Digg, Impossible to hit the frontpage if you don't have huge list of friends?

Some of my stories hit the frontpage because they were submitted by one of the top 20 diggers. But when someone "new" to that site submits something it seems impossible to get a decent amount of diggs.
Do you submit to digg? And what results are you getting from these submits?

 

I submit to Digg sometimes.

I get around 10 - 20 Diggs and not alot of traffic.

It doesnt work well for me. Someone should make a Digg trade forum or something... Hmmm, That gives me an idea...

 

they don't allow such thing explicitly , they will even ban you if they find out .

i think some stories occured in dp be4 about this .

make a search

 

Yeah that is not allowed.
But isn't a network of friends on digg basically the same?

 

yes friends usualy will digg each other ...

but when the digg team see on a forum a thread " digg me and i'll digg you .." that another story

 

It might be an explanation on why so much crap hit the front page.

 

I agree with commandos. I also used digg to generate some traffic

 

Yes it is almost impossible unless you pick a story that lots of diggers try and submit themselves, find you submit it and digg your story.

As a small time digger you should work on networking among other diggers and ask them to review your submissions. It works great (if you make good content) and is a legitimate way of doing it.

PM me if ya wanna network and share digg submissions.

 

As a top digger myself, friends are the single most important thing you need on digg. After friends comes good content of course. If you have neither, you will never make the front page.

 

Do you want to be my friend ?

 

Yes, I agree with that. If you want to hit the front page, make friendships.

 

Yes i've never gotten my post on the front page, although I am working at it. Just get alot of friends and such. Digg gets me about 10-20 visitors though and some of them keep coming back. Its good for just posting something xD

 

i've never reached the front page... but i did get quite some visits from it (300 visits in 125 days, but only 17 diggs to it)

 

i just saw a post in digg with only 6 diggs ..

 

yep thats true...to hit front page you need a ddescent reputation & lots of friends!

 

I used it and got some traffic. Is the idea here to try and keep posting new news? But how often?

 

I'm not a huge digg user, but i update my articles on there frequently. I've made it on the front page twice and got over 25,000 hits each time

 

Im the master of digg, iv been dugg 100 odd times and i have even managed to find a way of submitting the same page over and over again. Mwaaa-haaa-haaaaa

PS: No reputation nor friends needed. You just need a good story to submit.

 

When the top friends existed, you had them on your list, and they just tended to digg every article submitted by their "friends."

Your best bet is excellent articles and perfect titles.

 

mightyb - you've been front-paged over 100 times? Or just stories made it on Digg over 100 time?

My site has been on the front page twice, both times is received 50,000+ hits over the course of 2 days, then another 25,000 or so residual from other social bookmarking sites picking it up.

SCW1975 - agree with you 100% ... I've seen diggs on my submissions go from 2-3 when I first started, to 10-20 now just because I've built a larger network of friends. I don't Digg my own silly humor site though (don't want to get banned), but always find it interesting what posts readers submit.

Smiles,
Anita