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| A Downside of Getting to the Front Page of Digg Posted: 27 Aug 2008 01:51 PM PDT The Holy Grail of incoming links for many bloggers is an appearance on the front page of Digg. It has the potential to send tens of thousands of visitors and bring about a lot of secondary links from other sites who see it. However the downside of a site the power of Digg linking to one of your articles is that it is an authoritative site in the eyes of Google. Yesterday one of my posts - 15 Stunning Lightning Images - got to the front page of Digg. It was actually an old post that I’d recently updated and moved back onto the front page and it already had done pretty well on social media sites so had some link equity already. The front page appearance on Digg brought a fresh influx of visitors which was fantastic but here’s what I saw in Google’s search results when I searched for Lightning Images this morning:
Yep - Digg out ranks the post it links to. I fully expect this to change at some point as Google’s rankings are in constant states of change and even the link to my post above will give it a little extra authority but it is an issue that many bloggers face and should be aware of when submitting their posts to social media sites, or other sites and forums with established authority on Google. update: the DPS article now outranks the Digg one. I’ve seen this same thing happen again and again on Digg but also when a site gets linked to like a site like Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Engadget etc who link back to the source of their story but use a similar title for their post to the post they’re linking to. I don’t think this is the problem of the sites linking to posts - it’s probably more an issue for Google to work on - but post this as a little warning for bloggers active in promoting their blog posts on other sites. TIP: One quick tip for those of you who suffer from this problem. If you have any control for how your posts are submitted to Digg, try to get the title to be something different to the title of your blog post. For example, if the title of the Digg submission above had been ‘Lightning Pictures’ or something completely different like ‘Flash, Bang - 15 Images of Storms that Will Rock Your World’ then it wouldn’t rank as high for ‘lightning images’ as my own post. Of course not everyone has control over how their posts are linked to - but if you do, it’s worth keeping in mind. |
| b5 Blogger Summit at Blog World Expo - Free Extra Day of Training for BWE Attendees Posted: 27 Aug 2008 07:03 AM PDT If you’re going to Blog World Expo and can be there the day before the official program starts - b5media is running a training day for our bloggers that we are opening up to any BWE registrants that would like to attend. It is running on 19 September at the Las Vegas Convention center and all we ask if you’re attending is to RSVP before hand so that we can make sure we’re set up adequately for those who are coming. The day is designed to help our bloggers improve their blogging but will be relevant to bloggers who are not a part of the network also. It will include sessions with different members of our management team, channel editors and partners as well as a Q and A session with Board of Advisors (Robert Scoble, Doc Searls, Hugh McLeod, Renee Blodgett and Stowe Boyd). There will only be one session that is ‘closed’ and jut for b5 bloggers so if you’d like to attend we’d love to have you. We’re not expecting hundreds or thousands of people to attend which will allow for more Q & A and personal interaction between presenters and attendees. The sessions planned (and we’re still tweaking and locking in the times and topics) are:
I am planning to stuff my session as full as possible with tips on finding readers for your blog and hope to have time for Q & A and a little brainstorming together. To Register… If you are a registered attendee of Blog World Expo (sign up here) all you need to do to attend is RSVP to Rachel Segal at rachel AT b5media DOT com - just include your name. She can then give you details of where it’ll be (room numbers etc) and any other details as well as give you the most up to date schedule for the day as it comes to hand. PS: the only other thing to note is that lunch isn’t provided. You’ll need to bring something or buy something at or around the venue. |
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