Ultimate Guide to use Digg for bloggers
Every blogger want to be successful, or as I like to say every blogger have a vision for success. Success is very subjective. For a blogger it can mean a lot of subscribers, tons of traffic, a lot of quality articles etc etc. To achieve any vision of success, bloggers give digg a try. Now whether they succeed or not is out of a question, but they give it a try. Now I talked to a few people, they didn’t know how to function digg. A lot of people are clueless on how else you can use digg other than promoting your own article. So I will give you guys a brief overview of what is digg, and how a blogger can make use of it.
What is Digg
“Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users.” (Digg’s About Page) Now in a simple terms, Digg is a place where people submit articles that they like, and if others like it. They vote it also called digging it. The more people digg your article, the popular it gets.
How to make use of digg as a blogger?
- To Stay Updated – A lot of bloggers use digg to stay updated. I am one of those bloggers. I often check out Digg to see what is going on around the world. I mean there is so much going on, you can watch CNN one hour and won’t find out, but you can see digg and you would know. So I use digg to stay updated.
- Get Ideas for Post – Well as I am reading and staying updated with the world. I often find interesting things that I can blog about. Interesting articles that I like and I can share on my Sweet Monday Link Roundup. A lot of tutorials that I can use for myself and post on my blog. So I use digg as an inspiration as well.
- Digg to Connect – It does get a bit hard to connect with anyone on digg, but digg is the way you can find new people. There are so many people that become a fan of yours, and you can add them as a friend. Check out their website and so on. That is why my digg profile page have a few of my important links. Make more mutual friends because they will be the one who see the articles that you digg.
- Advertise your articles – It becomes spam if you submit all of your own articles, but if you submit your own articles once in a while it doesn’t effect you. Although having a power digger digg your article will get you a lot more diggs. But you can use digg to increase traffic on your own site. If you hit digg’s home page, you will get insane amount of traffic.
How to get crazy amount of traffic from Digg?
Digg can bring enormous amount of traffic if used correctly. If not directly from digg, then it will be from Search Engines because people see digg articles rank higher than your own article for extremely competitive keywords, so read the tips below to find out how you can get crazy traffic from digg.
Write a Killer Headline
If you ever take a quick look at Digg’s Homepage notice the way how the titles are constructed. They are not exactly the title of your post. They are different, unique, and most of the times use competitive keywords. Most importantly they are catchy. So write creative headlines. You will not get this on your first time, so keep practicing.
Get a Lot of Diggs
Sounds hard, but it is doable. All you have to do is write a quality article. People who visit your article, and if they like it. They will digg it. If they don’t like it then they will bury it. So the better resource your article is, the more you are likely to get more diggs. Getting a lot of diggs at once is the key to get on the homepage, so you need to spread the word around fast.
Use the Share button. Go to Shout it, and then shout the article to all of your friends.
But if you have more then 200 mutual friends, then you can only send it to 200 at one point. So you might have to manually select them. It can take time, but it is worth it.
Next thing you need to do is ask your friends to digg the article on other social media networks such as Twitter and Plurk. If your article is extremely useful in your opinion, you might as well share it on forums and more people will digg there.
Search Engine Ranking
See how your blog is doing with Search Engines such as google and which keywords you are ranking for. Try to use some of the powerful keywords in your digg title and you will rank high in search engines. Which means high indirect traffic from digg.
Disadvantages of using Digg
There are too many advantages such as high traffic, ideas, serps, connections. But with good there have to be something bad as well. One thing that Digg can really hurt bloggers is beating you for a Search Engine Ranking Position. Digg tend to rank higher then your own article, so if you were number 1. Now digg will take that spot most likely unless your website have more authority then digg. Another problem with using digg is waste of time. Sometimes people get crazy over digg, and the effort of becoming a power digger takes the best of them. People waste too much time digging useless stories in a hope that one story will hit the top page and they will become power diggers. So you can technically waste a lot of time.
Bottom Line
I am telling you guys to begin using Digg. It will bring insane traffic to your site directly or indirectly. It will get you more connections and gain you more readers. Digg is well worth your time if you use it effectively. Remember use it don’t abuse it 
BTW: If you like this article then feel free to digg it 
Hey, I am Syed Balkhi, The guy who is behind Balkhis Inc. I entered the industry back in 2002 not knowing a single thing. I barely spoke English at that time. In the past six years, my language barrier has been eliminated. Aside from English, now I also speak html, and php. Along with the languages I have also managed to master a few arts. Art of web-designing started when I first entered. Messing around with photoshop, I learned how to create my first web design. Now I founded a web designing firm Uzzz Productions. After running numerous amount of websites in various niche, I have mastered the art of web-development. Now I am compiling a resource of what I already know, and what I am learning on this blog. This resource is to help me if I ever need a guide to look back to, and it is help my fellow webmasters.
