Digfield has a very clever suggestion for a way to get a new site rolling and earning. Basically, you place a Craig’s list ad looking for writers for your site. This gets people clicking to look at your site. Then when they email for more information, you send them a form email thanking them for [...]

Digfield has a very clever suggestion for a way to get a new site rolling and earning. Basically, you place a Craig’s list ad looking for writers for your site. This gets people clicking to look at your site. Then when they email for more information, you send them a form email thanking them for their interest and put a link to an affiliate product in it. You could just stick it in the signature so it’s on every outbound mail, or you could so what he suggests and actually pitch it to them.

I say "slightly deceptive" because you’re probably not really looking for contributors.

If you’re trying to learn new ways to look at your site’s viability - other than Pagerank - check out SEOMoz’s page strength tool. It tracks some pretty interesting metrics - as usual, any of these can be "meh" on their own, but if you put them together you can hardly avoid getting a clear [...]

If you’re trying to learn new ways to look at your site’s viability - other than Pagerank - check out SEOMoz’s page strength tool. It tracks some pretty interesting metrics - as usual, any of these can be "meh" on their own, but if you put them together you can hardly avoid getting a clear picture of where your site stands.

I’m going to use this tool on all my sites every month or so for a while. It should help me spot some trends and things I can work on.

This is practically a step by step way to promote your new sites. I mean, it’s like a recipe it’s so simple. And of course you can vary it using sources you find on your own. But seriously - brilliant.
I’m so definitely going to do this with some of my new sites.

This is practically a step by step way to promote your new sites. I mean, it’s like a recipe it’s so simple. And of course you can vary it using sources you find on your own. But seriously - brilliant.

I’m so definitely going to do this with some of my new sites.

I read a very detailed and thoughtful article about Brian Turner’s experience with ReviewMe - as an advertiser, not a publisher.
If I try to sum up what he said, I’ll probably accidentally misrepresent, so let me just say what impressions I retained from reading it.
If the advertiser puts in some work - i.e., giving [...]

I read a very detailed and thoughtful article about Brian Turner’s experience with ReviewMe - as an advertiser, not a publisher.

If I try to sum up what he said, I’ll probably accidentally misrepresent, so let me just say what impressions I retained from reading it.

If the advertiser puts in some work - i.e., giving people a specific bit of linkbait to review, like a contest or something - it can be good. But for simple hands-free site promotion, advertisers can get better inbounds for less through other methods like buying links.

I wonder how this compares with PayPerPost, the setup of which really encourages advertisers to think about what they want bloggers to cover and steer them in a direction. PPP is generally much cheaper, too.

Google loves your site.  It’s indexed 8 billion pages and they’re all #1.  And then suddenly, they’re not.  What do you do?  Try every method of SEO you’ve heard of to bring it back?  Throw off your white had in a tizzy and start spamming?  Or just hang in there and wait for the algorithms [...]

Google loves your site.  It’s indexed 8 billion pages and they’re all #1.  And then suddenly, they’re not.  What do you do?  Try every method of SEO you’ve heard of to bring it back?  Throw off your white had in a tizzy and start spamming?  Or just hang in there and wait for the algorithms to change again?

The “right” answer varies from one site to the next.  You can’t always be sure what Google’s objecting to.  Making changes could even make things worse.

Before you try anything drastic, there’s a thread at Webmaster World on what to do when you take a Google nosedive.  A lot of visitors have listed their own methods - what worked, what didn’t work.  Not only will it give you some good ideas for the nosedive situation… there are some damn good linkbuilding suggestions for anytime in there.

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