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Re: Microsoft’s Ads on Digg Reach A New Low

HMTKSteve — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:06:59 -0000

I saw these ads and was thinking, "Digg must have no traffic if I am the 10,000 visitor!"

Re: Linking Mistakes Frequently Encountered On Blogs

HMTKSteve — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 11:43:33 -0000

I tried the Alexa redirect thing for a month and it does not work. I even did the "bad" thing of making an invisible iframe on my website that loaded a page via an Alexa redirect. No change.

Using the redirect only lowers the amount of link juice you can get. It also makes you look low rent.

Re: Linking Mistakes Frequently Encountered On Blogs

HMTKSteve — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 11:43:33 -0000

Re: Akismet False Positives & Spam Karma Configuration

HMTKSteve — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 11:47:17 -0000

I get over 1,000 spam comments every day. I used to be able to wade through them to find any false positives but now, I don't have the time to sift through 50 pages of possible spam comments!

I trust Akismet to weed out the bad stuff.

Re: Akismet False Positives & Spam Karma Configuration

HMTKSteve — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 11:47:17 -0000

Re: 29% Of Technorati Top 100 Never On Digg Home Page

HMTKSteve — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:19:47 -0000

I found a copy of this over at another blog: http://www.workconnexions.com/news/2007/08/15/1...

I do not know what sort of license you publish under so I thought it best to inform you.

Re: 29% Of Technorati Top 100 Never On Digg Home Page

HMTKSteve — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:19:47 -0000

I found a copy of this over at another blog: http://www.workconnexions.com/news/2007/08/15/1...

I do not know what sort of license you publish under so I thought it best to inform you.

Re: Diggers will find a way to get paid

HMTKSteve — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 09:45:17 -0000

Why not just give the person who submitted the link/story to Digg a portion of the advertising revenue generated by that submission?

I know AdSense offers channels to track ad placements, how hard could it be for Digg to approach AdSense and tell them that they will be modifying the AdSense code only to add the submitters name in an extra field so they can track who brought in what?

They could further modify it so that only frontpaged stories share revenue.

Re: How to handle getting buried on Digg

HMTKSteve — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:43:39 -0000

I once had something similar happen where my personal contact information was posted on Digg. Some Diggers even crank called my house?!?? Joke was on them as I have caller ID and anonymous calls are blocked...

The offending Digger who posted my information was quickly banned (and a few others) after a quick email to Digg support.

Re: Where does community end and “gaming” start?

HMTKSteve — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 08:05:09 -0000

I submit stories to Digg because of the meta-game that is Digg. i.e. each story on the home page gets you one EXP and once you get enough EXP you appear in the top diggers list.

The bonus EXP comes when you get your story on the Diggnation podcast. Why remove this system? The system rewards good submissions, removing it will only increase Spamming of Digg because the spammers pay!

Re: What’s good for Steve is good for you

HMTKSteve — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:38:31 -0000

Didn't Steve Jobs once say that even if the labels did not want DRM he would still use it?

Re: What’s good for Steve is good for you

HMTKSteve — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:12:19 -0000

It looks like my Steve jobs quote may have been attributed to this: http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2007/01/the_...

And it may have been a statement made on Apple's part but attributed to Jobs.

Re: Wired’s Digg slam is offside

HMTKSteve — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:12:25 -0000

I think part of the story here is that the gaming of Digg and Digg's problems have long been circulating among the Digg bloggers.

Wired is one of the tech magazines that diggers like to read.

Reddit? A competitor to Digg? They are as much of a Digg competitor as this blog is to the New York times!

Digg came out and said, "you can't game us, we have mad skillz, go away you hackers!"
Someone called them on it, "Look, I got this crappy site on the Digg homepage!"
Then Digg turns around and says, "Hey, I wasn't ready, that didn't count.. Wait a minute... You are from a competitor... discredit! discredit! discredit!"

They did the same thing when a blogger reproduced the top 100 list after they dumped it!

Re: Wired’s Digg slam is offside

HMTKSteve — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:37:02 -0000

I think it is more a case of the New York Times not seeing you as a competitor.

