Comments on: Social Media Power: Success Without the Frontpage

By: Minneapolis Web Design

Minneapolis Web Design — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:06:26 +0000

Wow. Thanks so much for the info. I really enjoy the site and it’s amazing to hear about some of the technology people use behind the scenes.

By: admin

admin — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:45:22 +0000

@Minneapolis Web Design:
A server with multiple IPs, proxies that haven’t been abused shitless, or Wi-Fi hopping, and a cron job set to vote for say 6 random stories on the front page of digg.
Anything that can be done by a human online can be done by a bot. Loading the home page, parsing out needed values, and registering the vote using CURL(simulating the JS execution pretty much).
For that matter, you could just get windows macro software that automatically scrolls and clicks.

Digg is exceptionally good at finding manipulation, so it is a pretty complicated setup. For other things like say mixx or propeller? It wouldn’t be near as hard. For propeller I suspect even frequently abused proxies would work fine.

By: Minneapolis Web Design

Minneapolis Web Design — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:33:04 +0000

Sounds interesting but how would you “run automatic scripts” on 12 profiles? Would this be something you had to create custom for each user submitted news site or just Digg? Not that I want to do this but I am interested in how people can manipulate this sort of content.

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By: Wade

Wade — Thu, 22 May 2008 04:01:38 +0000

It is nice to read up on the dark side of things. Though I am not into social sites, I do submit some of my own stronger posts. I still feel that paying for advertising on a few large sites is the best way to get your site going forward. As long as your site is ready to make money off traffic, you can then use the money you made to make up costs,or buy more advertising. Shudogg Dot Com - Make Money Online Blogging

By: Oliver Taco

Oliver Taco — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:20:20 +0000

Exactly!

The trick, if one wants to use Digg as part of your business as opposed to a hobby, is to easily be able to perform analytics and automate where possible.

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By: Igor The Troll

Igor The Troll — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:53:40 +0000

Shady you are a riot to read!

Why bother buying links when you can Spam social media networks with your link farms!

This is too easy, but it is unethical, that is if you think ethics.

I offer an alternative solution, why not contribute to a bunch of social networks and you will be able to get links to your sites.

You do get rewarded when you participate in the community.

Maybe Shady will give me a DoFollow for every comment? LOL