Tips from a Top 10 Digg user on how to get to the Frontpage
ADVERTISEMENTSMany Bloggers these days want to get their blog posts to the frontpage of Digg so that they can increase their traffic and popularity of their blogs. Some are ready to go almost any extent to get diggs such as making fake usernames and asking friends to digg for them.
Yesterday, I had a chat with one of the Top 10 Digg users and he shared a few tips with me. If you really want to get on digg frontpage, here is how you do it…
- make atleast 15 friends on Digg so it gives fast exposure to your story
- get your friends to digg all your posts
- you must digg them in return
- if your story is good, it will get 20-30 more diggs but those 15 friends are the key
- you must select a niche like technology or world news
- then you pick 50 or so feeds and post fast
- feeds gives you fast sources on news
- Some of the Feeds I subscribe are:
- Ars Technica
- BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
- BBC News | Technology | World Edition
- Bloglines Search: kevin rose
- Bloglines | News
- CNET News.com
- CNN.com
- CrunchGear
- Engadget
- Google Blogoscoped
- Guardian Unlimited
- Official Google Blog
- Read/WriteWeb
- Scientific American
- Wired News: Top Stories
- The Huffington Post | Raw Feed
- TechCrunch
- Techdirt
- BBC News | Health | World Edition
- EurekAlert! - Breaking News
- Physics Org
- National Geographic News
- SI.com
- SI.com - NFL
- SI.com: SI Writers
- BusinessWeek Online — Most Popular
- BusinessWeek Online — Technology & Science
- TechWeb
- Nature
- HowStuffWorks.com
- Signum sine tinnitu–by Guy Kawasak
- Steve Pavlina’s Personal Development Blog
- Joystiq
- TMZ.com
- InformationWeek - All Stories
- iLounge | All Things iPod, iTunes and beyond
- PC World: How-To’s Update
- PC World: Latest Technology News
- The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
- eWEEK Technology News
- Leftlane News
- Tom’s Hardware
- New Scientist Tech - Technology
- New Scientist Tech - Weapons Technology
- New Scientist Tech - Aviation
- New Scientist Tech - Cars and Motoring
- CNN.com - Technology
- CNN.com - Science & Space
- LiveScience.com
- all u need is good 50-70 sources
- once you get to the frontpage about 20 times, it gets easy
- so you must look for diggers who post a lot, digg them fast, and post good stuff fast
- top diggers like DigitalGolpher (Amit) get 30 free diggs
- top diggers are just gamers, nothing special about them
- use attractive titles using why, how, etc. Example: “Why Windows XP is the best OS”, “15 reasons why Windows XP is the best OS”, “How to tweak Windows XP”
- you must be fast in posting because if you are slow, other Diggers will post the news you want to post, before you.
- use good description
- its a game, you will learn, as you play
- digg bans lot of blogs as splogs so be careful
- digg users may report your posts as Spam for fun as Digg has bad crowd, so you have to be very professional
- rarely blogs gets to go frontpage, unless it’s very popular
- digg management is watching for blogs
- digg groups are not effective
- generaly you need 50 Diggs to get to Frontpage
- if your rate of digg is high, it can go frontpage with 25 Diggs
- I had one not promoted at 65, one took 75, one took only 9 Diggs!
If you want to get your blog posts on the frontpage of Digg, make sure you have posts worth it. Also start digging the stories that some of the top 100 digg users submit. Add them as friends and if possible try to make them submit your stories. Stories dugg by them have more chance of showing on Frontpage. If they find your articles useful, they will surely submit your stories for you.
Do you agree with all the tips that this user has shared with me? And, more importantly, what other tips would you like to add to this list?
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Posted on October 3rd, 2006 | Category: Tutorials |
Srinivasa Ramanujam
October 3, 2006 at 2:00 pm
Thanks for sharing the tip with us john. I have made a post out of this in my weblog also :).
siong1987
October 3, 2006 at 6:11 pm
It is actually hard for bloggers to get to the front page of the digg. So far, I only could possible get 3 dugg for the post i wrote in my blog. But, this tutorial is helpful. Thank you, John.
Mike Yarmish
October 3, 2006 at 6:14 pm
Very helpful information. Thanks for sharing!
Gleb Reys
October 3, 2006 at 6:17 pm
Great post, I find the tips rather general but truthful.
Thanks!
Bat
October 3, 2006 at 8:32 pm
Thanks for the tips..I can use these tips to make my story appear in the frontpage..but for your information, I use the digg.com.my , not the original digg.com
because my target visitor is only for Malaysian..
Ashok
October 3, 2006 at 8:40 pm
Definately a useful post. But you should also give tips to make friends in digg community.
JohnTP
October 3, 2006 at 9:37 pm
Ashok- I will share whatever I learn. Right now, some tips I can give you are- Add Top Digg users as friends on Digg and keep digging their stories and help them to get their stories to the frontpage. Soon they will start noticing you, and may start digging your posts.
If you are lucky enough they might even contact you and then perhaps you can ask them to submit your story. I just started making friends on Digg, I will try soon to get a Top Digg user to submit my story
Recently my friend Shivaranjan was contacted by two Top users as he kept digging their posts. I believe he is friends with them now and will probably ask them to digg his story soon
Currently I am also trying to find on how to get real traffic from Stumble Upon. I did manage to increase my traffic with it’s help. I will share my tips on it in the future
Thilak
October 4, 2006 at 12:09 am
OK people, start digging this
http://digg.com/tech_news/Tips....._Frontpage
Madhur kapoor
October 4, 2006 at 4:55 am
Great tips John . Am too starting to make friends now .
John
November 30, 2006 at 11:23 am
I use Plime.com (http://www.plime.com) instead - it’s a lot easier to make the home page there and I get more traffic than I usually do with stories that dont make Digg’s homepage.
topdigguser
November 30, 2006 at 11:35 am
As a top Digg user it all about your friends, and it’s all about the content. I could post “hamsters love whale blubber” and get 7 - 8 diggs, but we police our own. So if it sucks I’m getting Dugg down fast. Recently I’ve tried to post more interesting content from not so mainstream sources. My normal hate Bush stuff was getting shot down, and I guess for good reason. However if you find a good story about Steve Job, Apple, and for the life of me I don’t get it but Wii or PS3 you’re there. Best of luck from a huge fan of Steve Gibson, that is if you want to know who I am
jontu
November 30, 2006 at 12:46 pm
Or if you can afford it, and you’re heartless, just shell out gobs of money to User/Submitter.
John Jackson
December 6, 2006 at 12:58 pm
I am new to digg so all tips are helpful. thanks