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Dzone Instead Of Digg

If you have a blog, then you want to promote it. It doesn’t matter whether you are motivated by money or by recognition.  It you release your writings to public, then you want people to read them. Nowadays one of the most popular promotion techniques is sending links to social bookmarking web sites. The most popular social bookmarking web site is Digg.com. But does Digg work perfectly for every blog? I mean, can you promote every blog with Digg?


The answer is no. Some blog posts can never reach the front page of Digg, not because they are bad, but because they don’t fit Digg, they don’t fit their audience. However, these posts can do well on Dzone. Dzone is real paradise for developers. If you have an excellent post on programming, then submit it to Dzone, you won’t get dissapointed. It was created by developers and for developers. I really love it. There are really interesting articles. The article describing some features of ASP.NET and PHP can hardly bring traffic from Digg, but they will bring you a lot of traffic, if you submit it to Dzone.


Am I obsessed about Dzone? May be ;-)! I didn’t always do well with it, but I was really happy to discover this web site, when someone submitted my store there.


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Posted by Mike Borozdin on Thursday, July 24, 2008 2:36 PM GMT
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Matthew Schmidt United States

Friday, July 25, 2008 12:21 AM GMT

Matthew Schmidt

Hi Mike.  Thanks for the kind words about DZone. We're always looking to improve things, so if you have any suggestions, please don't hesitate to e-mail me at matt at dzone.com.  

-Matt

Alex United States

Friday, July 25, 2008 3:05 AM GMT

Alex

You can also take a look at programming.reddit.com
Stuff there doesn't get updated as much, but it's another great source of articles for developers.

Not to suggest it's better than dzone-  I think that really depends on what kind of stuff the reader likes-  I just read both of them obsessivelyLaughing

chris keene United States

Friday, July 25, 2008 6:30 AM GMT

chris keene

I agree that dzone is a much better place to promote technology related posts. Sites like Reddit and Slashdot are probably wonderful for people who got in 2-3 years ago, but now seem like little more than old-boy's clubs where anything that is posted by somebody you don't know gets down voted almost immediately.

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