Here is another of my post on step by step guide on how to get traffic from Digg. All so called Spam haters and the people who hate to see all crap spreading around the net, don’t read it:) I know you will Move on.

Disclaimer: Below are the findings of an experiment that has been carried out to do a study. You should not use it to spam the Digg. Ultimately on the web if you have good quality content and good sites linking to them only then you survive.

Enough of legalities and formalities. Moving on to real stuff.

You need to be very good in handling / remembering password etc. Better use a spreadsheet to keep track of all UID, PWD, emails etc.

1.    Get a list of public proxy servers. Use a software to change them dynamically with a single click. Many such software are available in market.
2.    Create 100 Email accounts at sites like AOL.com, gmail.com, yahoo.com etc. Use different proxies to create email accounts. Make sure to use different names and different patterns for each and every single account. For example one account can be loverboy7521@hotmail.com Other should be bobofhouston@hotmail.com Make sure to write all email addresses and passwords in excel.
3.    Using these 100 email accounts create 100 different accounts at Digg. For easier management user ids can be same as email ids and password make same as password of email address. Goes without saying all this has to be done using different proxies.
4.    While creating the account at Digg, for each account go to http://www.digg.com/news/upcoming Click on “Digg It” for ten news. No need to change proxies at this step. Just make sure for each new account you need to change IP, but while you are digging at same account no need to change IPs.
5.    Pick up some technology sites, select any of its news and simply copy paste the title and summary of news to write a story about that news. Like this write one story each under hundred accounts. As said earlier make sure to change proxies for each account.
6.    Step 4 and 5 are to make sure that you are not leaving any footprint. It will be tough if not impossible to track all your hundred accounts.
7.    Now select any of your article, write a nice story for it using one of the account. Now your story is into the Digg upcoming page.
8.    Start login using your remaining 99 accounts, with each account first digg some 8-10 other stories and then digg your own story. Keep on moving fast changing the accounts and digging fast.
9.    At the end of exercise, you will have your story being dugg 100 times.
10.    Pick another of your story and go back to step 7.

Results: I picked 5 of my articles and followed above 10 steps.  Took me about 16 hours of work. Total traffic received from Digg was 1000 users. Going by the rate of 1$ a visitor I received visitors worth 1000$. Not a bad day of work.

What Next: All these accounts are still active. Next time it will take just 10 hours to do all this. Better is put a low paid assistant doing all this.

Target: At some point of time, you may have 1000 of active accounts at Digg with excellent history and some of your stories may even make to home page of digg. That’s indeed is a nice target to achieve.

Nitin Tripathi

Try for yourself at http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/  I used that tool almost on a daily basis and if it is trully dead (like the overture bid amount tool they killed off long ago) I will be pissed and sad to see it go. Well lets just hope for the best and hope its just a tech issue…….

 Barry

I well remember good Ole days, when you put in anything on the net, give a few links from here and there, make google crawl your page and you will rule the SERPs. Eventually time changed for black hat people and it moved on to next level. Now the ranking become tougher. Still it was all game of links, links and links. You make a scrapper site, purchase 100 links from authority sites and you will rule the SERPs. Even that went into the history. Came the third phase of black hat SEO where links did matter but only in huge amount. Came in blog spamming and guestbook spamming. Black hat spammers started spamming every blog possible through every possible means. Eventually Blog software become smarter as well as SEs moved on to next level. At this point of time at SEs none of the stuff works as easily. Indeed all four above mentioned techniques are still well and valid but to make a respectable position doing black hat you really need to deal in volume these a days. And volume means say 1 Million links and not all black hat spammers can afford the expense / effort. So seems like black hat is history for good.

But wait, what will happen to the ever starving community of black hat spammers who with their hacking hat roam around and live in their own world of glory. Sure you can never take that evil spirit out of them. So now what’s the future? Seems like everyone has migrated to Spam 2.0 Social networking spam lately had caught big time fire. Seems like half of the world is trying to create fake profile at myspace, digg, delicious, facebook etc. Indeed to me it never makes sense how anyone can make money out of myspace visitors, but seems like people who are doing in bulk are making tons of money.

The white hat people always frown at these spammers, but hate them or more hate them, they are here to stay. They will always try to find out a way to spam. Key is to learn how to avoid the spam. Instead of hurling abuses (which most of the white hat people do for spam), may be better idea can be if they become civil reporter, like myspace snitcher. If you see any fake profile, take some pain. Report it to the myspace or the site. Do follow up, try to do your job to make world clean, instead to just do a generic rambling.

