Digg, HOWto Get On Top

How To Get to the TOP of Digg.
I could write a big long circuitous story about the various experiences I've had with DIGG front page Exposure. I could write about the struggles I've had trying to get just 3 Diggs. I could even tell you about the happy hour drink fest we had the first time i got 10 Diggs.

But, truth is, there's no reason to draw out and drag on a simple 2 step HOWto. But since most people don't take short stories seriously, I'm going to spend the next paragraph explaining the importance and significance of DIGG in your web marketing efforts.

WHY is DIGG important? First of all, Digg has millions of users spanning the tech to political to global current events communities. If your website falls within these communities, you've got a major wealth and source of potential users. Secondly, Since DIGG is a Tier One Website, If you show up in DIGG.com home page, you immediately get MILLIONS of hits per day to your site (see image below). But MORE importantly, Google falls in love with your site. Google esteems your website worthy of Google's Page One since you were on DIGG's Page One.



So now that I've dragged on this story with worthless fluff, here's the 2 part answer.

#1. Build Your User POWER by getting a couple of stories to page 1.
HOW? simple. go to http://frustratedcities.com and choose a category you like. USE ZNITCH.com to be alerted in email OR RSS stream AS SOON AS A NEW STORY comes up. IMMEDIATELY submit it to DIGG. Do this a couple of times and you'll get one that lands in the home page of DIGG. WHY work to get a website that ISNT YOURS tons-o traffic? Because, You'll need to earn some clout before you can do #2 below:

Once you submit a yahoo or wired or nytimes story, you'll have staked your claim on that URL. So the Next time somebody or THOUSANDS OF FELLOW DIGGERS also submit that same story, they will see:



The Key here is to submit a story with a HIGH likelihood that thousands of other diggers will ALSO SEE and SUBMIT. If you pick some obscure url for the same story like www.smalltime-farmtown-daily-gazzete.com/quarterly-news.html you'll never get the above digg effect to happen. Upon being dissappointed that YOU already beat them to the URL, they'll hit ya with a DIGG on the way back out.

That's why I recommend www.frustratedcities.com. It has dozens of popular news sources on one page that DIGGers already trust and frequent. Just make sure your timing is immediate with a ZNITCH alert in rss, sms or email.

#2 Getting YOUR URL to the top of DIGG
As with any good thing, You've gotta pay your dues and make the right friends. You pay your dues with the strategy above. You make the right friends by hanging out with the jocks and cool kids. I'll show you where they loiter:

http://digg.com/topusers

Now that you know where they are, what do you do? Make friends. It's just a button click! No carrying books for them or giving away your lunch money. Just add them to your friends list. WHY? Simple.

Friends help friends.
See: http://digg.com/users/digitalgopher/submitted as a starting point.

Now See: http://digg.com/software/The_Windows_File_Shredder/who
and Compare to: http://digg.com/tech_news/Rumor_Google_pays-to_leave_YouTube_alone/who

You notice that tons of the SAME people voted for 2 totally different submissions? Keep looking. You'll see that for every top 10 DIGG user, he's got a massive support base or "DIGG GANG" that will pretty much indescriminately DIGG anything he submits.

This is where MOST ALL the top DIGGERS Spend MOST of their time. Lemme Reitterate this: This is where MOST ALL the top DIGGERS Spend MOST of their time:

What? did you think that with the hundreds of submits a minute, that the home page diggers get most of their diggs from this page?: http://digg.com/view/all/upcoming

Go ahead and refresh that page: http://digg.com/view/all/upcoming It moves soooo quickly that you'd be lucky to get 1 digg from that page. Most DIGG Leaders DIGG from http://digg.com/users/aaaz/friends/submitted (the picture above)

Yes. DIGG did recently change their algorythm BUT as far as google is concerned, even if you dont get to page 1 of DIGG, 20 DIGGs = 20 freebee BACKLINKS! Yes! If you DO happen to get to DIGG's home page, invite me to your happy hour party! Continued: HOWto: DIGG Home Page Promotion Strategy p2

Continued: http://znitchit.blogspot.com/2006/11/digg-home-page-promotion-howto-pick.html