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Good news for all of you who abuse Stumbleupon (Updated post) for lots of traffic. The company has just announced that they are going to be redoing a few things on how the profiles are setup, and that they have eliminated the 200 friend limit.

For those of you who don’t know, the more friends that subscribe to your stumbles, the more traffic that you can send to an article. People with tons of followers are considered “authority stumblers” and send far more traffic than a new user can when they each stumble an article.

Update: I might have jumped the gun on this post.  If you look at your profile under “grid” ( http://raithe1337.stumbleupon.com/blog/0/grid/ ), the links are dofollow. However, the old “List” format shows them as nofollow still.

Just by doing my daily browsing over at Stumbleupon, I noticed the new user pages look a lot nicer and easier to read. However, upon further inspection it looks like the external links have had the evil “nofollow” tags stripped from the links. This means that not only can Stumbleupon send massive amounts of traffic, but can even send a bit of pagerank and authority over to the sites you like.

One of the greatest ways for any webmaster to get new visitors for free is Stumbleupon. I have been using this Firefox addon for months now, and the simplicity and ability to send as much traffic as it does amazes me. For websites that you like, users of StumbleUpon “thumbs up” the site, and it sends tons of stumblers to that website who are interested in those topics. For webmasters, it is a common idea to “thumbs up” your own site for an instant burst in traffic, but other than that one time traffic flow, I have created a list of how to ab(use) Stumbleupon to get the maximum amount of traffic without spending a dollar!