Think of Great Cthullu. The humans on the planet are not even a thought to him. To the humans on the planet, he holds a very large place in the thoughts of the people!

Re: Is Digg the future or just a feature?

HMTKSteve — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 19:52:12 -0000

Until Digg reins in the bury brigades and other areas where the tyranny of the minority thwarts the will of the majority Digg has no real future.

Re: Online advertising needs to grow up

HMTKSteve — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 05:10:00 -0000

This is an interesting argument as print media uses something very similar; readership/circulation.

If anything online advertising is better because, after reading the article it is not thrown away. That advertising will stay on that article, potentially forever.

Stay forever you say? Well, that depends on where you advertise. If you use the dreaded PPP or other similar services it likely will stay forever. If you advertise with the big boys it will not.

I see more and more people everyday who neglect to purchase print media because they can get it free online. Why shouldn't they? You get to keep your fingers clean and save money! Besides, most big media companies that offer online news either charge a subscription or have so many ads on the page that it looks like a Splog!

Re: Conflict of interest, Web 2.0-style

HMTKSteve — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 09:49:10 -0000

Would it be a conflict of interest if someone from Ford Motors started up an after market parts company?

Is this only a conflict of interests because they are pushing a company that was started by a former employee?

We are talking about journalism and reporting. If it is news it should be reported.

Re: Digg, the echo chamber and Matthew

HMTKSteve — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:40:02 -0000

I feel like a broken record player but...

Te Wisdom of Crowds only works when the members of the crowd are ignorant of what the other crowd members are doing. Digg is not about the Wisdom of Crowds.

There is only one social site on the web that does follow the Wisdom of the Crowds mantra and that is StumbleUpon. (For the most part at least.)

Digg is all about the mob mentality.

Re: Hey ISP — Joost give me more bits

HMTKSteve — Tue, 29 May 2007 09:02:20 -0000

If you do not like the speeds your ISP offers you than you are always free to purchase a T1 or other faster connection to the Internet.

A lot of this talk complaining about bandwidth is a waste of time and energy. Faster options are available.

Do you go out and buy a 100HP car and then complain because it will not do a constant 150MPH on the highway? If you want that sort of performance buy a better car! Same goes for Internet access.

Re: Hey ISP — Joost give me more bits

HMTKSteve — Wed, 30 May 2007 08:34:19 -0000

There is no limitation on upload speeds.

If you are willing to pay for a higher tiered service you will get it! The only limitation is that you are looking at a consumer-level product (DSL) and expecting it to work as a business-level product (T1).

You get what you pay for. I choose to pay for DSL (not a T1) because DSL is "good enough" for me and my needs. If DSL is not "good-enough" for your needs than you need to spend the money for something better suited to your needs.

It's not as if the Telcos are not willing to sell you a better data product.

Re: AOL euthanizes Digg-style Netscape

HMTKSteve — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:20:19 -0000

The real sad thing going on here is that the navigators were supposed to be editors whose job it is to keep the front page looking good and remove the spam that makes its way there. I read the news as saying that Netscape thinks the navigators did a terrible job of editing the content.

Have you seen what Netscape is moving to in regards to site design for the new Netscape Portal? It looks like a Yahoo clone!

Re: Real-life experience with the new Google News

HMTKSteve — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:29:21 -0000

Perhaps it is time for a journalistic code of conduct in regards to sourcing for online content?

Google should also put something in place on Google News so that the original source of a news story gets top billing rather than the most popular source.

In this particular case, was the story written by a local staff writer and then the AP "picked up" the original staff writer's story or did they write their AP version based on new research and all? If the AP just scraped the story from the news papper than I feel it is up to AP to properly credit the story and provide a link to the originating story. Of course I have no idea what the contracts say in regards to AP grabbing your content...

Re: Netscape packs bags, moves to Propeller

HMTKSteve — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:31:23 -0000

My only big complaint about the Netscape digg-clone is the amount of spam that ends up on the front page. From what some of the navigators and scouts have told me their hands were tied in regards to removing some of that content.

