The Atheist Blogger

I have a rather monotonous way of sharing posts for this blog. Once I’ve typed it all up, added useful and relevant tags, and put it all into categories, I submit the post. I then check it all looks good on the actual page, and start my submission process.

This usually starts off by submitting the article to Digg, then to Del.icio.us, Reddit, and finally The Atheist Spot. If you want your blog to get popular quickly, I highly recommend this strategy (it helps to actually have something readable as well). I would say that the precious few minutes I spend submitting content to sharing sites like these is one of the reasons I get so many hits and responses.

I regularly check my stats for the blog, and visitors per month has increased exponentially since February 2008 when I started. My technorati authority has likewise increased, and I am awaiting the day it finally reaches the first milestone of 100 (at the time of writing it is at 90). What I am concerned about is The Atheist Spot, the newest sharing site I’m using, but also the most useful given the common topic.

The Atheist Spot is a Digg-like site which operates by user votes. When a blog article is submitted it gets 1 vote (from the submitter). People who read the article and like it can vote it up, and people who hate it can vote it down. As soon as an article gets 5 votes or more, it can get a place on the homepage, which shows the “top” articles.

Why am I concerned?

Since I write an article roughly once every day, sometimes more, I check The Atheist Spot daily as well. I cannot remember a time in the last month when I have not had less than 3 articles in the top 10 at any one time. A few weeks ago five of my articles were on the homepage, making up 50% of the entries listed. Today, I count four, three of which are in the top 4 overall.

I’m naturally glad that people like my articles, but I am certain there must be more deserving blogs out there that are being pushed out of the homepage by my stuff. The Atheist Spot is there to be used granted, but am I overusing it? If I cut down on the posts I submitted to it, I would lose some interest, but I wouldn’t be the dominating blog. Of course conversly, if the reason I am often on the homepage multiple times is because only a few regular bloggers use the service, then I would encourage more people to submit their articles!

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