How do you reward the sites you like
Image by Lukadium via FlickrWe all have blog sites that we like, and those we love, the question is how you reward them when they write something particularly brilliant. For me it is all about stumble upon, I will stumble the brilliant article, and see what happens. With some testing, I have done, when I stumble someone I will shoot them anywhere between 100 and 1000 hits for the day (depending on what they write, and how well I capture what they write). The best thing I can do for something I like is to send as much traffic as possible.
It also helps that I have invested a phenomenal number of hours in Stumble upon, it is much easier to use than digg, easier to figure out than Reddit, and all I have to do is click a button after highlighting part of the page. The very idea of super easy, with little to no work on my part, and have been consistently using it for a year and half. Big investment in time, meaning the web sites I like can get a decent chunk of traffic. It is nice to know that the time invested in stumble upon can be well used to support some of the best articles I come across on a daily basis.
If I write a blog entry about them, which is infrequent, then I will cross-link and stumble them to help them out. That is for the super articles, which are rare, those that I have an opinion on and are worth trying to debate. Much like the broken paid product evangelism article yesterday, not enough meat to it, just four bullet points that deserved some justice and more information about what the implications are. Stumbled, written, and linked.
Depending on the approach, Digg, Mixx, Reddit, and others are also great for helping a great article get wind underneath them, and getting them publicized. Other people will use other systems; we all have those social bookmarking systems that we love to use. If you really love the article though that someone wrote, show them some love, link or social book mark it and give the article a boost. We can always use more traffic, and nothing says “I love you” as much as sending 1000 visitors someone’s way.
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How about plain old commenting?
Commenting is ok, but I am not that big a fan of commenting especially when I have a full blog entry as a reply. Plus with the plethora of commenting systems out there, it is hard to keep track of where all you have commented.