What's wrong with my Digg promotion?

First off, I thank those who digged my Peekaboo posts hack. But, I am a little disappointed with the response I got. After spending countless hours helping hundreds of people apply this hack since last August, I get only unsatisfactory response for the one favor I asked for, that only takes few minutes :(. If you patiently browse through the comments in that post, you will see that I have resolved most of the issues that people faced while trying this hack. Or is my post not worthy of promoting? I don't think so especially when useless things like this can appear in the Digg main page.

Things to do when you are bored at home

To top it all, somebody even buried my link! (Bury - Digg's facility to express dislike). I really don't understand what's going on! Of course, it is a bit selfish on my part to promote my blog and expect lot of new visitors from Digg (and yeah I have adsense also at the unnoticeable corner of my blog). But, I have a lot to offer for any visitor who has a blog with Blogger. It is a win-win situation in business terms. So, what's wrong with my Digg promotion?

Digg my Peekaboo posts hack

Update: This is no longer needed as some jerk buried my submission in Digg.

I need a favor from all those who are using Peekaboo posts hack. As many of you know, Digg is a popular community powered website where one can submit interesting stories, useful links etc and others will digg it (i.e. vote on it) if they like. I have submitted the link to my peekaboo posts hack. If you think it has made your blog look better, please click the Digg button in my sidebar to vote for it. If you don't have a Digg account, I would appreciate if you can create one (it just takes a few minutes). Out of the 600 odd subscribers to my blog, I am sure at least 400+ are using this hack. If my submission gets 200+ votes, it will appear in Digg homepage and grab the attention of the huge Digg crowd out there. This could bring a lot of visitors to my blog and of course, they will benefit from the hacks here if they use Blogger. I hope you can take time to do this small favor and I thank you in advance.

Neo Upgrade - Post list navigation

Neo template, the one being used in this blog and several others, shows the list of recent posts or the list of posts under a particular label in the middle column. The original version of Neo did not have any Older/Newer navigation links for this list and showed all the posts under a label at once. This results in an insanely long list if you have lot of posts and there was a limit of 100 posts too (the limit imposed by Blogger feeds). Some of those who bought Neo felt that it is important to support navigation and break the 100 post limit. I couldn't think of an easy way to do this and so I didn't attempt it for a long time.

Just recently I came to know about the start-index parameter that can be applied to feeds to specify which post the feed should start with. This parameter combined with max-results control was all I needed for navigation. I have implemented navigation in this blog using this method (it's been there for a few days now). If you have bought Neo and are interested in this feature, I can upgrade your template if you download and send me your current template in email.

In other news, Blogger hack search engine has served about 500 search requests within a few days of it going on air! People seem to find it useful to avoid going through irrelevant search results and find what they want quickly. My part in this effort was very small (just adding the list of hack blogs). We all should thank Google for allowing customizations on it's powerful search engine. A big "Thank you" to all those brainy folks in Mountain view :)