The content and the submitter increase your chances in Digg
Most of webmasters do social bookmarking, and know about Digg.com, you see many success stories over the net about generating lots of traffic from digg.com by beeing listed in the front page, but how to get the front page of digg? Here I’ll shed lights on the content & the submitter factors to increase your chances to success on Digg (But nothing guarented)!
1. The content:
I think it’s the most important thing in the whole website is the content, so in my opinion if there’s one factor that can influence the success of a post on Digg it is the actual content that is submitted. You see poeple have no success with Digg, and when you check the posts submitted, they’re just all wrong.
Well, below some type of content that works on Digg, so I recommend you people to follow it:
– Topics: You have to avoid to write about the less popular topics, for example if you write about a cat or dog, I don’t think it would work on Digg, from the other hand if you write about Tech, Offbeat or some Entertainment stories.. It can work really well, but think carefully about how you present it, as I believe that the presentation has a big role on the quality of posts.
– Voice: One way to rank well for a more obscure topic is to write your post in a style that grabs attention and appeals to the Digg crowd. They’re a bunch that likes humor, irreverence and quirky stuff – so if you’re writing on cats you would do better to do something off the wall like strap a camera to one than to write about something more serious.
– Titles: I’d recommend you people to take time to get the titles right, because sadly, many of stories get voted up and down on Digg and simply based up their title.
– Page Layout: Make sure that you have a good looking layout for your blog/site, avoid to stuff it with ads, remove/change the poor quality pictures, they can work well.
– Format: According to some experienced bloggers and diggers, they say thebest way to get on the front page of Digg is to write “list” posts, I agree but writing a comprehensive article this can also appeal.
2. The submitter:
If there’s one factor that can influence the success of a post on Digg it is the person who submits your post to Digg.
From talking to hardcore Diggers there are two theories going around in how to approach who should submit your Diggs (and these theories change depending upon what Digg is doing with their Algorithm:
Power Diggers: You need to find a power Digger to submut your posts for you, this will help your story to get seen by his friends and voted up quickly, and that helps a lot.
Small Time Diggers: It’s to have posts submitted by lesser known Diggers. The theory here is that it can take these Diggers less votes to get to the front page while a Power Digger can take a lot more.
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September 5th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Digg, it’s same like directory submission, but more usefull if we make both type submission.
nice post mates!
September 10th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
digg is so popular, but somehow people posting these just wanted for link and traffics. There are so many duplicated contents on digg, but it’s okay.
do you think digg is better than del.ico.us ?
September 10th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Digg is an awesome site, but you are right, your content needs to actually have substance or be viral. Also, the headline is everything.
September 11th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
I’m fairly new at driving traffic to my website and the like. I’ve never actually used Digg.com.
Does google value ‘diggs’ you get for any article submitted there quite highly?
September 11th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Digg yes is very good for the niche posts, like the ones you mentioned. You are pretty doomed if you are not of those niches they like. I have had greater success with redditt.
September 12th, 2008 at 10:32 am
For the Site owners or bloggers..U can see the “Dig effect ” when ur story listed in front page …If it is listed there will be a massive increase in traffic to ur site …
Awesome tips …Thanks a lot
September 14th, 2008 at 7:26 am
My blog have pagerank 3, whereas I didn’t add the site to socialbookmark. I just active in forum and posted. I think forum is one of the strategic backlink source and increasing the pagerank.
That’s My inclusion. What about you?
September 17th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
these days, everyone digg their friend to get digg back, it’s almost like exchange digg..even though the content isnt that interesting
September 19th, 2008 at 1:04 am
Digg is popular because the site receives thousands of visitors within minutes. This help to increase traffics. It increase your rankings in the search engines and page views. It is also a marketing tactic to promote your website.
September 19th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
I hate headlines that confuse me. I think the headline should be more precise.
September 26th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
I agree with you that content of the site and digg submitter plays a key role in getting more diggs. Nicely explained, thanx.
September 30th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
This is something what you can really rely on…! Since long time I look here at regular intervals and read the interesting and well written contributions. Its really appreciating.
September 30th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Yes, Digg can work, but it’s a firehose effect. AdSense and other pay-per-click programs rank such traffic very low, and give a poor eCPM. Digg is good for building brand, gaining recognition, and bringing in new visitors.
The trick is to have something on your site that makes those random visitors bookmark the site, subscribe to it, or otherwise come back again.
Analytics is a good way to track this effect and tweak content, Digg timing (there are arguments about what is the best time of day to Digg something), and optimize ads.
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:40 am
I don’t think it is possible to get targeted traffic from Digg now since most of Digg visitors are webmasters/SEO trying to increase their SE rankings.
October 7th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
The article has a great insight. I greatly enjoyed looking through the topic and found it very informative one for people like me.
I Would like to know more on these topics.
It is a terrific eye-opener.
October 9th, 2008 at 6:54 am
I have a question…When we tried to submit the article or post to the Digg it some times says The story already exists {Either Title,or Description etc}
Making duplicate content is it good ???Will it looks good seo ???
Andrew
October 11th, 2008 at 8:07 am
great post, a little hard to read with some of the weird characters that didn’t transfer well, but other then that I enjoyed the brief quotes form the interview.
This is something what you can really rely on…! Since long time I look here at regular intervals and read the interesting and well written contributions. Its really appreciating.
October 20th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Well i’m not maximizing digg yet , i still Like to use Stumbleupon
October 31st, 2008 at 12:29 pm
ya digg is big social bookmarking site, each and every seconds it been updated, and there are lots of sources around the globe u can find and get.
October 31st, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Very useful tips. Thanks. But one question.. How can we find power diggers?
November 20th, 2008 at 5:41 am
Very interesting tips, I believe digg is one of the most site I’ve ever known