Attention Bloggers: Yahoo Buzz has launched. Start your engines.
Written on August 19th, 2008 by Graham
Question: What is the single most trafficked page on the internet?
Answer: Yahoo.com. Not even Google has dethroned them yet. So if there was a way to help each other get our content -and link- to the front page of Yahoo, it might be worth spending a few minutes to hear me out (or rather, beat the war drum).
Yahoo Buzz has officially launched. This is their digg-style service where people vote on articles, only instead of being pushed to the #124-on-the-internet Digg homepage, you’re pushing them to the holy grail of all homepages, the Yahoo homepage. It is a dream come true for bloggers, the single best link you could ever hope to attain, and if I have ever implored you to participate in something, I am going to twist your arm until you are signed up for this service and integrating their buttons onto your posts.
A lot of people think Yahoo Buzz launched a while ago, but the fact is that it was in closed Beta. Only a handful of sites were allowed to use it while it was being tested. Now, it is open. To anyone. You too can put this button on your page:
Now I’m not going to waste your time or mine explaining how it might be beneficial to have your site promoted on the most trafficked page on the internet. Instead I’m going to give you the rundown on exactly what you need to know. So you can do it. Now.
Step 1: Yahoo account
A lot of you already have Yahoo accounts, and a lot of you don’t. If you don’t, you’ll need to visit this registration page to sign up for Yahoo.
Step 2: Buttons
To add a button for people to Buzz It, visit this page. IMPORTANT: The Button code contains a line “ARTICLEURL” -and you must input the URL you want buzzed. So for now, you can forget about the fancy digg-buttons that automatically know the URL. You’ll have to input the URL manually. And there are no plugins as of yet to do this automatically, though I bet someone is working on it as we speak. I’ll keep you updated. For now, it’s easy enough to just add the button code to the end of each post, and snag the url for the post at the same time.
Folks using blogger, you may want to add a Text/Javascript element to your theme, place it right at the top with the button code, and update the code with your most recent post URL every time you publish.
Folks using wordpress, you’ll want to switch over to HTML to input the button code directly into the source. Another tip, to get the URL of a post you have not yet published, simply copy the link location from the “Preview this Post” button, and remove the “&preview=true” from the url, like this:
will give you a link like this: http://entrecard.com/blog/?p=518&preview=true …
…and after removing the “&preview=true” you end up with the url to a post you have not yet published, in this case, http://entrecard.com/blog/?p=518
Whatever you do, do not forget to input your specific article url into the yahoo button. It won’t work unless you do.
Step 3: VOTE
Please vote up all the content you enjoy, and help all of the other Entrecarder’s realize their dreams. Also, do not hesitate to vote down the content you did not enjoy, after all the integrity of any system must be maintained.
I think this is the single largest opportunity to come along since Entrecard launched 8 months ago. With 17,000 active bloggers (that was my other announcement I was going to make today -passed 17,000- woo hoo!) we can get tons of votes for the great content you all have, and with a little luck get some of you to the homepage of Yahoo!
August 19th, 2008 at 4:00 am
Nice, I just buzzed this article. Lets start to learn how to game buzz.
August 19th, 2008 at 4:09 am
Thanks for the heads up, just added to our blog now, looks good and hopefully it wil encourage readers to promote our posts that little bit more, but only time will tell.
August 19th, 2008 at 4:30 am
Yohoo! I want to participate, Great way to advertise your blog and of course entrecard .
Thanks for continuously trying to help us gain traffic. More power to you and your staff.
All the best.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:51 am
I’m checking it out right now.
August 19th, 2008 at 6:04 am
Yes, this is a nice news for all of us.
August 19th, 2008 at 6:08 am
I should try this one…
Sound interesting
August 19th, 2008 at 6:12 am
A very useful new tool for blogger……
August 19th, 2008 at 6:22 am
“So for now, you can forget about the fancy digg-buttons that automatically know the URL.”
I added it to my site like a fancy Digg button, and it does know the URL. All you have to do is go the the page you want it to automatically fill in. and no, I wasn’t working on it while you were speaking.
August 19th, 2008 at 6:37 am
Hey Graham,
I really think you should put a warning note on this post.
Getting a link on Yahoo’s homepage would cripple most small time bloggers (myself included).
The traffic would kill the server.
