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StumbleUpon is being used more and more by the SEO community as a tool to drive traffic to sites of clients and build links. But with the increased popularity of the tool, there are coming spammers and fake stumblers on the field.

I’ve been a stumbler since early this year, and slowly have been building up my profile. I only give sites the thumbs up if I really like them, and occasionally a thumbs down. This way I collected a humble Stumble profile. I liked (as time of writing):

• 360 pages
• 25 video’s
• 32 photo’s
• 25 fans

I came across two profiles that have been ramping up their stumbled sites like crazy. Seriously, these two must have been stumbling 24/7. Check this out:

OneDollarWiki Likes (at the time of writing):

• 4,500 pages
• 571 videos
• 2.607 photos
• 5 fans

Member since Oct 17, 2007

FiveDollarWiki Likes (at the time of writing):

• 7,659 pages
• 467 videos
• 8 photos
• 24 fans
• Received 3 reviews

Member since Oct 09, 2007

Robots?

Have these members automated the voting through StumbleUpon to build a profile as soon as possible? How would you do this kind of thing? And can this be considered as Stumble Spamming?

What is StumblUpon doing to prevent spamming?

I’m wondering what SU is doing to prevent automated profile building.

It would be interesting to do some sort of test with two different profiles and submit pages in the same niche, containing the same kind of content, but on different sites.

One submitted by a fast build up profile that matches the way these two have done it. Which means that you build a profile stumbling through more than 5000+ pages within a month.

The second profile used would be a profile you have build up over time. A timely build profile would show a more natural build up of the stumbles.

Who would have time to do such a test?