What is Digg?16 Comments
- vermin, on 10/22/2007, -0/+6Article summed up: If you're selling something, tell people.
How does this make the front page? - QuickeningYak, on 10/25/2007, -2/+5For sounding like...
"Does your content let them get away or does it make the sale?"
...some dog-mouthed infomercial sales pitch, and for an obnoxious little blog entry about how the joys of being acceptably obnoxious, buried. - HUKI365, on 10/22/2007, -0/+2Bad. I won't keep digging.
- evokeshop, on 10/22/2007, -0/+1I agree with ajaddison - ugly website though it raises some good points.
I hate sites that reek of marketing and feel news articles should be informing and interesting yet not hound the reader into browsing products: so a balance is needed. Giving a reader the opportunity to read on about related sales based content that they may be interested in is different to ramming it down their throat.
News is news, sales is sales: one can lead to the other but they do need seperation. Why should everything be there for the sole purpose to make money?!
All depends on what content your providing. - ajaddison, on 10/22/2007, -1/+2Ugly, ugly site.
- MtheoryX, on 10/22/2007, -1/+2Not only should you be upfront about the purpose of your site so you don't miss opportunities, it adds a level of honesty and trust as well.
I hate when I've been sitting on a site for a while reading information, only to later find out that the purpose of the site is completely different than how it was presented in the beginning. - mishsquish, on 10/22/2007, -1/+2I'm going to disagree.
There are a whole bunch of 'quick words' that people seem to be storing in their brain. They form the basic website template. Why is the first page called "home"? Because that's what it started off as. More and more web developers started using that word. When you are on a site and want to go back to the first page, you're not looking for "first page", you're either looking for the banner or "home".
In a similar fashion, when you want to read what the website is about, you are looking for "about". It is short, self-explanatory and accepted. Take a look at digg's footer. When I first came to this site, I had absolutely no idea how it functioned. It was a mystery to me. I wanted to learn how it worked and the first thing I did was look for "about". I managed to find it before losing interest and now I am here, using digg daily.
There needs to be a universal way of marking content. XML is here, HTML5.0 is going to make it even better. Navigation is no different. There is a number of common sets of information a website is designed to get across, it really helps to name them the same to reduce the frustration. - mishsquish, on 10/22/2007, -0/+1Great to see the submitter disagreeing with me by digging me down. Win!
- webscribbler, on 10/22/2007, -0/+1I've seen sites that have done this and could only shake my head at how the site owner could have possibly not missed the fact they forgot to advertise themselves. A bit of Marketing 101, but something worth a reminder to anyone with a business website.
- jessehadden, on 10/22/2007, -1/+2It made the front page because the submitter told people.
- Jleagle, on 10/22/2007, -1/+1Stop spamming this in my profile plz.
- 1tb0y, on 10/22/2007, -1/+0What a terrible article. If you need this article to help you sell something on the internet, you'd be better off flipping burgers.
- Googlelady, on 10/22/2007, -2/+1"Article summed up: If you're selling something, tell people" the question is how to tell them, the way you do it is the best way?
- Siuzanna, on 10/22/2007, -5/+3not too bad, Nikki.
keep on shouting, i'll digg for you. - olaf, on 10/22/2007, -4/+2Great Article Thanks!
- inactive, on 10/22/2007, -3/+1i'm not even looking. Buried.
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