I can be a pretty vengeful blogger at times. Whenever I notice a blog that is posting quotations or videos from my sites without properly siting their sources, I am not happy, especially if such blogs are within my own niche. I’d write to them and kindly request that they mention where the pictures, video, or text they are displaying came from, but since I don’t have the free time to do that, I merely hold grudges against them. If somebody lifts my content and doesn’t give me the credit for the hard work I put into it, you can be sure they’ll never get a link from any of my sites. I imagine many bloggers are similar to myself in this regard.
If you don’t want to piss off fellow bloggers in such a way, I recommend that you follow these tips:
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| September 13th, 2007 — Web 2.0 | by Henry Morgan |
An interesting graph via SFGate:
While visitors to the above sites are probably already aware of the kind of topics that are popular on them, it’s interesting to see just how Digg is so much more tech-focused than Reddit.
If you’ve just posted a scoop on your blog about an incredible gadget that has yet to appear in the blogosphere, you better let the world know about it before another site discovers it and makes a post! One great way of doing this would be to let bigger blogs in the gadget niche know about your find so they can blog about it and link your blog as the originator of the story.
Here is a Mega-List of Gadget Blogs that have contact forms or e-mail links asking readers to send them tips:
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If you’ve just made an incredible blog post and want thousands of people to read it, there are two things you can do:
1. Wait around for one of your site’s readers to submit your link to other sites.
or
2. Aggressively submit your link to a variety of sites.
If your site already has 100,000 daily visitors, the first option might work out great for you. However, most of us out there don’t have a gigantic number of loyal readers who will selflessly promote our sites across the web, so the second option is an absolute must.
Here is a list of high traffic sites that feature a variety of interesting daily links and accept submissions:
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Digg.com is the most popular social linking site on the internet, and links featured on its front page can expect tens of thousands of visitors within a 24 hour period. However, with Digg’s popularity comes a ridiculous amount of daily link submissions, far too many for any human being to read through in a single day. Because of this, most stories submitted to Digg fail to get more than 2 or 3 votes before slipping off the upcoming link page into oblivion.
So how do links actually make it to the front page? The answer lies in Digg’s friend-adding feature, which allows one to add other users to a friends’ list. Digg’s most active users have friend listed each other, filtering their friends’ link submissions and comments from those of the masses so that they can better enjoy the Digg community. If one of the users in this active group submits a very interesting link, hundreds of people within their friends’ network will see it, almost guaranteeing that the link will make the front page. A simple look at the front page will reveal this to be true, as you’ll notice that some users have a couple new front page submissions every day.
Becoming a top user in the Digg community takes a lot of work, but if you operate a website that has interesting content that is going unnoticed it can be very useful in bringing attention to your work. Top users also have access to a well-filtered list of newly submitted links from other elite users, which can help you blog about huge stories before they’ve made it to Digg’s front page and are appearing on hundreds of other blogs. If you want these benefits and are prepared to invest several hours staying active on Digg, we have prepared a this guide on How to Become a Top User on Digg.com for you:
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Currently blogging and want to make money, or hoping to enter the blogging community? There are a literally hundreds of blogs out there about making money online, many of which you should probably be reading from time to time. However, if one had to narrow the list down to just two blogs, these would be the winners:
Problogger.net: Maintained by famous blogger Darrin Rowse, this site is frequently updated with tons of informative posts about making money and blog management. I’d never be where I was today without it.
DoshDosh.com: Another frequently updated blog about making money on the internet, primarily focusing on blogging. Most of the posts on this site are in easy-to-read list format, and the author doesn’t clutter the site up with unnecessary posts. I found this site about 6 months ago, and its tips have been very helpful in improving my already existing blogs.
