Looking for digg friends

David · 14th Dec 2008, 05:31 AM

I'm not so interested in reciprocal links between websites or blogs but I am looking for reciprocal social bookmarking friends.

Join my Digg / frederickwebpro as a friend and I'll join yours.

Join my FrederickWebPro's favorite web sites - StumbleUpon as a friend and I'll join yours.

I also need flickr users as contacts... I really need a testimonial on Welcome to Flickr - Photo Sharing

PM me or just reply to this post.

I'm worried about a rumored google slap of seemingly worthless looking social bookmarking sites, if your social bookmarking is only about you promoting your stuff

... and not about your contributing to the community (the social bookmarking community) then you look like a spammer (and might get your inbound links devalued in Googles eyes)

I saw a post on reddit.com where some guy said this:

If the only comments on a users postings are his own... he might be a spammer
If the only diggs on his digg.com site are what he's pushing... he might be a spammer
it went on from there but you get my drift

Thanks

Lian · 14th Dec 2008, 07:42 AM

Hi David,

Just added you as friend at Digg and Stumble.

Check out mine and let me know if you like them. Otherwise, let me know and I will promptly remove you as desired.
digg.com/users/LianVaiphei
lianvaiphei.stumbleupon.com/public/

Lian

David · 20th Dec 2008, 12:24 AM

Originally Posted by Lian

Hi David,

Just added you as friend at Digg and Stumble.

Check out mine and let me know if you like them. Otherwise, let me know and I will promptly remove you as desired.
digg.com/users/LianVaiphei
lianvaiphei.stumbleupon.com/public/

Lian

Digg - Local Internet Advertising- 110 Characters is all you get- «

Can you Digg that one please?

Newspaper article about my SEO business is coming out today!

I need a few others to Digg it
thanks

send me what you want favoritied and dugg

lianwei · 20th Dec 2008, 01:20 PM

I joined you. Do join me back =)

David · 20th Dec 2008, 01:53 PM

Originally Posted by lianwei

I joined you. Do join me back =)

Just woke up... will look for you in a moment.
After I change my Granddaughters diaper...

milamber · 26th Dec 2008, 08:54 PM

Just added you as a friend. Add me also

David · 28th Dec 2008, 12:52 PM

Thanks SkyGodMega

What is your Digg user name?

Do you have any Digg submissions of your own for me to Digg?

I'm working on a tag line:

I Digg those that Digg me

not sure if I did the BB code correctly

Apparently we're supposed to keep a ratio of stuff we want Dugg to roughly half of what we digg of others.

We're supposed to do it like this:

when someone stops by to check our Digg Profile, we'd better have twice as many other people's stuff we dugg as we have stuff of our own that we WANT other people to Digg

Merry Christmas Warriors!
and Happy New Year if I don't hear from you till then

David · 28th Dec 2008, 12:53 PM

Thanks for the add Milamber

Merry Christmas n Happy New Year if I don't hear from you till then

David · 1st Jan 2009, 01:27 PM

frederickwebpro

Thanks and Happy New Year

What is your Digg Id?

David · 1st Jan 2009, 01:36 PM

Google Defines Good Linking & Bad Linking

with this in mind it'd be a good idea for only people with like minded sites
Digg Together.

My Digg theme is "how to be a local portal site"

therefore I should probably repost this thread in http://localbizbuilders.com

people joining my Digg Army whose primary theme is NOT about being a
local portal aren't likley to get much out of us Digging each others stuff.

If it's a generic "I like u sight" type Digg friendship
niether one of us in gonna get anything out of it.

am searching for the article someone on Digg sent me that gave me this
idea in the first place

will post it when I find it

David · 1st Jan 2009, 01:39 PM

Digg Blog: Digg Friends

we read a couple blog posts that highlight users digging each others stories. This is something we encourage through our friends features and will continue to expand as digg evolves. It is our goal to create a platform in which you can share and promote news that is important to you.

this isn't the article I was thinking of but it works:

it's from Digg themselves so this is what I had in mind

if you're not in the local portal business it's probably not gonna do you much
good to "Digg me and I'll Digg you"

This article looks close to what I originally found that gave me the idea to start this thread:

So You’ve Decided to Spam Digg: Eight Signs You Haven’t Really Thought Things Through | Design & All Things Web

2. Your Account Has the Same Number of Diggs as it Does Submissions:

This one speaks for itself, but I’m still stunned by the number of people who have over 100 submissions and have never actually dugg anything at all. You would think that an accidental errant click would have left them with at least one extra digg, but that would mean they were actually participating in the community rather than just trying to use it for shameless self-promotion.

