Digg/Stumble

Enna · Jun 19, 2009

Hi guys!

I'm familiar with the basic concept of these two sites, but I could use a little clarification. I've heard that Digg frowns upon you "digging" your own articles- is Stumble like that as well? I understand the point of them is to share cool stuff with a community, but how do you use them to promote your articles?

Thanks!

Thrillride · Jun 19, 2009

Enna said:
Hi guys!

I'm familiar with the basic concept of these two sites, but I could use a little clarification. I've heard that Digg frowns upon you "digging" your own articles- is Stumble like that as well? I understand the point of them is to share cool stuff with a community, but how do you use them to promote your articles?

Thanks!

These sites only frown upon you if you only Digg/Stumble your articles. If you're out there doing some other people's stuff as well, you won't have a problem. It's worked just fine for me.

All of these sites work better if you play the whole game and kinda pace yourself. My 2 cents.

Crystal Lewis · Jun 20, 2009

I didn't know that about Digg... I guess I'd better start submitting stuff about other sites too.

Thrillride · Jun 20, 2009

Crystal Lewis said:
I didn't know that about Digg... I guess I'd better start submitting stuff about other sites too.

Try Reddit, too. Dang, I read your other thread and I would be frustrated, too! How many articles do you have up? You'll have to weight that out because, you're right - it's a lot of work to not see a dime.

Hang on to Suite, though. Suite's rep has really climbed the ranks in the past couple of years and they're SUPER helpful in teaching writing for the web.

Enna · Jun 20, 2009

Great, thanks! I'll check Reddit out too.

Crystal Lewis · Jun 21, 2009

Thrillride said:
Try Reddit, too. Dang, I read your other thread and I would be frustrated, too! How many articles do you have up? You'll have to weight that out because, you're right - it's a lot of work to not see a dime.

Hang on to Suite, though. Suite's rep has really climbed the ranks in the past couple of years and they're SUPER helpful in teaching writing for the web.

Hi Thrillride! I have written a total of around 30 articles or so... Mind you, each article represents two hours of research, writing, promoting, etc... So I've invested 60 hours or more...

But, again, I still recommend them. It's just not for me.

I'll give Reddit a shot. Thanks for the tip.

StumbleRum · Sep 13, 2009

The way for writers to use social networks is to actually use social networks. Don't just sign up to promote your own stuff - it won't work long term. Start using those sites and helping other people on them and the karma will come back to you.

Having a solid social network of my own has skyrocketed the amount I can charge for my writing.

caseyquinn · Sep 14, 2009

StumbleRum said:
The way for writers to use social networks is to actually use social networks. Don't just sign up to promote your own stuff - it won't work long term. Start using those sites and helping other people on them and the karma will come back to you.

Having a solid social network of my own has skyrocketed the amount I can charge for my writing.

You dont think that applies to forums too? You picked a topic static over two months and posted in it about a topic you have in your signature. Seems like you just posted in a social community to promote your own stuff. Tough to give that advise then, right?

Enna · Sep 14, 2009

Casey, I didn't even notice that...I'm cracking up!

StumbleRum · Sep 14, 2009

caseyquinn said:
You dont think that applies to forums too? You picked a topic static over two months and posted in it about a topic you have in your signature. Seems like you just posted in a social community to promote your own stuff. Tough to give that advise then, right?

To be honest I didn't even look at the date - was simply scanning through the list of the thread titles in that forum and it was on the first page or two.

And while my site might be about writing for social media, my client base isn't exactly going to be a bunch of writers now is it?

And if it bugs you that much, feel free to have a mod delete it - I really couldn't care less.

If I honestly was trolling for traffic to my blog, I would go out and get a Digg front page and get 80k visitors there before tomorrow, not stuff around in some forum where I might get 10 people to click on my signature.

caseyquinn · Sep 14, 2009

Simmer down guy, i was just saying watch out when you give advice that you are not shooting yourself in your foot. here you gave conflicting advice, good to be consistent in what you say and do, otherwise you lose creditability. Also simmer on getting page 1 in digg just like that. your site has a 0 pagerank right now... i'm just saying...

StumbleRum · Sep 14, 2009

Ok, point taken - I will remove my signature just for you. Happy?

And now you're accusing me of lying about Digg because my site is a few weeks old? You're a real gem, aren't you?

veinglory · Sep 14, 2009

Chill, dude.

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