I digg it.
I’d never really visited Digg before yesterday. A couple of times, but I didn’t sign up. Then, yesterday morning, I noticed almost immediately after it was posted at Performancing, that they had released their blogging extension, called Performancing for Firefox. I immediately downloaded it and realized what I had to do. I had to take screenshots of it and the very simple process of getting it set up with my Wordpress blog.
I went step by step, capturing the important part of the screen, saving it, and then uploading the images on someone else’s server so I don’t use as much bandwidth on mine. This turned out to be a great idea, because I went to digg.com to promote my own post (something that I believe should be done sparingly, because self-promotion of topics should only be done for the cream of the crop.)
Anyways, not that many people actualy “dugg” the post. (For good reason, too, I suspect, because I didn’t have a whole lot of analysis or in-depth information, but it still managed to get hundreds upon hundreds of visits yesterday from digg.com, my comments on the Performancing post, and a slew of other websites that I either commented on, trackbacked, or received links for anyways. (I’ve never been promoted in another language before. That was cool.) I was promoting my post through trackbacks and comments, and I could have done a whole lot more if I hadn’t been so busy yesterday. All in all, I received hundreds of visitors that I wouldn’t have otherwise received without the promotion on digg.com. So, thanks for coming.
I will continue to be talking about traffic building, professional blogging, affiliate marketing, and all sorts of good stuff. I suspect I’ll be making a pretty big splash in a couple of niches shortly, so if you’re into buzz marketing and promoting something on no budget, I may be just the guy you’re looking for. Oh, and please ignore the generic Wordpress template, I hope to make it disappear in the coming weeks.
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Performancing for Firefox Screenshots
Full size images available: Performancing for Firefox, the Blogging Extension.
To download the extension, go to: performancing.com/firefox
Previously, Flock had released a browser that was supposed to ease blogging. It was hyped up and the Flock developers were left explaining why they didn’t just make a Firefox extension. It will be interesting to see what other features Performancing can pack into this extension in the future.
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The $100,000 Mistake.
I generally feel that I was too young and too inexperienced to enjoy the dot-com bubble before it burst. I had some web design skills, but that was really it. These days, I have the web design skills, but I’m in a better position to explore opportunities and take risks. Having said that, it’s not generally been in my nature to take risks, though I do enjoy exploring opportunities.
Anyways, to get to the point really quickly, blogster.com was purchased for $100,000. The new owner posted the press release.
So, was it a mistake for them to buy blogster.com for $100,000? Probably not. There was already a community building there. The mistake is in what I failed to do. I used to run a webring. In fact, I didn’t start the webring, someone else did and later abandoned it. I asked if I could run it, I probably tripled the number of users, and then later abandoned it myself when I lost interest in webrings. The name of that webring? Blogster(s). I even made people who joined the webring use code that linked directly to my blog at the time, a link that still works, but is no longer anything like what it used to be. Someone else is currently running the webring, but I’m pretty sure the description of the webring is what I wrote when I took control of it. A current search on Google for blogster webring comes up with the webring link and then a long since outdated and broken link to my website as the second result. Doing a search for backlinks to that old blog of mine still comes up with blogs that never updated that code. That boosts my pagerank, which is cool, but really not helpful as I never get any traffic from it.
Anyways, the mistake I made was not snatching up the domain name, because I’m pretty sure it was available when I controlled the webring. But it’s important to note that blogster.com became a blogging service, something that I wouldn’t have been able to create at the time. Now, I could just use Wordpress’ multi-user blogging or Movable Type to offer blogs, but not at the time. But my mistake is the blogging communities gain because blogster.com would not be where it is today if it weren’t for my inaction in regards to buying the domain name and developing it.
