Let's Get Matt Dugg.

[COBOLdinosaur]

This morning I posted Matt's header tutorial on Digg.  It is up to 25 diggs and needs a final push to go to front page.  :cheers:

 If you are a member of Digg please think about helping one of our own.  If you are not a member of Digg hw about joining and helping put ERT content on the front page: http://www.digg.com

If someone was to happen to mention this in the lounge at TOS it might get a few lizards digging as well. :wink:

[COBOLdinosaur]

OOOOoooooooooppps

Forgot the link.  Currently it is here:


http://www.digg.com/programming/upcoming/page2

Title: Inside HTTP Headers

[COBOLdinosaur]

Hang on for the ride folks :D

The tut is front page on Digg...  700 hits in the first 25 minutes.   :angel5:

I thought I screwed up the timing but, it looks like I posted it right and ask for the boost at teh right time. :thumbup:

Thanks to everyone who help push it to the front page.  :notworthy:


Great Job Matt  =D>  =D>  =D>  =D>  =D>

[nicholassolutions]

wow cool! Thanks again for the top-notch promotion, Roy -- you're getting good at this  :thumbup:  :glasses7:

[COBOLdinosaur]

Over 4800 visitors have read ERT content today. 17000 pages have been read so far this month by people looking for help. Not every one of those page loads solved a problem, but our visitors are spending an average of 3+ minutes so some must be staying a lot longer to make up for the bounces.

That was my third attempt to get ERT content on the third page.  I migh fail the next ten times, but it does not matter, it still brings 100+ looking for help to ERT.  It still gets bookmarks on deli.cio.us, furl and blinklist.  Dzone does ot have teh high volume of Dig but 200, 300, 400  visitors are coming for help every time we promote a piece there.  Plus on both Digg and Dzone, we see other quality content and we can vote for it and encourage others to make good content available for free.

There is not a forum or help site on the internet where any expert is going to have the reach that they have on ERT with promoted content. Digg s the biggest and most competitive site of its kind on the internet.  Alexa lists the as number 121, slash is around 180.  EE is around 1000.  Today we competed in the toughest content arena on the Internet and demonstrated that we have content that good enough to go up against the best.

So now all we have to do is put the package around the product.  In the next week I am going to start posting some treatment, with initial requirement (very flexible) and I am going to take the advice I keep getting and ask for help, because I can do this promotion stuff, and I can do DB, ad I can program, and I can do layout (ugly but functional) and I can do dynamic effects;......  BUT ....  I can't do it all at the same time, and if I don't start trusting other peopel to help then it will take another 10 years to get the job done.

Now a word to those still trying to figure out how to help.

Me, Rod, Coral, Sri, Batalf, and especially Matt have delivered help to 17,000 users so far this month.  There is lots of room for a lot more content, and lot more diversity, and a lot more Mentors.  There are millions looking for help with something everyday.  You can reach more of them, and give more help with an article or tutorial then you will ever be able to achieve answer one off questions.  

I'll take 500 users reading my words over 500 points any day.

[COBOLdinosaur]

BTW,

Two new members have just joined the forum.  One looks to be a spammer, and the other ooks like the kind of people we want here.  I think I'll go welcome one of them.  :wink:

[Srirangan]

CD&, I have a link to your Digg profile and your Dzone profile. I simply access your profile once a day and promote all submitted articles.  :notworthy:

[COBOLdinosaur]

Sri,

It is a good thing that we help each other, that is part of having a community.  But we don't want to just blindly promote thing, we will lose quality control if we are not critical of each others work.  There ia also other good content on those sites and it would be wrong to hold back a good piece we because we just all push something without evaluating it.

Yesterday Matt, the owner of Dzone (different Matt) thanked me for putting one of the Coral tech articles there.  They want quantity just like we do.  30 minutes ago the tech admin from dzone voted for one of my articles that PhilHow posted. That put it on the front page.  Having a good relationship with other sites where content is important allows us to work together.  The content centered sites, help each other; depend on each other and yet still compete.  Dzone is in direct competition with Digg but posting on Digg and gettin gpromoted to the front page of Digg helped get Dzone started.

That is the way things seem to work best on WEB2 oriented sites.  Unlike the old traditional approach of not allowing competing links on your site.  The new wave sites welcome it and are open to all kinds of collaboration.

ERT is rapidly gaining respect and stature because of the way we conduct ourselve, the way we play by the rules, and by the quality of our content.  You cant buy a good reputation; you have t earn it and it is worth more than a million banner impressions.

Cd&

[Srirangan]

:D I'm assuming since it is on ERT, it will be quality. Plus its more convinient and more efficient.

[coral1]

delivered help to 17,000 users so far this month

Thanks. Now I've got stage fright...  :sad3:




 :cheers:  :cheers:  :cheers:

[COBOLdinosaur]

A few quick numbers off the stats:

For yesterday visits: 4,778 page views: 5,546

for the first Dugg hour from 5pm to 6pm (EDT) we had 1,759 page views

on average user spent 5:20 on the site.  They did not just hit the page, they actually used he site, and read teh content.

Now a reflection of the technical level of our users:

Browsers: Firefox 68%; IE 17%; Safari 7%; Opera 4%

Also the traffic continues as we get the after shocks.  As of 6:55am (EDT) we were up to 1,797 page loads for today, and my CSS piece was still sitting in the number 2 spot of the Dzone front page.

We have already broken all of our monthly records with 4 days still to go we are up to 21,448 pages.  The best of it is we are just getting started on letting the world know what kind of content they will find on ERT, and once we get an integrated interactive presentation wrapped around that content, it will hold user on the site even longer and get them more involved in participating with the Mentors.

Getting the front page of Digg was something I had to prove to myself I could do with a straight up white hat approach.  There are guy who have posted a hundred pieces there and never gotten to the front page; even with dirty tricks and spamming.  Yesterday is proof that we have the kind of content users want.  Now we just have to build the right interface around it.

Cd&

[Srirangan]

OMG you spend so much time reading the stats daily!! How do you find the energy?  :scratch:

[COBOLdinosaur]

The stats are the critical information.  Sometimes you have to guess;
but when you have information you don't have to guess.  You do the analysis.
You learn from the stats and build the model they represent.  Then you can
look at what happens to the model when you try soemthing.  When it works in
the model; there is a very high probablility that you will get the same
results real world.  The more information you have the better your model
will be.

Sometimes modeling will fail.  When it does you go back and improve
the model, by finding better ways to do the math.

[Srirangan]

I'm guessing you do ERT as a full time job..  :oops: I generally don't have much left when I get back from work. :(

[COBOLdinosaur]

I'm guessing you do ERT as a full time job..

I wish that was true.  I have a full time job that has me on call 24/7.  I do a little teaching at community college a few lectures a year at the university.  Plus I play in several poker tournaments a month.

If I was at this full time, I would have a lot more done than I do.  It gets a lot of attention, but I do have a life outside of ERT.

Cd&