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Pay to Get a Digg Front Page
Diggs for sale It seems you can now pay for a front page digg. Great, where do I pay. Oh wait, it’s looks like you have to be a multinational corporation with a big fat wallet. I wonder how much Paramount has paid digg for the front page? So m...
NO FT.com, That’s Not how You Game Digg
I submitted a story to digg about global banking which went hot, which I didn’t expect as there were no pictures of Megan Fox or explosions. But it got a front page no problem, which raises the question, do certain sites on digg get an artifici...
What reason does this linkbait give for people to link to it
An interesting nugget from the forums of Linkbaitcoaching.com “What reason does this linkbait give for people to link to it.” Too often I see visitor bait being created. So you got on the front page of digg, give yourself a gold medal an...
Build Killer Content Rather than Sweating over building your DIGG Network
“Unfortunately the algorithm does not only look at submitters. Before a submission is promoted it must reach a certain number of votes within a 24 hour period. If every time User A submits a story, Users B-Z are the first to vote, the alarms ar...
The Problem With Linkbait
When you have every social media marketing blog loaded in your RSS reader, you soon come to identify a problem within the space. The problem is the term Linkbait, it is overused, misused and stretched to cover almost all content ever published on the...
Digg Not Saved, Please Reload and Try Again
Or go to a site which actually works. From the Digg blog, “Hey everyone, We know that we are currently having some issues on Digg at the moment. Submissions, commenting, digging and other actions may sometimes fail. We have a crack team assigne...
Digg Revolt
So I awoke at 6am this morning to write a nice bit of content for a client and was confronted with a digg Strike. Quickly pinged a few people and saw that the digg community had finally had enough at the Ivory Tower marketing techiniques of the found...
How many digg votes does it take to get to the front page?
For muhammad saleem it seems harder and harder to break a story on to the front page. It’s like not all diggers are created equal. His crime? People like what he submits. It seems people like the stuff he submits so much he is given a handicap....
Raspberry smoothie round up of what’s happening in social media
Working in the space of social media is never boring. This week has been nuts. I’m getting so much content writing business (linkbaiting) that I am having to increase the price. I’ve only been down to the beach twice this year and it̵...
Lets get rid of the ugly git
I’m getting tired looking at my ugly mug so I am going to try out a new avatar. It’s also pointed out to me that I look like I just came of the set of Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. The new avatar is Iggle Piggle, from a BBC kids sh...
