List of the best social news sites, with comments about people's favorites, tips on how and when to use social news sites, and trends about social bookmarking of news.
Today I thought I would let you know how valuable I have found social bookmarking and networking sites to be to my buiness and to growing traffic to all of my blogs, lenses, hubs, articles etc - in fact anywhere I want people to visit.
Below are 15 of the best sites I have found so far for growing traffic, and where applicable I have linked to my user name, just in case you want to join me and start growing your traffic too. Go on you know you want to be my friend Just sign up and start... Read Full Story
XKCD will hit the front page of Digg. Every time. No exceptions.
The often brilliant webcomic XKCD is published on particular days and at particular times during the week. The clockwork nature of the posts is followed by several Digg users because every post will hit the front page. The chances of a Kevin Rose submission missing the front page is higher than the chances of XKCD missing.
As a result, every post is submitted multiple times within seconds after it goes live. Because... Read Full Story
Geeky guys drive me crazy. And Kevin Rose is no exception. Good Geeks actually believe it is possible to build and tweak algorithms so that the Electronic Frontier is a pure democracy . They admit there are Evil Geeky guys out trying to undermine that democracy , for their own nefarious purposes, but in their vanity the Good Geeks are convinced they can keep one step ahead. Last March, I and a number of other people noticed, that it appeared there were Bury Brigades at Digg . Everyone knows... Read Full Story
Recent changes and restrictions made by Digg.com to encourage diversity in the range of users whose submissions reach the front page have had 2 profound results. Newer and less active users have seen their stories reach the front page, but the sources that are able to hit the front page have tightened.
Despite tens of thousands of submissions every week, the last seven days have shown that 46.6% of the Digg front page comes from 50 websites, according to data accumulated on di66.net... Read Full Story
There are so many social media sites popping up left and right between Pligg and other ways of building them that it is starting to get hard to keep track of them all. At Social News Watc h, we are compiling a list that can be used to make some sense of it all.
Whether you know of some new ones that aren’t listed at all or you know of some lists themselves that can be checked and added to the compilation, let us know. Either post it here or at SNW and we’ll try to put together one... Read Full Story
by JD Rucker | October 10, 2008 at 05:05 pm | 1689 views | 1 comment
by JD Rucker
For the last couple of years, Digg has seen its ups and downs. They have gone through two previous revolts: 1 that resulted in them allowing the HD-DVD codes to be published on the site and one that initiated a direct response from Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose before the revolt could officially begin. This time, it appears all that Digg can do is sit back and let it happen. Sunday, October 12... Read Full Story
Submitted to Digg by SirPopper , vigilante1 , RedIbisMocks and many many others 11/7/2008 and every other day.
The Astronomy Picture of the Day has been an amazing and anticipated thing for some time now. NASA posts 1 image at 9:00 PM pst every night, give or take 5 minutes. The images are normally stunning and are absolutely unique to the post in almost every circumstance.
It is one of the most Diggable pieces of regular content on the Internet. There are a couple of problems... Read Full Story
Reddit is one of the top social news websites. It allows members to vote up or down news, pictures, videos and other media. Webpages voted to the frontpage generally see over 10,000 visitors within the span of a day. Being ‘hot’ on Reddit will likely cause the page to go viral, causing other social news sites to pick it up.
A small portion of visitors from Reddit are likely to become RSS subscribers and even buyers. You can easily see why web marketers would love to get their pages ‘hot... Read Full Story
Most of the top social media sites have been busy in the last few months making adjustments and (arguable) improvements to their algorithms, site designs, and features. It seems that there is a new race to offer their users incentive to stay, be active, and (hopefully) grow.
Most traffic indicators are showing that many social media sites are slowing down a bit after a peak during the heat of the election. This can be expected as there were users who joined and became active simply to... Read Full Story
