Yesterday I wrote about the great interaction between Blippr and bloggers. Being a great production as Blippr is, they instantly awarded Webhypes 100 private beta invites for their software, to give away to our readers.

All you need to do is, fill in your email and wait for the confirmation mail. You can subscribe for the beta of Blippr yourself, but you will only recieve a invite once Blippr decides to give away some more invites. Using our private beta invites, you can get instant access to the Blippr beta. Read more »

Imagine yourself working on your blog, from day to day. Struggling to find your way into the blogosphere and fighting for your existence. Many blogs will not survive the battle, but a few will survive. Large companies that interact with the bloggers (that write about them) can have great value for a blogger.

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Yesterday, the blog The Next Web wrote a review about Blippr. Today, I found the next article in my RSS-reader which told me that Blippr gave 250 beta-invites to the readers of The Next Web. This is a great move from the guys at Blippr, more companies should interact with bloggers like this!

The readers of The Next Web have read the article yesterday and perhaps they are interested. If they visit the blog again today, they will find themselves a way to actually use and try the product. No doubt they will get enthusiastic and try it immediately (at least I did)! Read more »

For everyone who isn’t able to understand what Technorati is about and all kinds of words like tags and track-/pingbacks are, Blogged.com has the solution. On Blogged.com you will find a clear and informative catalog that simply covers all blogs on the internet, that have been submitted to the site.

Blogging has become more than just something you do on the internet, for many bloggers it has become a lifestyle and for a few it’s their work. Blogged.com just lowers the step for the masses to discover the world of blogging and I believe that’s a great thing. Read more »

There are tons of articles on how to hit the Digg frontpage, even I wrote a few articles that cover that chapter of blogging. More and more bloggers seem to have only one goal in their blogging career, that’s hitting the frontpage of Digg…

Yes, hitting the Digg frontpage will give you some exposure, lots of exposure. Dozens of blogs have suffered due to the Digg effect, but today more and more blogs are so called Digg-proof. But if it isn’t, hitting the Digg frontpage will most likely be the (temporary) end of your blog.

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But why would you want to hit the frontpage? Is it good for your ego, or is it really such a rush of adrenaline to see thousands of unique hits in your stats? Visitors via Digg will most likely bounce right away, once they’ve read (or even before finishing) the article. They will never return, untill you hit the frontpage again. And again and again. Read more »

There are many bloggers, who just blog to hit the frontpages of as many social media websites as they can. Most of them will forget that you won’t stand out of the crowd with some content that has been written thousands of times.

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This article goes beyond bloggers, since bloggers aren’t the only group that’s using sites like Digg, StumbleUpon and Del.icio.us. Everyone who puts content on the world wide web, can (theoretically) be a user of social media.

Please remind that there 59 millions of pages once we Google on “succes social media”. This could be an article, just one out of many. But there are some things in which this article will differ from the other 59 million results. Read more »

For lots of bloggers, Digg is one of the top referrers for blogs. There are other social networks, not as big as Digg is, but worth submitting your articles. Before you start submitting your articles, there are several points to think about.

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There are several ways and techniques to help people submit your articles to one, or all, social media site. But that’s not everything you need to do in order to make people remark your articles. In order to make your articles just pop out of the crowd, we must do something special. Read more »

There are litteraly tons of posts about Digg to find on the internet. But just a few describe what to do with all the traffic that comes from a succesful post on the frontpage of Digg. Besides gaining thousands of hits within a few minutes and you can patch up your weblog and website to be able to cope with all the traffic, what will happen if the site or blog stays online? You need to grab the attention of all the new visitors and make them come back for more.

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You must see the frontpage of Digg as your minutes of fame. For as long as the post is visible on the frontpage of Digg (or still the second page in some cases) you must convert the new visitors into readers by showing what you’re website looks like. Read more »

The ‘revolution’ as some people called it, is over. Time to review and take a look at what Web 2.0 really brought us and what the consequences are. Web 2.0 made content and opinions more important, for example the social media sites that are growing at insane speeds. Before Web 2.0 became such a hot item, Digg was just a small player in the field, now it’s (for a lot bloggers) the absolute #1 referrer.

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We all agree that opinions are valuable, but are they so valuable that we have to struggle trough articles and webpages that are recommended by other people, before we reach the actual content that we are interested in? Sports and hot items are becoming much more popular while news and backgrounds are disappearing in oblivion. Read more »