10 Tips to Retain Visitors from a Digg, del.icio.us, Slashdot Traffic Boost
Posted by junger - 07/21/06 at 06:07:16 pmOne of the biggest days for any Web publisher/blogger/whatever is when you publish that one story that either makes it to the Digg front page, gets tagged by loads of del.icio.us users, or even makes it to the holy halls of Slashdot. The feeling is great — traffic goes through the roof (probably so much that your server goes down), comments (and flames) come in hoards and your RSS subscriber feed jumps big time.
But if you aren't prepared for that day, then a one-to-two day traffic boost will be just that. Now, obviously you will not continue to get record numbers from one or two main sources for an extended period of time, but you can keep some of those visitors around. You just have to make them want to stay.
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In Web 2.0, Is Originality Dead?
Posted by junger - 07/13/06 at 03:07:29 pmEveryone's looking to cash in on Web 2.0, whether it's creating a wiki, a Digg-clone or just a regular old Web site with rounded corners and some AJAX functionality.
But seriously, has it gotten this bad?
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Why Good Blogs Don't Get Comments
Posted by junger - 07/11/06 at 09:07:15 pmYou're a good blogger. You've got good content. You've started to get some traffic. But you can't get anyone to leave a comment on your blog posts. What are you doing wrong?
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How-To: Mooch Traffic to Your Blog
Posted by junger - 07/11/06 at 03:07:31 pmI'm of the camp that there is absolutely nothing wrong with trying to mooch traffic to your blog. However — and this is a BIG however — if you don't learn the mooching techniques properly and instead treat every traffic opportunity as an open marketing platform, you will very easily be shunned, black-listed and every other bad thing that can happen.
So what are the best ways to mooch some traffic to your blog?
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The Irony: Reuters Slams Wikipedia's Credibility, Issues Own Correction
Posted by junger - 07/10/06 at 07:07:14 pmThe most classic part of this whole Wikipedia-Ken Lay-Reuters story (as described here and here) is the fact that the original Reuters story, which said Lay's death "underscored the challenges facing online encyclopaedia Wikipedia," contained a major error. As posted on the story:
Ken Lay's death prompts confusion on Wikipedia
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The death of former Enron Corp. chief Ken Lay on Wednesday underscored the challenges facing online encyclopaedia Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/), which as the news was breaking offered a variety of causes for his death.
Lay, 64, died of an apparent heart attack, according to a pastor at the Lay family's church in Houston. It was six weeks after a jury found him guilty of fraud in one of the biggest corporate scandals in U.S. history. A family spokeswoman said that Lay passed away early on Wednesday morning in Aspen.
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