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Prof. Goose on July 6, 2006 - 12:23am Permalink | Subthread | Comments top
Also, before I forget, do please remember to hit those reddit/digg buttons on the articles and/or submit the articles you deem worthy to buzzflash, boing boing, fark, and the like; those services really do increase the number of folks coming in here and reading articles that they would not otherwise...thanks!
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DuncanK on July 6, 2006 - 8:23am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
PG, I have just signed up for Digg and have just 'dugg' a couple of recent articles.  In both cases I was the only one to have done so.  Is this right?  Surely I cannot be the only one 'digg'ing these articles?  It's a bit daunting to be writing the Title and Description for these articles.  I just don't feel that qualified!  ;-)

Also would like to add my thanks to EVERYBODY who contributes to TOD in every way.

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Prof. Goose on July 6, 2006 - 11:04am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I usually do reddit for each article (we get more traffic from that), but I haven't been doing digg for the last few...however, I will go over and digg the ones you just did.  (we get about 10 hits for each single "digg" or up arrow on reddit, I am guessing...)
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DuncanK on July 6, 2006 - 5:37pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Hmmm.  Just 'dugg' Stuart's article on Inflation and it has asked me for a title and description.  Maybe I've got this wrong.  Does everyone enter a title and description, or does the first person only need to enter them?
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Prof. Goose on July 6, 2006 - 6:40pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
hmmm...that's weird.  

see, I don't like digg as much...but as I say in a couple of other places, reddit seems to work better for us.

submitting things to buzzflash, fark, and boing boing do too.

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Prof. Goose on July 6, 2006 - 6:57pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I did the same with digg.  Seems to me it's unlike reddit in that multiple postings on the same article aren't sorted by URL.  They ask you to look, but it doesn't catch it itself, ergo multiple postings.  

Sucks.

We got a lot of traffic from digg once...that's why I keep pushing it too...we'll see if it's worth it.

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DuncanK on July 6, 2006 - 11:29pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Yes, the reddit process (including registration) is a lot simpler.  However, they don't have measures to stop bots registering and automating hits.  That could mean some sites get abnormally high ratings.
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AlphaMaleProphetOfDoom on July 6, 2006 - 6:15pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
If I may ask, what's the bump from Digg like? Not being the most technically savvy of people, I just now discoverd it and red edit after you guys mentioned them here. Pretty cool sties.

best,

Matt

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Prof. Goose on July 6, 2006 - 6:39pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
the bump from reddit is a lot bigger than digg for some reason...we've gotten anything from 100 to 800/day out of a good reddit.  fark, boing boing, buzzflash, etc., now THEY are the places to get on--we got farked during the hurricanes, got us around 10k.

the more people submit an article, the more NEW hits, it's really that simple.

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Robert Rapier on July 7, 2006 - 12:37am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I got 5,000 hits from Reddit once on one of my blog articles. I have had some submitted to digg, but have never noticed much traffic. Another good one to bump the traffic way up is Slashdot, but it is hard to get an article accepted.

RR

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AlphaMaleProphetOfDoom on July 7, 2006 - 8:16am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
LATOC got farked in the early days. (All the way back in early 2004) It went from 500 a day to 100,000 in two days. Blew out my site for about a week.

Best,

Matt

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