"I like u sight" speaks for itself

bio prez · 2nd Jan 2009, 02:58 PM

i added you, same username as here

David · 2nd Jan 2009, 04:15 PM

gottcha

will look up where else I see you in social networking

we should double check to make sure we're both promoting similar stuff

I'm promoting two themes:
1) how to be a local google guru
2) Frederick Maryland's authority site/ I bestow Google in my area

no one gets to the father except through me
(slight exaggeration but .... it's lookin that way more and more)

I'm gonna OWN google in my area.

I do have competitors that are 'better than me' in Maryland but you gotta go all the way to Annapolis and they start at $5000

so... I'm it in most small business people's eyes

Damn I'm glad I'm a Warrior!!!!

ltdraper · 5th Jan 2009, 02:50 PM

Rather than having people add you as a friend on Digg, set up an email list such as in Google Groups and put together a group of people that agree that they'll Digg each other's submissions.

Why do it this way? Because a vote from a friend on Digg has very little power. The Digg algorithm wants to see a wide range of unrelated people that vote for a post. A group of friends can't push something very far. You need to have some friends on Digg so that your account looks real, and you should be voting their submissions and vice versa, but the real power comes from "offsite friends."

The absolute worst thing you can do is shout your own submission on Digg. The votes you get from shouts are almost worthless. I've heard rumors that shouting your own submission actually triggers something in the algorithm to increase the support requires for a front page.

Don't Digg every submission by everyone, you'll want to have about a 50% rate. Otherwise, the voting ring is easy to spot and will be discounted, or worse yet the users will get banned. Google [Digg Voting Rings] and you'll find my article that shows that math on why a 50% rate can't be spotted.

You probably don't want to publish your Digg/Stumble exchanges in a public forum -- if the Digg admins ever decide to track you down it's all there for them to see!

ltdraper · 5th Jan 2009, 02:59 PM

Originally Posted by David

people joining my Digg Army whose primary theme is NOT about being a
local portal aren't likley to get much out of us Digging each others stuff.

Actually, the "theme" of a digger isn't nearly as important as the strength of the profile when it comes to the value passed from a link on Digg. Google [digg powerful profiles] for some interesting numbers. There are actually a lot of Digg profiles with high toolbar PR, and several case studies have shown that submissions voted by these users can move up the rankings quite quickly.

Likewise, a small number of votes from profiles without much power (such as you're likely to get if you limit your exposure to a small group around a single theme) can actually signal the dreaded Google Slap.

indyonline · 5th Jan 2009, 04:04 PM

I added you as a friend on digg and stuble upon as indyonline.

David · 5th Jan 2009, 04:32 PM

Originally Posted by ltdraper

Rather than having people add you as a friend on Digg, set up an email list such as in Google Groups and put together a group of people that agree that they'll Digg each other's submissions.

Why do it this way? Because a vote from a friend on Digg has very little power. The Digg algorithm wants to see a wide range of unrelated people that vote for a post. A group of friends can't push something very far. You need to have some friends on Digg so that your account looks real, and you should be voting their submissions and vice versa, but the real power comes from "offsite friends."

The absolute worst thing you can do is shout your own submission on Digg. The votes you get from shouts are almost worthless. I've heard rumors that shouting your own submission actually triggers something in the algorithm to increase the support requires for a front page.

Don't Digg every submission by everyone, you'll want to have about a 50% rate. Otherwise, the voting ring is easy to spot and will be discounted, or worse yet the users will get banned. Google [Digg Voting Rings] and you'll find my article that shows that math on why a 50% rate can't be spotted.

You probably don't want to publish your Digg/Stumble exchanges in a public forum -- if the Digg admins ever decide to track you down it's all there for them to see!

Wow... thanks

I didn't know all that, great stuff

will set it up as described

Here's what I did do so far: I can't possibly keep track of all the digg trades, well I can but I discovered that some diggers are farther along than others.

One guy dugg one of mine and he didn't have any ammo pre loaded for me to reciprocate (so I got an unintended free digg)

couple other diggers bury me in shouts, so I had my top 3 and he sent me a dozen a day

... I ran a help wanted ad to hire an intern to manage all of this

My job is to write content, the interns job is to keep track of this other stuff.

