Top Digg user recommendations
I have already discussed social websites here and here. I consider them as a very important traffic source that allows to thrive those websites that are relatively new and can’t gain due to some reasons good rankings in Google (for the latter, website age and incoming links structure are probably the most important factors for ranging the website).
While reading the below tips from a regular top Digg.com user I thought: OK, one can follow these tips and do it with your own projects.
1. Recognize Big Stories: This rules seem to be obvious, but there is (usually) a recipe for big stories. For example, a story that contains, How-to, Tutorial, Reference or Top10 tag have more chance to get front page story. Also, a story about Digg itself, Google or Apple is always popularized by users
2. Track Pulse of Internet: To submit more and more big stories, you should have known “What’s populer right now”. My major resources for finding big stories are Delicious Populer, and Reddit. I track populer stories constantly at these sites. The populer stories which already bookmarked by dozens of people have big chance to get frontpage story on Digg, too.
3. Interesting Headlines: Some words like Awesome,Great, The only, Finally and Free are usually attracting more diggs than unexciting headlines. Create excitement with your headlines.
4. Humanized Story Description: Diggers usually prefer to quote from the original story. If quotation is exciting there is no problem, but usually there are better options. My advise is some add some human touch to your stories.
5. Trackback Your Submission: This is not applied by most of digg users. But it can be so powerful. If your story is taken from a blog, i recommend you to add a comment to the story. In comment you can say “I like the story and i submit it to the digg. You and readers please add your diggs to get it frontpage the story…”
6. Comment First: Comments added your story are important as the number of diggs your story have. Because diggspy get the latest dugg stories and the latest comment. If your stories have more comment, your stories take more impression and the possibility to get front page increases.
7. Timing: Timing is so important. Diggtrends have a great research about timing. They conclude that the best time submiting story is 9:00 EST because many office goers start digging as soon as they step in office. My experience confirm this. The stories i submit at night (at noon in istanbul) had less diggs than usual.
8. Make Friends: Digg is not %100 rational of course. People are more likely to dugg stories submited by their friends.
9. Digg Your Friends News: Rules of reciprocation is true for digg community, too. If you dugg your friends’ stories they respond positively and they start to dugg your stories, too.
10. Finally, Enjoy: Enjoy being part of world’s best community. Proud yourself to lead internet traffic.
Point 9 states: ‘digg your friends’ news’. And this comes from one of the top users of the community that fights against all those ‘bad guys from digg clubs’ (members agree to digg each other posts). I think this statement says for itself. Digg.com allows its regulars to digg each other, but disallows it if you are not their active community member.
Summary: I think the tips should help you to realize what it takes to succeed with Digg.com, but I do not think that it is that easy as described. You should definitely experiment: make a good combination of your website content and techniques described in this post, try it several times and do not expect to succeed with your every attempt.
Experiment with a number of social websites simultaneously. They are all different. Good luck!
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