Do you ever suffer from the affliction of getting bored with something that you know will work? I’ve been looking back across my blogging history and I’ve realized the most productive and efficient times were when I was trying out every trick in the book to drive traffic. When I started blogging leaving […]

This is not about gaming Yahoo! buzz, it’s about giving them what they want. You cannot get a weak new site with a low quality article to do well on Yahoo! Buzz. Yahoo! Buzz is distinctively different from other social voting sites because they use other ranking factors which play a major role […]

In Part 1 I told the story of how a Blogging Fingers post never reached page one of Yahoo! Buzz, despite having a higher number of votes compared to many of the page 1 stories (it reached 59 within 10 hours). In this post I will attempt to explain why it didn’t make it, […]

With the recent opening of Yahoo! Buzz to allow URLs from any Website to be submitted, there has been a clamor to find out if Yahoo! Buzz can be a major traffic driver. Here at Blogging Fingers one of the most thorough experiments on the Internet regarding Yahoo! Buzz has been conducted.
The post submitted […]

I’ve previously explained how lots of marketers waste time on social networking and social media sites (e.g. digg), by half heartedly submitting content and not committing to building a “power profile”. This prevents their profile/reputation from building up momentum, which is the key to hitting page one.
In my last post I wrote about momentum:

“Momentum is […]