I’ve been posting a lot of blog entries recently. There are 2 reasons for the increase in frequency. First, it gives me something to do if I’m commuting to the city. Second, and more importantly, it lets me experiment with a variety of things.
My recent posts have been mostly non-technical. I find writing detailed tech posts takes longer. Instead, as I said, I’m experimenting. So, what am I experimenting with?
Publicizing.
My new blog posts have been shared via twitter (sorry for any tweet spam), facebook, technorati, readburner, digg, stumbleupon, reddit, rssmeme, and mybloglog. I think the results will be relative to the size of the community I have for each, and since I just signed up recently for most of them I’m not expecting much. So far reddit is providing the most traffic.
Typo-optimizing.
I’m experimenting with SEO and typos. In a recent post I intentionally misspelled ‘FirendConnect’ twice because I noticed that the google search results for that misspelled term were empty. I managed to get the #1 spot for that term by doing so.
Diggability
My last post was purely to see how many diggs I could get. There are 2 very common themes among popular digg articles recently: Lists & Anti-Clinton. I figured by writing an anti-Clinton list I might get dugg. I think, however, that you probably need a group of friendly diggers to help get you over an initial threshold. I only got 5 diggs (nowhere close enough to get dugg).