They better remove that restriction and allow the site editors to remove garbage from the front page!

Re: 5 Reasons Why BumpZee Will Be The Next Digg, But Even Bigger

HMTKSteve — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:32:10 -0000

Digg was cool until they added the extra categories and all the non-tech folks showed up. What is in place to stop the same thing from happening with BumpZee?

Re: New Version of Serendipity (s9y) to WordPress Importer Available

HMTKSteve — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:27:14 -0000

Great job, I just used it to save me some time!

One thing, why does it not pull the extended text?

Re: The DMCA on Social News Sites

HMTKSteve — Wed, 02 May 2007 08:24:55 -0000

I have dealt with a few social bookmarking sites in regards to this issue. Both Digg and Netscape were very fast to respond and remove the content.

De.lici.us and Stumbleupon were not so good.

Re: Amazon Releases Kindle, Its eBook Reader: Top 10 (Un)Answered Questions Updated

HMTKSteve — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:58:57 -0000

Amazon has already said they pick up the EVDO tab on purchases.

Re: Technorati Contest

HMTKSteve — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 06:08:47 -0000

I better gt in early on this one!

Re: 2007/04/12/imlikewithyou/

HMTKSteve — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:35:54 -0000

I'm sorry but, I just don't get it.

How does the bidding and "getting the hosts attention" thing work?

Is this moderated by a live hosts who judges things somehow? Is the point of this site to allow people to meet new people for dating?

Could someone provide a bit more information on this?

Re: John Cow In Bovine Business Magazine

HMTKSteve — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 09:01:20 -0000

You should have photoshopped hooves on his hands!

Re: Eight Things You Didn’t Know About John Cow

HMTKSteve — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:44:57 -0000

So, is Miltank your favorite Pokemon?

Re: Buzz Marketing Myths

HMTKSteve — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:46:43 -0000

I have had a few things go viral on some of my sites but there is also a dark side to it. It's one thing when everyone links to you but it is something else when some folks just steal your content and try to make it go viral for them.

There is no money to made from Digg if you are using a CPC model on your site. You can make money off of an affilliate offer by getting on digg but that is about it. Even CPM ads don't work so well off of digg due to the high number of adblockers.

You can make a living writing "for" digg but it is a very shaky living. Just as you don't want to live on Google traffic alone you also do not want to live only on digg traffic.

If you write good quality content and fill a niche you will get readers. Some of those readers will click but most will not.

Re: Get Your Contest Noticed and 6 Pownce Invites Available!

HMTKSteve — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:49:24 -0000

Can I push my current contest here?

http://www.hmtk.com/archives/quartile.html

Re: Google Confirms Click Fraud Rate is 0.02%

HMTKSteve — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:24:28 -0000

Very interesting information. Blocking ads to a certain IP is very interesting but it also smacks of overkill. I would rather block by the website than by the IP.

Re: Wired.com Proves Digg Can Still be Bought

HMTKSteve — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:28:21 -0000

Let's see here...

1) Digg claims they can not be gamed.
2) Someone games Digg.
3) Some bloggers try to discredit the gaming because of the reddit affiliation.

The simple fact is that Digg was gamed! It wasn't even gamed with an interesting website and that is the point. If someone can get a crap website onto the Digg home page then Digg can be gamed.

The gaming goes both ways in that good websites can be buried before they reach the home page. I've seen stories with hundreds of Diggs that never make the home page!

Re: If You Game Digg You Will Get Banned, Unless…..

HMTKSteve — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 15:53:52 -0000

Hey! I coined the "auto-bury" on digg phrase long before the guy you linked to did and I've been following it!

Just do a search for Digg on my site and you will see.

Re: If You Game Digg You Will Get Banned, Unless…..

HMTKSteve — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 07:14:09 -0000

I'm begining to think some of these things are just scam sites being run by digg to weed out the users that are trying to make money off of their digging habbits.

Re: If You Game Digg You Will Get Banned, Unless…..

