I have joined Digg, and tried lots to get traffic for my blog by submitting posts, and share it with my friends on Digg community, I have followed some of the greatest bloggers, who have a good rank on Digg, I don’t know what else I should do to get traffic!
But I never got a story Dugged more than 22 Diggs, I am not sure what’s the problem of more than 300 submissions to Digg, all of them was not effective.
I think there is something about using Digg, I think it’s very hard to become a famous Digger these days, it’s closed now.. I think Top users are there on the top, and nobody can be a top user anymore.
I found all this true:
- It’s hard to get your blog posts on the main page of Digg.
- Top users control much of what gets on the main page of Digg.
- Traffic that comes from Digg is generally short-lived.
- Spam content finds its way on Digg frequently.
- People pay the top users and other companies to generate diggs for content and move it to the main page of Digg leaving less chance for your posts to get to the main page.
- Digg does not like it when users submit their own pages or blog posts and will penalize users who do so too frequently.
By : Susan Gunelius.
So.. How is Digg with you? are you able to make any traffic from it?
I would like to ask you to Digg my post!
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And who cares what’s happening on digg?
“Traffic that comes from Digg is generally short-lived.”
So why do you care to get traffic from digg?
@ Pete, I am looking for someone to give me hope, someone who who succeeded establishing it with Digg! Thank you for your comment!
i also tried digg..
but i think blog catalog is better and helps a lot! =D
@ Alone – you maybe right when it’s about new bloggers, BC could the best place for them, I like mixx also, it’s a very different community from BC!
doesn’t matter. just market directly to customers and real friends. in time the traffic will follow. screw the top diggers. i delete them from my list.
@ Anman – Maybe you re right, it’s also a matter of time, because on the internet time=traffic.
Also in any community you should make friends, they are much more better than just spreading your post to anonymous people that they don’t know you!
Thanks for your comment!
Most of the answers to your questions are available on the thousands of articles about digg on the Net. How to get to the front page etc.
But despite all that -
Digg is not about giving traffic to bloggers. May be it was like that earlier, but their focus is more on big news sites and some favorite blogs now.
So you have a very small chance.
Two, you have to become powerful in digg. For that, you should submit enough stories from big sites which are already popular, make friends with hundreds of diggers, and gain credibility – and only then try your own site.
It is not worth the effort for most people. If you look at top diggers submissions, they most of the time submit famous sites only. Small sites’ submission ratio will be maybe 5 % of their total submissions.
And then of course, your content has to be good. Average will not do. Your content has to appeal to the digg community – and you wont learn what it is by submitting your site. You learn what it is by submitting articles from their favorite sites and learning over a period of time.
3 months of making friends, active digging, commenting, networking, and unselfish article submissions is what you need. And then you learn to create digg-worthy content.
Mixx, reddit, stumbleupon etc are good places to practise.
@Matt, Thank you for your great comment, very useful to my post!
Great Post Thanx.
Great Post Thanx.