What is Digg?27 Comments
- hollywoodphony, on 02/13/2008, -0/+5Be useful?? No wonder nobody clicks on my blog. There's nothing useful about thousands of pictures of hot naked women.
- peregrine, on 02/13/2008, -2/+613. Have years of experience in writing, backed up by a possible English major and or writing major. Journalism works too.
Man I love these 'XX Tips from the Best in XXX" They are always tips that are so useful and make it seem so damn easy.
You know what most blogs fail? Experience. Most of these bloggers have some experience in the field and can say they are knowledgeable in the blog material. This guy is clearly a good writer thus he can give solid info about writing.
Lifehacker, the guy writes useful programs, finds useful tips, and shares it with everyone. This guy's life is looking for useful things on the computer and showing people how to use them.
What about LifeHack this guy has spent so much time trying to make himself better he knows how to make everyone else better too.
Its not a hard formula.
1.Get good in something.
2. Be passionate about what your writings.
3. give people are reason to say 'Hey I like and trust what this guy says.'
4. timing, if your the first blogger on the scene you have a better chance at being number 1.
5. Original Content
If you do not have this you will simply be blogspam until you find yourself in the position of a top blogger. - NathanielJ, on 02/13/2008, -0/+413. Just kidding - stop trying to get millions of visitors to your website, because although a blog is indeed fun to write, reality must sink in at some point and you have to realize that you're just not interesting enough for millions of people to want to read your musings on what you consider to be the 10 hottest SNES characters.
- DavidGX, on 02/13/2008, -0/+4I'm amazed this is even here, considering diggs blogphobia.
- tringtring, on 02/13/2008, -0/+3All useful tips, but I'd imagine that writing a great blog post alone counts for little if there is no one to read it...for every great blog post for which there are thousands of appreciative readers there are hundreds of equally good posts for which there are none...so I'd reckon that a great blog post strategy is not complete without having a method to expose your great stuff to the rest of the world...who would want to make an insanely useful car without having a way to advertise it to the world and without having a distribution channel to reach the car to the masses?
Enter Digg... - FatLoser, on 02/13/2008, -4/+7Summary:
1) Submit it to Digg over and over again.
2) Failing that, pay a top Digger to submit it for you.
3-12) Prance around in a leopard skin thong while the cash resulting from 1) or 2) rains down upon you. - mindsnare, on 02/13/2008, -0/+3There's nothing wrong with wordpress at all, with the right plugins and theme, wordpress can handle stresses like the DIgg effect. In terms of it's usability, it's easily the most polished, simple, straight to the point blog script out there.
and you might want to look at the source of the page with the tips:
meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.3.1" / - seinkonnen, on 02/13/2008, -1/+3Whats wrong with WordPress? You'd be surprised by the number of top sites running wordpress.
- omjeremy, on 02/13/2008, -0/+2How about
1: Use pictures of pretty girls to make your article popular.
That is what the author is doing, right? Too bad the aspect ratio is all screwed up. I guess he spent so much time on the actual article that he forgot his picture looked like *****. - wrathchilde, on 02/13/2008, -2/+31. spelcheck
2. spellchek
3. spell czech - paddysat, on 02/13/2008, -0/+1How about, "Resize your leading photo - making sure you constrain your proportions - to insure that your photo of three young Asian girls doesn't turn out all wonky?"
- hobbit360, on 02/13/2008, -2/+3"Be insanely useful" I think this is the secret of Leo's success. Great article.
- JeremyJacobs, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1Wordpress is fine
- mickael1, on 02/13/2008, -0/+1All you have to do is remorselessly spam your ***** on every social news site like digg and pray. You are bound to get hits even though your "blog" is complete and utter garbage. It's all about spam.
- oregongirl82, on 02/14/2008, -0/+1I completely disagree ... I love Wordpress . I've tried a number of blog providers for both personal and professional writings, and Wordpress is by far the best.
- woodcoxcb, on 02/13/2008, -1/+11. Talk about how you can't believe anyone would even be interested in what you have to say.
2. Submit it to digg and find out no one really cares about what you have to say.
3-11. ???
12. Profit!
No discredit the author of said post though, he's quite right. - blake182, on 02/13/2008, -1/+1Hey! This is Digg! Shouldn't this be "12 Essential *Hacks* for Building a Successful Blog"?
- alpa76, on 05/14/2009, -0/+0Being Patient is probably the only tips you would need with blogging
- ReGGsRoom, on 02/14/2008, -0/+0Hey buddy step 3 is profit. If you don't know the underpants collection process then get out of the bedroom.
- blindingleaf, on 02/13/2008, -0/+0just out of curiousity, what do you blog about and how do you some up with ideas?
Is your blog a daily one? weekly?
im just wondering cause i always thought that i could start one, but being in school, i dont really have the time right now. - AllenScribe, on 02/13/2008, -2/+2Great list, thanks. I've just started blogging and there are a million things to learn. I will take these tips to heart though.
- onlinetreason, on 02/13/2008, -0/+0These are all great points. You can also waste a lot of time on Social Media sites. So remember to not get too SM happy.
- rmattocks, on 04/24/2008, -0/+0all good stuff ... especially if you are an out-of-touch chuckle-head such as myself
- DefinitiveCarib, on 01/23/2009, -0/+0Hey...for what it's worth...I reckon all these tips are just common sense...There's no real way to get your blog or site a load of traffic unless you have hundreds of pages of extremely well written, up-to-date, information and are lucky enough for people to start being interested over time and the community around your site or blog to get bigger...or you just spend hours more than you did writing it, promoting it on other people's blogs, Digg, StumbleUpon, Delicious and all the other social networks out there.
Anyway, next comment please...lol - rmattocks, on 04/24/2008, -0/+0if digg is blogaphobic, what's the better alternative - A Newcomer
- MackPrime, on 02/13/2008, -2/+1remember: Large amounts of traffic doesn't necessarily mean money for you. with adsense, 1000 hits is like a sixth of a cent. Readers gotta stick around and click some ads.
- vsaint, on 02/13/2008, -6/+413. Don't use wordpress
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