HMTKSteve — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 07:34:35 -0000

Many people do write good quality content but their audience does not match digg's userbase.

Even though digg is empty traffic it is traffic. when you have a high amount of traffic you can charge advertisers more money!

Think about that for a minute. A good digg front page story can generate 25K+ unique hits easily. Even as few as one a week can push your numbers over 100K uniques a month!

Most blogs I read are lucky to get 100 uniques a day.

Diggers may not click (or even see) ads but they do help inflate your bottom line numbers.

Re: Why is O’Reilly Hell-bent on a Code of Conduct for Bloggers?

HMTKSteve — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:54:31 -0000

Perhaps he just wants something he can sell at a conference?

Re: Partial Feeds Don’t Draw Visitors

HMTKSteve — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:21:11 -0000

I just use livebookmarks in Firefox for my feed tracking. If I see an interesting headline I'm likely to click right through to the blog in question.

Otherwise, I don't use a "feed reeder" application.

Re: Kevin Rose Hands Over Digg Control

HMTKSteve — Wed, 02 May 2007 10:32:11 -0000

It is very interesting that Kevin chose to use the code as the title of his blog entry. By doing so he posted the code directly to Digg's servers as a company man!

That one act may have launched the Digg ship out of it's safe harbor.

Re: Improve Your Blog’s Stickiness

HMTKSteve — Fri, 11 May 2007 20:38:18 -0000

I was thinking of using the tactic that was very common in 2000 on pr0n sites.

I figure I can code in some sort of script that whenever a user tries to leave my site two random articles from my site spawn themselves in new windows. I mean, it's not like the person really meant to leave my site, right?

j/k

Re: Improve Your Blog’s Stickiness

HMTKSteve — Fri, 11 May 2007 21:32:20 -0000

My blog tends to the random side. I get more new traffic via Google than I get regular traffic via feeds.

Re: Censorship Issues Continue for Digg

HMTKSteve — Mon, 14 May 2007 22:39:39 -0000

This happened to me a few months ago. Web charts are provided and the infamous crawl3.digg.internal did me in:

http://www.hmtk.com/archives/the-effect-of-bein...

Re: Marketing Pilgrim is Looking for Additional Contributors

HMTKSteve — Fri, 18 May 2007 12:45:44 -0000

Hmmm...

I did not realize my trackback would grab the text right after the link! It almost looks like I'm busting on you guys when I'm not.

I do think that if someone took an unpaid position here it could lead to a paid position somewhere else.

Re: Combating Click Fraud

HMTKSteve — Fri, 18 May 2007 12:48:31 -0000

When advertisers are bidding $35+ for a single click you have to expect a certain amount of click-fraud.

I can't imagine there being a lot of click fraud for the cheap ($0.10 and under) keywords because you would have to do so many fraudulent clicks that you would get caught in no time.

Re: Combating Click Fraud

HMTKSteve — Fri, 18 May 2007 13:33:45 -0000

With all that bot activity doesn't Google notice when a site starts generating large income from AdSense with a high CTR? I know from my own experience with AdSense that my CTR is always low, very low, often below 1%.

Google must flag accounts for review when they hit a certain income or CTR level.

Re: Google’s Latest Product Improvements

HMTKSteve — Fri, 18 May 2007 14:39:54 -0000

I was playing with the new interface last week too. I have not decided how I feel about it but I do like the way it defaults to one months worth of data.

Re: Adsense Disabling Arbitrage & MFA Accounts

HMTKSteve — Sat, 19 May 2007 22:39:06 -0000

I consider this to be a good thing. How will this affect click fraud numbers and AdWords bidding?

I spent a long time building up the competitive ad filter on my AdSense account to block out the MFA sites that were bidding nickels for my traffic and then getting dollars from that same traffic on their site.

Re: Google Expanding its Frontiers: Click Fraud

HMTKSteve — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:08:10 -0000

I have to agree with TextAdSearch above. I run tracking software that tracks all outgoing clicks on my sites and I always see a variance of more than 10% on my AdSense info page in regards to AdSense clicks.

