure at this point, I don't mind casting a wide net to catch only a few fish :)
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  • Vlad Zablotskyy

    4 months ago

    I don't mind the SU traffic at all, I have benefited from it in the past and
    still do. But I think the fact that they offer PPC is inconsistent with
    banning some of us who stumbles a page that has purely commercial goal...
    Again do they expect me to pay for clicks to pages about my cats and dogs?

    It should be noted that I have written above post in a wave of emotions. :)
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  • Maurice

    3 months ago

    Hey Vlad,

    Interesting. I guess like many marketers that means I have fallen foul of the TOS myself - but they do have a "marketing" category which is where most of my stumbles end up. If a user Stumbles something to promote a third party website that is commercial in nature but in which they have no financial I don't see the logic of labeling them as an "abuser" of the system.

    I know self promotion is frowned upon but I've stumbled several of my own blog posts in the past if I think they are deserving of the exposure. I don't do it to excess. The thing is, where do you draw the line? The Internet is commercial in nature, so by the anti commercial/marketing crowd's standards, any website or blog carrying even one advertisement should be banned from places like SU along with any person who thumbs that site up? Ok I'm exaggerating, but we're discussing illogical reasoning and that is a logical opposing argument.

    There are too many haters on SU nowadays and too many people who seem to feel that nobody is interested in any kind of commercial or money making online ventures just because it offends their own strange sensibilities. It's a shame, but it's going the way of Digg and after seeing one particular attack on a female internet marketer involving truly unpleasant verbal abuse it made me wonder just what kind of people would want to play in that environment. After all, if you're not interested in a site it takes a fraction of a second to pass on to the next.

    I don't think if I ended up with a ban that I'd lose too much sleep over it. Most SU users spend less than 30 seconds on my site so I can only conclude that my content is not what most SU users are looking for.
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  • Vlad Zablotskyy

    3 months ago

    Maurice,

    I think some of use may get caught up in this "social media traffic" fix. No
    matter how do we twist nothing can beat natural search from big 3 (G, Y,
    MSN) and the PPC on these three as well.

    Thanks for stopping by on my new blog.
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