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Humorously tomuse.com uses the "Link Cloaking Plugin for WordPress" so you can't tell where anything is going (though it does use proper 301 redirects). These things are normally used by scuzzy people trying to hide affiliate stuff. It looks free, but a competitor even has one of those really long marketing pages that are usually used for real estate and eBooks: http://www.wordpresslinkcloak.com/ It one ups the freeb…
Why is it always that people who overuse sneaky tactics are the first to complain about others using same techniques? Copied from the article: "Tags: blogger, Bloggers, browser, digg, diggbar, engadget, entrepreneur, follow me, frame spam, frame spammers, frame spamming, framebars, frames, framing.... " (this is only 2 of 7 lines of "tags")
"It takes one to know one."
Why is it always that people who overuse sneaky tactics are the first to complain about others using same techniques? Copied from the article: "Tags: blogger, Bloggers, browser, digg, diggbar, engadget, entrepreneur, follow me, frame spam, frame spammers, frame spamming, framebars, frames, framing.... " (this is only 2 of 7 lines of "tags")
Not seeing the connection here sorry.
Why is it always that people who overuse sneaky tactics are the first to complain about others using same techniques? Copied from the article: "Tags: blogger, Bloggers, browser, digg, diggbar, engadget, entrepreneur, follow me, frame spam, frame spammers, frame spamming, framebars, frames, framing.... " (this is only 2 of 7 lines of "tags")
What does tagging have anything to do with this article? It's HIS site, HIS tags, he can come up with whatever tags he wants, which contribute to his own custom tag cloud. Not seeing the connection here sorry.
Take a look at his homepage - it's all about diggbar/frame spamming etc. He throws a 'Hey HNer, if you agree with me, then subscribe to me' banner up top and adds a thousand tags to his post, hoping people will link to his posts. He then figures if people hate the diggbar on HN, then other people must be feeling the same way and goes to town with pushing the links to his posts all over the web - from techcrunch to mashable to readwriteweb.........take a look at the comments section on those respective blog posts dealing with diggbar. You'll see this guy all over them.
Basically, he's pushing his own agenda/site/blog under the guise of fighting a revolution for the masses. And this is not the first time - http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=VizionQuest
He hasn't submitted a single link from another site. It wouldn't matter if it's elsewhere, but that's not cool on HN. HN is about sharing information, mostly foreign. Do you see anyone else submitting links to their own site repeatedly?
Why is it always that people who overuse sneaky tactics are the first to complain about others using same techniques? Copied from the article: "Tags: blogger, Bloggers, browser, digg, diggbar, engadget, entrepreneur, follow me, frame spam, frame spammers, frame spamming, framebars, frames, framing.... " (this is only 2 of 7 lines of "tags")
What does tagging have anything to do with this article? It's HIS site, HIS tags, he can come up with whatever tags he wants, which contribute to his own custom tag cloud. Not seeing the connection here sorry.
(Also, as pointed in other comments - it uses "link cloaking", affiliate links, sneaky referrer banner, etc, yet he still complains about others using sneaky tactics. It's just a full of hipocrisy trick to get readers and maybe some green)
Humorously tomuse.com uses the "Link Cloaking Plugin for WordPress" so you can't tell where anything is going (though it does use proper 301 redirects). These things are normally used by scuzzy people trying to hide affiliate stuff. It looks free, but a competitor even has one of those really long marketing pages that are usually used for real estate and eBooks: http://www.wordpresslinkcloak.com/ It one ups the freeb…
Humorously tomuse.com uses the "Link Cloaking Plugin for WordPress" so you can't tell where anything is going (though it does use proper 301 redirects). These things are normally used by scuzzy people trying to hide affiliate stuff. It looks free, but a competitor even has one of those really long marketing pages that are usually used for real estate and eBooks: http://www.wordpresslinkcloak.com/ It one ups the freeb…
Humorously tomuse.com uses the "Link Cloaking Plugin for WordPress" so you can't tell where anything is going (though it does use proper 301 redirects). These things are normally used by scuzzy people trying to hide affiliate stuff. It looks free, but a competitor even has one of those really long marketing pages that are usually used for real estate and eBooks: http://www.wordpresslinkcloak.com/ It one ups the freeb…
It's also actually used just by people who want to measure which links people are clicking on.
Before the Digg Bar, I can't know how much traffic 'Made Popular' articles make, I asked a power user, he told me from 50K to 100k in just few hours. He told that it would cost you $500 if i want to get it in Front Page. But for that while I have nothing to sponsor and also $500 are not few money.
Now with the digg bar, I realized that Front Page articles can make 80K but generally that make as low as 15k and 8k. So Digg really now don't worth for traffic.
Another reason, Digg is bad, how come an article hit the Front Page with only 2 comments on it??
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What does tagging have anything to do with this article? It's HIS site, HIS tags, he can come up with whatever tags he wants, which contribute to his own custom tag cloud. Not seeing the connection here sorry.
The connection is this - tomuse has been blogging for a while. Had a few hits here and there, but nothing major. He wrote an article about how bad the diggbar is, and we all agreed with it. Suddenly he has a hit on his hands, and decided to milk it for all it's worth. Take a look at his homepage - it's all about diggbar/frame spamming etc. He throws a 'Hey HNer, if you agree with me, then subscribe to me' banner up t…