Nitin Tripathi

Detailed news here. Man this really sucks. Even biggies like yahoo and MSN have signed the agreement. Google already  has been a follower of Chinese government. From time to time we always see that big corporate always bend backwards and forget their civic responsibilities, when it comes about survival or making money.

However may be the only way to survive in Hardliner government of China is to obey its rule. If you do not obey the rule, they can bar you, the way they barred Google some time back. So may be a better strategy can be wait and watch and keep your presence there hoping that one day democracy will come in and government will stop ruling over public. I had seen from my past experiments that governments (not specifically china but all) tend to believe that they are supreme to everything. Power makes people corrupt and they forget that it is the people who ultimately are their strength.

Heck the modern time Human civilization is all about sharing the free ideas and if a government puts a ban on it, then they are not doing their job properly.

Nitin

Just read the News of Australian Prime Minister John Howard’s staff edited Wikepedia  to remove potentially damaging details. Also came across the news of department of defense staff editing the Wikipedia to alter damaging content.

I have kind of non positive words against Wikiscanner. On one hand indeed it will prohibit the Governments and Corporate to edit Wikipedia to suit their needs. On the other hands it kills the democracy of Wikipedia. More and more organizations will start banning access to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is supposed to be the most democratic project ever created on the net. I don’t think that Wikipedia will gain any reputation by banning all Corporate / Governments. The concept of Wikipedia allows everyone to edit it. If someone edits Wikipedia and put in some ill-intended content, it is always taken care by the Wikipedia community.

Indeed every coin has two sides. If there is a wrong worded article placed in Wikipedia and a government employee, who know the facts think that he can word it better, I think he has full right to do it. If you don’t allow Government, corporate to edit the content, then very soon Wikipedia may become a haven for rebels, terrorists and other in general anti society elements. I checked some of the edits done by the employees of Australian Government. These edits includes “List of Airports in Australia”, “Rail Transport in Australia” etc. If Government decides to stop its employees from editing the Wikipedia, these articles will be incomplete. At the same time I do see a bit of editing done where government is a party. Why not allow them to correct the entries which they think have been put wrong way. If they edit too much, Anti government community member will edit entry and make it more appropriate. That’s how democracy works.

With making edit information public and making it available to media, it is the privacy loss of individuals working in organizations. There may be a few people accessing and editing Wikipedia in their office time (heck most of the people do their personal stuff at work). But by making this information public, some corporate even take action against the employees who have been very vocal at Wiki community. It will further add to loss of Wikipedia.

Overall I say, making everything public or slamming the government is never always good idea. People should respect to learn privacy of others.

Nitin

This super cool plug-in Top Commentators is a truly wonderful motivator to keep you coming back and posting as often as possible to your favorite blogs. I first show it at shoemoney’s website and thought how freaking cool is this. What I would be interested in knowing is how much this plug-in affects your traffic and postings on your blog?

 On the other side, if you do use this plug-in, there is little doubt that some will just try to because Top Commentators so that they can get a free direct link from your blog to there site. Does this make adding the plug-in less desirable for you or maybe even make you want to use a no-follow link?

 I say before using a no-follow ask yourself “if I where posting and trying to get into the top 10 posting spots, would I go the extra mile to become a top 10 knowing that I will not be trusted with a direct link for my hard work and dedication when I get there…….

Barry.

With the replacement advisory of Nokia BL-5C battery (Read full story here) , my worst horror of explosion of cell phone battery has coming true. I am 8 hours a day on my cell either talking or responding emails. I use Nokia communicator, which indeed has a million pound heavy battery. Nokia has issued advisory that in some of the cases battery become overheated and explodes during charging. Nokia claims that happens only when cell phone is in charging mode. So far none property / body damage has been reported. However people like us who are heavy cell phone users, most of the time even when we are talking on the cell, our cell is charging. I guess from now on, I will be very careful with excessive use of my cell. True my cell phone battery hasn’t been identified as a faulty battery, but I guess if there would have been any incident of battery overheating in the model that I use, I might have been the first victim.

I rember way back when I took that dive into the world of SEO/SEM. It was mid 2003 and I was driving a taxi in San Francisco at the time. At that time I was big into the travel affiliate program game and I took a small loan (of $2,000) to pay (my current partner) to build me a “all city” hotel site and we crosslink the hell out of it. This was back in the days before any sandbox and when brand new URLs could get into the index and rank well pretty easy.

For anyone planning on going it alone and there online rev. is about as much or alittle better then what they make at work, here are a few Tip’s I we provide to try to help you make the right chose.

