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10 Steps for Digg Success When You're the Villain

Submit with a good account. You don't have to use a power account but you should definitely submit using an account with a positive track record for getting content to the homepage, actively participating, and not always trying to submit hooky ...

From CAMERON OLTHUIS, Search Engine Land,  13 May 2008

Time to Refocus on Your Content

If you've been involved with social media at all lately you've realized that getting your linkbait on Digg has become increasingly difficult, if not impossible, especially if you're trying from a commercial domain. This has left many social media ...

From CAMERON OLTHUIS, Search Engine Land,  15 Apr 2008

Why Commercial Domains Don't Get On Digg Any More

Last year I wrote a post called 5 Reasons To Put Viral Content On Mini-Sites, providing reasons why you might opt to use a mini-site rather than keeping all the content on your main domain. One of the reasons was because content might not spread due ...

From CAMERON OLTHUIS, Search Engine Land,  19 Feb 2008

Catchy Linkbait Is Worthless Without Really Good Content

Getting your linkbait post, widget or other content featured on the front page of Digg is one thing—a good thing, as this can drive a spike in traffic. Getting a whole bunch of links to that contant, however, is entirely another matter. After all, the ...

From CAMERON OLTHUIS, Search Engine Land,  22 Jan 2008

The Social Media Marketing KISS

We all know what the KISS acronym stands for: keep it simple, stupid. In this article I want to talk about how this applies to creating content for social media marketing, namely linkbait. You see, users from social news sites have very short ...

From CAMERON OLTHUIS, Search Engine Land,  16 Oct 2007

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