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Want To See First-Class Examples of Flagship Content?

People are starting to provide me with some excellent feedback on my free Killer Flagship Content ebook. One of the requests is for me to provide more examples. Funnily enough I was just reading Aarons (excellent) blog and saw his short video entitled "What is a Self Reinforcing Authority". As well as examples that illustrate his own point they also support the Flagship Content idea Some documents and websites build self reinforcing authority that make them hard to beat for their targeted search … [Read more...]

Diggers and the RTFA Problem

I really feel for Danny Sullivan. His brilliant Why The SEO Folks Were Mad At You, Jason article has gone down well with the vast majority of the people who actually read it. Unfortunately there are a lot of people on Digg who don't RTFA (Read The ..um, Fine .. Article) but mark as spam, Digg down and comment anyway Gone? Flagged as spam by some, which seems to be a euphemism for some on Digg to mean "I just don't like a story that I didn't bother to read." Let's see some of the ignorance and … [Read more...]

Finally, a Smart Digg Button for your Blog

Just what we needed, finally Digg have released New —˜Smart' Digg Buttons It's smart enough to detect whether your link is a Digg permalink or a URL and whether or not the content exists on Digg already. If it exists, you'll get the familiar yellow Digg box with a real-time Digg count to suggest visitors Digg your story. If the story doesn't exist yet on Digg, the first person to click on the Digg It link will be walked through the submission process.They are easy to implement, just … [Read more...]

Converting Diggers: How To Maximise Getting Dugg

Reading blogs and forums you would think that getting on Digg is all about short term pops of traffic. Yes the traffic boost is nice but if those visitors arrive and leave like a tide without anyone sticking around then all you have for your efforts is a slow web site for a while. Is it worth it, and more to the point, what can we do about it?Exposure - more people know about your site. Recognition is important in building trust.Brand - if your content is good then your site will have positive … [Read more...]