Tag Archives: digg

Hated Or Loved? Get Front Paged After Being Buried

By Andy Beard | Published: May 28, 2008

Sadly this isn't possible on Digg, though it would be interesting if they provided a page with the most buried or hated stories. After all, just because you don't like a story doesn't mean it is spam, but it is still news.

Jack Spirko has knocked together an interesting site where your story can appear on the front page because it is "hated" and I feel the idea is worthy of a mention.

You can see that currently the hated stories seem to only appear in the sidebar - I would love them to be integrated with the main results by default

Posted in SEO Blog, web 2.0 | Also tagged hate, hatedorloved, love, pligg, Social Media, Social News | Comments closed

Dear Digg – Please Ban My Site

By Andy Beard | Published: March 2, 2008

Dear Digg

I have built up my blog to quite a large readership by writing in depth thoughtful articles.

To be honest, I am writing this not for the traffic I haven't received, but because the stories I write about often need a different perspective, or the companies I write about are newsworthy.

Maybe my site for some reason is on autobury, though I have no idea why that might be the case. Whilst my site does cover marketing and SEO related content sometimes, I wouldn't dream of encouraging that content to be submitted to Digg in any way.

However when I write about

Posted in web 2.0 | Also tagged autobury | Comments closed

SEO Linking Gotchas Even The Pros Make

By Andy Beard | Published: November 27, 2007

I am going to attempt to debunk almost every Wordpress SEO "Expert" article ever written, and in some respects this article even debunks some of the things I have written in the past.

This article does not reference Google Toolbar PageRank in any way

First of all you are going to need to do a little homework.

Eric Enge interview with Matt Cutts

The Eric Enge interview with Matt Cutts was truly exceptional and revealed a number of gotchas that for some reason continue to be circulated.

Key takeaways

Matt Cutts: … Now, robots.txt says you are not allowed to crawl a page, and Google

Posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips, wordpress | Also tagged goog, Google, Google PageRank, internal_linking, linking_structure, matt cutts, meta follow, meta nofollow, meta noindex, nofollow, pagerank, robots.txt, search engine optimization, SEO Blog, wikipedia | Comments closed

29% Of Technorati Top 100 Never On Digg Home Page

By Andy Beard | Published: August 8, 2007

I heard about this story from Glen yesterday about his extensive research into the correlation between the Technorati 100 and Digg home page stories. I am sure a blog og people have actually read the story by now because Darren linked through and Jordan remixed the statistics a little. What struck me the most was that 29% 8 Blogs in the Technorati Top 100 are none English, and some of those as you would expect make up the largest percentage of blog that haven't made the front page, but there are still 17% English blog that haven't made it. I would love to know which blogs have never made a front page that are in that Top100, as they deserve some Diggs. Secondly of course it does need to be mentioned that there are 10s

Posted in blogging tips, web 2.0 | Also tagged statistics, technorati | Comments closed

Jason Calacanis Mahalo Diggbait – Lies Or Credit?

By Andy Beard | Published: July 30, 2007

Just one month ago Jason Calacanis invited me and a few bloggers he has crossed swords with in the past onto his Calacanis podcast. During that podcast I highlighted what I believe was one of the fundamental flaws with Mahalo’s long-term success, and Jason very politely rejected my advice.

Posted in SEO Blog, web 2.0 | Also tagged content, diggbait, jason calacanis, made_for_digg, mahalo | Comments closed

AOL News: Digg Censoring News About AOL?

By Andy Beard | Published: June 26, 2007

The revamp of AOL News today is quite significant, and Reuters being first to break the news is a trusted source of information.

I thought it was strange that the story hadn’t been submitted to Digg, because it was already appearing on Megite.

Posted in news, web 2.0 | Also tagged aol, aol_news, Social News | Comments closed

Choosing The Right Social Bookmarking Sites

By Andy Beard | Published: June 24, 2007

Providing social bookmarking buttons can be a service to your visitors, and help highlight your best content on various social networks and news services, but you must think carefully about which ones you include, and where.

