Build a Viral Marketing Army - Just Add Friends

moved. see: http://viral-marketing-army.blogspot.com

Digg Users' Locations Map Exposed from Server Logs

Ever wonder who DIGGs your story at 5am PST on Saturday Morning? Well, that's about when a story on http://IPTV-Coverage.com hit the Front Page of Digg. And our friends at IPTV were cool enough to give us a peek at their server logs. So we in turn, give it to you!
Above, You can see how many people hit IPTV-Coverage.com's servers. There'd be another 1,000 or so if the server didn't keep crashing (see red). Now, if you are curious about where these people are at 7am on a saturday morning, click the map below to see about 40 minutes worth of users' locations:

What I want to know is why the heck is ANYBODY awake at 7am PST and using DIGG.com?!?

Pligg Digg Clone Installation - Installer Contact List

If you know how to install PLIGG, leave a comment with your email address and/or phone number. We are creating a list of installers and PHP modification experts for forums and Joomla too so use this page for ONLY PLIGG, DIGG Clone installation work.

Top News Sites to Submit Your Story for Fame

Every news site out there is out there because it caters to different tastes. Just like there are a million Mexican restaurants out there, it's the subtle spicy differences between each venue that can launch your story and press release into instant fame or leave it in a dark musty corner to be obscured by social fungus and mold.

When you go out to submit a news story, whether it's self serving and flagrantly self promoting or of a genuinely altruistic cause forwarding nature, submit the story to the right venue. If you don't, you'll experience the depth of falling on deaf ears leaving you in flakes of wax.

Here are the top six venues to submit tech and politics stories and their traffic rankings.

Sure, you're expecting to see Digg and Netscape. But whens the last time you even considered submitting to Slashdot, BoingBoing, Engadget, or Fark?

I don't have to explain the variations and nuances of each venue. If you don't already know what each venue responds to, go ahead, read em. But, what I am going to do here is make it really simple for you to submit your next series of stories. Here are all the submit page links:

Slashdot / Digg / Engadget / Fark / Netscape / BoingBoing

PS. Worse come to worst, even if you get no front page press, you'll still get some high PR Backlinks (SEO chatter) that will lead to some sloppy Google Lovin!

DIGG Home Page Promotion: HOWto Pick Power Friends

continued from:
http://znitchit.blogspot.com/2006/11/howto-get-digg-home-page-promotion.html
and
http://znitchit.blogspot.com/2006/11/digg-howto-get-on-top.html
DIGG Home Page Promotion, How To Pick Power Friends for Diggerati Club Membership
So, from the above 2 links, we already established that the most effect and high traffic DIGG page for promotion is the one to the left here.

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We've established that having the right friends is crucial crittical and constabulatory to getting DIGG fame and love and adoration. BUT, from some of the previous comments, a few wise asses interjected,

"Just add them to your friends list."That is wrong, it is not enough to add them as friends, you have to make them to add you as a friend, or they will never notice your diggs.

Here's a picture of what they really said, which is what this current story address in depth:

So in the interests of explaining that missing like of HOW to add friends that WILL NOTICE you, aka DIGG Power Friends, we carry on.

First, we know that there are only two kinds of stories. The ones that only your friends DIGG on out of friendship and the ones that get DUGG out of authentic newsworthy value. But, by the rate at which this page changes, http://digg.com/view/all/upcoming we both know that you've got a much better chance of getting seen and DUGG on the page above (see first pic. - the FRIENDS SUBMITTED PAGE).

How do you get there? Simple.

You've gotta learn to identify and find Power DIGGERS. They will generally ALWAYS add you to their friends list. In turn you will always show up in their FRIENDS SUBMITTED page. Every friend is another streaming list that you show up on. This Friends Submitted page is a much slower flowing version of the http://digg.com/view/all/upcoming page. AND most importantly, the likelihood that you'll get a digg from the FRIENDS submitted page is about 50%!

the likelihood that you'll get a digg from the FRIENDS SUBMITTED page is about 50%!

How do you find these guys? You gotta go a huntin. Where else would you go to find power friends than at the top?

Me? I started with CLIFFosakaJAPAN

He is a FRIEND but he never DIGGs any of my stories. So I had a hunch that his friends wouldn't make good friends. I was right. He and his friends are all APPLE GUYS see: http://digg.com/users/CLIFFosakaJAPAN/submitted . While I love Woz, Jobs, one button mice, and MacBooks, I never submit Apple stories so I moved on.

