In addition to promoting my blog brand in 2008, i've been setting a major goal to build my personal business brand in my local community. Providing mostly residential PC and internet tuition my business: Technology Advisors Group is set for an all out assault in the local market, starting with some major brand saturation marketing.
Using several of the marketing tools from a company called VistaPrint; rather than just doing flyer drops or advert's in the local paper - i've used creative mail outs and door knocks, regularly dropping off items like: personalized fridge magnets, erasers and even mini Notepads all customized by Vista Print with my business branding and logo.
Even if you haven't got an idea of your brand yet, you can use a company like Vista Print to help design a suitable and catchy logo before you start getting your name into the marketplace. The pricing to start your campaign is really low and you'll be surprised at how easy it is to get going. Whether you want to promote your blog into the community, or simply get your logo and business to be the next household brand - check out VistaPrint and their tools today. Some other goodies on offer of which I plan to possibly use this year are customized letterheads, sticky pads and full color brochures.
So grab hold of 2008 now! Chat with VistaPrint and launch your brand and new logo into overdrive with their huge of ideas on offer.
Launch your brand in 2008
Lets meet the real Jim Kukral
When it comes to internet marketing entrepreneurs there aren't too many bigger than Jim Kukral. A well respected veteran in online circles, Kukral regularly speaks and chairs some of the biggest industry events on offer.
In the blogging game since 2001, Kukral knows how to do things right and has built up a well deserved and healthy following at his blog Jim Kukral dot Com.
Recently launching the ScratchBack dot com (Top Spots) venture, which is in use here at the 30 Day Man blog it certainly seems like Kukral has some positive projects cooking at present. The simplicity and attraction of ScratchBack is impressive, aiding bloggers to get revenue from an easily installed and navigated top list is truly a great concept. A platform that made the transaction simple for both parties was always going to work.
The thing about Jim Kukral is that he displays a certain charm not found in many of the industry leaders currently gracing us with their presence. Many other bloggers, entrepreneurs and industry players like to play the 'too cool for school' card and really give off an arrogant feel. You simply can't help but like Kukral and his down ot earth style; this is obviously a reason that so many are already keeping in touch with Jim via his addictive blog.
When you run your eye over the content at Jim Kukral dot com, you'll see plenty to delve into. From YouTube video scraping, motivation, widget chat and interesting marketing tid bits - true marketing content is something these days can be hard to find with so many pretenders taking center stage.
Personally I would have no hesitation in throwing Jim Kukral's name into the realms with the likes of Ed Dale and Joel Comm - two online marketers that earned my respect some time ago. Jim it's great to have met you and I look forward to seeing continuing quality content coming out this way!
Download and Convert Online Video Smartly
When I want to download YouTube, Revver or similar videos for local storage, I usually set about hunting down a web based .FLV service that will scrape and send the file to me in the obscure format. There are tonnes of basic free downloaders out there, just google the term 'download youtube videos' and you will see heaps.
However, I have finally found a decent service that not only will download YouTube or any online video, but it converts on the fly and gives you the movie in virtually any format you want. ZamZar.com is the website, well worth bookmarking and they also offer video format conversion for your own videos - so you can upload your stuff and get it converted.
Its a free service, they obviously run some adverts around the site to monetize it - and you will receive the downloaded or converted file in your email inbox in less than a minute. Too easy!
They also offer a premium service where you get faster scraping and conversion, online storage and the option to convert massive files up to 1GB in size.
Very very handy! Bookmark this lil' puppy today.
Can only Techies make it big in blog?
When you look at the most successful blogs online today, there is a common theme I find in all of them. All the authors have strong technical backgrounds and are able to relate this to their blog.
Have fun with Radar!
Ever wanted to know how fast your car was going? Or maybe your mates car? Well, the truth can be told! With consumer radar gun technology you can get your hands on affordable and accurate radar technology to use with your cars, sports such as tennis, baseball or cricket or even your R/C toys!