Tip 1. Never try to go into the online biz when you only have 1 site that you are getting reg. from.

Tip 2. Don’t even think about going it on your own if all your income is come from 1 source (namely adsense).

Tip 3. Do not under any circumstances go it alone if you are getting all your traffic from google.

Tip 4. Remember that you will have to pay taxes on your own when going solo and that has come back to hurt so many work at home people.

Tip 5. Make a plan on what to do next when you make x,y, and x amount of income. Diversity is everything when marketing online.

Tip 6. Plan to work hard and study harder to help your business grow. The last thing you need to do is start a successful biz online and then watch it while it grows and then fall’s due to any number of things.

Tip 7. Look in the mirror and ask yourself honestly, “Do I have the will power, strength and heart to really see this thing through the good times and bad. If the answer is anything less then a firm YES, don’t try to quit you day job just yet as its not for you…….

Barry Tubwell.
blog.omsolutions.net

Where to begin, there are just sooooo many web2.0 sites out there that are open to spam its a shame. I believe web2.0 spam all started with good’ol myspace. Heck, back in they were still up and coming you use to be able to do all kinfs of things, from mass commenting to endless friend invites to bulloten posting. those where the days of old (for the most part) who do you spam to these days?

As for me and my own web2.0 spamming, well I am not much good at it but I do see weakness in a few places, starting with http://fubar.com/ A.K.A. cherrytap. For 1. there system os letting you email all there members is deeply flawed and just waiting (if not already) to be spammed to death….

Then there is good’ol http://www.cafemom.com. All’s you have to do here is simply join and “Bingo”, you are now able to post message’s to every and all “Groups” you wish and with all those mom’s just sitting around chatting with nothing else to do, there is a good chance that when they see your ad. for (you name it Product) they will bite on it like if it was a infomercial:).

Ah lets see what do we have, O I know, hows about http://lipstick.com. This (diggish) type site should be the poster child for web2.0 spam. Come on man, voting up stories up or down by the click of a arrow, Need I say more?
Those are just a few of the web2.0 sites out there awaiting your evil spam, or, with alittle extra hard work, they can be just as profitable for you in the long run if you use them fairly and to your advantage.

Barry Tubwell.
blog.omsolutions.net

Have you ever wondered “WHY” programmers are so hard to find and keep? Its because programmers these days just have to many damd options. Back say 10 years ago or more, programmers where mostly “Company men” and wouldn’t stray to far away from there place of work and would work long hour’s because they love the challenge’s they faced ahead:)…..

 That was then, in the here and now, today’s programmer is totally different, with Most being more boss like then employee. What I mean by that is most programmers these days set there own working hours (show up when they want to) and do work that appeals to them. If there boss give them any lip they simple walk off the job with the company out of a programmer AND most likely the work he was working on as well, so you see, these days the programmer’s are holding all the Cards…….

 Wait there’s more, with all the forum’s and blog’s around, most programmers do read one forum or another and its there that they find out about affiliate program’s and how they can make money on there own either by building websites, doing seo work for them self or other companies, or even doing part-time programming “projects” for other webmasters. And now with the ease of blog sharing, they can spread the word of there services and offering’s in Internet speed…..

 So Now what are companies to do (big and small) to find and keep good programmer’s? Well, one way you could go is to overpay your programmers to make them stay and be happy:). If that is not a option for you (and it is not for most small to mid-size companies) then you can do what thousand’s of other’s are doing and that’s going to place’s like www.elance.com or www.rentacoder.com but the problem you face there is that guys are bidding so cheap on your project in hopes of getting enough projects to make alittle profit mean while, they now have to work on 4 or 5 projects at once instead of just one project at a time Plus, not to mention the communication barriers that you face when trying to speak with the right person in charge…..

There “IS” one other option that we believe at www.omsolutions.net is the perfect answer to the A. unreliable programmer’s and B. The madness that comes with going to the elance and rentacoder type websites where you pick a power-ball and hope its a winner:). Let me introduce you to a new type of company, A company that has well trained programmer’s to work on your project day or night (we have a day and a night shift so that you can work with your programmer in real time, anytime you like) A company that has a English speaking (American born person, myself) who will greet you at the door and walk with you step by step through your project’s needs. A company that is very much affordable and %100 professional and that company is www.omsolutions.net , the “new wave programming company” to get all your programming work done when and how you want it “Your way”. I can be reached at barry@omsolutions.net, AOL IM:teeceo, or by phone at 1-510-534-2541. I am around from 9 a.m to 9 p.m. PST for U………

Barry Tubwell A.K.A. teeceo