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30 Days to a Kick Ass Foundation: Day 8 – More Blog Links

March 18th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in 30 Day Website Network

Day 8 is kind of boring all around.  It’s about gaining some trust, traffic, and of course spider’s coming to visit you.  I wish I could say you could automate everything but if you aren’t a programmer you just can’t.

There are tools out there to automate certain things, but comments that get you the trust, the visitors, etc… aren’t one of them.

Obviously, since this blog isn’t always about hard work there are ways to make it easier.  In fact – this is probably the easiest way to get a blog going…. and of course get links to whatever you want.

Here is the original link love post – go read it and then come back for a little twist.

For those of you to lazy to click on that link. It basically talks about how to use Digg to blog effortlessly, and the fun little benefits it gives you.  For those of you who have little hamsters running around in your head now, it’s time to think about how to make this work for you a little more even.

Ready?

Set up a foundation site that is a wordpress blog.  Add some ‘real’ content to it.  Digg those content items.

Set up a Black Hat level site that is either wordpress or wordpress mu.  Through digg make sure you blog about 50 related posts and then your posts from your foundation site.

Instant traffic – new IP loving you.  Lot’s of trackbacks sending you bots and traffic, etc..

If you keep thinking you will see plenty of ways to make this idea grow.  If you go the MU route you have plenty of places *subdomains* to go crazy from as well.  The links from digg are legit, get your BH sites spidered, etc…  They even pass along some trust.

Since you aren’t asking other people to ‘digg’ you – you aren’t going to get buried, etc…  You are doing something nice for them and blogging about what they already posted to digg.

Comment Request:  I normally only use digg for this – are there any other social networks that allow you to blog from inside them like dig does?

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Digg for Link Love – Easy to do with a little set up work.

February 15th, 2008 | 5 Comments | Posted in Tutorials

Lot’s of new webmasters go freakin nuts digging the heck out of their sites and trying to get listed on the front page of digg. Wake up call: Digg traffic doesn’t = $$.

However, Digg traffic does often result in links back to your site, or to your digg profile that = spiders and visitors going to your sites. That’s the good part.

You have to put some effort into it to get things set up though. Here is how you do it:

Set up your profile, use images, and a profile image.  Put some work into your profile – it will pay off.  One thing I have noticed is that women (nice looking women) seem to get more friends and more activity.  I’m not saying you should pretend to be “sally” when your not – but hey that’s up to you.  If you start wearing girls underwear you’ve probably gone to far.

Your going to have to digg other people’s stuff – and leave comments.    Read my instant link love post and use it to both build up one of your own blogs – and make buddies.

Your going to have to add friends.

Your going to have to put about 4 hours of effort into things over about a week.

If you really want to make the best of this your going to need a couple profiles.  One for techie stuff, one for politics, etc… you get the point I’m sure.

The bad news?  Digg traffic SUCKS for making money. It’s good for getting spiders and getting some extra inbound links.

One thing you might want to do to is combine GRAZR and Digg to increase things a bit more.  Put up a GRAZR reading list up on your blog – it looks something like this:

Black Hat Reading List 

Once you’ve built up your “digg” profile, friends, and diggs…. digg your own reading list.  See what happens – but I’m sure you will see some SEO value.

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