Tips

Update 10 June 2008: there seems to be a new MyBlogLog user agent sent for those requests.

Tip: Tracking you website's MyBlogLog community's page views is easy and reliable.

Following a similar analysis to not getting dugg, I can now tell you how to block submissions to StumbleUpon. However, unlike blocking all submissions to Digg, there is a twist in this story.

Tip: Use title case when submitting to Digg.

Methodology

One thing I always think about when submitting to Digg and elsewhere is what kind of capitalization I should use, especially for headings. There are two types of capitalization:

• Title Case, Where Almost Every Word is Capitalized
• Sentence case, where only the first word is capitalized

So what do Diggers prefer?

Updated 29 Feb 2008. See at end. Please subscribe to the RSS feed for constant updates.

There are many reasons to want your site going popular on Digg. There are also many reasons you don't want that to happen. For example, you may be crafting your latest linkbait masterpiece and would like to ensure it gets submitted "properly" using a great title and description.

So what we need is a way to guarantee no one is able to submit pages from your website to Digg. And there is a way...