Nintendo Wii goes Virtual Reality
Here's a video clip that simply blew me away. A creative techie by the name of Johhny Lee has devised a way to 'reverse' the technology with the Nintendo Wii to allow a 3D / Virtual Reality style interaction with the new home console.
By reversing the Nintendo Wii setup; ie: setting the Wii remote near the TV and facing it towards the console user and then mounting the Wii remote sensor with the console user (on your head / hat or with some custom glasses) you essentially get a VR feel with the addition of some cool software.
The reversed setup is simply a switch of the Wii Remote and the Wii Sensor, and the addition of a PC and some software. As the Johhny Lee says; "Come on Nintendo Wii Developers! Lets get some software rolling off the shelves that can use this technology." Check out the embedded video below; it's awesome stuff:
Top Spots Competition
In comes the Top Spots widget and out goes the TTZ Media banner. Sadly, the TTZ Affiliate program wasn't quite what I had hoped. I found the statistics package to be very inconsistent and continued display bugs were hampering the promotion of the products with TTZ.
Too much blog advice sux
You've got the most power tool at your fingertips! Yep, the computer you're using right now can give you virtually any information on any topic. So as a blogger, you have no excuse for not becoming an instant millionaire right?
2007 Review, Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas everyone! As 2007 is coming to an end, I thought I would look back over my first year in blogging and mention the major points in whats been an interesting journey!
March 2007: Start blogging with my first sports blog NRL News. A daily blog discussion on Rugby League, launched on the Blogger.com platform I would soon after register my own domain www.NRLnews.com
April 2007: My NRL website begins to get a decent amount of hits. Mostly direct hits (non-search engine traffic) So I implement AdSense and was able to make $5 a day from this website.
June 2007: After enjoying on-going AdSense revenues, I decided to expand my blogroll and create several other sites that would bring in additional income from AdSense. So DOTA Tips was born, dedicated to the Warcraft 3 game - DOTA. What started as a very basic blog, now receives over 700 unique hits per day and brings in impressive AdSense dollars and also is an affiliate earner through Azoogle Ads.
July 2007: Google awards my sites new PageRanks. NRL News now becomes a PageRank5, DOTA Tips becomes PageRank 2 and several of my 'throw away' blogs get PageRank. (6 blogs received PageRank 3 or below which was a surprise)
August 2007: Doctor tells me I have 30 days to live. I sign on for Ed Dale's 30 Day Challenge (www.thirtydaychallenge.com) and I have proved all the doctors wrong. I live happily and healthy 4 months on. The 30 Day Man (this blog) is born.
September 2007: My true introduction to the blogging world. I discover the likes of Problogger, Shoemoney, John Chow and countless others. I start using an RSS reader daily and upgrade my goals on what the earning potentials are of my blogroll.
October 2007: The 30 Day Man armed with a PageRank 4 starts signing RSS subscribers. Approaching 40 subscribers.
November 2007: Total blogroll earnings over $10 a day now ($70US per week) and the future is exciting. RSS readers hit 50 and Tyler Cruz dot com reviews The 30 Day Man on his popular personal blog.
December 2007: Through additional promotions such as EntreCard and some SEO Experiments - 30 Day Man's hits approach 200 uniques per day.
And guess what? I am still alive and kicking. Proving all those doctors wrong.
Thanks for visiting and I look forward to seeing everyone again next year. Merry Christmas!
EntreCard interest and competitions abound
The buzz around recent blog widget and web startup 'EntreCard' continues; the interest in the new program now reaching new heights through competitions and 'chain programs' launched by bloggers to increase their credits and gain exposure of their blogs.
One interesting promotion being run is a 'tag' system, where a group of entrecard users simply tag each other and consistently drop cards on each others blogs; achieving credits and a higher advertising rating for each blog involved.
Over at the Saphrym blog several little promotions are being run and its an interesting twist on the EntreCard system; certainly several of the ideas have potential to give many blogs additional free exposure when done right. It was nice to find the Saphrym blog through EntreCard, such is the advantage of the card drop system. As soon as I saw the smooth lines of the impressive template and caught some of the good content - it was an easy choice to throw such a blog into my RSS subscriber list; this is the major pulling point for EntreCard - it gets people to your blog and if you've got a good formula; you'll get readers for life.
