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More than a few social networking gurus will tell you that it is easy to use Stumbleupon, and other services to promote your website.
And indeed it is, if you are a paying advertiser.
Otherwise, you could be classed as a spammer, and banned from the service altogether.
Asking people to exchange links to stumble, or participating in a scheme to orchestrate this can cause you to lose your account indefinitely, as you can see here!
And this link, advises that your account will be frozen if you use your account for promotional reasons.
Stumbleupon will allow you to submit your own, non commercial site a number of times, but if you approach the limit, you could be identified as a spammer, and frozen out.
Using social media to promote your site via paid advertising could bring great rewards, but building a network of friends and then getting booted for spamming defeats the purpose.
Including great, well laid out content that attracts and interests readers will give you a great chance of being bookmarked on SU, as well as other sites such as Digg and De.licio.us
You can learn more about safe stumbling here!
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