With the Dugg Analyzer you can dice and slice data about stories on Digg. You can find out which type of stories get most diggs, which users are the top contributors within each category, which sites are most successful on Digg, and many other data points.
If your goal is to hit the front page of […]
Social media sites like Digg and StumbleUpon are great for driving traffic to your web site. But there are literally hundreds of similar social media sites out there. Which ones should you focus your attention on?
You should first check your web analytics to see where you’re visitors are currently coming from.
If you see a large […]
New social media sites pop all the time. One that has been making headlines recently is Mixx. Is it time to ditch Digg, the granddaddy of social media sites?
Here are 3 reasons why you may want to pay attention to new social media startups:
The user communities on Digg and other established sites are so large […]
I’ve written previously about how useless it is to have a large number of social bookmarking icons at the end of every post. In that post I also suggested that you occasionally ask your readers to digg or bookmark your story on a particular site. But that doesn’t always work.
Case in point: Rich Schefren’s announcement […]
In the Attention Age Doctrine Part 2, Rich Schefren talks about leveraging the reputation of other people and piggy-backing on their attention.
I’ve previously written about how you can use Digg to piggy-back on the attention of already popular stories. Yesterday was a perfect example of this. A story was going around the news wires about […]
To get on the front page of Digg is really difficult if you’re not a very popular blogger with a loyal tribe following. This is a popular story by Tim Ferriss.
Here’s a small trick you can use to ride on the coattails of popular Diggs.
Find a story on Digg on a topic that is related […]
Does your blog look like a Christmas tree at the end of each post with dozens of small icons for every obscure social media site? Just because there is a plug-in for your blog that makes it easy to add them, doesn’t mean that you should do it.
At first glance the idea of encouraging your […]