HOWTo Get DIGG Home Page Promotion Fast p2

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HOWTo Get DIGG Home Page Promotion Fast p2 DIGG IT!
In the last post about this topic, two posts previously, we covered the surest way to generate a massive number of DIGGs. And volume is key because I mean, cummon, I don't care how much the algorythm has changed, You ain't nevah gunna see a story with 4 diggs on the front page. Since then, many DIGGers have posed smart questions. SEE: http://digg.com/tech-news/DIGG-HOWto-Get-Home-Page-Promotion DIGG IT!

So, Let's ASSUME that DIGG now downplays FRIENDS diggs. So how do you get total strangers to digg your story? How do you have a kegger without any FRIENDS?

First off, we've established that the most popular page for digging is: http://digg.com/-users/aaaz-/friends-/submitted .

Then we established that the most effective way to get a massive number of diggs is to be the first to submit a story from an uber popular source (like yahoo news or wired) that has a high likelihood of others trying to submit the same story. That way, thousands of fellow diggers will see YOUR STORY on the SORRY page and digg you on the way back out: DIGG IT!


OK Clarified. BUT here's the $1,000 cash money, my money question: "Again, why would i wanna send traffic to a website that i don't have any personal interest in?"
A) Because I'm vain and want to see what it's like to get on DIGG's home page although I have no way of measuring the traffic that flows from DIGG to NYTIMES.com
B) Because I'm a socialist that wants to expose the nefarious underworkings of GWBush and the Economic Powers that be
C) I'm Bored
D) Because the more DIGG's I get, The higher my user rank gets. And DIGG favors its top players over newbies.

Survey Says: D!

Sure, the new DIGG algorythm makes it so that FRIENDS' diggs are worth less than enemies' diggs BUT cummon, look for the common thread. OF ALL the kids on the front page, NONE have a user ranking Over 10,000. DIGG IT!

As of NOW Home Page Submitter's Ranks:

5,953 - scotty588
2,809 - revtom
0,010 - Aidenag
0,110 - Husky217
0,068 - DidntYouHear

ETC... taken from THIS PAGE:

So you see how important it is to have a high DIGG "Overall Ranking?"

Recently, I've heard stories that DIGG is NOT promoting top digger's stories. So I did a test. I made friends with 20 of the top diggers. Then went to the home page of digg.com to see how many GREENSTARSTRIPES I could find (meaning they were dugg by my friends - vis-a-vis top 20 diggers. If a=b and b=c then a=c). The result? DIGG IT!


Only TWO (2) of the top 10 stories were NOT dugg by a friend of mine. I make sure to only keep top dogs as friends too. So, this proves that you need ATLEAST 2 things to get to the top home page of digg. First, good friends. Second, HIGH "overall ranking." (remember? this is where you have to pay your dues and submit stories from nytimes or yahoo news even if you don't have only other vested interest)

But, since the DIGG algorythm is NOT only based on these two factors, AND since digg put higher weight on NONfriend's diggs than FRIENDS' diggs, lets look at how to get NON FRIENDs to digg ya... next story...

PS... if you think this sounds like eons of hard work, look at this again:
It only took John Adam 2 months to become a Celeb Digger. See the MEMBER SINCE date. Now, He's #4 in all of DIGG in 4 months. That's more pull than Kevin Rose himself. =) DIGG IT!

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

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