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Let's Talk about DIGG?

by LilBlackDress
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What exactly is Digg doing now and is it still worth Digging content?
#digg #talk
  • Profile picture of the author dvduval
    I find that you can still get digg pages to rank well for key phrases in the short term but generally not long term.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tyrus Antas
    Good to get your site ranked in google quickly. In terms of traffic, if you don't have anything viral that exploits the little psychological triggers that are present in the community, you're probably wasting your time.
    The process to get high on digg will be something like this:

    1 - get a few friends to register to digg
    2 - write a story(you can make it up) and frame it in a way that exploits common memes, belief systems, timely events and creates controversy.
    3 - have your friends vote the story up
    4 - hope you're one of the 1 in 100 good stories that gets to the front page
    5 - oh.. don't forget a digg button on your site
    6 - ...
    7 - profit? not likely.

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    • Profile picture of the author Lloyd Buchinski
      Originally Posted by Tyrus Antas View Post

      4 - hope you're one of the 1 in 100 good stories that gets to the front page
      I don't know for sure but my guess would be about 1 in about 100,000 that get to the front page. They get so many submissions that if you put one in, most of the time you won't even see it on the upcoming pages because they rotate the ones they display. That makes it hard for anyone to vote for it unless you have sent them the info.
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  • Profile picture of the author p2y
    Digg traffic is great, not because they will signup for your "learn the secrets of professional guitar players" or "Who else wants to make $1,000,000,000,000 in the next 24 hours" type sites but because digg is a very good way to link bait. Digg's members are usually tech savvy, are members of forums, and are far more likely to own a blog where they write about (and link to) things that they find interesting.
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  • Profile picture of the author rootpixel
    Sites like Digg, reddit and stumbleupon are great for getting traffic to your blog.

    It's hard to get on the Digg front page, though.
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  • Profile picture of the author AlbertF
    Generally Digg and like any other social bookmarking site, it is just used to pull some visitors and get some traffic toward your site.
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  • Profile picture of the author Gabe77
    It's good for backlinks but as mentioned it's a bit difficult to land on the top page. Having people to vote for your article would be great but that would entail a good number of votes.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kalidasa
    I thought they started doing an I frame that made the links not follow. Anyone know anything more about that?
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    • Profile picture of the author Intrepreneur
      I'd much prefer to comment on a blog than to Digg a submission, in fact I x'd digg out of my SEO strategy as I feel it's gonna hurt more than anything, due to the power of Digg.

      So if you want to rank naturally and want to be an SEO expert test, test test, then you'll see what you don't like and what you do like.. for me Digg, is one I do not touch.
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      • Profile picture of the author snowlady
        I wrote an article for a certain keyword a couple of weeks ago, bookmarked it with DIGG and in a couple of hours it was number one on Google (for that keyword). I don't know how long it will remain there, though.
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve L
    i still digg... but I get more traffic from reddit and stumbleupon. Digg comes in 3rd for my "social bookmarking" traffic. It beats twitter for me, but I just started tweetin'
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  • Profile picture of the author Neil Morgan
    So do they manually moderate the comments, or how does the "spam" and other unwanted stuff stay out of it?

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    • Profile picture of the author Tyrus Antas
      Originally Posted by Neil Morgan View Post

      So do they manually moderate the comments, or how does the "spam" and other unwanted stuff stay out of it?

      Cheers,

      Neil
      They moderate pretty much everything. Including stories voted up by the community. If they don't like something, You won't see it in the frontpage.

      Tyrus
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