Hunting Down Digg's Bury Brigade
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Members of the social news site's community meet resistance as they attempt to out an anonymous group of no-goodniks. By NewAssignment.Net's David Cohn.
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Last week's user revolt forces the editors at Digg.com to question whether paid contributors are an essential ingredient for success in social media. In Monkey Bites.
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More than 50 people obey Yesterday, Michael VandeMar tried to go eighteen hours without visiting the big five search engines. Taking up a challenge from search engine guru Charles Knight, heâd resolved to avoid Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Ask.com, and AOL from 6am to midnight. By 9:53, heâd given up. âBah!â he wrote to Knightâs Alt Search Engines blog. âI blew it.ââ¦
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Follow along as TechRepublic gives a tour of a fine old relic it dug up.
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Getting your story or content on Digg, StumbleUpon, or Fark can attract a lot of traffic and links to your site, but if you want that extra ooomph! in attracting quality links from blogs, sometimes a little hard work is in order. Cameron Olthuis has laid out four tips on obtaining links from blogs using an [...]
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The 'true hacker!' blog has a new post today that gives you a quick four step process for creating some clean, Digg-style URLs for your site with some simple Apache configuration changes (mod_rewrite).   You might have noticed that Digg has a cool way of maintaining clean URLs. Digg actually uses LAMP - Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP. But where are the .php extensions? The answer is here. 4 steps to implement your own Digg style clean URLs.   His method turns on Apache's rewrite engine (you do have mod_rewrite enabled, don't you?) and adds a rule to push all of the requests to two default PHP files. There's also a ForceType method that can be used to achieve the same effect. One .htaccess file later, you're in business and the PHP script only needs to access the $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] value to get the parameters.
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I&#8217;ve heard the warnings at conferences and especially in the Social Media Optimization field that spamming or multiple submissions to Digg and other social news sites could lead to the banning of that URL from future Digg listings. Seems that such a horrible fate was brought about on SearchBliss.com although they say that they were not [...]
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By JESSE NOYES  Buried treasure isn't the only thing AOL is looking for around Boston.
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The volatile user base of Digg.com launched a new revolt after the company made changes to the process of posting and reading comments on the site.
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What's new in search? Found in the forums: But Is The Traffic Any Good?; What is Your Best AdSense Tip?; Ranking Without Links; and more.
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Also: Ancestry.com puts 90M war records online. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Do you believe that? I was working on a longer article about the Digg.com bans, because ReveNews.com, a blogger News site with over 20 Bloggers was banned from digg.com because of one authors action. Multiple attempts were made to get the site unbanned without success. I needed a screenshot that shows the message that the URL [...]
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Neil Patel has a short and simple post today over at Pronet Advertising with the message against &#8220;Spamming Digg through Instant Messenger.&#8221; Neil&#8217;s theory is that if you IM 20 of your friends pointing them to the page on Digg with your story on it, asking them to Digg it, Digg should be able to flag [...]
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How forthcoming are search engines in disclosing their paid placement and paid inclusion policies?  They're better than they were a couple of years ago, but there's still room for improvement, according to a prominent watchdog group.
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By Jesse Leavenworth, The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Sep. 19--What a rip-off.   That's the short version of my experience with the prominent people-finding website ZabaSearch and its foremost sponsor, Intelius.
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Before heading over to the Web 2.0 conference at the Palace Hotel in SF this morning, I couldn't resist doing some more digging into alternate user interfaces for news reading based on the NY Times keywords.  One thing I learned the hard way is that when you access the Times site from a script (not through a browser) if you try to read an article that's too old (not sure what the time limit is) it tries to redirect you to a login page (which is pretty pointless considering that there's no human being around to log in). I hit this problem yesterday, and then hit it again this morning, but couldn't remember what the problem was. So by writing it up this time I hope to remember.  No doubt some debunked hack journalist posing as a tech industry mogul will slander me for this, but the asshat asshole has no idea how blogging works, and who the fuck cares what he thinks anyway. "cheesecake"
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My friend Brian Smith of Comparison Engines and SingleFeed is currently running a promotion for Search Engine Journal readers to help them submit nd optimize their shopping cart feed for free to Froogle / Google Base. Cyber Monday is only 10 days away.  If you&#8217;re not up on the shopping comparison engines, you&#8217;re potentionally [...]