As someone who runs several websites, I can’t even begin to tell you how much time I spend dealing with comment spam. While most of it gets swept up by the invaluable Akismet plug-in, there are plenty of comments that seem to trickle through.
While some comment spammers are creative and/or thoughtful (making it kind […]

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As I’m sure you can tell by checking out the frequency of my posts here on The New Business Blog, I don’t subscribe to the theory that in order to have a successful blog you need to post every single day. That being said, I’m sure posting once every six months can be a […]

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Wow. Who knew something so mundane could cause such a stir?!?
Yesterday evening I wrote an article for Daily Fuel Economy Tip which was about the ways people waste gas when they think that they’re actually saving it; nothing super controversial or over the top. In essence, the post was pretty much the same […]

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Apparently despite all of its apparent flaws, people still love Digg.
A while back I started a poll asking people to vote on their favorite news submission sites. When I put the poll together I figured that the final results would be relatively close, but that when all was said and done people would select Digg […]

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A couple of weeks ago I wrote a pretty seething article about how Digg was beginning to come across as a “high school clique” due to the difficulty for us little guys to make it up to the homepage.  After that article made it up to the homepage, I figured that what I had done […]

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I think it goes without saying that using the big news submission sites like Digg, Reddit and Netscape is a great way to help bring traffic to your site.  That being said, because these sites are so big and so many submissions are sent in, it’s pretty easy to get lost in the crowd.
So, instead […]

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Exactly one week ago The New Business Blog was up on the homepage of Digg thanks to an article written about how impossible it was to get up on Digg’s homepage.  It was definitely unexpected and certainly not unwanted, but what lasting effects has it had on my site?
In terms of traffic, I’m still getting more […]

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Have you checked out your website’s stats recently and noticed that the number of hits on any given day is relatively flat and no matter what you do, no matter how many times you submit your content to Digg or Reddit, you just can’t seem to jump start your traffic?
It turns out your site’s traffic […]

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Despite my quasi-critical article about Digg and how it needs to lose the “high school clique” feel, I think I made it pretty clear that I still really enjoy Digg and think that it’s a fun and useful site.  Unfortunately, the same can’t be said for another high profile user driven news site.
Specifically, I’m talking […]

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To quote Chris Farley in Tommy Boy - THAT… WAS… AWESOME!  
Getting up on Digg’s homepage was completely unexpected and, unfortunately for me, was probably a one shot deal.  Not to say that I’m not grateful, because I certainly am, but I think I just happened to write a post about a topic that was of interest […]

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