Olympics Win Gold on Digg

The 2008 Olympics has dominated Digg over the past week with webmasters trying to work in some Beijing-related content in order to bring sports-hungry readers to their websites in their thousands.

Here are 20 of the best-performing Olympics-related articles I have enjoyed after finding them via Digg and they are excellent examples of how to approach one topic from a number of different angles. A lot of these subjects could be used for other sporting events and no doubt they will also be reworked in four years time for the 2012 games in London! [Read more]

Batman Pwns Digg!

Digg has gone Batman-crazy this week with every webmaster worth his or her salt trying to feature the Caped-crusader in some capacity in order to drive traffic to their website. It just goes to show how many different approaches can be made to one popular subject in order to create reader-pulling content.

Some of these Batman-related articles and videos have been fantastic and a great way to waste some time during the day. Here are 10 of my favourites from the last week. [Read more]

Sexy Grannies - Social Media Lessons Learned

Two days ago I experimented with social media and viral marketing. I expected a deluge of server-melting traffic and to reach thousands of new readers to my blog. Unfortunately, this did not pan out the way I had hoped and here I will try and address some of the reasons why. [Read more]