On the back of the EntreCard sharing techniques and systems several bloggers are running competitions featuring decent prizes that might include the entrecard credits themselves and some cold hard cash too. These little comps are the way to go to drive traffic and backlinks to blogs and usually prove successful in getting visitors to the site in question! You can check out one of the major giveaways here, once again a feature of the Saphrym blog
He-Man brings brings back memories
My little girl is a bit of a YouTube fan at only 1 and a half years old. She will beg me to put on the Wiggles clips, maybe Hi-5 or something kid related - YouTube has them all.
So this morning when we jumped on the PC to being up the usual suspects, I thought about searching for a few cartoons from when I was a kid. Yep, there was Tom and Jerry, Smurf's and one of my favorites - He-Man and the Masters of the Universe!
However, this He-Man clip was a total spoof, it had me crying with laughter and my little daughter loved it too - win win! Check out the embedded video below:
PayPerPost and AdSense don't mix
Got an interesting rejection message from PayPerPost earlier this week; it seems they weren't too happy about my new Google Adsense placement after each blog post.
They are now refusing to pay my posts where AdSense follows the article!
This is a pain in the butt really, because my AdSense CTR ratio has been much better since placing the AdSense after each post and the other benefit is that it doesn't distract the user from my blog content until after they have finished reading!
Hmmmm ... so it looks like either Google or PPP will have to go; I am not sure which one I will kill off yet. But with TTZ Media getting removed shortly, I might need to have an overall advert rethink.
John Chow SEO Experiment Update
Here is an update on my John Chow SEO Experiment;
After targeting the keyword; "John Chow" and spending some time building backlinks I have now only moved into the top 50 results for John Chow, however the interesting side effect was my Google ranking for the term keyword John Chow Graphs!
I have moved from outside the top 10, into 6th position for John Chow Graphs which is interesting and I suppose more time is required to boost rankings on the John Chow main keyword. Being such a competitive keyword in organic terms - at least a month or more will be needed to see some decent results I think.
Hey, help me out with some backlinks! :) Write a blog post and link to either this post or the toplevel domain: www.aimsgraz.org
In other news, I think that I will be removing John Chow's TTZ Media banner on the left. I have felt the statistics engine with the TTZ system is way off the mark and continued problems with the display of some advertisements isn't ideal. I think I will be setting up more affiliate programs on the left hand side of this blog in the next week.
As Christmas approaches, I hope to keep my posting levels up and I wish you and your family a happy and prosperous time over the festive season.
Chowmoney - Hilarious!
Did you know that Shoemoney and John Chow have a child to each other?
I found this site totally by accident tonight when I was doing some link building for my blogroll. The site is called "ChowMoney" and has the domain chowmoney.com - a totally crazy concept that some freak has put together.
A spoof of super bloggers Shoemoney and John Chow - this site had me in tears. Some crazy cat has morphed a photo of both Shoemoney and John Chow and claimed he is their illegitimate child.
Look it's too hard to explain anymore, just go and have a look and read down over a few of the posts. Seriously, crazy funny stuff right there. Hilarious!
Money makes Money
I'm sure you've heard it before; "Money makes Money!"
And it certainly has a lot of truth to it. When I got started in websites, I was always trying to turn a profit without outlaying any capital at all. While keeping costs down is smart, there comes a time when you need decent finance behind you to kick things along.
I've used various forms of finance in the past, from my credit union (basic personal loans) through to more recently using an online company for fast finance to grow my businesses. While the interest rate from the credit union was low, the approval process and red tape took a long time; which isn't ideal. When using online companies for loans it was the opposite, the approval process was much quicker - although I had to put up with a slightly higher rate of interest.
