April 18th, 2008I Can’t StumbleUpon my Own Blog Anymore!!! WTF
I cannot stumble upon my own blog posts anymore!
What is going on? Has the world gone crazy?
One morning I woke up and felt like stumbling my latest blog post. The previous night, I had spent 3 hours researching, preparing and writing a great blog post, that post deserved to appear on stumbleupon!
I navigate to my latest blog post on my awesome blog www.xarj.net, open the stumble upon toolbar, click on that cute button “thumbs up” to rate a website or webpage. The popup screen appears normally, I carefully fill out the form and click on “Submit This Site”. Right after, I am penetrated by a feeling of greatest! Lots of people will enjoy my post and vote it up! Youpiiiii !
I am a little bit maniac so I always go verify my rating was correctly added to the stumbleupon database. To my surprise, my latest stumble was not appearing in my favorites! What is going on? So I go back to my great post and fill out the stumbleupon form again. Click on the Submit This Site button and return to my SU homepage.
The stumble from my own blog is not appearing at all! This sucks and is REALLY lame!
I have stumbled a total of 259 pages, 12 videos, 26 photos since Apr 09, 2007. I have 13 fans and have received 1 review. Since nobody else adds my pages to StumbleUpon, I would add them myself. Maximum one page per week and a grand total of 13 pages from my own blog. 13 / 259 = 0.05. Yes, that’s 5% of my total stumbles. 1 out of 20 pages and now my site is banned from appearing under my own stumbleupon favorites! Ridiculous!
Results of stumbleupon not allowing me to stumble my own posts :
- StumbleUpon users will miss out on great content
- The StumbleUpon website will not appear in the SERPS for the keywords in my blog post
- SU has lost one loyal user
- This has pissed me off!
I don’t see any advantage of stopping users from stumbling their own content. I understand that SU has to fight spam like everyone else but 5% of my total stumbles is NOT a spammy number!
I don’t get it. Do you?
** Update – July 25, 2008 — Just for fun, I reinstalled the StumbleUpon Toolbar for Firefox version 3.26 and tried to stumble one of my own pages again. Guess what? I STILL cannot stumbleupon my own blog posts! AHHHHH! This is soooo annoying! It’s been 4 months since I stopped using SU and no progress at all! I think I’ll definately stop using StumbleUpon! Oh well…
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April 19th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Don’t panic – your account has not been banned so the URL has just been blacklisted *for now*. I did this too at the beginning and now it’s fine for my blog.
What I would suggest is that you spend some time stumbling more and leave your own site out of it for a while. Try again in a week or two.
April 20th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Hey Caroline!
Are you saying StumbleUpon actually accepts a certain percentage of your stumbles to be from your own blog posts? Do you know what is that percentage? This would be really helpful!
I have not been able to stumbleupon my own blog posts for almost a month now! And I kept stumbling a couple articles. I really have the feeling I will not be able to stumble posts from my own blog anymore.
June 22nd, 2008 at 12:17 am
I have found myself in a similar predicament. I guess stumbleupon isn’t the best medium for self promotion?
July 25th, 2008 at 6:33 am
I have this exact same problem when trying to stumble my own blog posts. I get all the way through the process and when I click submit it just goes to a blank page. The stumble does not appear on my stumble page in liked or discovered. I too have only stumbled like 12 of my own 300+ posts. It worked fine for the first few posts, but for weeks now I haven’t been able to stumble my posts first. After a friend stumbles them, then I can write a review of that stumble.
This is extremely annoying.
That same friend has been stumbling all of his own blog posts like crazy for weeks without a problem.
I have been stumbling a lot of other pages, so I don’t know when or if I’ll ever be able to stumble my posts again. Sad, as the traffic generated is huge.
August 4th, 2008 at 3:57 am
Hi Xarj and Caroline,
I have may be similar problem, will be really appreciated if you can help me out. I was able to stumble 1 pages from my website, 1 video from break and 1 other web site after a hundred time trying. And I cannot add any review on stumble page. I try to upload my profile photo for 2 days now with no success at all. I try searching the whole help section and on Google. I have sent them 2 feedback for help with no luck. I am on the Firefox group, help forum group but both group require my nickname and photo in order to post. How can I do as I cann’t update profile for my nickname and photos. I did create new FF profile with no luck. No work both FF and IE7. I am almost give up now.
