Digg was set up to be a “best of the web” social networking portal. It is a place where you can go to find the latest and best of the internet. In the short time that Digg has been live, it has become one of the most important social networks on the internet. It has become so important that people are selling “diggs”!
Here are the best ways to get traffic from Digg:
1. Make sure that you have a way for people to easily nominate your most recent post or article to the network. If you use WordPress there is a plug-in called Share This that you will want to install. The easier it is for people to submit your stuff to Digg, the more often you will be submitted and the more new people will click through to your site from the network.
2. As soon as your post has been approved on the network, hit your own network hard—send an email out telling everyone that you’ve been “dugg” and asking them to “digg” you. The more diggs you get, the higher up you will rise in the network. The higher you rise, the more people will click on the link and visit your website!
3. Make sure that your writing has catchy titles. You would be amazed at how many people will digg something or click through the network to your site based on your titles alone. Try to come up with titles that excite the reader’s imagination. The more interesting the titles, the more clicks your site will get!
4. Keep the content on your site readable. While it is great to get some extra clicks from Digg, you want to turn those drive bys into return visitors. Keep your content interesting. The longer you can keep a person reading your site on their first visit, the more likely they are to return for new material.
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Hey Stefan, I was wondering if you got my e-mails regarding advertising?
Haven’t heard back from you in a few days.
-Mike
Hi
Thats informative. I always keep on focusing on how to make visitors return to my website.So sometime I send them newsletter in their emails,sometime offer them new offers that are included in newsletter. So it pretty much help for returning traffic.
Despite all the people who say social media, digg in particular, is dead I gt over 20% of my traffic from digg last week. Which equates to when I really started writing for it and working the system.
There are a couple of other methods for getting diggs that I like. Using the Wordpress feed footer plugin you can include the standard digg button icon or should be able to. This is the upgrade I am going to try out later today.
You can also join a digg team to cross promote each other. I for one am getting ready to start a second one of my own. For anyone who isn’t affraid to shout to their friends list 5 to 10 times a day this is a great method of promotion.
I find that the title is such a huge part of getting Dugg… if you can spin a title off of a current event and still make it somehow relate to your business, it can work like a charm.
Thanks for the info on Digg — it’s helpful.
so good article on digg can bring us traffic but we also have good overall content to create return visitors. does any effect if we put entire post (one post) on homepage rather than use “more” tag?
Thanks for the tips, will refer back to them next time im ‘Digging’
Nice tips. A great alternative would be stumbleupon.com. There you will get traffic immediately after someone votes your page as a favorite page.
Hi, this is another great article. Thanks for the tips! We’re just getting started with digg and social media.
Great article. Definitely going to help me in my Digg endeavors.
I agree about the title being a huge factor in getting response. It’s gotta be catchy and enticing…like most things, or people
How do multiple pinginging services work for getting traffic?
I used them but have no way to find out how well they work
Yes Su worked better for me.
Thanks Emilia I’m writing better titles and the difference is huge.
Hi Mike.. sorry I forgot lol. I will send you an email
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