{mosimage} What up party peoples. Lately a friend has been calling me a hermit. My real last name is Herman. So, Herman the Hermit. But little does this crack head know that online I'm a freaking blogging superstar.

Yardbarker.com

Naw, in reality I'm just a blogging poser but I'm at least climbing the charts. Don't believe me, eh. Check out my latest Yardbarker rankings (left). It's a numbers game, really. We have a number of quality bloggers contributing around here and I advertise them on Yardbarker for free. That's the premise of the whole deal, really. Many other blogs participate in this madness, along with fans of a steady stream of media redunkulousness.

When people click on the "thumbs up" you get points and your article stays on top of the popular section. It is a good way to catch articles without search engines. That's the whole premise. Of course, gaining points for articles helps out that articles chances of being seen on search engines (google) and will bring traffic that way, so the concept still leaves that door open. They also have athletes blogging n' stuff. They have a section for us mere mortals and a section for pro sports people that they pay to contribute (I assume-common sense). So that's pretty cool but it still has a ways to go (the whole athlete-blogger concept) in my opinion. I honestly don't see real interaction. In other words, I don't have pro sports stars commenting on articles. For good reason as they could easily write something ill advised but it just sort of makes it all seem fake-ish in a way. Basically, the athlete stuff just looks like advertisement/marketing gimmicks to me at this point.

Regardless, Yardbarker is pretty dope and drives traffic to DeathRattleSports. Cheers to that. If you check out my user page, you'll see me and other people normally submit a snippet from their article to entice the reader and provide a link back to the original article. Pretty simple really.

I like messing on Yardbarker too because their social network premise is great and for the most part not the direction this site plans to take. Certain elements, hopefully, because the do a good job but we are going for original content as far as blogger entries and articles. It's a mutually benefiting relationship.

Digg.com

Yardbarker really copied their premise from the Digg books (not sure who Digg copied off of but who cares).

Digg.com is a huge social community. You'll notice on the top right of this article (as of now) there is a number. That's the number of bumps you got on digg. If you are logged in you can very easily vote for yourself. There are many (way too many) other social communities that you can do similiar variations with, but these are the to I mostly stick to. I'm a member on most of them unfortunately. Digg is best for tech stuff and politics (seems to be a stoner hang out) but there are so many people that sports articles can blow up too.

Many is better than 1

If we could get 1/4 of the contributors on DeathRattle to participate, we'd likely take over the blogging universe. If anyones down I'm down too. If you have questions about any of this email admin@DeathRattleSports.com. Or even easier, leave a comment below. You can become "friends" with people on those sites but it's no guarantee they'll vote for you.

Forums

I frequent many forums. Leaving a "signature badge" to promote your site or blog is cool. Linking back to your own articles can be cool if you are cool about it. Common sense applies.

Other stuff

The majority of traffic on this site right now comes from search engines. This results from keywords, internal links and so on in your articles which are all great for search engine optimization (SEO). That's why a Amanda Beard article I wrote awhile back got tons of hits on search engines. As I tell people, including the words "Amanda Beard" "Nude" and "Playboy" in a sentence is a good thing. Think of other fun titles and go at it.

So that's the writing world as I know of it, in sum. Concepts/words like integrety are quickly replaced by SEO and gimmicks. It's ok, integrity still exists in the form of a million bloggers who walk their own lines. Not in a cool way like Johnny Cash, rather, we are Hermits. We are the gum beneath the shoes of people better than us. Good times, indeed.

What's next

Here on DeathRattle we are about to implement our own "Ad Agency." This is the bomb diggity, complete with web stats (click, impressions and so on) and much more. We think you will all be impressed as we attempt to reach out. Expect this to be launched any day now. This will coincide very well with our shared revenue concept.

Any ideas or suggestion, feel free to holler.

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JEH45 said:

	Lloyds: Maybe because it is early or possibly because I am old, but I have no idea what you are talking about. PS Go Bucks!
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Lloyds Apple said:

	Yes you are old. If you have questions ask them or email: This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it Thanks.
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