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I’m putting together an online poker night for linkbaiters, seo’s and other reprobates. I’m planning it for next tuesday evening, 20th May, not set on a time yet as I will welcome feedback, but I’m thinking around 8pm.
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“Keep silent unless what you are going to say is more important than silence”
It’s a self portrait of Rosa Salvator from the 17th century. Its unusual for it’s age as the quote is actually in the painting. This is one of my favourite paintings in the National.
If the quote is familiar it is because it has been paraphrased by Lisa Simpson and Abraham Lincoln.
Check this out, this digg front pager greeted me at 5am on a Saturday morning. I noticed out of the 20 other front pagers there were 7 stories similar.
As you can see, none of my friends dugg. But what is interesting is I cannot see any of the usual suspects. Friends of ours. Kinda sounds like a secret crime syndicate and in a way it is.
The point being, this story hit the front page with no massaging from professional diggers and their voting gangs. Although I do not completely discount the fact that all these accounts are manufactured I think it highly unlikely.
It suggests that a story submitted by an unknown digger, voted for by unconnected, natural diggers, will hit the front page at 30 – 40 diggs.
So what do we do, start a new account incognito and only submit solid “geek” stuff? That’s up to you. But may I suggest this one point if you are creating the stuff yourself. Make it the kind of content to appeal to the “geek” and submit it on the weekend. All the professional diggers are sleeping off their repetitive strain injuries and so the 10 Ways to sell Payday Loans to the Homeless will not be in play.
As social marketers we are communicators, digg is simply the path of least resistance to communicate our message. Yes, our message may be one of persuasion, but it all comes down to communication. We must speak to those who have influence, and I gotta say, a lot of accounts that once had influence have had their power drastically reduced.
Instead of having a moan, look at your content, look at places which will inspire the creation of that content. Crafting of content seems to be the factor which is getting the least attention these days.
Stop with the Twittering and get down to creating some arse kicking content!
A year ago I thought about writing an ebook about linkbait and social media marketing. It seemed the most effective way to teach what I have learned and to do in a format that is financially rewarding. At the time I had to postpone it as clients got in the way, all wanting me to write kickass linkbait for their website.
After thinking for a long time about the ebook option, I realised it had too many flaws. Here is why I don’t like ebooks:
On that last point, I don’t know about you but I actually want people to read my stuff rather than taking the money and run. I want people to succeed, I get a real buzz from it. It’s why I love what I do.
So ebooks, unless free and addressing specific issues are out for me.
But, ask yourself, “How can I become a better linkbaiter?” I’m not going to offer an ebook, but I am going to offer an amazing service which will help you create your own killer linkbait as good as the pros.
I am going to be blogging this over the next few days as I am about to launch my linkbait coaching service to a few, selected clients.
Watch this space.
Or go to a site which actually works.
From the Digg blog,
“Hey everyone, We know that we are currently having some issues on Digg at the moment. Submissions, commenting, digging and other actions may sometimes fail. We have a crack team assigned to it and will be making numerous fixes as soon as possible to get Digg back to 100% for ya. Please bear with us ? Eli”
Interesting though, very few “paid to digg” people on the front page. Maybe digg should keep it that way if they want to keep the likes of me out 😉
Stumbleupon now allows you to change your stumble blog from a list to a grid. It takes a screen cap if the pages you have stumbled and makes a very cool grid. Here is a screen cap of my own blog which you can find here.
A lot of changes to websites such as SU can turn out to be mere frippery. Time will tell, but I think this option is going to be useful.