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I Do Not Digg You Anymore
03/17/09
I Do Not Digg You Anymore
That’s right, I have dropped you as a friend on Digg. Now, don’t start crying!
It’s not because I don’t like you, really. It’s because I just can not do as much for you there if I am your friend. No, I am not just saying that to make you feel better.
If you’ll just stop and listen, you will see that crying in your beer is not needed.
My friend Karen Kramer, (not on Digg) just in other online places, has given me lots of marketing and blog tips. She has never lead me astray in either of those 2 areas. I will not talk about the other places she has possibly gotten me into trouble. 
Anywho, she is part of a team that markets and blogs together. Each person on the team is really good at 1 or more parts of the process. I have heard her tell how great Billy the Kid is as Bookmarking (that is 1 of his areas of expertise on the team). He recently posted a few articles about how to set up Digg for Beginners. This will get you started.
He has then posted a 3 part series on the best way to use the site Digg Twitter Moms yes, he originally wrote it to help the mom bloggers at the Twitter Moms site but, everyone can learn from it.
In these articles you will see that when someone Diggs your site it can count 2 different ways. If they are just a random person the vote counts more than if they are your friend. That is why YOU are no longer on my list of friends at the Digg site. When I dig your article I want you to get the most value out of my vote.
Now, you can understand why I have left you. I really do like you and want to be friends other places. I just don’t want Digg to know how much you really mean to me.
Now, go on and cheer yourself up. I still Digg you!
Be sure to stop over and read Billy the Kids articles and you can get some free advice on how you can be the best Digger around.
Sheryl Loch
I have been using post at the Blog Co-Op Community to bookmark. I seem to be getting that down pretty good. I am still learning all the best ways to help my fellow bloggers. This is where being part of a team really counts. I know that I can not do it all on my own so, I am glad to have friends helping me out. I want to hold up my end of the bargain.
11 comments
Thanks Sheryl- I didn't realize that, but it makes perfect sense. In that case I won't be your friend either! 
Hey Onna,Don't feel bad! I thought I wanted all my friends to also be a friend on Digg.
Guess that's why I have to read other peoples blogs. Sure wish I could know it all but, that just is not happening.
No problem, I will not cry if you are not my friend on Digg. Ok, maybe I will get a little weepy but, I understand. ;)
Were you ever my friend on Digg. It's quite possible you were and I didn't know because I really don't spend too much time there. I can see the rationale behind your statement though, and just so you know, if you ever did drop me, for whatever reason, the last place I'd be crying into would be my beer. Yech, who the hell likes salty beer. Oh Sire, You are so right about crying in your beer. Why ruin beer over a lost friend. ;)
I am not on Digg allot but, figured if I do go there I want the author to get as much as possible outta my vote.
I had never realized that being friends there made a difference.
I'm ok with you dropping my as a friend, I'm crying about being the last to know everything. That's a new one for me. Good stuff Sheryl. That means you can't send a shout but I still haven't used that feature of Digg anyway. I'm not even sure if you can send one to every friend all at once anyway. I think it has to be sent one at a time.
You know what? I'm going to Digg this post just to show I'm not mad about our breakup. Actually, like Sire, I'm not sure if we were Digg frieds or not. I'll Stumble it too :)
Hey Brian,Thanks for the Digg and Stumble!
I still LUV ya' man!
Actually I have read that you do not want to send 'public' shouts on Digg. Then the site knows that you are asking your friends and then as we now know, it would not count as much.
Don't feel bad! I had no clue about some of this until just recently. So, you are not far behind and I suspect that there are many people that still don't know. That means that we are ahead of them. YEAH!
Are we friends? Gee, someone should have told me..And just between us, Billy the Kid is Alex Alaric of Taggzilla.com Fame in "real" life. He really does know his stuff.
Karen
I didn't know that a random vote counted more than a friend's vote. That's good information... thanks for sharing, and, oddly enough, I appreciate 'not' being friends in that case. :)~ Kristi
@ Sheryl - Looks like we agree on something. pretty good considering. Say, any chance of you installing a 'subscribe to comments' plugin? @Karen, I guess we are friends except not on Digg! Glad you have Alex on your team, I'll just keep an eye on what you all are doing.@Krisi, I had always thought you would want to be friends with your favorite bloggers, shows what I know.
@Sire, You are the 1st person that has ever mentioned the 'subscribe to comments'. I always just answer them in the Admin and never noticed. I will be looking into that ASAP. I know that B2Evo has a brand new fancy update coming and I will check to see if that is part of it.