I’ve been reading up on Digg all afternoon.  By the end, I’d collected a bookmark list of articles on it.  Have fun with them!

How To: Get a SEO Blog to Digg’s Front Page - The 6 C’s
How Do I Get My Website into Digg
DiggBait 101: 8 Ways to Help You Get to Digg’s Front Page
Digg [...]

I’ve been reading up on Digg all afternoon.  By the end, I’d collected a bookmark list of articles on it.  Have fun with them!

1. How To: Get a SEO Blog to Digg’s Front Page - The 6 C’s
2. How Do I Get My Website into Digg
3. DiggBait 101: 8 Ways to Help You Get to Digg’s Front Page
4. Digg is for Dweebs: Free Link Bait Ideas
5. Why You’re Not Getting on the Digg Homepage
6. Social Media Marketing, eh? Let’s See What’s in Our Bag o’ Goodies.
7. How to Attract Links and Increase Web Traffic - The Ultimate Guide
8. Explaining the Value of Viral Marketing Through an Understanding of Text Link Value
9. 7 Ways to Get to the Top of the del.icio.us Popular Page
10. The digg effect - a visual analysis
11. How I Got That Pretty Digg Button
12. How to get on the digg homepage
13. How to Get Promoted at digg.com
14. How to Build a ‘Digg Culture’ on your Blog
15. How to add digg this, reddit this, et al links to WordPress Posts
16. Everything in the Digg, Reddit & Netscape Algorithms
17. Top 10 Actionable Tips (Rules) That Make Me Top Digg User
18. How to Become a Digg Top User (without doing anything shady)
19. Beginner’s Guide to Digg
20. Pencil Drop (The end of Digg as we know it?)
21. How to get 14,644 visitors from digg.com in 8,5 hours: live social bookmarking experiment
22. Tips from a Top 10 Digg user on how to get to the Frontpage
23. Tips on How To Get to The Front Page. (On Digg)
24. A Bullet Proof Way to Cheat Digg?
25. How to Use DIGG To Syndicate Your Content
26. How to Get Banned by Digg
27. Why It Doesn’t Pay to Game Digg (or Other Link Aggregation Sites)
28. Using digg and Netscape to get traffic
29. How to Get Your Article Onto The Digg Front Page, Twice
30. Top 100 Digg Users Control 56% of Digg’s HomePage Content
31. Anatomy of a Super Digg
32. 10 Steps to Guarantee You Make the Digg Front Page
33. My Simple Guide On How To Get to Digg’s FrontPage

See the Digg It! button I’ve added at the right top of each post?  And how it neatly takes you to a page where the URL’s already filled out and you have just a couple of steps to complete? Here’s how I did it.
First, I tried the script from Brandon Hopkins, and that just didn’t [...]

See the Digg It! button I’ve added at the right top of each post?  And how it neatly takes you to a page where the URL’s already filled out and you have just a couple of steps to complete? Here’s how I did it.

First, I tried the script from Brandon Hopkins, and that just didn’t do anything.  Not sure if it’s a WP version issue, or what, but I tested on two sites and had no joy.  Then I found slightly different javascript from Bill2Me.  Then I combined Brandon’s styling with the code from Bill2Me, and got this:

<div style=”float: right; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 2px;”><script type=”text/javascript”>    digg_url = ‘<?php the_permalink() ?>’; </script><script src=”http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js” type=”text/javascript”> </script></div>

Look at Brandon’s post to see where to put the code.  Every template can vary a little, but that should get you started.  Post a comment if you have questions!

You know those amazing posts people put together with huge lists of links, full of information on something that interests you?  Check out Brandon Hopkins’ list of link building strategies.  He covers onsite and offsite methods of attracting links.  While some of the links fall under the “Yeah, I know, but it never works when [...]

You know those amazing posts people put together with huge lists of links, full of information on something that interests you?  Check out Brandon Hopkins’ list of link building strategies.  He covers onsite and offsite methods of attracting links.  While some of the links fall under the “Yeah, I know, but it never works when I do it”, others will have you doing the V-8 forehead slap as you realize, “OMG, I should’ve thought of that!”

If your current approach to blogging is something along the lines of “look for stuff; write about it”, here’s a way to get more organized, increase your inspiration, and write posts quickly.

Get a Bloglines account (or whatever Feedreader you like that allows you to categorize different feeds)
Set up folders for each of your blogs
Put relevant [...]

If your current approach to blogging is something along the lines of “look for stuff; write about it”, here’s a way to get more organized, increase your inspiration, and write posts quickly.

• Get a Bloglines account (or whatever Feedreader you like that allows you to categorize different feeds)
• Set up folders for each of your blogs
• Put relevant feeds into each folder
• Open up your Bloglines page each day and go from folder to folder, finding stuff to blog about

It sounds simple and it is.  But it can really increase your productivity.  Additionally, Bloglines and probably other readers allow you to:

• Save “clippings” - URL’s to articles of interest, plus a space where you can enter notes.  I like to go through each day and clip everything that looks good, then go to the clippings later and read each article more in depth and start my posts.  If you work on multiple computers, this is a lifesaver: my old method of just opening up dozens of FireFox tabs wasn’t much help when I had to run off somewhere with my laptop.
• You can also get a feed with your local weather.
• You also have a blog with your account, which you can keep private, where you can make notes, keep a to-do list… whatever.

If Bloglines doesn’t suit you, Netvibes is another popular choice.

If you have any domains hosted with Registerfly, you might want to read this: they’ve been terminated by Icann.  Get your domains moved ASAP.

If you have any domains hosted with Registerfly, you might want to read this: they’ve been terminated by Icann.  Get your domains moved ASAP.

If you’ve ever thought about domaining, or just find yourself wondering what’s a way to earn money online, AvivaDirectory has an article on domaining with 28 tips on how to get started.  I’ve seen people report mixed results from domaining, so it may or may not be for you.  But it’s definitely worth checking out.

If you’ve ever thought about domaining, or just find yourself wondering what’s a way to earn money online, AvivaDirectory has an article on domaining with 28 tips on how to get started.  I’ve seen people report mixed results from domaining, so it may or may not be for you.  But it’s definitely worth checking out.