August 19th, 2008 at 7:28 am
@Turnip: would you mind doing a tutorial for those of us too lazy to figure out what you mean just there?
Sounds good… but why *yet another* voting site? All these ratings are starting to diminish the meaning of being rated. At least in my eyes.
August 19th, 2008 at 7:29 am
p.s. I don’t think I’ll be adding it right away unless I can add it in a more attractive, and less cluttered way.
August 19th, 2008 at 7:46 am
Turnip, please tell us more!
I did you a little Buzz…
The Top Searches thing on the Buzz homepage looks cool – currently its ‘Jennifer Aniston’ and there’s five pages. So, if I post about my lousy haircut and say it looks like Jen Aniston’s and put that in the title, do I get to be two clicks off the Buzz Homepage?
August 19th, 2008 at 7:49 am
I’m installing it right away..
with no problem what so ever on Blogger
August 19th, 2008 at 8:50 am
Sounds great. But I am sure I’ll get nowhere near the first page. I still try this. But I am not at all expecting something big from this. Good info though. How many are trying this here on EC??
August 19th, 2008 at 8:59 am
Thanks for the info, I have added it to my 3 Blogger sites with no trouble
August 19th, 2008 at 9:01 am
I updated the “sociable” plugin. Its relatively easy – Add an image and update a few lines in the code.
You can all now buzz my content, if you are the neighbourhood…
August 19th, 2008 at 10:11 am
yeah! Yahoo is #1 but their engine is not that dependable.
August 19th, 2008 at 10:11 am
It’s an awesome site i also posted about it here. Check it Out!
http://templatestreasure.blogspot.com/2008/08/yahoo-buzz-launches.html
August 19th, 2008 at 10:12 am
search engine i mean
August 19th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Way cool, but that’s a serious pain in the neck putting in the URL each time. Any way to make it like Digg or if there was a Feedburner Feedflare for it would be awesome.
August 19th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Great information here about Yahoo Buzz.
Got my link on my right sidebar.
August 19th, 2008 at 10:40 am
I’ll keep this on the back burner until a plugin is available, sounds great eventhough I don’t use digg. This is probably better or will be.
August 19th, 2008 at 10:43 am
Directly from the Yahoo page:
Finally, to automatically pull the URL associated with the page where the button lives upon submission: yahooBuzzArticleId = window.location.href
and be sure to remove ARTICLEURL from the code.
August 19th, 2008 at 10:51 am
In addition to my previous comment, an example of using the yahooBuzzArticleId value is provided below on the same page.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:18 am
@Graham: WordPress users don’t have to manually insert this button into their posts each time.
All you need to do is edit your single.php theme file and insert this code at the appropriate spot:
The built-in WordPress function the_permalink() outputs the url.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Code did not display. Let me try again:
<script type=”text/javascript”
src=”http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js”
badgetype=”large-votes”>
<?php the_permalink() ?>
</script>
August 19th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Ah, thank you Richard! Will try this.
@fragileheart, this is not just *yet another* rating/voting system. This is the Yahoo home page. The single most trafficked page on the internet. The holy grail. And being that we’re all bloggers here, I can tell you that they will be primarily looking for blogs that are blogging on topics that their search engine deems popular. so there is some luck of the draw but damnit, it is so worth it
August 19th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
@music, could you send me the updated code for the sociable plugin?
Also, you’re right, the amount of traffic would cripple the server. But only for a short period of time. Hopefully in the aftermath you would have a ton of new subscribers and readers and bookmarks, etc.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
And yet both microsoft and google are trying to buy yahoo.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
On another note, I hate yahoo.. The bloody spyware and adware they install with anything you try to use is absolutely ridiculous and near impossible to remove.
They’re high on my boycott list.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
http://www.conversionrater.com/2008/08/18/yahoo-buzz-plugin-for-wordpress/
August 19th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
my two cents of google search for your consideration.
http://www.conversionrater.com/2008/08/18/yahoo-buzz-plugin-for-wordpress/
August 19th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
@Richard..
Nice tip. Will be trying that.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
OK, if you use blogger, go to http://buzz.yahoo.com/buttons and choose the one you want, put it in your template where you want it, etc. Then replace “article URL” with “yahooBuzzArticleId = window.location.href” and save the template. The button now takes you to a blank “submit story” page with no info–users have to enter the URL and stuff themselves, but that’s better than nothing. If you add yahooBuzzArticleId = window.location.href before the code, the same thing happens but the URL is your site homepage, which you presumably don’t want.