Next in the cross hairs is BLOODJUNKIE. If my theory is correct (I always start with an assumption so that i'll have a course of action until i'm proven wrong), then BLOODJUNKIE's SUBMITTED list should fall into 2 categories. First, there should be a ton of PROMOTED STORIES that have over 200 DIGGs. Otherwise, he wouldn't be a top DIGG user. Next, assuming that he has a bunch of Power Friends, you should see a whole slew of stories that never hit the home page and are well under 50 DIGGs.

Why? Because only good friends would DIGG a story that sucks!

I've taken a screen grab of his SUBMITTED Page to left. Theory Confirmed. His stories do fall into those two categories. This leads to the Jackpot Theory. If I am correct, I'll betcha a DIGG that behind those two circled stories with just 34 and 29 DIGGs lay one giant den-hive of Power Diggerati.

Screen Grab Says, "...


BADA-BING! Same DIGGers in both UNRELATED stories! Tell Tony I'm gunna be a little late on my "Gift" this month.

Diggerati Unite! Raise A Politics and Tech Blog

Friends, Diggers, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Ears! You already know how deeply Kevin Rose, Om Malik and Jason Calacanis shape the Technology AND Political World. These guys make a bigg contribution and get paid well for it too!

from: http://www.johnchow.com/index.php/the-internets-biggest-google-whores/ and
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_33/b3997001.htm



But do you realize that while Om and Jason work for their cash, It's YOU the Diggerati that's making Kevin RICH! Kevin, sorry, I'm sure your a cool guy and I'd love to get you a drink at the Redwood Room or Frisson but you knew this would happen.

Why don't we unite and create a truly democratic tech / news / politics blog and really dent the world! It'd be really simple. All we need is a voting engine and Contributors. The simple part is dividing up that MONTHLY check above twenty or so ways every MONTH. We each count up the number of comments left on each of our stories and we split that check at that same ratio. Page views would be more precise but it's too easy to spam and cheat.

Any takers? How's proletaria.com sound? Or Demovox.us?

HOWTo Get DIGG Home Page Promotion Fast p2

LEGAL, MORAL and SENSUAL DISCLAIMER: http://znitchit.blogspot.com/2006/11/digg-howto-get-on-top.html has the first part of this story. Read it first before you continue.

HOWTo Get DIGG Home Page Promotion Fast p2 DIGG IT!
In the last post about this topic, two posts previously, we covered the surest way to generate a massive number of DIGGs. And volume is key because I mean, cummon, I don't care how much the algorythm has changed, You ain't nevah gunna see a story with 4 diggs on the front page. Since then, many DIGGers have posed smart questions. SEE: http://digg.com/tech-news/DIGG-HOWto-Get-Home-Page-Promotion DIGG IT!

So, Let's ASSUME that DIGG now downplays FRIENDS diggs. So how do you get total strangers to digg your story? How do you have a kegger without any FRIENDS?

First off, we've established that the most popular page for digging is: http://digg.com/-users/aaaz-/friends-/submitted .

Then we established that the most effective way to get a massive number of diggs is to be the first to submit a story from an uber popular source (like yahoo news or wired) that has a high likelihood of others trying to submit the same story. That way, thousands of fellow diggers will see YOUR STORY on the SORRY page and digg you on the way back out: DIGG IT!


OK Clarified. BUT here's the $1,000 cash money, my money question: "Again, why would i wanna send traffic to a website that i don't have any personal interest in?"
A) Because I'm vain and want to see what it's like to get on DIGG's home page although I have no way of measuring the traffic that flows from DIGG to NYTIMES.com
B) Because I'm a socialist that wants to expose the nefarious underworkings of GWBush and the Economic Powers that be
C) I'm Bored
D) Because the more DIGG's I get, The higher my user rank gets. And DIGG favors its top players over newbies.

Survey Says: D!

Sure, the new DIGG algorythm makes it so that FRIENDS' diggs are worth less than enemies' diggs BUT cummon, look for the common thread. OF ALL the kids on the front page, NONE have a user ranking Over 10,000. DIGG IT!

As of NOW Home Page Submitter's Ranks:

5,953 - scotty588
2,809 - revtom
0,010 - Aidenag
0,110 - Husky217
0,068 - DidntYouHear

ETC... taken from THIS PAGE:

So you see how important it is to have a high DIGG "Overall Ranking?"

Recently, I've heard stories that DIGG is NOT promoting top digger's stories. So I did a test. I made friends with 20 of the top diggers. Then went to the home page of digg.com to see how many GREENSTARSTRIPES I could find (meaning they were dugg by my friends - vis-a-vis top 20 diggers. If a=b and b=c then a=c). The result? DIGG IT!


