Digging Your Way To The Top In Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking will bring your blog more traffic, better search engine listings, and more subscribers. There is no doubt that it works well IF done correctly.
Spamming the social bookmarking sites will not work. Simply tagging blog posts will not do all that much for you. You need to actually participate in these communities to be effective.
You also need to write content that appeals to the people you are sharing stories with. You need to look at the stories that get voted on the most and follow their lead or become a leader yourself.
If you see that humorous articles are getting the most votes, write some humorous blog posts about your topic.
If you see that controversial topics are getting a lot of votes, blog about something controversial related to your topic.
here are what DIGG users had to say about being successful at DIGG;
How to Submit Popular Digg Stories That Get to The Front Page - Tips by Top Digg Users
Create a Catchy and Memorable Name
Build Up Your Digg Profile
Brand Yourself by Using an Avatar
Diggers Don’t Like When You Digg Your Own Articles
Use Feeds, News Alerts, and Social Aggregators to Stay Current on Very Current News Topics
Use Your Stumble Toolbar to Find Cool Sites to Submit to Digg
Know The Interests of the Digg Crowd
Choose Your Target Source Sites
Stay Active
Digg Stories When They Are New
Subscribe to Digg’s RSS Feed
Submitting a Lot of Stories
Stories From Major News Outlets are Hot
Try to Time Your Diggs
Try to Submit Stories on Off Peak Hours
Don’t Submit Your Own Stories Until You Are Able to Get 20 or More Diggs
Don’t Submit Stories to Digg if it is a ReBlog / ReCap of a Larger Story
Most of these are the same for other social bookmarking websites as well. However, if you are trying to build up traffic to your own blogs, digging stories from other sources doesn’t help you much does it?
These are good advice if you want to be personally popular at a social bookmarking site like digg and at digg, most of the people are there for just that reason. They enjoy that community and they want to be well known in their community.
Commercial use of social bookmarking is a little tricky. Promoting your own blog or trying to build traffic to your own blog requires that you follow some of the advice given here, but it also requires that you work it a little different than others who are just there to do social bookmarking because they enjoy it.
The advice to look at stumble upon to find stuff to post to digg actually made me laugh. If digg is such a great social bookmarking site, then why are you going to another social bookmarking site to find interesting things to digg?
Anyway, the part about not digging your own blog posts defeats the purpose for those who are trying to promote their own blog. Digg users do not want you there for that purpose. I don’t blame them. It’s just a fact you need to know before trying to use digg to promote your blog.
You should not associate your username at digg with your blog in any way. Make sure nothing in your profile links you to your blog including considering putting no information in your digg profile that is the same as information in the whois for your domain name.
Or get someone else to digg your blog posts for you. Do not get the same digg user to bookmark all of your blog posts. Do not have them do it every day. Simply pulling up their username to find out what stories they have dugg will reveal they always digg the same blog.
I’m not really telling you to trick digg users here. I’m not really into tricks. I use social bookmarking websites that do not care if I digg or submit my own stories. So I don’t use digg to promote my blogs at all. To me, digg is a waste of time.
But if you are a digg user and you want to be popular there and get your stories to the front page, these are good tips for doing so.