Posted in blogging tips, web 2.0 | Also tagged bumpzee, delicious, netscape, plugim, social bookmarking, Social News, stumbleupon | Comments closed

Truemors – More Successful Than Most People Realise

By Andy Beard | Published: June 5, 2007

Everyone is slagging off Guy Kawasaki for his Truemors site (again). I think most of them need to have their head examined because the site is already a raging success and the venture is already profitable, though most of them are Tech bloggers and not SEOs or Niche Marketers.

Posted in SEO Blog, web 2.0, wordpress | Also tagged guy_Kawasaki, social bookmarking, truemors, wordpress | Comments closed

How To Find The Digg Friends You Never Knew You Had

By Andy Beard | Published: May 13, 2007

You can easily discover 10s, maybe even 100s of existing friends on Digg, if you only knew how and where to look.

Experienced users of social news sites such as Digg will probably find most of this content familiar, but I know many that will appreciate an important reminder.

Posted in blogging tips, web 2.0 | Also tagged befriend, friends, users, user_profile | Comments closed

StumbleUpon Quintuplet From The King Of Blogging Gobshites

By Andy Beard | Published: May 10, 2007

Yes that title makes total sense, but you will have to keep reading to find out exactly why.

Stumble Popup

How often do you read a great blog post and forget to share it with your friends? The Stumbleupon toolbar is often a long mouse move away, and most people don’t use shortcuts when browsing, because they can’t remember them, or because of conflicts between different toolbars and other applications that are running on a system by default.

Posted in blog monetization, blogging tips, marketing, plugins, stats, web 2.0 | Also tagged stumbleupon, stumble_upon, testing, tracking, web_metrics | Comments closed

I Bet You Missed Some of These (March 07)

By Andy Beard | Published: April 1, 2007

These are some highlights (in my opinion) of some of the content I have created over the last month. If I have missed anything out which you enjoyed or gained some value from, please let others know in the comments.

Posted in SEO Blog, plugins, reviews, web 2.0, wordpress | Also tagged aweber, blogging, blogging tips, blogs, blogsearch, can_spam, citations, disclosure, dofollow, getresponse, gmail, google_blog_search, mybloglog, nofollow, pay per post, plagiarism, plugins, press, product_launch_formula, reddit, reviews, smm, smo, smpt, smtp_server, sociable, social-bookmarks, social_tagging, sponsored reviews, stampede_traffic, stumbleupon, subscribe_to_comments, tag, tagging, technorati, top_commenters, traffic_strategy, twitter, ultimate tag warrior, wordpress | Comments closed

Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

By Andy Beard | Published: March 24, 2007

How many blogs link to Technorati on every post they publish? Many blogs also use followable links to social bookmarking sites such as Delicious, and social news sites such as Digg on every single page of their site? Google in their recently disclosed patent are saying that it could be a negative indication of quality.

Posted in Google, blogging tips, plugins, web 2.0 | Also tagged blogsearch, blog_search, delicious, dofollow, Google, google_blogsearch, nofollow, tagging, tags, technorati, wikipedia | Comments closed

Could Just 1 Character Turn A 4 Day Old News Story Into A Front Page Digg?

By Andy Beard | Published: March 8, 2007

You would think it is impossible for one small detail to have a dramatic effect on whether a story is promoted on Digg. Here is how it happened, decide for yourself…

Posted in marketing, web 2.0 | Also tagged copywriting, headlines, marketing, wikipedia | Comments closed

Do You Stumble?

By Andy Beard | Published: March 7, 2007

I have been using StumbleUpon a fair amount over the last couple of months, usually at the end of a day when I just want to wind down or gather ideas for site designs.

New Digg Buttons With Wordpress (that don’t work?)

By Andy Beard | Published: February 7, 2007

Digg has introduced some new buttons and here is how to use them with Wordpress.