I was amazed at how many people responded to the help wanted request.

even thought of re wording the help wanted ad to discourage tire kickers, if someone jumps through hoops and still wants the job...

Thanks ltdraper!!

David · 6th Feb 2009, 11:55 PM

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14th Dec 2008, 05:31 AM	#1
David Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: 2003 Location: Frederick, Maryland, USA. Posts: 589 Thanks: 282 Thanked 19 Times in 19 Posts Blog Entries: 11	Looking for digg friends Share on: I'm not so interested in reciprocal links between websites or blogs but I am looking for reciprocal social bookmarking friends. Join my Digg / frederickwebpro as a friend and I'll join yours. Join my FrederickWebPro's favorite web sites - StumbleUpon as a friend and I'll join yours. I also need flickr users as contacts... I really need a testimonial on Welcome to Flickr - Photo Sharing PM me or just reply to this post. I'm worried about a rumored google slap of seemingly worthless looking social bookmarking sites, if your social bookmarking is only about you promoting your stuff ... and not about your contributing to the community (the social bookmarking community) then you look like a spammer (and might get your inbound links devalued in Googles eyes) I saw a post on reddit.com where some guy said this: If the only comments on a users postings are his own... he might be a spammer If the only diggs on his digg.com site are what he's pushing... he might be a spammer it went on from there but you get my drift Thanks
	David Bruce Jr of Frederick Web Promotions Lawyer Local SEO - \|

14th Dec 2008, 07:42 AM	#2
Lian IM For A Reason Be A War Room Member Join Date: 2008 Posts: 200 Thanks: 37 Thanked 23 Times in 11 Posts	Re: Looking for digg friends Share on: Hi David, Just added you as friend at Digg and Stumble. Check out mine and let me know if you like them. Otherwise, let me know and I will promptly remove you as desired. digg.com/users/LianVaiphei lianvaiphei.stumbleupon.com/public/ Lian

20th Dec 2008, 01:20 PM	#4
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26th Dec 2008, 08:54 PM	#6
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28th Dec 2008, 12:52 PM	#7
David Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: 2003 Location: Frederick, Maryland, USA. Posts: 589 Thanks: 282 Thanked 19 Times in 19 Posts Blog Entries: 11	Re: Looking for digg friends Share on: Thanks SkyGodMega What is your Digg user name? Do you have any Digg submissions of your own for me to Digg? I'm working on a tag line: I Digg those that Digg me not sure if I did the BB code correctly Apparently we're supposed to keep a ratio of stuff we want Dugg to roughly half of what we digg of others. We're supposed to do it like this: when someone stops by to check our Digg Profile, we'd better have twice as many other people's stuff we dugg as we have stuff of our own that we WANT other people to Digg Merry Christmas Warriors! and Happy New Year if I don't hear from you till then
	David Bruce Jr of Frederick Web Promotions Lawyer Local SEO - \|

28th Dec 2008, 12:53 PM	#8
David Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: 2003 Location: Frederick, Maryland, USA. Posts: 589 Thanks: 282 Thanked 19 Times in 19 Posts Blog Entries: 11	Re: Looking for digg friends Share on: Thanks for the add Milamber Merry Christmas n Happy New Year if I don't hear from you till then
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1st Jan 2009, 01:27 PM	#9
David Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: 2003 Location: Frederick, Maryland, USA. Posts: 589 Thanks: 282 Thanked 19 Times in 19 Posts Blog Entries: 11	Re: Looking for digg friends Share on: frederickwebpro Thanks and Happy New Year What is your Digg Id?
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1st Jan 2009, 01:36 PM	#10
David Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: 2003 Location: Frederick, Maryland, USA. Posts: 589 Thanks: 282 Thanked 19 Times in 19 Posts Blog Entries: 11	Re: Looking for digg friends Share on: Google Defines Good Linking & Bad Linking with this in mind it'd be a good idea for only people with like minded sites Digg Together. My Digg theme is "how to be a local portal site" therefore I should probably repost this thread in http://localbizbuilders.com people joining my Digg Army whose primary theme is NOT about being a local portal aren't likley to get much out of us Digging each others stuff. If it's a generic "I like u sight" type Digg friendship niether one of us in gonna get anything out of it. am searching for the article someone on Digg sent me that gave me this idea in the first place will post it when I find it
	David Bruce Jr of Frederick Web Promotions Lawyer Local SEO - \|

