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DIGG Effect is worth it?
My last article depicts few facts of success in social communities. Here I wanna be more concrete and give you some interesting Background information of the DIGG and DIGG effect. Finelly I give my personal adwise not to try to be the top DIGGER, read why.
Factors of Success in Social (News) Communities
As I think there a only two main factors your success (success of your submissions) depends on. That are the quality of your stories and friendship. Yes only them two and some sub issues its quite simple. Such an statement my appear as vague for you, therefore I’ll try to be more concrete.
High quality stories are known as:
* unique
* unusual
* very actual
* interesting for everybody
February Statistics
Now we step into March 2008. Here my first visitors statistic for this blog. In February there where 730 unique visitors what means round about 25 visotors a day in average.
Maybe it’s not so much for a professional blogger but it’s OK for an amateur blogger like me. Important is the overal trend which is positiv.
Yahoo Buzz launched
It was already for several weeks ago on mashable.com and now it’s released. I’m talking about new Yahoo Buzz Service , which probably should be the Yahoo’s answer to Digg. Let’s prove this theory.
At first look on Yahoo Buzz we see several categories of news and voting buttons aside of them with the ability to [...]
Social networking fatigue
I found something related to or at the wordspy.com.
Social networking fatigue is appears when people are tired to register new accounts and create their adentity over and over again. It’s of cause funny that there is already a word for it. But the reality behind that word phrase is not so cool. [...]
Geni T-Shirt
Do you remember my last . There I’ve introduced new feature, which has made it possible to include parts of you family tree into your blog page site or whatever, by showing the example use of it on my blog.
But Noah (Puplic relation Manager form Geni.com) has found some problems with that on my blog [...]
W-Popularity Plug-In
New plugin is born. I’ve created a new branch from the latest version of famous Popularity Contest Plugin.
While the Popularity Contest Plugin does not support widgets natively, you need to code your templates to show most popular list of post on the Sidebar. My Widgetized Popularity Contest Plugin – short W-Popularity solves that, by providing [...]
Mark Meta widget with “nofollow”
Due SEO considerations it is not recommended (e.g. by Matt Cutts) to spend precious page rank on links like log-in, register formulars, rss pages and other meta stuff. One thould mark them as nofollow and that is one example where nofollow attribute can be turned in something useful.
Nearly every Worpdress blog would have [...]