Reader opinion on Stumble and Digg
Readers, please share your thoughts with me. I’ve wondered about the tastes of Digg and Stumble users since I’ve started blogging, and maybe you can help me figure a couple things out. Specifically, I have three questions in mind.
- Is it considered bad form to Stumble or Digg your own material? Do you do this?
- How do you react when you see an affiliate link in a post you’ve come across through Digg or Stumble?
- I’ve read about “Stumble” or “Digg” groups… sort of an informal agreement between bloggers to submit each others material to drive traffic. How do you feel about this?
If you have a thought on any of those three questions, I’d love to hear what you think. Also, I’m not normally going to walk around asking for submissions, but this post might get much more interesting if you were to submit it to Digg or Stumble, and then we can all read the comments to see what other users think as well.
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Personally, I think Stumbling and Digging are user/reader initiated, so doing it on my own articles feels like cheating.
As for affiliate links, it depends on the appropriateness of it.
And Stumble and Digg groups? Perhaps as a starting point for gathering momentum. I’ve seen articles with 1000+ Diggs. They’ve got to start somewhere, right? Unless the group is 1000+ strong…
1. Yes. No.
2. I haven’t paid attention to affiliate links or ads, etc. I just pay attention to the post. Now, if the post is low-quality or designed solely to drive traffic to the affiliate link, then that Stumbler loses some credibility.
3. I think it’s okay, so long as it meets a certain quality threshold. I mean, I wouldn’t expect (or want!) anyone to Stumble any of my “side dish” posts. I’d rather only be dugg or stumbled for the meaty posts.
1)I don’t have a problem with people posting their own material onto any of the sites out there; Digg, Stumble, etc.
As a blogger, my main goal is to 1)publish consistent high-quality content 2)develop a loyal readership 3)monetize my site (in that order). I see all these sites as platforms to promote your work.
When I read postings from other bloggers, I usually click on a title that attracts my attention then, if the article looks interesting, I will read the whole thing. The person who Dugg or Stumbled the article has little to do with the value that I get from a great post.
I’d rather read a well thought article that a blogger posted him/her self than a poorly written article by a blogger with a large readership.
2)Give me quality. Affiliates don’t matter as long as I haven’t been mislead in the first place.
3)I love the idea. Let me know if anyone is interested by sending me an email through my contact page at LewisEmpire.com.
Well, the whole purpose of Stumbling or Digg is to share interesting information. If you do not think your own information is interesting enough to share, why should others? In other words, why not Stumble or Digg your own post if you feel strongly about sharing them?
Now, if you Stumble or Digg your own post with affiliate links, that might not be too nice.
But again, if you truly believe this will save the whales, well, to each his own.
Stumble/Digg groups… hmmm… I thought they were frowned upon by them and could potentially get your account banned?
1.I will first of all compliment for a neat and clean layout of the site.
2.I do have asked my acquaitances to promote my pillar articles in case they feel its the worth its salt for the world community.
3.So one can consider digging my work by visiting my blog for getting genuine and researched Stock Market Tips and Money Making Ideas From Websites Which pays.
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1.I am managing a blog which is regarding stock market Technical Analysis made Easy.
2.In my initial days of startup I did request people to promote my posts but when the world community came to know of quality posts, I need not undertake this practice.
3.Long live “content” as its quality makes a blog worth reading once it has been widely publicised.
1. I pretty much agree with Lewis: the content is key. If someone has a post they are proud of, let’s see it.
2. If you can’t filter out an affiliate link or two, you should probably close your browser. A gaggle of links is a problem.
3. A group of like-minded entrepreneurs is as worthy a clique as a bunch of myspace buds, in my book.
On a related note, your social sharing icons are one of the nicest (unobtrusive) implementations I’ve seen. I’ll try to keep it from showing up on my blog
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