StumbleUpon

Do you stumble your own pages? I admit that I did few times when I signed up with StumbleUpOn. After reading their terms, I realized that is not a good idea. I have not stumbled on my own page since. What I also realized is that your StumbleUpOn account may be banned by stumble the pages under the same domains too many times. You heard it right. You are so kind to your friend. So you decide to do your friend a favor and stumble (the first one to discover) all your friend’s pages under the same domain. The domain may be banned by StumbleUpOn eventually. In other words, no one can ever discover the page on the domain again. Your account may also be banned shortly. So how do you become a good stumbler without hurting your own effort and your friends site?

So what is the consequence?

Let’s say that you are a great stumbler and you have pretty good score. So you discover a new page. You thumb up and write a decent review about the page. Suddenly, you are bring in the attention to the pages. All your friends on StumbleUpOn start receiving the page when they stumbling. They like the page, so they thumbs up and write a review. So more and more stumblers gave the thumb up. Now. The page is getting tremendous traffic that it was not getting ever before.

You did the same thing to other pages under the same site. It consequently brings in more traffic in the very short time frame. You are happy and your friend are happy. So you two have a great night sleep.

Few days later, your friend receive a letter from Google AdSense team claiming that your friend’s site was creating click fraud. Boom! Your fiends AdSense account is banned. Your friend is trying to explain the situation to Google AdSense with no luck. No response. So your friends un-paid check is sitting in Google’s bank account.

What was happening? Your kindness is sending too much traffic to your friend’s site. The story here might be too scary, but it is pretty close to the reality.

Now few more days later, you tried to discover a new page of your friends. You can’t. The StumbleUpOn toolbar just open a new blank window that has one “Cancel Rating” button. You know you are no longer to discover the pages on that site. If you continue do the same thing over and over again, you will find your account banned some days.

I am not trying to scare you. It just doesn’t make sense to send huge traffic without knowing the consequence.

Extra reading about the consequence: Stumbleupon can get your AdSense Account Banned for Invalid Impressions Fraud

What is your thought? Do you discover a lot of pages on the same domain name, which is not even your domain?

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