Yahoo! Buzz Is Now Mainstream
When Yahoo! Buzz was announced this past February, I immediately signed up to be notified when the Digg-like news article submission site was opened up to all publishers. Well, the time has come: I received my notification today and immediately made my first two submissions.
Yes, now you can submit and syndicate your best work and, in Yahoo! Buzz’s case, you could become fortunate enough to find your article on the homepage of Yahoo!. If you get buzzed enough by other voters, your article title and summary (even a related photograph) could appear on the Buzz home page. Seeing that as few as five votes can push an article up, I’m sure that many Digg devotees will be making the mad dash over to Buzz. What’s up with that, Kevin Rose?
I can hardly wait.
Of course, if you don’t have a Yahoo! account, you’ll have to sign up first before you can use Buzz. You probably already have one especially if you’re a MyBlogLog fan or a casual user of some other Yahoo! program. This means that you have a Yahoo! email account, so head over there to retrieve your log in information.
Three Reasons Why You Should Buzz
Yahoo! gives three reasons why you should partner with them to distribute news:
- Yahoo! Buzz welcomes ALL publishers, from large websites to niche bloggers.
- We feature all types of content, from entertainment to business.
- Yahoo! Buzz is currently focused on the U.S. audience.
The third reason benefits those of us in US, but is a real bummer for everyone else. I have no idea if this means that if you’re in Canada, the UK, or any other country besides the United States that you will not be receiving an invite. I’m supposing that Buzz will eventually expand but I cannot say so with certainty.
More Buttons To Paste All Over
Like Digg, you can paste buttons with your articles to draw attention to your readers that you would like to have your page buzzed. Simple coding will bring people to Buzz but you can make it easier on them by employing advanced button options whereby the article’s headline, summary, category, and URL are added, making it easier for people to buzz you. It’ll take a little extra work to get this done, but it may result in your article getting lots of attention — perhaps millions of visitors according to Yahoo!
Prepare to have your servers crash, ladies and gentlemen!
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Dude. Since when does StumbleUpon send trackback links? Teach me oh great Jedi master.
Tinu, they’ve been sending them all along. What you need to do is code your WordPress in order to have them appear. Very easy steps to follow if you follow the advice given here:
Separate Trackbacks From Comments On Your WordPress Blog
Actually, there are two different things that will get reported as trackbacks in most WP blogs that separate them from comments.
The first is actual trackbacks, where the publishing page sends an active track back to your blog.
The second (and this is what you have here) is a pingback. With a pingback WordPress detects the link through to your post when someone clicks on it, and then decides whether the link qualifies as a pingpack or is just a standard referral link.
If it qualifies as a pingback it is stored just as a real trackback would be.
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Dane, you are correct. Thank you for clarifying that point. There is a difference between the two and you explained it properly — thank you.
Another nice social bookmarking online now. Good for people who want to promote their articles since we can make use of the traffic from yahoo!
Wei Liang
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