I have had days where Google discounts 50% of my AdSense clicks and they never tell me why.

There is simply too much secrecy in the Google AdWords/AdSense program. Google needs to understand that they need both sides of the program to be happy in order for it to work. If the keep pissing of publishers how will they be able to move their adwords inventory?

Re: Blocking Ad Blocking

HMTKSteve — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:49:00 -0000

The hardest form of advertising to block is also the best; direct ad sales between the web site and the advertiser.

I just started selling 125x125 button ads on my site. Because these images are served from the same server as my content and content images blocking them will also result in blocking my content. I would like to think my visitors come to my site for my content so I do not think they will block my image directory just to avoid a few small button ads.

Because I sell these via direct sales I do not have to worry about some third party putting an annoying flash ad into my banner roation or on my site at all. Due to recent things Google has been doing I am finding them to be a very unreliable service in regards to AdSense.

I also use Pay-Per-Post but most of the offers listed on the site are either outside of the area of my readers interest or do not pay enough.

Re: Blocking Ad Blocking

HMTKSteve — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:16:08 -0000

Mark,

Adblocking does help the advertiser in a CPM situation, why pay for an impression if the reader will never even look at your ad? As for CPC, are you looking at CPC as a CPM campaign that costs less because you get "free" impressions of your ad?

Either way it is not the advertisers who are crying about adblocking it is the websites that generate income from readers having ads served to them that are doing the crying.

Re: Reuters Taps Attributor to Monitor Content Scraping

HMTKSteve — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:13:35 -0000

What about AP who has been known to scrape content from news sites iteself?

Re: BlogRush Finally Adds Reports But Traffic is Very Poor

HMTKSteve — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:31:42 -0000

I would chalk this up as a scam. when you add in the multi-tier earnings bit it becomes a case of the early adopters (with a downline) earning massive amounts of credits. End result is that those who have the traffic will have their links shown all the time while the small guy who needs the traffic will almost never see his links show up.

Re: BlogRush Finally Adds Reports But Traffic is Very Poor

HMTKSteve — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:41:17 -0000

Why not just use http://www.adgridwork.com and avoid all the pyramid scheme business?

Re: Win $500! Tell Us Why You Read Marketing Pilgrim

HMTKSteve — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:42:43 -0000

So I have until mid-November to do this? Hmm...

Re: If Twitter and Yahoo Answers Mated You’d Get Attendi

HMTKSteve — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:13:39 -0000

OK, and what benefit do I get for joining the site and answering questions? Are they offering some sort of revenue share?

I just do not see why an "expert" would want to hang out on one of these sites without gaininig something in return.

Re: Get $150 for Participating in a Blogging Study

HMTKSteve — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:32:13 -0000

I have sent them an email. If you google my handle you will get 40K results. I wonder if that is enough for them?

Re: Get $150 for Participating in a Blogging Study

HMTKSteve — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:52:07 -0000

Word - I hope you are not referring to me!

Re: Halloween Costume Search Stats

HMTKSteve — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:30:15 -0000

I just wrote a short article about this myself and included an image of one of my writer's costumes from last year.

Re: Five Ways Negative Reviews Help Your Online Reputation

HMTKSteve — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:49:35 -0000

Not only do positive reviews make people suspect the product being reviewed by they also throw the reviewer into a negative light. If they only ever say positive things they come off as a shill.

You don't want a review to tear you a new one but you do need honesty. If some part of a product is bad you need to know!

Re: eBay Not Out of the Woods Yet With Tiffany’s and Trademark Concerns

HMTKSteve — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:38:40 -0000

You can't compare eBay auctions to iTunes music downloads. Apple controls the entire iTunes system while eBay is just a facilitator.

There is no cost effective method for eBay to insure that what someone lists for sale is the same as the item they are selling. there is a certain level of trust involved. If a buyer does not trust a seller they are free to use an escrow service.

