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1. Importance of the Title and the Topic:- The title of the story must be eyecatching and tempting people to read it out. Perhaps the title is the single most important factor which leads to a person clicking the article and visiting the site. The second thing is the topic. If you write a 1000 words article on the topic “How is Diabetes Treated ?”, OR a 200 words on “Why is my company so great ?” it will probably never attract the interest of people. First thing is no one is going to read 1000 words on diabetes (a small fraction of indianpad users are suffering diabetes actually ) and probably no one will be interested to know why is your company so great. You need to write topics which immediately create a buzz in the eyes of the people and they are tempted to read it and after reading the first 50 words, they become so interested that they vote for the story and read the other parts. Once few people have voted for your story, it catches momentum, more people start digging it and within minutes it goes viral and turned into popular.
2. Keep the Content Short and Interesting :- No one would like to read a 1000 words article. People look for short informative, humorous and interesting pieces of content.
3. Numbered Lists are great :- It has been noticed that numbered lists work wonders. Interesting lists could be “10 Reasons you should eat a lot of choclates”, “17 Reasons why laptops are better than wives” , “15 Tricks to drive massive traffic to your website”, “101 Tips for successful blogging” etc. are found to hit the homepage instantly.
4. Your Profile :- The single and the most important factor which carries 90% weight and is more important than all the above factors. Its is how strong your indianpad profile is. If your indianpad profile is very strong, then you submit a story and and it instantly gets noticed by all famous indianpad users and undergoes a spontaneous reaction. So the next question is what does a strong profile mean and how to make your profile strong. Okay Christopher Finke has a list of top 100 digg users. Do have a quick look at the list and you will find what makes your profile strong. Its 5 things –
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- Number of stories submitted
- Number of stories which became popular
- Popularity Ratio which is the percentage of your submitted
stories which became popular.
- The number of stories you dugg
- The number of distinct people who viewed your profile.
Out of these 5, point number 3 is the most important and point number 5 is least important. You can find all these numbers on your indianpad profile page.
disclaimer: OK.. OK… OKAY... u know where I got this story from and modded it….. but however.. ;-)
