The Social Web Part 1: Social News Sites
You have written great posts, but your visitor count doesn’t explode. You want people to know about your blog. Isn’t there a possible source of large amounts of traffic? After all, you believe that your content is really worth some attention.
Social News Sites CAN bring you a lot of traffic. In fact, they can bring you so much traffic, that your server goes down (if it’s not a well administered, sufficiently dimensioned server).
The three Majors:
The biggest of all voting news sites. The aforementioned server crash is commonly known as the “digg effect” for a reason – Digg delivers. Of course there are a couple of things you should know, before you waste your time. If you want the massive traffic fix, you need to get on the frontpage. To achieve that, you should have a circle of friends who deliver the first diggs. So, register there, digg stories you like, leave comments and get some friends. Then you might have a shot. But you better have some articles that are interesting to a geek audience. Oh, and good luck finding a category for your post (you’ll see what I mean).
Of the three big voting news sites, this is the only one that has actually given me massive traffic. Lots of traffic for a new blog. Other than it’s competitors, Reddit only wants the URI and the title of the story you submit. You don’t have to summarize or comment on it. If you think your Title sounds interesting and makes people want to know more – give it a try. You don’t have to choose a category for the post.
The categories here could be taken from a newspaper with a really broad topic selection. It’s kinda like digg, only without the concentration on the nerd faction. So, if you’re blogging about politics, Netscape might be a nice addition. Stories are removed from the listing pages after 24 hours. That has to do.
Some things the three have in common:
- Having friends is a great benefit (if not a prerequisite).
- Don’t submit a post during the night. People have to be awake to vote.
- While it might not be forbidden, submitting your own stories is often frowned upon.
- The title makes or breaks a frontpage story.
The Social Web Series
Part 1 - Social News Sites
Part 2 - Social Bookmarking
Part 3 - Blog Communities
Part 4 - StumbleUpon
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you forgot about newsvine.com. Ever check that out?
I’m in the same boat as you, I’ve only gotten massive traffic from Reddit. The other commentor here that recommended Newsvine, well, that site was cool until MSNBC bought them out. Digg and Newsvine don’t like bloggers submitting their own articles, so if you don’t have that “circle of friends”, you’re out of luck and if you do find a “circle of friends” on say DigitialPoint or SitePoint, you can guarantee on getting banned from Digg. That’s whe IMHO the best new social article site for bloggers is Recommend Us (recd.us). It allows anybody to submit articles and vote in a true democratic fashion.
Hi Tobsy,
I would also recommend aggregators such as http://popurls.com/, great for a quick scan of all the major web 2.0 sites.
I also like Techmeme: http://techmeme.com/
Cheers
Gustavo
Thanks for the tips, guys. I really needed some help because getting traffic on your blog is very hard nowadays and I find your advices very good and useful. Thanks a lot!
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thanks…I already use digg and reddit…good result
MIXX is growing stronger and stronger lately and is more fun than digg!
Thank you for the tips. good result…
I already use digg and reddit thank you
How can I increase my Page Rank?? I am a new blogger and still need more info about Page Ranks and traffic, I want to know if having traffic means the same than having a high page rank.
Thank for information but i using digg??? Impressive!
Interesting to read views back in 2007. Digg is seen somewhat as a corrupted social site now with well established “power users” being paid to submit stories.
I really like the info about the Digg you have given. I’ll follow up your blogs posts.
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