thank you

This isn’t an exercise to get people more diggs. The purpose is to take a look at articles that have been submitted to digg that ended up getting lots of diggs.

I’m trying not to approach the future article in a biased way, however as an example there are some people that claim that the average person cannot get a lot of diggs unless they have lots of high ranking digg friends.

I’m trying to look first at the type of articles that get high diggs vs. those that do not.

Do good articles get low diggs sometimes?

Do bad articles get high diggs?

I’m not using this comment page as the only source for the articles that we are reviewing either.

Digg does act in paranoid ways and that may be an aspect of the story I write (ergo Are good stories getting buried because Digg is to paranoid for their own good?)

Congrats on the numbers, just curious if the Digg traffic load knocked out your site at all when this got dugg?

http://digg.com/design/7_Things_you_don_t_see_in_Websites_today

http://www.everybodygoto.com/2007/04/09/7-things-you-dont-see-in-web-20-from-web-10/

1835 diggs. I don’t think I’ll be able to top that for months to come. Needless to say my site died from the tens of thousands of diggers, but it was watching the cavalry charge.

I’ve heard people on both sides of the fence regarding the Digg submission. Some people feel its best if you do not submit your own articles. Then its not a ’selfish plug’ and more like something someone ’stumbled upon.’ ;0 But you make a good point, if you submit it yourself, then you can get the wording set up better.

I use Windows Live Writer. It has three default size settings for images (small, medium and large). Once you pull an image in, then you can resize it to any pixel size you want.

The program is free (and from Microsoft). Its not a plugin, more a blogging tool for writing the article and then uploading it automatically from your computer to your blog. It can be configured with Wordpress driven blogs and most other content management systems.

It may not take you the entire distance, but it might get things closer to standardized from go.

The downside is that if you do this, you are basically uploading the raw image as it is normally, and linking to it with a view of the image at a different size. This means that you basically have not followed the tenants of image optimization. Your picture may not load as fast is it could and that could slow down your blog load speed.

There’s always a little give and take between optimum practices and practices that you can live with and keep up your blogging passion.

personally I like LiveWriter because you can use the software to write for multiple blogs. I ghost write on a couple sites and have a guest column on a couple more, plus my own blogs. I find this tool great for keeping track of things, like passwords and image upload paths and more.

Also, the images in the article itself are not only grainy, they are also not a consistent size, which looks a bit sloppy. Resizing images is such a pain in the ass. Does anyone know of a good plugin for that?

If I had been just a little bit smarter, I would have maybe added the category, Digg Tips or Social Bookmarking Optimization (SBO)