Nice one buddy! I used digg for a while but didn’t really become a power user. I guess I really have to start making connections and stuff on Digg. Just so many SN out there! hehe
Yeah, but all you have to do really is write a good article. And digg other good articles. People will add you and you add them back. Thats all.
Hey Syed,
Exactly, you are true. Every blogger who is frequent with Digg knows the fact that submitting your own articles (i.e, digging) makes those stories (links) to start getting less priority than other newly submitted stories.
A novice blogger here after reading this post must be thinking of quickly adding many friends on Digg and start shouting for each of the post. But Digg is not owned and run by foolish people. They are more smarter than we are.
So, new bloggers who got excited after knowing about the SHOUT feature, plz stay calm and be honest with blogging. The more you are honest in this field, the more you get back. If you don’t believe than ask successful bloggers. They all are kings of honesty when it comes to promoting their blog posts.
Regards
Laksh
http://makemoneyonline-withme.blogspot.com/
You make it look so easy, but what I have found is having more followers that you can send shouts to will get you noticed more by sending them a shout, versus just submitting an article to Digg and waiting for others to notice it.
The problem is that you need to be involved in the community and get along with your friends there. No matter how good your article is, if you know no one there, no one’s gonna digg you
You are right on that one, but if one wants to do that you have to be an active digger. Which becomes a pain sometime. I know if I post article on forums and social media networks I have gotten over 100 diggs … which obviously is not a big number. But I think those articles were the one that still bring me traffic till this day. And when I mean traffic, I mean massive amount of traffic.
Great article! I have been a member of digg for quite a while but just started using it actively around 6 months ago.
I read another blog post about the disadvantages of Digg at ProBlogger.net. I suppose one needs to be networked with a lot of people on Digg to get lots of traffic.
You explained that really well; I had not realized that Digg was quite that powerful.
Good detailed information. I hardly ever thought of creating a community a community on Digg. I sometimes use stumble upon to great effect and can see the results right away. I think i should be trying Digg as well and use it the way mentioned. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on the same.
I hardly use Digg much anymore as I know that because my blog isn’t about politics or finance – I also have a few hundred friends but most don’t take shouts
Great tips. Thanks for sharing.
I was just wondering – was it I that inspired this article by asking you about this stuff the other day?
Yes you did that is why I specifically include the shouting option as an image
Till now i know one thing about digg,Just i used it for nothing…After reading the post it makes some sense
Thanks for the rocking post
Zk
Very nice explanation of how to use Digg. I haven’t used it much, but I may have to look into it again.
NathanKP – Imagination Manifesto
well, it will be interesting to see if my post from today — with what i think is a killer headline — gets anywhere. i’m fairly new with digg, and never have gotten more than 10 or so on any one article. but that doesn’t stop me from trying, though i guess it’s possible that getting a lot of digg attention might crash my webhost!
I wonder how much time do you need to spend in order to gather many mutual friends which will vote for your promotion stories?
As my comment in the digg, you really made me understand how to use digg in a proper way. I’ve been joining digg long time ago but had no time to learn how to use it. Now you make it simple and plain. Thanks,buddy!
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Nice guide..
I once made on digg homepage and got blasted with traffic, server crashed..
so be prepared for digg effect.
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Great article! I have been a member of digg for quite a while but just started using it actively around 6 months ago.
The problem is that you need to be active on digg if you want your friends to vote for and that takes enormous amount of time.
This is my first visit here Syed and I have just been zapped by your post. I actually came here by googling for information about digg and this popped up.
I am impressed with your blog and shall frequent it. Thank you for the tips here.
I am glad you liked my blog. Looking forward to see you around.
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I have been a member of digg for quite a while but just started using it actively around 6 months ago.
I never got the blast of visits from DIGG, now i will try your given tricks to get one blast.
BTW stumble gives good traffic.
Stumbleupon is a great source of traffic as well. A lot of my traffic comes from stumbleupon.
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This once again underlines the fact that the content should be good to begin with. Good post.
Good post. I find for me though, digg just doesn’t convert.
The problem is that you need to be involved in the community and get along with your friends there. No matter how good your article is, if you know no one there, no one’s gonna digg you
Hey some good ideas there.. never focused that much on Digg.. But now I will!
Great post, this is very good information! helpful… Thank you!
Excellent review.When it comes to submitting marketing related stuff to Digg, I have noticed that they get buried quite fast so I have skipped Digg altogether and use Mixx.xom instead.
perhaps the best article on digg. Nice write up balkhis.
