Hit the Digg Frontpage with SocialElves

We have seen some ‘pay to Digg‘ sites in the past which promised to get our stories on the frontpage for some fee. Here’s a similar but better service called Social Elves. They say they are the first organic manual Digg service.

I found the site when one of their team members contacted me to advertise on this site.

What is SocialElves about ?

• We take your interesting story and combine it with the power of Digg networking.
• We don’t pay people to Digg.
• Instead, we use our established Digg contacts.
• We promote your story to those who are interested.
• We guarantee over 200 Diggs within 48 hours of your order.
• Most stories get front page with over 400 Diggs and tens of thousands of hits!
• Since we don’t force people to Digg, your story must be genuinely interesting.
• If your story isn’t ‘Digg worthy’ or we can’t deliver 200 Diggs, we provide a full refund.
• Our experience with social networking is unrivaled!

Instead of paying other people to Digg, SocialElves uses a collection of accounts and reputable connections established on Digg. They will ’shout’ your story through various accounts and spread it through their contacts.

When our story is submitted on Digg,  most of us shout the story to our friends on Digg and they vote for our stories. The more friends we have, the more votes we get. But how easy is it to make friends on Digg that will always digg your submissions, for that we have to be an active Digg user.

These guys are active Digg users and will do all the work of promoting your story on Digg for a price. They also say that they will pay your money back if your story gets under 200 diggs within 48 hours of payment.

Note that SocialElves don’t guarantee front page. They only guarantee over 200 Diggs within 48 hours of your order. My question is, do we have 48 hours time to hit Digg frontpage? I have heard that we have only 24 hours time.

One good thing is that SocialElves don’t reveal your digg story URL or any other story they have promoted earlier. So there’s little chance for your story to get buried by the Digg team.

Also since they don’t reveal their Digg usernames and yours, noone gets banned. Also it will be you that submits your story, so no one can find in that way too.

I remember that for some other ‘pay to digg’ site, users were banned and stories buried because the Digg team were able to find the username of the people running the site and their users. But on SocialElves, I don’t think this problem will be there.

Overall this service sounds good to me as they don’t pay people to digg and only use their accounts to promote our story.

Who’s behind Social Elves?

We are a team of internet marketers and web developers that have utilized Digg to promote our own stuff. Naturally, we began to gain more power and experience as time went on. We were soon able to take almost any story to the front page of Digg. Seeing the success of ‘pay to Digg’ programs and the absence of natural Digg marketing, we decided to give birth to SocialElves.

How much do they charge?

$300

Is it worth the money?

I cant guarantee because I have not tried them myself, but I found one story from socialelves.com that was submitted to Digg and it did not reach the frontpage. Here’s the Digg link.

This does not mean that they cant get your story to the frontpage and also I don’t think that you have to worry about the $300 you pay them because you will mostly get more than what you pay (maybe more than double the money).

Here’s why:

Getting on the Digg frontpage can send you a lot of traffic and get your site many links from different sites that will get you good traffic from Google and other search engines and will make you good money too. So you could easily make the $300 that you pay SocialElves to hit the Digg front page.

My tech blog got to the Digg frontpage recently thanks to my friend who is an active Digg user. The blog got a lot of traffic, comments and links after that and is now ranking well for many iPhone related keywords and gets good traffic from Google now. The site earnings have increased too.

I remember when a tutorial related to utorrent from this blog hit Digg frontpage years back, it got many links from different sites, forums, blogs (its still getting) very fast and very soon the post became the first result for the keyword ‘utorrent’ in Google and other search engines.

Google has and is still sending a lot of traffic for that post and made me good money too

So you see once your story gets on Digg frontpage, you will be making money for years form the post. So paying $300 is fine, you will earn it back

If you still do not want to pay for getting on Digg frontpage, you should:

1. be an active Digg user - submit useful stories and make many friends who will digg your submissions. Then submit  your own content (though I don’t think Diggers like people submitting their own content)

2. find a Top active Digg user who is willing to submit your story. Your story, provided its good, will have more change to get on digg frontpage as these active users will have many friends who will digg their submissions.

What’s your opinion about SocialElves?