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What I am about to tell you can change the way traffic is delivered from Netscape.com significantly. First off it’s always a rare chance that just some random blog or article will ever make the first page of Netscape.com unless it’s really news worth, although it is much easier than Digg.com . But now you don’t even have to worry about making the front page so much.Â
First let me explain a little bit. Netscape.com is basically a copy of Digg.com with more categories to submit your work or news. But Netscape.com does something a bit different. For example when you click on “view site” you get a sidebar that shows other submitted articles that are similar in title whether or not they are on the front page or last page. Look at this image:
Example:
 
Now think about that for a second. Basically what I’m telling you is that if you NEO (Netscape Engine Optimize - yah I just made that up!) you can get traffic from articles that have made it to the front page. It’s simple, it’s easy and it works. All you need to do is take a little time to make your title have the same or similar keywords that the front page article has.
Hope you like.
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***** 7-9-06 Update ******
First day results are in and I was up an extra 200 uniques from my daily average and today looks like it will be more
********7-11-06 Update*****
Yesterday’s result skyrocketed and got nearly over 400 uniques more than my daily average.
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Rex
Very Nice find! I am going to start testing this now.
Posted on July 8, 2006 at 5:54 pm. Permalink.
Nice tip… just make sure you put in quality stories that link directly to the source material. We will, of course, remove/ban links that are absive/scamming the system as determined by our anchors and the audience.
so, bottom line, put in great stories and you’ll get the most out of the system. another tip: put in a lot of good stories and get you name/user icon listed as a top user… that will get traffic to your personal page which will have links to your personal pages… that’s totally fine.
just don’t put in spam or we will ban the domain/users/IPs…. white hat “optimization” tips are fine.
Posted on July 11, 2006 at 5:46 pm. Permalink.
Thanks for letting the cat out of the bag moron! I went from 8200 visitors a day to a trickle…lets just broadcast it to the whole world.
Posted on July 11, 2006 at 6:39 pm. Permalink.
Sucks for you dude! Maybe you should have built your site around something more than netscape?
Posted on July 11, 2006 at 6:53 pm. Permalink.
@This is a “white hat” tip, I never said to spam I just said to optimize. Knowing all angles always helps.
@tim Just helping my fellow webmasters ;)
Posted on July 11, 2006 at 6:53 pm. Permalink.
I submitted this story to Netscape for you. ;-) Good tip.
Posted on July 11, 2006 at 7:56 pm. Permalink.
The goal of “related stories” is not only to show related content, but also introduce the user to information that may not have made the cut.
Lots of things unfortunately get buried on social news sites, and this is yet another way that Netscape is helping uncover these “lost” tidbits. The hope is, crap information will get reported, and removed by the team of anchors.
Of course, the more popular the site gets, the harder it’ll be to even make the related stories cut ;)
Posted on July 11, 2006 at 8:11 pm. Permalink.
This can be a great tip, especially if you use keywords that will show up in the related links section but would also capture the interest of the user. I know I’ve clinked on related stories on sites for that every reason.
Posted on July 8, 2006 at 5:51 pm. Permalink.