Only TWO (2) of the top 10 stories were NOT dugg by a friend of mine. I make sure to only keep top dogs as friends too. So, this proves that you need ATLEAST 2 things to get to the top home page of digg. First, good friends. Second, HIGH "overall ranking." (remember? this is where you have to pay your dues and submit stories from nytimes or yahoo news even if you don't have only other vested interest)

But, since the DIGG algorythm is NOT only based on these two factors, AND since digg put higher weight on NONfriend's diggs than FRIENDS' diggs, lets look at how to get NON FRIENDs to digg ya... next story...

PS... if you think this sounds like eons of hard work, look at this again:
It only took John Adam 2 months to become a Celeb Digger. See the MEMBER SINCE date. Now, He's #4 in all of DIGG in 4 months. That's more pull than Kevin Rose himself. =) DIGG IT!

Continued: http://znitchit.blogspot.com/2006/11/digg-home-page-promotion-howto-pick.html

Netscape Releases FRIENDS SUBMITTED PAGE

You know from the previous post below that DIGG's most effective Promotion page is the FRIENDS page. Now Netscape has one of its own. The NEW URL is http://www.netscape.com/member/-/friends/activity/submitted/

Digg, HOWto Get On Top

How To Get to the TOP of Digg.
I could write a big long circuitous story about the various experiences I've had with DIGG front page Exposure. I could write about the struggles I've had trying to get just 3 Diggs. I could even tell you about the happy hour drink fest we had the first time i got 10 Diggs.

But, truth is, there's no reason to draw out and drag on a simple 2 step HOWto. But since most people don't take short stories seriously, I'm going to spend the next paragraph explaining the importance and significance of DIGG in your web marketing efforts.

WHY is DIGG important? First of all, Digg has millions of users spanning the tech to political to global current events communities. If your website falls within these communities, you've got a major wealth and source of potential users. Secondly, Since DIGG is a Tier One Website, If you show up in DIGG.com home page, you immediately get MILLIONS of hits per day to your site (see image below). But MORE importantly, Google falls in love with your site. Google esteems your website worthy of Google's Page One since you were on DIGG's Page One.



So now that I've dragged on this story with worthless fluff, here's the 2 part answer.

#1. Build Your User POWER by getting a couple of stories to page 1.
HOW? simple. go to http://frustratedcities.com and choose a category you like. USE ZNITCH.com to be alerted in email OR RSS stream AS SOON AS A NEW STORY comes up. IMMEDIATELY submit it to DIGG. Do this a couple of times and you'll get one that lands in the home page of DIGG. WHY work to get a website that ISNT YOURS tons-o traffic? Because, You'll need to earn some clout before you can do #2 below:

Once you submit a yahoo or wired or nytimes story, you'll have staked your claim on that URL. So the Next time somebody or THOUSANDS OF FELLOW DIGGERS also submit that same story, they will see:



The Key here is to submit a story with a HIGH likelihood that thousands of other diggers will ALSO SEE and SUBMIT. If you pick some obscure url for the same story like www.smalltime-farmtown-daily-gazzete.com/quarterly-news.html you'll never get the above digg effect to happen. Upon being dissappointed that YOU already beat them to the URL, they'll hit ya with a DIGG on the way back out.

That's why I recommend www.frustratedcities.com. It has dozens of popular news sources on one page that DIGGers already trust and frequent. Just make sure your timing is immediate with a ZNITCH alert in rss, sms or email.

#2 Getting YOUR URL to the top of DIGG
As with any good thing, You've gotta pay your dues and make the right friends. You pay your dues with the strategy above. You make the right friends by hanging out with the jocks and cool kids. I'll show you where they loiter:

http://digg.com/topusers

Now that you know where they are, what do you do? Make friends. It's just a button click! No carrying books for them or giving away your lunch money. Just add them to your friends list. WHY? Simple.

Friends help friends.
See: http://digg.com/users/digitalgopher/submitted as a starting point.

Now See: http://digg.com/software/The_Windows_File_Shredder/who
and Compare to: http://digg.com/tech_news/Rumor_Google_pays-to_leave_YouTube_alone/who

You notice that tons of the SAME people voted for 2 totally different submissions? Keep looking. You'll see that for every top 10 DIGG user, he's got a massive support base or "DIGG GANG" that will pretty much indescriminately DIGG anything he submits.

