Anyone know the benefits of sharing articles blogs posts on stumble upon?

[edward-may]

Hi ALL,

Just wondering if it is worth setting up a stumble upon account and sharing our articles or blog posts? I noticed a few companies in my industry who write alot of blog posts who share their articles to stumble upon.  Anyone have any insight into the benefits of doing this for SEO?

Cheers

[TheWebMastercom]

Every post I write gets shared to about 16 different social media outlets.  I do this not only to drive traffic (although some hardly drive any traffic if I am honest) but to also get the content out in front of other people.  Who knows... sometimes I get a burst of traffic, other times I hope someone decides to provide a link back because they write their own version or a related article.

My best social networks are Twitter and Google+ and that is where my efforts go.  If I had more followers elsewhere I would love to use those as well, it is just I use whatever I find easiest etc.  Overall though, I have not found Stumbleupon very useful, although I don't really understand how best to use it or have not really put much effort in.

[edward-may]

Hi Jonathan,

Thanks very much for your feedback! I noticed you mentioned "you have someone decides to provide a link back because they write their own version or a related article" I heard this from another source I have been speaking to, someone  I noticed re-created my article but put a link to my site from the article they re-created, is this something that is done quiet often? Or do we have the right to ask them to take the article down ? Although I don't see the article was completed a copy of mine, it was re-written of there own version.  Any thoughts around that?

Cheers

[TheWebMastercom]

If they copy it then  submit a DMCA to Google.. I don't even bother asking people to take down content.  WHat I was referring to was legitimate referencing when they write their own unique article because they like the idea of my own article.  This latter thing is what I would like to achieve.  Social sharing helps get your content in front of other bloggers which can help facilitate this.

Basically if you have good content, people will over time give you links naturally.