Comments on: How to Create Social Media’s Favorite Type of Blog Post

By: stress

stress — Mon, 05 May 2008 00:48:04 +0000

great post, i think content will always be the king

By: Community Building Blog

Community Building Blog — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:28:09 +0000

Thanks for the informative article. I really need to investigate targeting the social media websites to increase my blog’s exposure – just the same old case of so much to do, so little time!

- Martin Reed

By: Dee Copeland

Dee Copeland — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:07:32 +0000

I think you’re right. I’m glad I saw this post this week because I’ve been gathering green building and green living resources, especially if they relate to Texas.

I don’t want to be boring, so will bookmark this post.

By: Wayne Liew

Wayne Liew — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:58:38 +0000

A resource list with with over 50 or 100 points in it surely is a great social media favorite post. However, I have seen blogs,for example, covering gardening tips posting resource lists like 50 Wordpress theme.

Although it might be a great list to bring in social media traffic, I don’t see any advantage of this as leveraging such traffic will be impossible and other than that particular day and a possible server crash, there is no benefit for that blog at all.

By: Justin Dupre

Justin Dupre — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:57:37 +0000

I put together a list of Adsense alternatives for people that might not be able to use them for any particular reason. I expected a little to much and didnt get quite the reply I wanted to, but it still did okay. I keep building the list and link to it in my blog on my blogroll, so it still gets lots of hits.

Justin Dupre
http://www.blogosis.com

By: Sangesh

Sangesh — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:16:13 +0000

Skellie, it’s always a pleasure to go through your blog. I also like your personal blog too. Your posts are always good and this one is not an exception.

Cheers.

By: Tech Slice

Tech Slice — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:00:51 +0000

Nice post. I’ve been trying using social bookmarking to drive traffic without much luck.

By: theblackactor.com

theblackactor.com — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:27:49 +0000

This is very good to know. Excellent post.

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:33:49 +0000

Obviously it will not be resources as my blog is sports related, but this post inspired me to make a list, of sporting events

thanks

By: CatherineL

CatherineL — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:08:10 +0000

Hi Skellie – I’ve seen your resource list and it has some brilliant links, so I can understand people referring to it constantly,

Did you need to do anything else to attract people to the post aside from write it and come up with a good headline?

There just seems to be such an overwhelming amount of posts on Digg, that it looks impossible to be discovered.

Also, did you get to the first page as soon as it was submitted, or does the process take a little longer?

Thank you.

By: Skellie

Skellie — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:47:47 +0000

Thanks for the comments, everyone :-)

@ Bitten: That’s really worthy of a post in and of itself, but my key advice would be to listen to them: take note of the questions they ask in comments and emails, or the things they’re having trouble with. Alternately, just ask them.

@ Waye Christie: I agree — they’re very popular, but I suspect that bloggers hoping to capitalize on a resource list should do so relatively quickly, before Digg users are on to a new thing :).

By: Wayde Christie

Wayde Christie — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:37:24 +0000

These resource lists are going to hit critical mass soon. As a regular Digg user I see many lists like these on a daily basis, and as with anything that gets done to death on Digg, there’s bound to be a backlash against them sooner or later.

My advice: get in while you can :)

By: Dereks

Dereks — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:59:32 +0000

The main issue here is to understand specifics of digg and del.icio.us, what’s their purpose.
I use del.icio.us as a link storage of useful articles/posts. Unlike bookmarks, where I put only those pages, which i visit from time to time. At least half of all posts tagged their aren’t even ever read. I just come upon some post with an interesting topic, some “how-to guide” aforementioned list. I just take a brief look over it: how is it composed, formated, structured. And than I say “Oh, it may be very useful one day” and tag it.
So, frankly, the quality of links don’t even matter in case of getting ranked. But it can fail you in long term, when that day comes and the reader finds out that the post isn’t so useful, as it was thought.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:48:40 +0000

This is a very timely post, I must say. I am so glad to know these things as I am in the process of getting a list together of my own to be posted at the end of the month.
Thanks

By: IndependetKitten

IndependetKitten — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:45:47 +0000

I have been thinking of doing a resource list for some time. I just can’t seem to figure out what the subject will be. I’ll take your suggestions though.

By: fix8ed

fix8ed — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:24:20 +0000

Great post.

I am having the hardest time getting digs. I’ve created a few resource lists but I’m still seeing maybe 1-3 diggs total. Maybe it’s just the genre of my blog?

By: Frugal Dad

Frugal Dad — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:24:18 +0000

I wrote something like this that made its way to being featured on Associated Content, a popular article directory. Unfortunately, it was before I ran Frugal Dad so I didn’t get the benefit of an traffic, other than the internal page views from AC.

By: Warren of Zen Problog

Warren of Zen Problog — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:04:22 +0000

My post “10 Methods to Release After a Long Day, Week, or Lifetime of Work” (linked in my name above) got a lot of attention bringing in a few thousand readers in a course of two days from Stumble Upon. I think using the word “Methods” instead of ‘tips’ or ‘things’ helped because people filter words like those out since they see them so much.

By: white.wizard

white.wizard — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:41:37 +0000

great article, important tips and hints for must of us. thank you.

By: Rhea

Rhea — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:25:21 +0000

I wanna be on page 1 of Digg. This is the best advice I’ve seen yet!