Getting Dugg – A Guide to Using Digg - Best Blogs Asia
A guide on how to get you your web content out there and getting eyes on the page.
Readers of the internet use Digg to promote things they’re interested about. Whether it’s a serious news story to a funny picture, the impact of the site should not be understated. By people linking to your content from the site, you can increase your backlinks.
Digg List
How it works is that registered users submit content based on news stories, blog entries, videos, pictures and anything else. You write about the post and Digg links back to you. Users can then rank your post by digging or Dugg it, likewise if they don’t like your post they can bury it. The most popular stories get promoted to the homepage.
I’ve learnt that to get into Digg you need to:
- Write great content
- Have a catchy title
- Promote your digg listing within your online circles
- Keep trying
- Make sure the content contains no broken links and the hosting can cope with traffic
- Comment and Digg on other people’s listings – get established.
One way would be to multiple accounts, digging your article but if the content isn’t written well or interesting, then it’ll get buried quickly.
So what should I write about
Have a target audience in mind, who reads digg and what are there ages. I’d predict I’ll be from teenagers to 30+ year olds so writing the following may appeal to them:
- Write something “old school” but with a twist
- Infotainment content (education, information and entertainment) works best
- Solve a problem
- Promote up-to-date information
- Look for trends
- Write lists, how to guides or Top 10 things
- Make it entertaining, funny pictures work well
- Be interesting
I’ve also heard that stories submitted early in the morning PST usually do better then stories submitted at night.
Remember your titles
Titles are the most important thing on Digg, look at how others structured their words, making them short, interesting and to the point.
What happens when you get Dugg
Unfortunately I don’t have first hand experience, but I’ve read that don’t expect to be rich from more users clicking ads as it seems Digg users know how to ignore them. However, do expect your server to down, perhaps more subscribers to increase as well as social bookmarks to improve i.e. Delicious.
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