The injection of cash allowed me to arrange new PPC campaigns and setup 'real world' advertising for some of my websites. My NRL site, which talks about Rugby League benefited extremely well from a roadside advertising campaign in Australia. I used the finance to hire a signwriter and billboard company to setup some effective road side advertising signage.
Targeting morning and afternoon peak hour road traffic I got a massive response and a lot of my new web visitors became regular visitors - boosting my loyalty rates big time on Google Analytics.
The result? It simply meant more site traffic and with my boosted visitor stats in hand, I could approach advertisers directly for my site. During the winter months in the southern hemisphere, I have regular sporting outlets advertising their real world stores through my NRL Rugby League website. The income from this is several hundred times higher than what I earn with AdSense during the off-season. It's a no-brainer.
So my point here is; don't be scared to take advantage of finance and loans where possible. Maybe using mortgages might be a bit extreme, but certainly fast finance and unsecured loans are effective. Borrow to boost your interner empire, the risk is worth the rewards.
Proof that Content isnt always King
Don't always believe the old saying 'Content is King!' when it comes to promoting your blog. As soon as I focused more on promotion and slightly less on content, I have seen MORE hits and MORE earnings from my blogs.
I had heard it from so many corners of the internet, that good content will win you visitors in the end. I was spending too much time trying to create pristine content (or I hoped it was!); but ultimately the content was being read.
I finally saw the light when I read a post on the John Chow blog on December 9th titled 'The Art of the Ramp'. In this post, John Chow spoke of how his Digg promotion tactics and overall promotion strategies boosted his blog to the top of the heap and Chow openly said his content had little or nothing to do with the success. After reading this, I went about some promotion on Digg, StumbleUpon and some minor Facebook assaults.
Here is a graph of the traffic results:
Apologies for the poor quality image, but you can see prior to the first arrow my traffic was low with an occasional spike.
In the red circle is the blog traffic since I have focused more on promotion. Not only have hits increased and stayed at a higher level, but my RSS count has increased too. (Thanx John Chow, I may not be Lord of the Digg - but this improvement is good!)
The benefits have also helped in my earnings department as well. My AdSense account runs across my BlogRoll so the stats are slightly skewed in terms of just the 30DayMan.com focus; but anyway - prior to my promotion and repositioning of the AdSense Ads into the posts (Thanks John Chow Graphs dot Com!) I was earning around 10 or 11 dollars a week from AdSense.
This has now increased and is now approaching $20 dollars a week (see graph below), a goal I want to achieve by the end of January 2008. (It should be achievable with my NRL News and DOTA Allstars sites getting decent facelifts soon and forums implemented to capitalize on their 300+ unique hits a day.
I must also add that EntreCard has helped push my stats up, and in the next week or so I will look to explore Sphinn in more detail to extract some results.
Also high on my hit list is improving on Technorati, after reading this post on the Bloggin-Ad's site I am trying to leverage the pyramid scheme on offer to boost Technorati love. :) Feel free to check the post out, it's a great system to boost your blog in the eyes of the big T.
You can always add me to your Technorati Favorites directly by clicking the following link below: http://technorati.com/faves?sub=addfavbtn&add=http://www.aimsgraz.org
* In a quick update, my Facebook experiment is friggin' rocking! I am around the 200 friends mark and getting really good interest among the targeted niche. Folks in the niche are noticing me and adding ME to their friends list because of the amount of friends and groups I am connected to. (I haven't even started promoting or marketing the profile yet, simply completed signup and started adding friends!) (More info soon in a full post)
Who IS this bald guy?
I've been wondering for ages, "Who the fuck is this bald guy on the left that I keep seeing everywhere in the blogging world!?!"
Talk about saturation marketing, it got to the point where I had to visit his blog to find out what the hell it was all about.
In marketing speak, it's well known that a picture or face does wonders for your campaigns. People in the marketplace quickly associate and relate to a photo.
Well it fucking worked this time! Have a look at this bald guy, he's got the daddy cool glasses going on and has a sly, smirky sort of scrunched up feature on his face!
