DISQUS

adam · 3 years ago

By seeding your own blog you broke the Newsvine Code of Honor, also I believe that seeding your own blog on Digg is taboo.

I have seen the exact opposite. Of course I do not seed my blog but rather cross post to both my Newsvine column and my blog and provide a link back to my blog in the Newsvine post. I have seen little traffic increase from Newsvine – witch makes sense because people have little reason to go to my site when the content is already in front of them on Newsvine. However, a post of mine recently (last night) got dugg and I have seen a dramatic increase in traffic with only 3 diggs so far. In addition I posted a comment to Life Hacker and posted a link back to a blog post on my site that had to do with the topic of the Life Hacker article – I first however posted a meaningful comment, I did not just post a link to my blog. I saw an increase of traffic from that as well.

Roger Kondrat · 3 years ago

Hi Adam,

You are right it is against the Code of Honour. It is why I only did it as an experiment. Admittedly I tried it one more time simply because I was shocked by the traffic figures and figured it was a fluke. Nope it wasn't.

Sometimes I wonder about the Code of Honour but as I agreed to it when I registered there is little point in complaining.

You bring up some great points and about the effects of good conduct. Regarding your LifeHacker post, good spot and if you did contribute than good for you. However, I find lots of people will post purely for themselves on my blog and elsewhere and I don't have much patience for that.

Newsvine is at the least a community, my blog isn't. Its my house in a larger community and should be respected like you stepping on the lawn infront of my home.

What I have learned from this experiment is that commenting is in most cases the best way of doing business and I will recommend it whole heartedly to clients.

PS I was in on the early Code of Honour discussions so I am very aware of the rules that I was bending.

Regards,
Roger

adam · 3 years ago

I do not have a problem (myself or others) posting my URL into comments on someone else’s blog or site so long as the link I provide has something to do with the topic of the blog or post and the person makes contributing comment first. As the case with the comment I made on Lifehacker, the link I provided to my blog was in line with the topic of the discussion and I did not just post a link to my site but rather gave a brief synopsis of what I thought and did and then said for more details and pics go here. Honestly, my comment on Lifehacker was intended to help drive traffic to my site but first I contributed to the discussion. It is a fine line that you walk when posting links to your site on someone else’s site, like many things it’s the way you do it.

The Lifehacker comment can be found here

I did notice that the article does not appear on Newsvine anymore, interesting.

Roger Kondrat · 3 years ago

Adam,

I wasn't critising (just in case), but I do like your thinking. Its when we stop being concerned or questioning when to link that I think we fall off the ethical ladder.

Good luck.