Your post is rich in the informative stuff and urge readers generate fresh ideas.
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Really useful post. We are starting to use articles on our site, and including a Social Media Booknmarking box, so hopefully we should get one or two Diggs of them. Are there any tips for making articles more Diggable, or is it just about great content?
as you said , good articles get dugged in digg so be sure that you submit a good articles also you can get this by another way ” friends ” .
I’ve had tons of friends make money using Digg. If you hit the front page, it brings you a boat load of traffic.
Good ideas about usig Digg,you seem to be so experienced and inventive about the sphere you work in.
Sure he is, beside he is a great great web designer. We look at you for inspiration Balkhis.
Hi Syed,
Which category would you usually post your internet marketing posts under in Digg? I’ve recently starting with the whole Digging affair so I’m actually looking around – and I found your blog post
Asher
Probably in Industry News.
This has given me a really great idea for a Valentine’s marketing scheme for our site: “Serenade your loved one – buy a musical instrument today!”
Sorry I posted this on the wrong page!!! What I meant to say was thankyou for useful info on Digg! We’re pushing forward with Social Media Marketing so this is a great resource.
The idea of serenades for Valentine’s will suit for any page…
i think social bookmark like digg will be more used to SEO in the future.
so i try to always digging my site.
Its true that Digg can give you lots of traffic if it gets digged and on the front page, but lately I haven’t been getting much traffic from Digg. It seems only the people with lots of friends get their site digged.
I am not very enamoured with Digg. There are just too many posts on any given day and each is competing with all the others.
Thanks for such a comprehensive review. Telling the truth it did not came to my mind to make a community on Digg as I greatly use stumble, getting not so bad results. But your pointers almost convinced me to move to Digg.
Some great digg tips here, it changed the way i used digg for my blog content promotion. i was about to hit from page. i donno when it will happen.
I tried to comment on your other post, the headline one, but the comments simply would not go thru.
Hey Syed, I Like what you write.
Just to give a Number on how much traffic you can get via digg , i can say if “any” blogger apply what is mentioned in your topic, then it’s “easy” to drive 1000~10000 visitor a day.
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yes: belive it or not, but this is the reality
but don’t get me wrong, coz you have to master this steps. and the first step is ” write a killer headline”
Thanks so much Syed.
Anouar
I absolutely share the opinion of writing a killer headline which is so helpful in attracting the visitors to the sites.That was the main point in some of our projects.Though there are the other factors of great importance in building the traffic.
A good tip that they always give is to use the wordpress cache plugin, but I don’t understand what wordpress caching does, compared to the default caching that wordpress does. I guess they say that the wordpress cache plugin reduces the load on the server, thus is good for when you get alot of digg traffic.
Till then,
Jean
i use digg to get my pages indexed and it send some traffic for me .. but i hope someday i hit the first page so i get the big prize .
I think you hit the nail on the head there, Digg is good for the backlinks, but hitting the front page is next to impossible unless you know the right people.
Nice article. I have been on Digg for a few months but havn’t been able to get lot’s of diggs for my blog posts. Trying to add more contacts but it takes a lot of time.
Thanks for the post. Digg is a great source of blog traffic. i have got many visitors from Digg
Advertising your blog might be hard on digg. Unless you have really amazing content you won’t get through to people. However getting ideas is a great reason to start using digg – you’ll immidietely know what people are interested in at the moment.
I think with sites like Digg, it’s not so much amazing content which gets on the front page, but the more stupid, the better.
I have not had the chance to use Digg extensively, however I think that would be a good idea.
Another disadvantage is the Digg Effect – many smaller hosts or shared hosting can’t handle the loads that a front page digg submission can cause. But, don’t get your hopes up for quality traffic from digg anyway.
I think that the main factor that determines if you are going to get traffic from digg is the heading and the summary of your submission. Oh, yes, not to forget the first people who visit your page and vote for it.
I spend a lots of time on Digg and I have seen the success result but I prefer reddit and SU for now because Digg traffic doesn’t last for long. It gives you a great spike and then vanish.
Using SU is a much wiser choice because you will keep getting traffic for long.
I use digg to get any new websits indexed. Usually happens within 4-5 hours. Never really focused on it for traffic purposes.
thanks for guide…I always banned by digg before
I enjoyed your post.
The benefits of digg are amazing!
I have been trying to write a catchy headline but none of my article seem to be catching on at digg.
That’s a pity I didn’t pay attention to digg using other factors to get much traffic,now I am about to start using this resourse for better results.
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You explained it well, now i know that digg is quite powerful.