It turns out, the guy runs a 'Travel Blog' and his name is Neil Duckett. Heck, this guy has just got a free plug from me! Got a nice site layout, some great pics and what seems to be some good content.
But seriously what a magic campaign! I can see from his Alexa stats that he is growing the blog well and posting his ugly face on sites like John Chow which has certainly helped his cause too. He has also pimped out EntreCard well, as his effective mugshot appears in the top listings under the travel section.
So lesson learned blog kiddies, develop a logo or brand (a face works well, no matter how ugly!) and saturate the marketplace. It will eventually get the traffic to your site at least once, then you gotta fight hard to keep it coming back!
Webhosting, No More Excuses!
With so many cost effective options available to bloggers and website owners these days, choosing a webhost can be a little daunting!
So much has changed, we can get our hands on decent, robust hosting and all for seriously low prices. How do you decide? Do you pick based on location? Maybe you have a referral or coupon, or maybe you just follow the lead of your favorite blogger?
Either way; things just got a whole lot easier. Some cool cat has just come up with the idea for a web hosting directory service. You visit the directory, check out a whole range of web hosting options available and pick based on the recommendations and referrals! Too easy.
So now things are so much easier, you have no excuse to get your blog off that free hosting or blogger service and switch to full blown web hosting!
http://www.webhostingchoice.com
The John Chow SEO Experiment
As the "Google" vs "John Chow" battle continues, I thought I would come up with a little SEO experiment of my own to see if I could wade into this battle and secure a high organic listing in Google for the John Chow keyword.
Why you must use EntreCard on your site
I really did resist at first, the thought of another new widget 'EntreCard' just didn't get me excited. Many widgets promise huge amounts of traffic, unlimited exposure and the chance to be the next internet god. Even after the big guns such as ProBlogger, Tyler Cruz, John Chow and his friendly Cow got involved - I STILL resisted this new startup - EntreCard.
Mention Facebook get More Blog Traffic
As my quest continues to build a large and useful fake Facebook profile, one advantage I hadn't counted on was the amount of new traffic that posts about my Facebook experiment would bring to this blog.
My first post about my Facebook plans brought a 300 percent increase in traffic, it seems quite a bit of that new traffic came from the Blogrush widget. So as a link bait topic, Facebook certainly seems to do the trick. The rest of the traffic increase came from various social bookmarking services.
By the time I posted my second article and update on the Facebook experiment I was conducting, I had a handful of new RSS readers and this second article again brought another spike in traffic.
Very interesting.
Certainly a buzzword of the moment, mentioning Facebook won't do you any harm at all. In terms of my experiment, I have well surpassed 100 Facebook friends with my fake account and I have had 90% of people I approach accept my friendship request. While this is a good thing for me and my marketing plans, it does raise a few questions about Facebook security. Are people being too trusting, so much so that Facebook might head straight down the MySpace path? A path where spammers, stalkers and predators now lurk and thrive?
While what I am doing with Facebook isn't exactly abiding by the TOS, it can't be categorized as spamming. I am targeting a particular niche of users, they are then giving me their permission to interact with them and they can stop receiving correspondence from me at any time!
And finally I have registered the domain 30DayMan.com - much easier to remember and something I have been meaning to do for a while. With my RSS count going past 50, it seemed a perfect time to secure and setup the correct domain name!
Best Xmas Geek Toy: RC Helicopters
These mini RC Helicopters appeal to the geek inside all of us! I'm already trying to work out how I can pass this toy off as suitable for my little 14 month old girl, naturally a girl of this age would love a remote control helicopter (this is what I have been telling my wife anyway). The best part about this ultimate geek toy for Xmas is that it's well under $20 which is ideal.
Check out this embedded video of the RC Helicopter in action:
I tracked the standard single RC Chopper down on Amazon for $11.99 with some stock remaining. There are also tonnes of other models, you can pay a bit extra and get a Military Style RC Helicopter which is slightly larger and a little bit heavier (which might actually survive some outdoor conditions, such as light wind) but there are also Spinmaster: Dogfighting RC helicopters where you can dogfight with a friend and an invisible shot that hits the target will cause the victim to lose power or go into a tail spin! Very cool! Geek heaven for Xmas!