1st Jan 2009, 01:39 PM	#11
David Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: 2003 Location: Frederick, Maryland, USA. Posts: 589 Thanks: 282 Thanked 19 Times in 19 Posts Blog Entries: 11	Re: Looking for digg friends Share on: Digg Blog: Digg Friends we read a couple blog posts that highlight users digging each others stories. This is something we encourage through our friends features and will continue to expand as digg evolves. It is our goal to create a platform in which you can share and promote news that is important to you. this isn't the article I was thinking of but it works: it's from Digg themselves so this is what I had in mind if you're not in the local portal business it's probably not gonna do you much good to "Digg me and I'll Digg you" This article looks close to what I originally found that gave me the idea to start this thread: So You’ve Decided to Spam Digg: Eight Signs You Haven’t Really Thought Things Through \| Design & All Things Web 2. Your Account Has the Same Number of Diggs as it Does Submissions: This one speaks for itself, but I’m still stunned by the number of people who have over 100 submissions and have never actually dugg anything at all. You would think that an accidental errant click would have left them with at least one extra digg, but that would mean they were actually participating in the community rather than just trying to use it for shameless self-promotion. "I like u sight" speaks for itself
	David Bruce Jr of Frederick Web Promotions Lawyer Local SEO - \| Last edited on 1st Jan 2009 at 01:43 PM. Reason: found more info to support my thread

2nd Jan 2009, 02:58 PM	#12
bio prez New Warrior Member Join Date: 2008 Posts: 28 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	Re: Looking for digg friends Share on: i added you, same username as here

2nd Jan 2009, 04:15 PM	#13
David Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: 2003 Location: Frederick, Maryland, USA. Posts: 589 Thanks: 282 Thanked 19 Times in 19 Posts Blog Entries: 11	Re: Looking for digg friends Share on: gottcha will look up where else I see you in social networking we should double check to make sure we're both promoting similar stuff I'm promoting two themes: 1) how to be a local google guru 2) Frederick Maryland's authority site/ I bestow Google in my area no one gets to the father except through me (slight exaggeration but .... it's lookin that way more and more) I'm gonna OWN google in my area. I do have competitors that are 'better than me' in Maryland but you gotta go all the way to Annapolis and they start at $5000 so... I'm it in most small business people's eyes Damn I'm glad I'm a Warrior!!!!
	David Bruce Jr of Frederick Web Promotions Lawyer Local SEO - \|

5th Jan 2009, 02:50 PM	#14
ltdraper HyperActive Warrior Join Date: 2009 Location: Durham, NC Posts: 144 Thanks: 6 Thanked 25 Times in 18 Posts	Re: Looking for digg friends Share on: Rather than having people add you as a friend on Digg, set up an email list such as in Google Groups and put together a group of people that agree that they'll Digg each other's submissions. Why do it this way? Because a vote from a friend on Digg has very little power. The Digg algorithm wants to see a wide range of unrelated people that vote for a post. A group of friends can't push something very far. You need to have some friends on Digg so that your account looks real, and you should be voting their submissions and vice versa, but the real power comes from "offsite friends." The absolute worst thing you can do is shout your own submission on Digg. The votes you get from shouts are almost worthless. I've heard rumors that shouting your own submission actually triggers something in the algorithm to increase the support requires for a front page. Don't Digg every submission by everyone, you'll want to have about a 50% rate. Otherwise, the voting ring is easy to spot and will be discounted, or worse yet the users will get banned. Google [Digg Voting Rings] and you'll find my article that shows that math on why a 50% rate can't be spotted. You probably don't want to publish your Digg/Stumble exchanges in a public forum -- if the Digg admins ever decide to track you down it's all there for them to see!

5th Jan 2009, 04:04 PM	#16
indyonline Active Warrior Join Date: 2008 Location: Indianapolis Posts: 67 Thanks: 10 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	Re: Looking for digg friends Share on: I added you as a friend on digg and stuble upon as indyonline.

6th Feb 2009, 11:55 PM	#18
David Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: 2003 Location: Frederick, Maryland, USA. Posts: 589 Thanks: 282 Thanked 19 Times in 19 Posts Blog Entries: 11	Re: Looking for digg friends Share on: bookmarkmarketing : bookmarkmarketing
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