While Digg, once in the past one of the top social voting locales on the Internet, lost a considerable measure of its shine subsequent to their real overhaul a year ago to form four, regardless they get no less than 2.5 million guests for every month in the only us and have an Alexa rating of 167, PageRank of 8, and Domain Authority of 100.
Digg is additionally a tiny bit more promoting benevolent than their primary rivalry Reddit. The accompanying aide will help you figure out how to utilize Digg for offering your great substance to a bigger gathering of people.
Members of the Digg community can submit and share content to the Digg network under the main categories of Business, Entertainment, Gaming, Lifestyle, Offbeat, Politics, Science, Sports, Technology, and World News. These broad categories allow for almost any area of content to be submitted.
When content is voted upon by other members of the Digg community (also known as getting diggs or being dugg), it gets the chance to be discovered not only by your own followers, but also the community at large by making it to the Holy Grail – the Digg homepage (or when you’re logged in, the Top News section). While the exact formula to what gets on the homepage is a mystery, the general theory is that a submission which receives a high number of votes within a short amount of time will likely make it to the top of the list.
If you want your submissions to get views and diggs, the best place
to start is by having a strong Digg following. Getting followers on
Digg is a bit more tricky than getting followers on Twitter. My best
tips on the matter are as follows.
Digg is additionally a tiny bit more promoting benevolent than their primary rivalry Reddit. The accompanying aide will help you figure out how to utilize Digg for offering your great substance to a bigger gathering of people.
How Digg Works
Members of the Digg community can submit and share content to the Digg network under the main categories of Business, Entertainment, Gaming, Lifestyle, Offbeat, Politics, Science, Sports, Technology, and World News. These broad categories allow for almost any area of content to be submitted.
When content is voted upon by other members of the Digg community (also known as getting diggs or being dugg), it gets the chance to be discovered not only by your own followers, but also the community at large by making it to the Holy Grail – the Digg homepage (or when you’re logged in, the Top News section). While the exact formula to what gets on the homepage is a mystery, the general theory is that a submission which receives a high number of votes within a short amount of time will likely make it to the top of the list.
Setting Up Your Digg Profile
When you make a record on Digg, you can include some data about yourself under your profile settings including:
Full Name – If you need individuals to have the capacity to discover your Digg profile amongst list items for your name, you'll need to put your genuine name here.
About Yourself – Put in a few insights about who you are and your intrigues so individuals having the same hobbies will be more prone to tail you.
Joins – You can mean five connections to any site you pick on your profile. The exemption is connections to your Twitter or Facebook – these won't appear. Google+ will however. Despite the fact that the connections are nofollow (significance they get little SEO esteem), they are helpful to have up on the off chance that somebody needs to know all the more about you.
The other thing you can tweak under your profile settings is your Viewing Digg alternatives. You can set your default perspective to My News (the most recent entries made by individuals you are taking after) or Top News (the top entries made by the whole Digg group), how to open outer connections (inside of another window or the same window), how to request remarks, and other details.
Full Name – If you need individuals to have the capacity to discover your Digg profile amongst list items for your name, you'll need to put your genuine name here.
About Yourself – Put in a few insights about who you are and your intrigues so individuals having the same hobbies will be more prone to tail you.
Joins – You can mean five connections to any site you pick on your profile. The exemption is connections to your Twitter or Facebook – these won't appear. Google+ will however. Despite the fact that the connections are nofollow (significance they get little SEO esteem), they are helpful to have up on the off chance that somebody needs to know all the more about you.
The other thing you can tweak under your profile settings is your Viewing Digg alternatives. You can set your default perspective to My News (the most recent entries made by individuals you are taking after) or Top News (the top entries made by the whole Digg group), how to open outer connections (inside of another window or the same window), how to request remarks, and other details.
Getting Followers
- Digg and comment on submissions in your area of interest. The more active you are, the more your profile will be seen by others and followed by people with similar interests.
- Link to your Digg profile everywhere. This includes your email signature, forum signature, website, blog, and social networks that allow you to have links to your other social profiles such as Google+ and Facebook. Give your Digg profile a tweet every now and again too so you can get new followers off of your Twitter connections.
- Follow people in hopes that they follow you back. If you want to find new people to follow on Digg, including the top users based on most promotions, rising stars, and top commenters, you will want to visit the Find People page. You can find people based on who you are currently connected with on Twitter, Google, and Facebook too.
Getting Diggs
Now, the part you’re probably the most interested in – how to get diggs for your submissions. From my experience, your best bets are the following:
Add the Digg Button to your content. Digg offers a few styles to choose from – you can add the JavaScript code directly onto pages you want dugg or, for self-hosted WordPress and other CMS driven sites, you can add the JavaScript code into your theme’s template.
Share your submission on Twitter. If you’re not sure people will get the hint by just directing them to your piece of content with the integrated Digg Button, your next option is to send them directly to the submission itself on Digg. To get a link to your submission, just click on the comments for the it and share the direct URL which usually looks like digg.com/news/category/your_submissions_title. I wouldn’t ask often, but it never hurts to throw out the occasional Digg request to your followers on Twitter.
Reach out to people directly via Instant Messenger and email. Some of the most successful pieces of content (besides the ones that naturally get diggs) are the ones marketed by people with a network. Know who your connections are that use Digg and send them a friendly request to give your submission a vote if they like it.
Add the Digg Button to your content. Digg offers a few styles to choose from – you can add the JavaScript code directly onto pages you want dugg or, for self-hosted WordPress and other CMS driven sites, you can add the JavaScript code into your theme’s template.
Share your submission on Twitter. If you’re not sure people will get the hint by just directing them to your piece of content with the integrated Digg Button, your next option is to send them directly to the submission itself on Digg. To get a link to your submission, just click on the comments for the it and share the direct URL which usually looks like digg.com/news/category/your_submissions_title. I wouldn’t ask often, but it never hurts to throw out the occasional Digg request to your followers on Twitter.
Reach out to people directly via Instant Messenger and email. Some of the most successful pieces of content (besides the ones that naturally get diggs) are the ones marketed by people with a network. Know who your connections are that use Digg and send them a friendly request to give your submission a vote if they like it.
New: Digg Newsroom
A new feature of Digg is the Digg Newsroom.
The Digg Newsroom allows you to follow topics of interest, from the
main categories listed earlier to specific hot topics such as Apple,
Facebook, Space Exploration, Mobile, Microsoft, Election 2012. Careers,
and Lady Gaga. The front page items for each of these topics will be
based on number of votes and rankings by top contributors of Digg.
Your Digg Experience
What has your involvement with Digg been subsequent to the last patch up of the framework? Kindly share your tips and traps in the remarks!