This is where MOST ALL the top DIGGERS Spend MOST of their time. Lemme Reitterate this: This is where MOST ALL the top DIGGERS Spend MOST of their time:

What? did you think that with the hundreds of submits a minute, that the home page diggers get most of their diggs from this page?: http://digg.com/view/all/upcoming

Go ahead and refresh that page: http://digg.com/view/all/upcoming It moves soooo quickly that you'd be lucky to get 1 digg from that page. Most DIGG Leaders DIGG from http://digg.com/users/aaaz/friends/submitted (the picture above)

Yes. DIGG did recently change their algorythm BUT as far as google is concerned, even if you dont get to page 1 of DIGG, 20 DIGGs = 20 freebee BACKLINKS! Yes! If you DO happen to get to DIGG's home page, invite me to your happy hour party! Continued: HOWto: DIGG Home Page Promotion Strategy p2

Continued: http://znitchit.blogspot.com/2006/11/digg-home-page-promotion-howto-pick.html

Viral Marketing, 10 Steps to Automatic

Moved: Myspace Watcher

The 10 Steps to Start a Viral Marketing Epidemic
(So You Can Just Lean Back Under Your Florescent Lights and See Your Traffic Multiply Passively).
I have friends with businesses asking me to help them get to page one of google all the time. If i may brag a bit, the reality of the situation is that i do better to start my own websites and put them on p1 of google than getting paid a lump sum for promoting my friend's sites. BUT this only holds true IF you have a SEARCH-likely website.


Before going into the strategy, and discussing the above graphs, let me explain who this post does NOT apply to, so you dont go wasting your time doing all these things then cursing me for getting no results.

1. About 300% more men use GOOGLE than women. So, you'd be better off starting a "jock strap" website than a "brazier" website.

2. The sweetspot for age is 25-35 years old. So you'd be better off starting a "surfing" website than a "golfing" website.

That said, if you want to start a site that gets top 10 rankings page one in GOOGLE... this is how you do it.

1. Read:
http://znitchit.blogspot.com/2006/11/viral-marketing-how-to.html

2. Join a community or forum that IS your target market.
I started a website SPECIFICALLY with a User Group Community in mind... DIGG users. You know that expression, "if you build it they will come?" It should say ,"If you build it (specifically for them) they will come."

In other words, most folks build a site THEN try to find a community to push into. It's easier the other way around.

3. Make friends and scratch backs to get links and buzz going about your site.
I did this with DIGG and as you can see in the first graph, on the 12th of october, i had most of my referring traffic from fark and digg. The next day, these same people submitted my website FOR ME to reddit.com

I didn't submitt it to REDDIT. My community did it FOR ME and i Got Double the traffic vs the day before.

4. Then Google Automatically Finds Me out of DIGG and Stumbleupon and Reddit
I never submit to google directly. That GOOGLE add url page is useless. Let the other sites do the hard work FOR YOU.
5. Then Industry pundits critics and bloggers will find you AUTOMATICALLY
Industry writers make it their job to GOOGLE for news in their biz. just make sure you come up in the targetted keywords and you'll get a story written up about you.
See:
http://www.webknowhow.net/news/news/061023rssiskilling.html
http://www.smstextnews.com/2006/10/znitchcom_-_texts_you_when_a_webpage_talks_about_you.html

6. Finally Your Turn Again: Google For Your Web URL and post comments
following up on what blogger say about YOU... see
http://www.webknowhow.net/news/news/061023rssiskilling.html

7. Keep creating news about your site with a blog.
Notice that on the 24th of oct in the 3rd chart, you see that bloggers are sending more traffic to my site than google?

8. USE anchor words INSTEAD of your url with hyperlinking
in other words, if you are selling fish, make sure that you use


Code:
fish
instead of


Code:
bradstackle.com
People will google for "fish" a lot more than "bradstackle.com"

LAST CHART
9. If you've selected smart keywords,
Google will send you more business and traffic than you could possibly do on your own. Notice the 2 sections of the last chart, the seach referrers are only a couple a day whereas DIGG.com is sending me several a minute. The temporary spurts of traffic will die down but the subsequent google ranking will carry you on a daily basis..

try googling:
craigslist alerts
digg alerts
myspace alerts
myspace watcher
etc... now, our website ZNITCH.com gets a steady stream of TARGETED users. and they register too.

10. Aim NOTSO Big.
Avoid the Google Sandbox
definition:
1. older than a year
or
2. links from a <100,000>6. Use Dashes not Underscores in your URL and STUFF your URL with keywords.
If you have a mazda miata website, you want google to see "mazda miata," right? if you use a naming convention of "mazda_miata.html" then google only sees "mazdamiata." If you use mazda-miata.html then google sees "mazda miata" - if you use something dynamic like, "/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=67" the google aint gunna find any miatas in that url.SEE:http://mattcutts.com/blog/dashes-vs-underscores/