Comments on: The Buzz about Yahoo Buzz

By: tomek

tomek — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:15:59 +0000

Hi, I am trying to set up Yahoo Buzz on my web which is based on Drupal, and I want to add it into the service.links module. Anyone has found a good way to decipher the URL the Yahoo Buzz sends via the javascript?

By: shawn

shawn — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:22:19 +0000

Yahoo sent me the same thing too. But, thing is. I dunno how to submit my content to them….lol

By: Cats In To Lions

Cats In To Lions — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:49:14 +0000

My previous post was in yahoo top buzz for 8 hours. The traffic I got is pretty average but the quality of traffic is much better than digg, su and reddit.

I publish another post 3 hours ago about how my buzz experience went on. Criticized buzz a bit on their weaknesses and guess what,

some one has submitted the post to digg under the title,
“Does Digg have to worry about Yahoo Buzz? Not so much”
And it is getting diggs like crazy.

To tell you the truth most of them are digging just for the title. Not more than 25 % have actually visited my blog to read the post. :-) Social media networks are like some of our friends which we want to get rid of , but can’t actually do so :-)

By: Infonote

Infonote — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:06:34 +0000

From my initial observations, Yahoo Buzz seems to be catered for entertainment/gossip.

By: indocontest

indocontest — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:24:16 +0000

I think I’ll wait till yahoo fix the java. :)

By: The IT Skeptic

The IT Skeptic — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:29:33 +0000

How disappointing that they have only provided a javascript button. I use Drupal and the Service Links module which is based around URLs for submission. they are trying to be too clever, a humble yahoo.com/url=?myurl… would have sufficed.

By: ramiro marques

ramiro marques — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:18:34 +0000

I agree with your opinion about Yahoo Buzz. It will be better than Digg.

By: Mr. Javo

Mr. Javo — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:02:12 +0000

I added a button yesterday and my post about Yahoo! Buzz got many votes. It brought me good traffic, I like it :)

By: Ezine-Today

Ezine-Today — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:08:11 +0000

I’ve never had anything with Yahoo so far, but what I’ve read here I’ll think about posting some of my blog content on it and see what happens.

By: Chris Motch

Chris Motch — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:09:55 +0000

It will be interesting to see how this turns out, being a fledgling blogger it can be easy to see how the lure could be so great, but as Darren touts blog day after day, content is key, post good content and they will indeed come, I’ve yet to see the day but one day.

By: Adam Singer

Adam Singer — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:39:06 +0000

Just FYI — the content on here is very pop-culture/mainstream oriented. Not geek pop-culture like Digg, but average pop culture.

Have a look at the ‘most popular’ stories. It reads like a general interest list. Niches may not have much of a chance here – but I could be wrong.

By: Travis Prinzi

Travis Prinzi — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:48:40 +0000

I gave Yahoo! Buzz a shot last night and made it into the top page of Entertainment. The funny thing was, though I’ve never had as many “stumbles” on stumbleupon or bump-ups from reddit, I get more traffic as a result of both of those sites.

By: Steven Wilson

Steven Wilson — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:22:49 +0000

Yahoo Buzz is another avenue to maybe bring some traffic to ones site,but I would not let it become my only source.
Steve

By: Keral Patel

Keral Patel — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:06:46 +0000

I am also reading a lot on the Yahoo Buzz with all gates open now.

Maybe we will see lots of Buzz Me up buttons on blogs now onwards.

Right now I am not using Digg buttons nor Yahoo Buzz buttons so maybe will try Yahoo Buzz buttons for sure.

By: moneymanager

moneymanager — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:06:24 +0000

thanks for info darren,
just checked it,seem like old wine in a new bottle,aka-digg.
still worth a try

By: Typhoon

Typhoon — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:58:47 +0000

Yahoo Buzz is gonna rock in future i think..even i posted about yahoo buzz on my blog to test the yahoo buzz for the first time..

By: Archit

Archit — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:35:43 +0000

Many bloggers have replaced Digg with Yahoo Buzz on their blogs which is I think is not a sensible step now. I’d stick with Digg for now and take Yahoo Buzz as my secondary Digg-like site.

Not saying this would be my model in the future too.

By: Chrisinbc

Chrisinbc — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:32:16 +0000

Thankyou Darren for sharing this info with us. I will certainly check it out to see what all the buzz is about! Pardon the pun! I am indeed sure that having your article posted on the front page of Yahoo would be a real boost for your blogs traffic. I think that would be absolutely awesome! I won’t hold my breath, but I am certainly going to submit an article or two to Yahoo Buzz.

By: nakatoo

nakatoo — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:56:46 +0000

i think that yahoo buzz will never catch up with digg

By: Jumble Blogger

Jumble Blogger — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:12:58 +0000

Just posted one of my article in Yahoo Buzz…!
Thanks for the informattion Darren.