When an obvious marketing plant like this, which is by the way a crap article can make it to page one of Digg and quality content like our indepth coverage of the same thing (1 , 2 , 3 , 4) several months ago of the same topic goes nowhere…
My only regret is that I’m not as good at gaming Digg as everyone else seems to be :)
August 23rd, 2007 at 8:19 am
Digg is rather difficult unless you have a powerful network of friends (from what I research) willing to push your story.
I’ve had much better luck with Stumble Upon.
August 25th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
It’s hard, unless you pay for it, I think :D
September 14th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Dave,
Here’s the deal about a lot of folks that have great success on Digg and the other bigones, stumble, nescape & Plime. They call it a “powerful network of friends”. I have to disagree with this term.
Let me get to the point. There are a lot of folks out there that have started groups. I know this to be fact because I have been invited to several of them. I have sat back and waited to see the results.
Here are the results. The people running the groups are benefiting the most. Members of the groups are sent emails of new posts they are to vote on. They are told that they should only vote positive if the content is good and negative if the content is bad. But we all know what happens.
The big problem is this, the folks running the groups don’t really explain the do’s and don’ts when voting. So what happens is that people are getting their accounts suspened all the time.
I have been thinking about starting a group, myself. I think I have figured out the ins and outs of how to not only make a successful group but also teach members how not to get suspended.
This is not meant to be spam. If you prefer, delete this comment and email me your thoughts.