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What is Digg?

Digg is a social news web site where users discover, highlight and promote content that they find interesting or newsworthy from blogs. It is a user-driven website; all the content on Digg is submitted and moderated by Digg users. All editorial control belongs to the Digg community members. There are two main things that you can do on Digg. The first is to submit stories that you think the Digg community will like, and the second is to Digg stories that you like. Other features that make Digg so popular is the ability for users to ignore content that they don’t like by ‘burying it’ because they thinks that it is a bad link, off-topic, duplicated, spam, or even because “it is lame,” an option offered by Digg.

Before I begin, Digg has global competitors who have the same model – the all new yahoo buzz, propeller (previously known as Netscape) and Mixx. There are also countless numbers of Digg type web sites that focus on specific topics only – like sphinn that is a very popular Digg like website. The kid behind Digg is the Kevin Rose. Let us see him on the front cover page of business week.

How to use Digg to get more visitors

1) Submitting your story:

Start off by signing up for a free account on Digg.com, Familiarize yourself with the website and check out the stories that make it to the front page to get an idea of what users like. Once you submit your story people “Digg” (vote for) your story if they like it, the more people that “Digg” your story the more exposure you will get. With Digg you need roughly 51 votes within 24 hours to get to the homepage. However, with the massive number of contents online nowadays, it is a tough competition to get ‘dugg’ and a race to make it to the front page! Typically, content like breaking news, new- technology, how-to guides, news on celebrity, lists and off beat stories get the most votes.

2) Submitting comments :

Most of the people use Digg for submitting stories to come up in the front of home page of Digg, but not to leave the comment on the others stories. Thing again, what happens if you leave comments with links back to your website on the story which would have to come onto the homepage of Digg? Definitely your comment will also come in the front of many users. However, before commenting let us follow some rules.

Don’t try to spam, don’t cheat. Digg works according to specific pre-driven system, don’t try to play a game with them. Digg will penalize you.

Don’t try to put just a comment. Comment with valuable information related with resulting story and community would have some result. If your website which is linked to comment is not related to story, then don’t comment on to that story.

3) Create your friend list:

This is the important aspect. You need to connect with other users as friend and thus have many friends on Digg. You can send request to your Digg friend to “Digg” your story. You can even legally setup a reciprocal Digg exchange. “If you Digg my story, then I will Digg your story”. You can do this by sending a private message, known as a “shout” to your friends. Just Digg their story first and then tell them - I dugg you, please Digg my story now. And include the link of your story that is on the Digg site. You can use tools like ‘Digg friend finder Automator’ which works to add friends automatically to your list. However this tool has its limitation because you cannot add more than 20 friends at a time. Once you have built the good friends list which is the contact list for you, you can invite them to view your articles, comment or vote for it.

The final result

Most of the website Traffic-tracker reported that Digg has almost million of visitors per day. Front pager can gain an increase of over 10,000 to 15,000 unique visitors, while amazing sensational stories have generated up to an unbelievable 100,000 Rise in their website visitors. Getting onto front page of Digg is little bit of hard process, but once you get there ,you will have been enjoying the new visitors.

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