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The second I write this article, I feel I may be writing something very wrong. As you may know, John Chow’s blog is banned by Digg.com. According to his post, ten buries to a story will remove it from the main site. Get buried enough times and the site gets banned. He didn’t mention exactly how many times will cause a site to be banned from Digg. I feel it is not going to be a lot.

I tend to submit my post to Digg and get some readers. In fact,

submitting post to Digg is by far the most effective way of getting traffic. Last night I fixed my side bar problem and submitted my post to Digg. Today I saw my blog’s traffic doubled. Almost all traffic is referred by Digg. I got some comments but they are all posted on Digg instead of on my blog and these comments disagree with what I post. One of them is the following:

I have to completely disagree with the article premise. Most professional environments have all of the right resources at hand such as Graphics Designers, Usability people, and DBAs this leaves you as the developer to focus on the code. Lets face it ASP/ASP.NET, JavaScript, PHP, and JSP are not rocket science when it comes to the majority of tasks and if you don’t understand how to do something there are plenty of examples out there. If you are having problems with website development then may I suggest looking at where you are lacking and fill in the void and if that still does not work maybe you should look into a new career.

When someone read your post and disagree with you to that extend, most likely they will bury your post too. So if you post something controversial and submitted it to Digg, the chance your post get bury is very high and the chance you get banned is increased. In fact I am thinking if I submit this post to Digg. Someone might bury my post just because the title. Isn’t it kind of scary? Once you get banned you may lost one the easy-to-get traffic source. John Chow’s blog won’t get to where it is today so quickly without the Digg effect.

I will submit this article to Digg anyway. Someone will tell me whether it is the right thing to do or not.

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