No Comments Written by Robert on August 12, 2008 – 6:42 pm

Digg is a social news Web site that allows users to post and vote on user-submitted content. Digg users submit news stories, such as content that bloggers generate, which are then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system maintained by the Digg community.

Stories and Web sites that make the front page of Digg.com can lead to thousands of unique visitors within a very short period of time and can lead other Web sites, typically blogs and news Web sites, to link to your Web site. The primary advantages of submitting your content to Digg include increased Web site traffic and links back to your Web site from bloggers and news services that use Digg to find cool stories to write about.

Digg is a popular social news Web site that allows users to post and vote on user-submitted content. News stories and Web sites are submitted by users and then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system. Stories and Web sites that make the front page of Digg.com can lead to thousands of unique visitors within a very short period of time and can lead other Web sites, typically blogs and news Web sites, to link to your Web site.

Stories and Web sites that make the front page of Digg.com

You can significantly increase your chances of getting users to vote your content or news story to the front page of Digg by following several basic strategies. Do not submit your own Web site or story to Digg. Content submitted by the content creator rarely makes the front page of Digg. Instead, ask a friend, preferably an active Digg user, to submit your story. Once the story is submitted, you can vote and comment on your own story.

As a member of Digg, you can add friends to your member account. Adding lots of friends is a good idea because your friends will often vote on the same stories that you do. When you vote on your own story, you increase the likelihood of your friends voting on your story by having lots of friends. Story titles that capture users’ attention are more likely to get voted on and make the front page of Digg.

Titles with sensational, compelling headlines and interesting summaries tend to work best. Therefore, make sure that your story title and summary are interesting and stand out. If you are not an experienced writer, you can hire a professional writer to draft interesting content about your Web site and then have one of your friends submit it to Digg.

If you are using Digg to generate buzz and traffic and to build links to your Web site, you must make sure your server can handle the traffic. For example, getting your story voted to the front page of Digg results in massive traffic to your Web site in a very short period of time, and therefore can dismantle your Web site making it inaccessible if you do not have adequate server requirements.

Typically, increasing your bandwidth limits prior to receiving large amounts of traffic increases the likelihood that your server can handle the load. Social communities find new, unknown members coming in and attempting to sell anything offensive. As a rule, your story will not receive enough votes to make the front page of Digg if users believe the submission was for the sole purpose of selling something.

Therefore, if your intention is to sell something, you need to be creative about how you capture the attention of the Digg community.

Do not post your press releases on Digg.com. Digg users are looking for interesting, impartial stories that are posted on their merit by other community members. Instead of posting your own press release, have a well-known blogger interpret your release and then have one of your top Digg friends post the release as interpreted by the blogger.