Do we agree on the value of an external link from Stumbleupon?

[Rubberpiggy]

Many SEO`s I talk with daily recommend stumbleupon and to post links to my customers there to get inlink(s) to my customer`s site. I think it cant`t possibly be as good as they want me to believe. Is one inlink from stumbleupon or stumleupon users just as good as one inlink from a directory with good reputation? Is SEO link building this simple?

[wanderingmind]

I am / was a top Stumbler till recently.

You don't get any SEO-Google PR benefits from SU links. All of them are no-followed.

Even in linkbaiting, the best of the SU stories that go popular may get some links. Nothing much, nothing compared to the links you can get by the same amount of traffic from Digg or SU.

So why is SU good and I love it?

Happy people. You may get only one page view, but there is less negativity on SU to a new site. And if you are smart, you can tempt that visitor and extract more pageviews out of him.

[ichthyous]

It's always fun to see how many links emerge from users' own sites within a week after the end of a rush. I kinda consider that a quality factor of our own content. Stumblers will check out each others' recommendations, but when the ball is over and dozens of them blog about you/link to you, and a good percentage comes back for more... now that's a good feeling

You're very lucky then and I suspect that only applies to blogs. I have periodic spikes in traffic from Stumblers all the time, however it has never (that I know of) resulted in a single link being placed on any of the Stumbler's own sites. The traffic is as pretty darn near useless, but the more eyeballs the better i suppose