August 24th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
I’m glad I’m not the only one with this issue and that it clears itself up. This doesn’t work for stumbleupon but for other services like Mixx that rely on the often wrong and rather mysterious service they won’t name that checks their links for them you can always use tinyurl.com to get a different link to the same page. For example if you click my name it takes you right to the page I was having trouble with, which is a rather long permalink with 88 characters, tiny url made it 25 characters:http://tinyurl.com/49wmlm
There are also other ways around this problem which i have tried with stumbleupon yet. If you host addon domains with companies like hostgator instead your link looking like http://www.domain.com/permalink it would look like subdomain.primarydomain.com/permalink/
hope this helps.
August 27th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
I’m having the same problem as of last night. Didn’t take me too long to figure out SU was blocking my site. Guess it ain’t the best tool for self-promotion. I’ll try stumbling other sites (I do that plenty) and stay away from stumbling my own. Thanks for the info, everyone.
September 10th, 2008 at 2:20 am
Exact same problem here. What I want to know is, are we being penalized for stumbling our own sites by having our URLs blacklisted? That is, could a stranger stumble our sites, or are we persona non grata with StumbleUpon?
October 4th, 2008 at 11:24 am
I thought I was going crazy for a second! I’m in the same situation as everyone else. I stumble a lot of other pages and I’ll “try” to stumble some of my really good blog posts….no luck there!
October 7th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Although I’m not happy that others are experiencing the same thing, it does make me feel a bit better. My problem is that I’m not able to stumble anything these days – whether it’s my site or other sites. It’s incredibly frustrating. I think Stumbleupon can be a great resource but I’m about to give up. Every time I try to submit something (not my website) it times out. Any suggestions?
October 7th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
@Audrey
You can’t even stumbleupon other websites? huh! That’s not supposed to happen! Anyone else having the same problem? This could be the end of stumbleupon!
Either way, I stopped using stumble upon a while back cause it pissed me off too much that I couldn’t stumble my own posts! I wasn’t even spamming! That’s just lame!
If we look at the statistics for SU on alexa, you can see the visitor count have been dropping a lot since June 2008 ! Wow! The service is dying!
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/stumbleupon.com?q=
October 16th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Same thing here: uninstalled/reinstalled, cleaned, checked my adsl line (whitch was good: gained 500Kb/sec replacing the copper)… so I found this with google! Nothing helped so far, but I’m relieved that it’s a stumbleupon problem. Hope they stick their heads back real soon! (with all this ebay nonsens going on) Can’t live without it! Or maybe I should find a ‘proper’ hobby…
October 16th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
haha: can’t even put a ‘thumbs up’ for this page anymore!
October 17th, 2008 at 8:47 am
@JefDeBruges
Dammm you did I lot of things to try and fix StumbleUpon! It’s been like this for 7 months! I dought they’ll change it back to the original way… Unfortunatly.
October 28th, 2008 at 12:02 am
Install febe plugin, make a new firefox profile and reinstall all plugins again with febe. I’ve made the new profile on a seperate partition for the sakes, but i’m not confident if that’s got something to do with it in the first place since there are not any long directories in this folder I noticed afterwards. So as for me, it’s no big deal, just create another profile. That did the trick for me
November 28th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
They want you to buy their ad service, so they only let you submit so many pages from one url.
December 6th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
I think this may have answered my question. StumbleUpon quit working for me a few weeks ago (just the blank screen someone else mentioned) – then it started working again a day or two later. Today it quit again! I finally found this site. StumbleUpon has NO information about this from what I can find and they announce that their customer support only works M-F days. Really helpful when it’s Saturday and their service no longer works… Anyway, after reading the comments here I was able to successfully bookmark this site but still not the article on mine. Very frustrating.
I was using SU quite a bit but I do not like the way they conduct business! Apparently my URI is blacklisted but they can’t even have the decency to provide a notice?!? They can’t provide documentation on what they consider acceptable use?!? At least Google tells you what the terms of service are and what they will blacklist your site over. SU just leaves users to uninstall and reinstall toolbars for no reason.
Thanks for the info. I guess I will be joining the ranks of disaffected StumbleUpon users. Goodbye StumbleUpon. It’s been real…
June 18th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
It happend for me some of my old blog but after one or two week it started working well, but once I figured it out whats the real problem (blacklisted for self promotion) I stopped the practise, I hope all of you do this and try other mode like mixx, buzz for that purpose.