Massive Traffic
May 4th 2006 01:59
The last post I wrote was on attracting traffic to your blog... it's hard work, attracting readers, getting out and making a name for yourself.
There's a cheap and easy, sleazy, greasy, teasy way to bring in huge traffic.
The kind of traffic that is a veritable buffalo stampede of internet users.
The kind of traffic that can overwhelm our Orble servers and make Jon cry. Making Jon cry should be the ultimate goal of any ethical blogger...
It's called the Slashdot effect, and now, the Digg effect.
Basically, if someone posts your site on either of these two webpages, it'll direct millions of users your way.
Slashdot is a tech-y site where users can submit a link, and if the editors think it's cool, it goes up. The same holds for BoingBoing, which is more of a culture interest blog.
The editors for these two sites get thousands of submissions everyday, so getting your link published is as lucky as waking up to find that you've become a monstrous insect.
Digg is a different case altogther... it's based on the social Internet. Anyone is free to submit a link, and if people link it, they'll 'Digg' it, raising it's 'Digg level'.
Links that are popular rise to the top of the champagne flute... unpopular links sink to the murky bottom.
There are a lot of other sites like Digg out there, but Digg has the massive user base. If your blog is 'dugg', then it would, indeed, exceed our network bandwidth (I think).
What kinds of articles get Dugg?
Well, anything interesting, really. However, Digg is also tech-oriented, so posts about technology and video games are always on the front page.
However, 'Top 10' lists seem to do pretty well, and any kind of human interest story has the potential.
One thing that I've noticed is the fad on 'HOWTO's... basically people will make something themselves, like HOWTO preserve a snowflake.
Everyone likes snowflakes, right?
HOWTO articles get dugg pretty fast, and BoingBoing loves to post them too. It's all about empowering the consumer, baby.
How do I submit?
Submitting to BoingBoing is pretty easy... there's a form you fill out, and then you have to wait and see if it gets posted.
Submitting to Digg requires you to make an account, then you can post your story.
A bit of etiquette... it's considered pretty bad form to post your own website. The gutters of Digg are filled with opportunistic bastards who tried to Digg their blog... the community will out you, and you'll get a bad reputation.
'I don't care 'bout' them NERDS,' you say, 'I do what I WANT!'
Yes, well, it's very nice that you're confident, but these 'nerds' are our bread and butter.
Well, actually, 'geeks' are our bread and nerds are our 'butter-like substitute'.
If you do write an INCREDIBLE and WELL-FORMATTED post, and you think it's good enough to get out into the world, you can ask Jon to evaluate if it's worth submitting to the big sites.
The Ol' Fashioned Way
Get your blog printed in the Sydney Morning Herald! They're behind the times, but if you want to hit a Sydney audience, you can't beat it!
What about the Mo-nay?
Unfortunately, several people have written to say that their advertising revenue didn't increase noticeably after being Dugg.
Apparently, Digg users are fickle and self-pleasuring, coming only to check out the post, and leaving without even thinking about pressing your buttons.
Despite this, if your blog is well-designed and pleasing to the eye, you can hope that some of the visitors will read some of your other posts, or will click on your ads.
One of the things that Jon and Jay are working furiously on, is trying to optimize the location of the ads so that people will feel compelled to click on them. I suggested that the ads should be dusted with cocaine and opium, but I was told to 'go to Hell'.
In the end, we're all stardust, billion-year-old carbon. Every fool and his monkey is trying to get posted on Digg, so the competition is fierce. In the end, we're all dust mites, feeding off of dead skin...
The kind of traffic that is a veritable buffalo stampede of internet users.
The kind of traffic that can overwhelm our Orble servers and make Jon cry. Making Jon cry should be the ultimate goal of any ethical blogger...
It's called the Slashdot effect, and now, the Digg effect.
Basically, if someone posts your site on either of these two webpages, it'll direct millions of users your way.
Slashdot is a tech-y site where users can submit a link, and if the editors think it's cool, it goes up. The same holds for BoingBoing, which is more of a culture interest blog.
The editors for these two sites get thousands of submissions everyday, so getting your link published is as lucky as waking up to find that you've become a monstrous insect.
Digg is a different case altogther... it's based on the social Internet. Anyone is free to submit a link, and if people link it, they'll 'Digg' it, raising it's 'Digg level'.
Links that are popular rise to the top of the champagne flute... unpopular links sink to the murky bottom.
There are a lot of other sites like Digg out there, but Digg has the massive user base. If your blog is 'dugg', then it would, indeed, exceed our network bandwidth (I think).
What kinds of articles get Dugg?
However, 'Top 10' lists seem to do pretty well, and any kind of human interest story has the potential.
One thing that I've noticed is the fad on 'HOWTO's... basically people will make something themselves, like HOWTO preserve a snowflake.
Everyone likes snowflakes, right?
HOWTO articles get dugg pretty fast, and BoingBoing loves to post them too. It's all about empowering the consumer, baby.
How do I submit?
Submitting to BoingBoing is pretty easy... there's a form you fill out, and then you have to wait and see if it gets posted.
Submitting to Digg requires you to make an account, then you can post your story.
A bit of etiquette... it's considered pretty bad form to post your own website. The gutters of Digg are filled with opportunistic bastards who tried to Digg their blog... the community will out you, and you'll get a bad reputation.
'I don't care 'bout' them NERDS,' you say, 'I do what I WANT!'
Yes, well, it's very nice that you're confident, but these 'nerds' are our bread and butter.
Well, actually, 'geeks' are our bread and nerds are our 'butter-like substitute'.
If you do write an INCREDIBLE and WELL-FORMATTED post, and you think it's good enough to get out into the world, you can ask Jon to evaluate if it's worth submitting to the big sites.
The Ol' Fashioned Way
Get your blog printed in the Sydney Morning Herald! They're behind the times, but if you want to hit a Sydney audience, you can't beat it!
What about the Mo-nay?
Apparently, Digg users are fickle and self-pleasuring, coming only to check out the post, and leaving without even thinking about pressing your buttons.
Despite this, if your blog is well-designed and pleasing to the eye, you can hope that some of the visitors will read some of your other posts, or will click on your ads.
One of the things that Jon and Jay are working furiously on, is trying to optimize the location of the ads so that people will feel compelled to click on them. I suggested that the ads should be dusted with cocaine and opium, but I was told to 'go to Hell'.
In the end, we're all stardust, billion-year-old carbon. Every fool and his monkey is trying to get posted on Digg, so the competition is fierce. In the end, we're all dust mites, feeding off of dead skin...
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I only mention it because I heard of a Sydney website that had their traffic go through the roof after being printed in the smh..