Some of you may know that Digg has a feature for its users, called Blog this, that you can find at every article submitted. By setting up your blog address, username and password in your profile, it allows you to post on your blog from Digg. You get in return a link to your main page, on the Who dugg or blogged this? page of the article you’re blogging on.
Being linked directly from the article page, which will get a number of links from bloggers, the page where your link shows up usually ends up being a PR2-4, depending on how popular the article is.
The problem with using this however, is that it only allows you to write text, without any formatting or images in the post. My advice would be, if you’re going to use this feature to blog about posts from Digg, prepare a fully formatted copy somewhere else, post from Digg the full text, then edit the post immediately, attaching the right category and pasting the fully formatted content with images included.
The con here is that I’m not sure what version of the post will the subscribers get. The text only one, or the fully formatted version that you edit, paste and save in just 10 seconds. For those that offer partial feeds, this shouldn’t be an issue.
The advantage is a PR 2-4 link from a Digg article related to your blog (I wouldn’t recommend blogging about Nintendo on a cooking blog).
The previous Boost Your PR tips: Day 1 and Day 2.
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J.D. responded on 10 Aug 2007 at 6:28 pm #
You’ve got a new subscriber.
I like your style.
Shylock responded on 10 Aug 2007 at 6:54 pm #
Thanks J.D.
Nicea idea for a blog btw, you’ve got a new subscriber also :).