It’s smart enough to detect whether your link is a Digg permalink or a URL and whether or not the content exists on Digg already. If it exists, you’ll get the familiar yellow Digg box with a real-time Digg count to suggest visitors Digg your story. If the story doesn’t exist yet on Digg, the first person to click on the Digg It link will be walked through the submission process.

Posted in Projects, web 2.0, wordpress | Also tagged digg_badge, digg_button, digg_this, wordpress | Comments closed

Headline Split Testing Social News With The Same Article For Massive Traffic

By Andy Beard | Published: February 1, 2007

John Wesley over at Pick the Brain really is “getting smarter every day”.

He had a great article, he submitted it himself, and it flopped on Digg.

Doesn’t that happen to us all? Multiple Times?

Posted in marketing | Also tagged copy, copywriting, headline, marketing, reddit, social bookmarking, Social News, split_testing, stumble_upon | Comments closed

Podcast with Irish Attitude

By Andy Beard | Published: January 30, 2007

If you are someone who likes to listen to podcasts on blogging and tech issues, you might like to give Paul’s new podcast a try.

It is “down to earth” rather than full of hype (as you would expect from an Irishman), and my first impressions of it are very good (and that is not because I got a mention in the first episode).

Posted in web 2.0 | Also tagged a-list, deep_linking, krak, linkbait, linking, news, podcast, robert_scoble, scandal | Comments closed

Wikipedia NoFollow Plugin

By Andy Beard | Published: January 23, 2007

I mentioned I was willing to create such a plugin, I was even cobbling the code together.

Then I noticed a mention over on Matt’s blog (just search for Matt) in the comments that somone had written one.

Read more on Wikipedia NoFollow Plugin…

Posted in SEO Blog, plugins | Also tagged digg_this, nofollow, SEO Blog, wikipedia, wordpress, wordpress plugin | Comments closed

How to Destroy Your Company Reputation | Deep Linking Tax

By Andy Beard | Published: January 20, 2007

Quite probably RIAA is one of the most hated organisations on the internet, possibly followed by Microsoft, but as Bill Gates has been demonstrating recently, he actually seems quite a nice guy and “gets” technology and nerdy things.

Posted in marketing | Also tagged deep_linking, digg_story, digg_this, directory, dog, dog_blog, dog_lover, krak, law, linking, marketing, paid_linking, reputation_management, SEO Blog | Comments closed

MyBlogLog Acquisition Coverage

By Andy Beard | Published: January 10, 2007

It is interesting looking at the acquisition coverage for MyBlogLog.

First of all Techmeme gets it partially right, that one of the original sources for the sale was Forbes.

If you expand all the related coverage, it is a shame the announcement on the MyBlogLog Blog doesn’t seem to have been cited anywhere near as many times.

Posted in marketing, web 2.0 | Also tagged forbes, mashable, mybloglog, social networking, techmeme, yahoo | Comments closed

Digg Dos and Donts

By Andy Beard | Published: January 8, 2007

WebProNews has a great video up with Neil Patel and Todd Mailcoat talking about Digg. Hattip Nick Wilson.

Posted in marketing | Also tagged neil_patel, todd_mailcoat | Comments closed

RAP Bank

I have just signed up for RAP Bank myself - call this a mini-review.
It seems to be one of the smartest ideas for a long time as a great way to consolidate 100s of affiliate programs under a single entity for promotion.

It is also one of the best implementations of WordPress I have ever seen.
It is not without its bugs, as this is effectively pre-launch. For example I just found a bug in the keyword based search RSS feeds (yes RSS feeds for any term will be hot), but it looks like they might be onto a winner.
Check it out - signup for the basic service is free.

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P.S. It is not immediately obvious who is running the site, but looking at my Paypal receipt (yes I signed up for Vendor Plus) I believe the site is run by Bill Ortell From Rap-Extras.com who is RAP certified and does the membership add-on that is highly popular.
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