In the past week I had two drastically different articles make the front page of Digg, with drastically different results.
The first one resulted in authority link snowballing, the second one did not.
Why?
Well, the first article was amazing, the second article was mediocre. The first article was written to attract attention, the second one wasn't even written to get on Digg (it happened accidentally because a Digg poweruser just decided to submit some random opinion article).
What is authority link snowballing
I'm assuming that everyone knows the concept of snowballing. It's the idea that a snowball gets bigger and faster the longer it rolls down a hill. Read the rest of this entry