I hope that made some sense.
August 19th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
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August 19th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
If anybody needs a tutorial on how to add a Yahoo Buzz button to their Wordpress theme as Richard Catto above suggested, click my name above for the url to an article I just wrote.
Graham, I also plugged this post in the article.
Cheers
August 19th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Yahoo’s Buzz looks fine, but I’m not sure about the “Social” part of their news service. Buzzing is one thing, but the profile pages need work and the friend structure is.. what non existent? I posted abit about it over at my blog and am on board to make this work, I think they need some improvements socially, but would love to work up a yahoo buzz account personally.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Graham, thanks for this…and for the tip on the blogger button at the top of the page and updating the URL with each post we want buzzed! Awesome idea…you know, that would work for Digg as well–but since i already have the digg button integrated into every post, I’ll leave it as is.
Thanks for the heads up and I’ll get on this this week…so much going on at work now.
Cheers!
August 19th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
I guess my post with the WordPress fix got cleverly eaten by the system.
August 19th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Wordpress Plugin here : -
http://www.lifeiscolourful.com/yahoo-buzz-wordpress-plugin-but-what-the-heck-yahoo-buzz-is/
August 19th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Ok, so to share something you want buzzed, what do we do… will there be an entrecard mailing list?
August 19th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Just a heads up to all the wordpress bloggers, the plugin for wordpress, add to any (http://www.addtoany.com) has the buzz button in it! So you can just have the one button still and add it!
August 19th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
@Caledonian,
I tried this plugin. It works well and the buzz icon added on all my previous posts too. Great work!
August 20th, 2008 at 2:12 am
For blogger to get the button to automatically submit the URL, check this out:
http://woork.blogspot.com/2008/08/add-yahoo-buzz-button-on-blogger.html
Replace ARTICLEURL with .
Working fine for me on my blog.
August 20th, 2008 at 2:33 am
I have added this to my posts and if you look further down on the instruction page, it does tell you what you can do to add to the code so that it will know what your post url automatically. Cheers!
This is what I put in mine:
yahooBuzzArticleId = window.location.href;
August 20th, 2008 at 2:57 am
[...] If you own a WordPress blog, you can simply replace the ARTICLEURL with: <?php the_permalink(); ?> It’s a built-in WordPress function to print out the permalink URL of the current post. (Many thanks to this post from Entrecard’s blog post) [...]
August 20th, 2008 at 6:23 am
If you want to add Yahoo! Buzz to your Blogger Blog, check out this post:
http://www.knowliz.com/2008/08/how-to-add-yahoo-buzz-button-to-blogger.html
Hopefully it works for you.
Thanks
Anurag Bansal
August 20th, 2008 at 7:20 am
wow, so we can expect a huge spike in traffic and or “buzz” until people get tired of helping each other out and then the whole thing gets abandoned.
I only say this since the digg project was ill fated and now with nearly 300 friends no one diggs anything shouted or posted.
Oh well…such is the way of many entrecard, fair weather fans.
August 20th, 2008 at 8:21 am
The plugin came pretty quick as graham said. It was obvious though. Waiting for right time to buzz.
August 20th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
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August 20th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Great opportunity to all bloggers. if all members of E-card will support this and support each other, theres a big chance for us to be on the first page. I just hope most if not all e-card members will do support each other…Cheers
August 20th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
I tried to put the code in my article but it didn’t appear.
August 20th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
@Christine saw that too! I use Add To Any and I love it. Works better than AddThis, Sociable, ShareThis. They were really on top of this one.
http://www.addtoany.com/blog/add-to-any-can-get-you-buzzed-welcome-to-yahoo-buzz/
August 21st, 2008 at 8:26 am
allright i hope this services can give me alot of traffic and backlinks , thanks
August 21st, 2008 at 2:04 pm
thx again Graham for the traffic enhancing info!!
August 21st, 2008 at 3:24 pm
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August 24th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Thanks for sharing – Hey Grahan Could you please explain why it is still a “Ugly Permalink” setup working on your blog. They say its not good
July 8th, 2009 at 7:12 am
Excellent help on get our content -and link- to the front page of Yahoo.
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Excellent tips! Thanks for sharing.
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