Currently I’m the number 49 of top users of the Russian DIGG sister called news2.ru, therefore I think to have some experience and some kind of instinctive feeling for mechanisms we have on that page. News2.ru is a typical example of social news-driven page and is quite similar to DIGG. Therefore my experience can be useful also for DIGG users and other similar Web2.0 sites.

Success factors of digging

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

High quality stories are known as:

• unique
• unusual
• very actual
• interesting for everybody

That are primary properties on successful story. Now you may think that the appreciation of these attributes is highly subjective, that is partly true. However everyone can achieve good objectivity by analysing the actuality of post. E.g. U.S. President election is quite actual at the moment, Cold War maybe not. However with some experience thee appraisal of these properties will get better and better. I can say I began to feel what kind of stories can reach the TOP.

To be actual and have many stories to choose, it is recommended to subscribe to RSS feeds of news portal of your wish or several of them. If your social-community portal presents websites statistic , you are well advised to study it and chose some with the best success rate.

So what to do? How to begin? The answer is clear too, you just have to star and play a bit around. If you are non completely new in the field of social news community, then you just can’t leave this step out. However as already mentioned the success factor of your news will grow with experience.

It is difficult to provide some examples of good or bad news, because it’s highly depends on the time context and also other things like presentation! Presentation is one of the sub factors I wanna say some words about:

• Always use pictures! Choose them with care.
• Use headlines that magnify attention (Compare: “Microsoft considers to by some Yahoo shares” vs. “Microsoft takes over Yahoo!”)
• But use headlines that are precisely express what is in the content behind them. Otherwise your messages can be considered as spam or inaccurate.
• Be aware of duplicates
• The content at it self should be good presented and layout carefully. Don’t write to much, but try to make your link sexy. Don’t lie.
• Use the right category!

Doing so you will create solid and high potential submissions, and you has learned this, the second factor comes to a play which helps enormously to use the potential of your submissions.

Friendship

If in the beginning of your “career” maybe non of your messages reach the top, at a master level the rate of your positive submissions can rise up to 50-99 percent (depending on social service and other factors). But this success is only possible with a active circle of friends!

How to get friends on social communities? You should be able to answer this question at your-self, because it is not much different as in the real life. Friendship grounds on mutuality and deserve much time. Decide for yourself whether you are ready for it. However gaining new friends is in any case new experience and enrichment for everyone.

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.

Compared to last month there where 610 visitors. Why that peak at end of January, I before.

However if we do compare February statistic to December of last year, 730 visitors is quite a good result. In December I had only 158 visitors, of cause my blog was extremely raw at this time.

Most of the users in January and February came from USA, Germany and Russian Federation.

Most popular post in Februar

1. Post about – Wordpress popularity plugin with enabled “Most popular Widget” which you can see e.g. on my sidebar.
2. Considering about
3. And my from December of the last year.

May be you are wondering why my adventures has not become part three. The answer is simple I just had no time to write it down, now it’s too late

Goals for March

First I would say, that 730 visitors is just a beginning so March should result in at least 1000 visitors. I think this is realistic if I find few hours to write good articles, which are already in my head. Maybe a can offer you new series of articles about mobile computing or maybe about Workflows Systems or even one of both. We’ll see.

Furthermore my wish is to adapt the current template of my blog. I would like to make it more comfortable for navigation, reading and more SEO friendly. If you have some hints for me, your comments are welcome!

At last I think it’s time to offer my rss feed through the feedburner, which will help me to have statistic about my feed readers.

Nevertheless i like that people (there were more than 40) found my post good. I’ll try to make more of such in the future

P.S. I’m still think about my new avatar, next idea i had, is to play around with letter “G”.