Dan Zarrella has a tool that will take a blog post title, and look at words to see if they’re words that generally increase or decrease the popularity on Digg. Jose Quesada first pointed it out, suggesting that “academic” wasn’t a particularly useful word to have in a title. I’ve tried with a few variants on “Successful blogging in the … world”
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It seems that “hackers” are what I should be targetting, if I want greater interest from Digg fans. (Do I?)
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