Dealing with social media such as Digg is really fun and challenging. People submitting what they have on their website with the purposes are to get backlink (linkbaiting tool), exposure (social marketing tool) and traffic. You can get all of them if you do well competing inside the Digg itself.
One of the parameter of how good you interact with Digg communities is whether you can reach the front page or not. Once you can reach the front page, you need to prepare your server or you lost your precious traffic. This effect is known as The Digg Effect.
To reach that point, there are many things you need to notice, act, and react. Here are the list some of the steps. You will get even more if you dig more.
1. Determine your goal.
Although your goal is quite clear, which is get the front page of Digg, knowing in which category you are fighting on is really helpful. On average, you need at least 70 or more Diggs for majority of category. But for less competitive category, 30 Diggs maybe enough to bring your submission to the front page.
2.Knowing characteristics of Digg community.
Did you already notice that there are more registered male users than female. Also, have you notice that the age of Digg users are somewhere between teen and twenties, liberal political view and most of them have no college education. These facts are important to determine your strategy.
Articles about Apple, Google, open source, or environment are proven to be preferred by the users. On the other hand, articles about George W. Bush, Microsoft, or SEO are less interested.
3.Do submission by using good account.
Already known and trusted user or submitter usually easier to be dug. You don’t have to be top user to lead your submission to the front page, but at least your submission won’t be concluded as a crap submission.
Becoming top user also have a lot advantage although you need invest your time and dedication. Once you become top user, you are one step in front of your competitors.
4.Don’t write crappy content.
Writing crappy content is not only waste your time but also destructed your name. Before you write, it’s better to do some research about your niche and allocate your time to know 20 last Diggs. See the pattern and exploit it. Just like general pattern of web articles, fabulous content = more Diggs = more traffic. Write the good article and make it great!
5.Promoting with correct timing.
If you ask your friend to dig your stories, then do it within good time frame. No matter you promote it by email, IM, tweets, Facebook, or anything, do it so it seems natural. It will be very strange if you receive one hundred digs after one hour and only five digs in the next 24 hours.
6.Prepare your server.
Have a good story? Prepare your server for your own good. Receiving 10.000 visitors in one hour is possible if you reach front page, that’s why
Just like I wrote in the beginning, more you deep inside Digg, more you can elaborate all the tips and tricks then lead your story to the front page.
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