HMTKSteve's last blog post..Abu-Bakr Muhammad ben Yahya as-Suli: The Great Chess Master of the Arab World

Re: Not All Traffic Is Created Equal

HMTKSteve — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:07:58 -0000

If your advertising model is based on a per-impression model (CPM), Digg is good for you. If your advertising model is based on a per action or per click model (CPA/CPC) such as AdSense or afilliate links than Digg traffic is bad for you.

Search traffic does tend to run high in regards to conversions (people buying or leaving via an advertising link). Digg can sometimes give you a few extra advertising clicks but it tends to be less than 0.001%.

Re: Not All Traffic Is Created Equal

HMTKSteve — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:04:53 -0000

Scott,

I said "good for you" but that does not necessarily mean it is also good for your advertisers!

Re: Digg Tries To Flatten The Head Of Its Long Tail Participation Curve

HMTKSteve — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 07:58:36 -0000

Now that they have removed the meta-game (home page stories=EXP, top diggers=level) from Digg I find myself less willing to submit quality content.

Re: 11 Tips to Enhance Your Digg User Experience (and Hopefully Bring You Front Page Fame)

HMTKSteve — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 09:38:48 -0000

Good post Tamar! I'm still sitting about 182 on the top digger list but, I don't digg that often anymore.

Re: An Open Letter to Kevin Rose

HMTKSteve — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:44:01 -0000

If you want a clear indicator od wether digg is targeting you (as a blogger) or not is to launch a new site with no ties to your "auto-bury" site and see if the same content makes digg's home page. I have done this and you know what? The same content on a different domain makes the front page!

So, what does that tell you about the bury system?

Re: Why the Fuss about BlogRush?

HMTKSteve — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:12:18 -0000

All I can say is: http://www.adgridwork.com

Re: Increasing Alexa Rank – A Joint Experiment

HMTKSteve — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:32:12 -0000

The redirect thing is BS, it does nothing.

I added it as an iframe on my page footer and saw no jump when traffic spiked.

The easiest way to increase your Alexa ranking is to use Firefox with the toolbar. All you need is a dynamic IP and lots of time on your hands.

If you check the Alexa numbers for hmtk.com you can see how one person with the toolbar can skew the site rating by thousands of points.

Re: Digg User Rankings Now Completely Gone

HMTKSteve — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:52:28 -0000

I don't expect them to remove the friends feature but... removing the ability to Digg a story from the friends area would stop people from rapidly digging all the stories their friends submit.

Re: Digg User Rankings Now Completely Gone

HMTKSteve — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 13:33:22 -0000

As much as I hate frames... A solution may exist where a small sliver of a frame appears above the story when you follow the link. This small frame would give you the option to Digg, bury or comment on the story.

You could then remove the digg option from the story page on Digg and force users to at least view the story before digging it. This could be used with the bookmark idea in that if you have not read the story you only bookmark it and the story gains no digg weight.

I know some people have done studies in the past where people dugg a story because of the title when the story itself was just a test page saying, "did you read before you dugg this?"

Re: Dealing With Scrapers: What Do You Do?

HMTKSteve — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:10:54 -0000

This is a touchy issue.

I publish my blog entries under a Creative Commons license that is visible on every page of my blog. I use partial feeds, not because I am against full feeds but due to the way the templates work on my blog it is easier to break a post into pieces to fit in the advertising blocks.

I was recently the victim of blog scraping and it took me a few days to find out and clean up the mess. In my case I would not have minded if the content used under the terms of my license, but it was not.

If you want to use someone's content just ask! You would be amazed at how many folks will say, "yes, just give me proper credit and link backs."

I wrote a short article on the release of the Wii News channel but I could not get screen caps at the time. I went to flikr, found some good photos and contacted the owner of those photos. In exchange for proper credit he allowed me to use the images.

Re: Dealing With Scrapers: What Do You Do?

HMTKSteve — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 10:40:05 -0000

Tamar,

This is why technorati is your friend. If you embed an invisible link back to your blog inside your article it is very likely that you will see your scraped content providing links back to you when doing a technorati search.

I'm often reminded of a certain quote in American history,"John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!"

Re: Dealing With Scrapers: What Do You Do?