Making a Million on Facebook Update
I'm just about to head into the city for the work Xmas party, but I thought I would post some stats from my Million Dollar Facebook Experiement:
Day 1: Setup Complete Fake Profile (that looks super real and believable!) Approached 50 Random Friends (through FB groups)(I won't mention the groups yet, don't want to scare anyone)
Time Taken 1 hour or less (Even with initial unverified catchpha on every add) I have now verified the fake account to a pre-paid cell number, so add's are much quicker.
Results: 32 people have accepted the friend request, even though they didn't know me. I can't actually see the failure rate yet as many I have approached haven't been online in the alst 24 hours to accept the requests.
Day 2: I will add another 50 people later tonight, if I am not too drunk. (Last time I went out on the town it ended in tears with my Nokia 6680 phone being stolen, you know the story!
Results: In tomorrow (if I am not too hung over!) - I realistically can see this 'Facebook account' having over 100 targeted friends within 48 hours.
And before I leave here's something very random! An embedded video to get me in the frame of mind for tonight. An oldie but a goodie, it's Infinity by Guru Josh (1990's Time for the Guru)
AbtElectronics has got it right
Buying goods online is becoming more and more online, especially electrical style goods. With the growth of sites like eBay and various other bargain based online stores and promotions - buying goods off the internet is very commonplace.
Million Dollar Facebook Network
The challenge starts today. I have created a new Facebook profile, totally fictive, utterly attractive.
I have attempted to make my fictive man attractive to total strangers (of both sexes!) and with some creative profile tweaks - my goal is to add at least 50 new friends to this profile every day for the next 7 days.
You see most people who have built a 'real' FB profile make it a personal Facebook profile and this is not ideal for marketing. You don't really want to or shouldn't be marketing and pimpin' stuff to your immediate friends, family and old time friends. It just doesn't add up.
Thats where the 'mystery man' comes in. You see if I can get tonnes of friends into a network quickly the possibilities are extremely numerous and potentially lucrative. Not only blog marketing and promotion, but other avenues such as direct affiliate marketing, list building, FB application sales / promotion and even selling the complete Facebook profile on a site such as DigitalPoint.Com or SitePoint.Com.Facebook accounts filled with large amounts of active friends are attractive to others also.
Care is needed when doing this as Facebook just like MySpace and other social networks do have checks in place to see people that are adding friends too fast. I have verified my Facebook account to a pre-paid cell phone which makes friend adding much quicker (as it removes the verify tags on every friend request) and once joining a few large Facebook Groups in my targetted niches - finding and adding friends is a very fast and simple process.
Two important points to remember - make sure your profile 'looks and feels' real. Add a few photos, write some meaningful interests and text and finally when you introduce yourself to 'unknown' friends - make the intro comment creative. Something like 'we know a few of the same people' or I am new to Facebook and trying to meet new friends...
I have created a new account, totally populated its profile, added photos and I have requested add's from something like 75 people all in under 60 minutes... Not bad eh? More updates soon, on the amount of friend requests accepted and rejected.
John Chow Graphs show path to Success
I stumbled on a website today John Chow Graphs that is a clear, concise and visual record of the uber success the Chow man has seen since launching his blog in late 2006.
Kicked off by a smart entrepreneur, the visual record of the John Chow success is a good motivator and teacher for anyone willing to look and learn. (It saves you having to visit John's site and wade through posts about mattresses and other promotions!) (Sorry John had to be said!)
Displaying graphs and information from when John Chow kicked his blog off in late 2006 when he was earning a tiny $300 just from AdSense, this new graphical site tracks and discusses the John Chow journey until present day - where he is now earning $27,000+ from advertising and other means on his popular blog.
I was really impressed with this new idea, (also impressive was the designers idea to gently embed some AdSense units into this new graphical site to turn a profit, a smart way of capitalizing on the John Chow name and success!) I immediately thought this must be a brainchild of John Chow - capitalizing on another method to bring more success.
