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How To Make Your Article Hit The Front Page Of Digg and Go Super Viral in 24 Hours

Making it to the front page of digg.com is a bloggers dream...Not only for all of the backlinks but even better all of the attention each piece of content gets in social media through twitter and facebook. Unfortunately most pieces of content submitted never even stand a chance at hitting the home page for a few reasons...

Below are some "real" tips you can implement into your blog posts to make it have a better chance on reaching the highly coveted front page of digg!

 

1) Make The Story Super-Liberal

Reason: The Digg audience (mostly) loves OBAMA

Example: http://digg.com/d318zin

2) Slam Bush, Glen Beck or any other Conservative Political Figure

Reason: Look at #1

Example: http://digg.com/d319HvP

3) Photoshop a Picture With Popular Political Figure, Come Up With A Clever Title and Position it Against Fox News

Reason: Look at #1

Example: http://digg.com/d3192pj

4) Submit Cool Interesting Pictures or Stories Making Fun Of  or Mocking Rich, Successful or Famous People

Reason: Look at #1

Example: http://digg.com/d318yzW

5) Submit News From Left Wing Liberal Sites Like CNN.com

Reason: Look at #1

Example: http://digg.com/d3pyJ2

6) Write A Piece Or Create A Piece of Content that Deals With Green Energy


Reason: Look at #1


Example: http://digg.com/d3jVgu

7) Write Something Or Create Something About Sex

Reason: Hey...we can't argue with the fact that sex sells right?

Example: http://digg.com/d3194Vp


CONCLUSION: Unless you make your content liberally focused or about sex...good luck getting to the front page.

Sincerely,

SAS

Copyright 2009 Shorter and Sweeter

The "Secret Cash For Clunkers Math" The Government Doesn't Want You To Know About

(I received this in an e-mail)

What a deal!

If you traded in a clunker worth $3500, you get $4500 off for an apparent "savings" of $1000.

However, you have to pay taxes on the $4500 come April 15th (something that no auto dealer would have told you).  If you are in the 30% tax bracket, you will pay $1350 on that $4500. 

So, rather than save $1000, you actually pay an extra $350 to the feds.  In addition, you traded in a car that was most likely paid for. 

Now you have 4 or 5 years of payments on a car that you did not need, that was costing you less to run than the payments that you will now be making.

But wait, it gets even better: you also got ripped off by the dealer. 

For example, every dealer here in LA was selling the Ford Focus with all the goodies including A/C, auto transmission, power windows, etc for $12,500 the month before the "cash for clunkers" program started. 

When "cash for clunkers" came along, they stopped discounting them and instead sold them at the list price of $15,500.

So, you paid $3000 more than you would have the month before.  (Honda, Toyota, and Kia played the same list price game that Ford and Chevy did).

So lets do the final tally here:

You traded in a car worth:   $3500
You got a discount of:          $4500
                                              ---------
Net so far                           +$1000
But you have to pay:           $1350 in taxes on the $4500
                                               --------
Net so far:                          -$350
And you paid:                     $3000 more than the car was selling for the month before
                                            ----------  
Net                                      -$3350

We could also add in the additional taxes (sales tax, state tax, etc.) on the extra $3000 that you paid for the car, along with the 5 years of interest on the car loan but lets just stop here.

So who actually made out on the deal?  The feds collected taxes on the car along with taxes on the $4500 they "gave" you.

The car dealers made an extra $3000 or more on every car they sold along with the kickbacks from the manufacturers and the loan companies.  The manufacturers got to dump lots of cars they could not give away the month before.  And the poor stupid consumer got saddled with even more debt that they cannot afford. 

Obama and his band of merry men convinced Joe consumer that he was getting $4500 in "free" money from the "government" when in fact Joe was giving away his $3500 car and paying an additional $3350 for the privilege.

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