HMTKSteve — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:19:23 -0000

Looks like that particular "auto-scraping" blog no longer scrapes your content!

Re: Digg Comes Out With Friendly Buttons For Every Site

HMTKSteve — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 10:40:53 -0000

Yeah!

I could never get the old button code to work...

Re: The New Wave of Personalization and Who is Joining in the Game

HMTKSteve — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:37:35 -0000

If personalization came to Digg would less stories be buried?

Re: How to Use StumbleUpon for Your Business: The Definitive Guide

HMTKSteve — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 02:46:22 -0000

StumbleUpon is the best for getting the word out on your site. I have had several instances where someone "Stumbled" a page on my blog and I received 20K+ hits over a months time. The fact that StumbleUpon spreads it out over time makes it even better.

Re: The Big Boys of Social Bookmarking – The Top 24 Sites

HMTKSteve — Thu, 17 May 2007 08:46:45 -0000

After the recent "numbers" fiasco at digg and their continued resistance to publish any sort of bury information I have begun to write digg off as another friendster.

digg claims to be democratic but, even in a democracy we see ALL of the votes after an election. Bury votes are still votes.

If digg were a democracy than wouldn't each vote (digg or bury) carry the same weight? Right now it takes far less buries to bury a story than it takes diggs to promote a story. Also, once buried a story can never be unburied.

Re: Is a Free Email Address Good for the Government to Use?

HMTKSteve — Thu, 17 May 2007 08:43:15 -0000

Bad move. I would never trust a generic web mail service with anything of any importance.

Re: StumbleUpon Gets Sold to eBay – Initial Community Reactions Aren’t Good

HMTKSteve — Thu, 31 May 2007 08:05:12 -0000

So, what does this mean for us StumbleUpon users?

Re: London 2012 Olympics logo revealed. What do you think?

HMTKSteve — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:40:57 -0000

It may not convey the olympic feel but it does show what Londod is.

When I look at that I see a fractured entity that has no idea what it is or what it wants to be. I see confusion and a total lack of a grasp on reality.

Re: London 2012 Olympics logo revealed. What do you think?

HMTKSteve — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:45:39 -0000

Why the color change? It represents Londons new views on multi-culturalism. Because only 5 colors can be represented it wouldn't be fair to have any colors in the design. The colors not present would whine and complain that they were not included.

Re: Stepping Outside of Your Bubble

HMTKSteve — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 09:20:09 -0000

SEO, that's like a CEO right? How much money do they make?

Yeah, I do tech support and I'm always surprised at how little some people know about what goes on beyond their front porch.

Re: Chris Winfield in Investor’s Business Daily re: ‘Google Placement Performance Reports’

HMTKSteve — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:27:56 -0000

I would like to see the same thing for AdSense publishers. I want to know what ads are showing up on my site as well as their CTR. I'd also like to know which ones are giving me a penny per click so I can block them! Most of those ones lead to MFA sites and I would rather not send my traffic to them.

It can be very confusing to see a day with X clicks and Y money followed by a day of X clicks but only 50% of Y money.

Re: Chris Winfield in the Associated Press: ‘Digg Fires Google for Online Ads’

HMTKSteve — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:29:30 -0000

I'm sure Google does not really care about digg. If diggers don't click ads on websites they go to why would they click ads on digg?

Re: Chris Winfield in Investor’s Business Daily: ‘Microsoft, Yahoo Tailor Ads To Users’ Behavior’

HMTKSteve — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:30:39 -0000

It sounds like this would require a web user to submit to being tracked by an advertising company. It also sounds like something that would only be used on a search engines owned portal site because advertising on a website should be geared towards the content. i.e. a golf site should have golf ads not car ads even if the person was recently looking at a car site.

Re: Yahoo Deactivating Accounts Because of “Answers”

HMTKSteve — Thu, 10 May 2007 15:10:01 -0000

I never thought of gaming Yahoo Answers for traffic. I get about 100-200 hits a day from Yahoo Answers because others have pointed people my way due to my Pokemon/Nintendo Wii articles.

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