Digg & Mother Approves!

How many of you are familiar with Digg?

If you are blog-savvy you have probably heard of this site and a few others like it. Digg contains reader submitted content from their favorite blogs. To be a blogger and have a post submitted to Digg is great flattery! It allows the blogger a larger platform to get their stories out.

I have never been ‘dugg’ until this week.

Thanks to JoAnne at Geni.com, I received my first round of digg’s! Take a look at the bottom of my Geni.com Review, 14 DIGGS! I’m not going to lie. I’m absolutely thrilled. Of course, the incredible Geni.com staff accounted for these diggs, but I’ll take it!

How do you Digg?

To digg a post you can either copy the posts URL and head on over to digg.com and submit it, or some bloggers have buttons on their pages and the bottom of their posts in several different forms.

Some bloggers simply have hyper-link text that says, ‘digg this!’. Others have a badge that has a number and says ‘digg this!’. Mommyzabs.com only shows a little picture of a guy digging (the first little icon under ’share and enjoy’) UNLESS I’m actually submitted, at that point a number will be shown. I may change that eventually.

When setting up my fathers’ blog I asked him if he wanted me to add the plugin. He’s humble, so he thought it sounded self-flattering and said “no”. I understand why he feels that way. I mean asking people to ‘digg’ your post may seem arrogant. However if you changed the name to ‘approved’ it sounds much better, right?

Guess what!?

Mother Approves has created a parent-centered digg-type site! Mother Approves is just like digg.com, except parents are the intended users. (Yes John, moms AND dads!) If you are interested in having this badge on your posts so that your readers can submit it to Mother Approves (and dad too) you can grab the plugin here.

If you would like more information about this fledgling site read it in the creators own words.

There is one main reason I started MotherApproves.net and that reason is right here. I’m the proud father of a four week old little girl and I couldn’t be happier. She’s been an amazing blessing to my life and a joy to have around.

I’ll be honest, I was a little nervous about the parenting thing, nervous about holding a fragile baby in my arms, and knowing what to do with her when she cried. What I found out just hours after she entered the world, is that there is a lot that just comes naturally. When I was sitting there face to face with my own child I had confidence that I would do the right thing, and I’d seek out answers if I didn’t know what to do. The seeking out answers part is what gave me the idea of Mother Approves.” Continue Reading…

I believe Mother Approves could become an excellent tool for parent bloggers because it is not only a site you can submit your favorite stories to, but also a site you will be able to reference to find answers to your parenting questions. The more quality material submitted to this site, the more information will be available to the general parenting public.

For instance, let’s say you have a toddler that has started biting. You feel you have tried everything and have no ideas left to get the bad behavior to stop. As this site grows you will be able to look up stories where others have posted on the topic and see if other’s found solutions that may work for you! Sounds good doesn’t it?

I will be adding the mother approves button to my post to try it out. So by all means Submit me whenever you feel my content is worthy I also don’t mind being submitted to digg! The best ways to keep me going here are submitting me and linking to me! And as always, I heart your comments and emails.