You would’ve read my first ever scoop which was on ImageShack launching a new Torrent Service. I blogged it on 30th March and till then a search for “imageshack torrent” showed up nothing in google. After few hours, my post was the only one about the launch, listed in the google search for “imageshack torrent”. The post raked in 6700+ views in just 6 days. It made me (a newbie blogger) feel great.
A guy named, baramunchies (http://digg.com/users/baramunchies) submitted the article to Digg and at the time of writing this, my post has a total of 22 Diggs.
Today, I googled “imageshack torrent” and the results were all on the “launch of New Torrent Service From ImageShack”. Almost all posts were made on or after 5th April. The search result showed the p2p-news-giant, TorrentFreak (acclaimed of reporting latest scoops), in the 6th slot with their post dated 5th April.
Even then, their post was digged a whopping 990 times (as at 23.00 IST, 6th April) just in a single day.
Remember, the SCOOPer got only 22 diggs in 7 days.
Yes, I KNEW that TorrentFreak is among the 50 most popular domains featured on the frontpage of Digg.
And now I KNOW a SCOOP is NOT a SCOOP, unless you are that reputed.
What do you say?
(P.S. I was not complaining. The AIM OF THIS POST is to explain, how important is a solid reputation for your blog to be read & digged)
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What are you complaining about? That no one reads you small and frankly *violation* blog? Stop whining and improve your blog.
Thanks for taking your valuable time for replying. And i’m trying my very best to improve my blog.
I was NOT complaining NOR I was speaking against anyone.
I just wrote this to tell other bloggers and people, how important is building a reputation for their blogs.
It’s true that people read and promote posts from reputed blogs. I know.
And there’s nothing unusual in TorrentFreak getting 1000+ diggs.
Hey Aravind,
Firstly, thanks for nice post over at my blog. I appreciate your kind words.
Great job on bringing the news so quickly. I look forward to new posts from you. I added your RSS to my reader. Good luck on the blog!
Thanks Regan, for subscribing to my feed. You feed is already subscribed me.
Great to know each other.
This is the reality, I too got frustrated many times. Last november, Shankar did a guest post on my blog which was submitted to Digg, but never s success, the same post written by Download squad (with a reference to my post) got over 900 Diggs.
We cant do anything for this.
Yups.
This is because, people go for Corporate blogs always.
It is sad that smaller blogs cannot get success with breaking news. On Digg, it happens because most users think that only larger sites like Arstechnica, Techcrunch etc in tech and Torrentfreak in torrents get the scoop.
As for Nirmal and Aravind, both of your cases are pretty obvious - Dl squad and Torrentfreak have hundreds of thousands of RSS subscribers, atleast a small part of which are active digg users. For example, Torrentfreak has 100k readers, and most of it is from Digg successes. So, what happens is that at least some of those 100k readers would’ve voted by going to Digg, whereas most of the diggs for our smaller blogs will have to come from the very small number of digg users who come to the upcoming sections. That is why Smashingmagazine, Torrentfreak, Zenhabits etc. hit digg very often while others don’t.
There’s only one better way to hit Digg - write timeless content that is partisan in nature, for example good tips on tweaking apps on Mac/Linux, or resource lists for those two OSes. That way, you can accuse other sites of plagiarism if they write similar content (unlike news, which could be from other sources). I’ve tried it thrice and it worked every time
Wow! Sumesh have just written Weekend Reading: June 01 2008
Great to have you back, Sumesh
I completely agree to what you’ve said.
You’ve set out all the necessary points on this issue.
Your comment has got the value of a post.
Thanks a lot, Sumesh