Anyone remember stumbleupon?

[Shaylee Sipes]

Back in the early 2000s, when link building was easy and cheap, there were many sites jumping at the chance to be the next big spam target. This is when Stumbleupon came around to bless us with a home from home to get free traffic and backlinks.

I haven't thought about this site for such a long time. Does anyone know when it died? SU was such a big site it even made it into my first automated link building software, about 15 years ago (maybe more). There were tools made specifically to gain the system of this website in the way there are dedicated tools for social media sites now, but it didn't seem nearly as common back then.

Is there anything like SU that would invade your privacy in return for a bit of traffic to your site? Would there be a call for such a site now?

It seems the major SM sites kinda fill this role now but none of them have the same sort of setup. Anyone fancy creating one?

 

[Monique Gerlach]

Gosh, that brings back some memories.

 

[Myriam Hickle]

I remember using stumbleupon long back. If you remember, there used to be another site called delicious which was also quite popular.