But no, this new John Chow Graph site was designed and developed by the guy behind 365tofreedom.com a blog I just checked out and I must say I was also impressed with his super smooth blog design and nice content. This is certainly a guy I will be subscribing too!
What to take away from the John Chow Graphs site is not only the motivation and belief factor, that blogs do infact make good money - but also 'how' it was done. Many online guru's will tell you 'content is king' and while in some instances this is true. In many successful blogs, it doesn't play a part.
My opinion on the key to making decent money from a blog is to ensure the following:
- Blog Promotion. Because promotion = traffic. (Get your lame butt on social sites, forums and advertise everywhere to get visitors through your doors)
- Blog, Monetize Well. The right ads, placed correctly and maximize earnings. Easier said than done, but Chow is the master of this. Even way back in the early days, you can read how Chow was fiddling with his AdSense sizes, placement and blending with the site.
Whether you like sites like Digg.com, Sphinn or other social sites - they do work. I took John Chow's advice from one of his posts earlier this week and went hard at digging a recent article, the result was a traffic spike of 500 hits. Something good content hasn't been able to bring alone.
Promote baby, promote!
Thank You and Welcome New Readers
Thanks to everyone for their positive comments on the digg.com article, we all had a few laughs and the little story about the various breeds of digger received a stack of digg's, stumbles and a traffic spike of 500 visitors! My bounce rate is at 69%, New Visits up to 79% and the average time on the 30 Day Man site is over 1 minute, 10 seconds. All improvements.
So welcome new visitors! Glad to have you onboard. I am thinking of new content ideas for the blog all the time, I am keen on adding more videos for soon and they say SEX SELLS (got your attention?) - but my wife got pissed off when I asked her to pose for a few strip tease YouTube videos.. So that idea is out.8 Breeds of Digger: When Nerds Attack on Digg.com
It happens quickly. Like a savage shark mauling or a crocodile attacking in it's hostile native territory. Digg rape is a scary and real prospect for internet authors and personalities.
A pack of fierce and savage nerds, the 'digg' variety are a vicious race, attacking from the realms of their castle, inside the borders of digg.com
This latest episode all started yesterday when a Digg user posted this article, asking:
"Whats the relevance now of high profile blogger John Chow and his mate Shoemoney, and does anyone still read their blogs?"
The question was about blogger John Chow, who had insultingly used and abused the digg system some 12 months previous, ruthlessly launching his Blog into cyber stardom from his evil blackhat digg exposure techniques.
So yesterday when this question was posted on digg.com, it started what was to become a digg feeding frenzy, angry nerds foamed at the mouth and slammed their keyboards with scrawny fingers of rage. Coke spewed everywhere and spilled on khaki pants around the globe.
Here's how Digg users commented, with an editorial note under each explaining the various breeds of 'Digg' users.
Digger Species 1: 'Thugs': "Who the fuck is John Chow, and how many of the above commenters are bots, or were compensated to post here? I never understood why anyone reads those blogs."
Editor: This is classic full frontal Digg attack. The less intellectual and physically stronger nerd lunges into the pre-emptive attack using naughty words like: Fuck. Then finishes having really not made much of a point and makes way for a secondary wave of digg troops to attack.
Digger Species 2: 'Know All, Fat Nerd': "There are hundreds of thousands of bloggers who want to figure out the secret to getting lots of traffic to their lousy blog with little interesting content. A whole crop of blogs have achieved great success by appealing to those people. There's no secret. Write good articles, do some BASIC search engine optimization, get on the various indexing/feed sites, and continue to write good content."
Editor: This is a very common form of digg species, following closely behind the 'full frontal' troops, this digger numbers many and adopts a form of 'I know it all, I can achieve anything because I am a legend in my own lunchtime at mummies house'. These specimens usually jump into an attack after they are sure they have the numbers and will closely follow up a 'full frontal' attack.
Digger Species 3: Inbred Redneck: