Promoting websites via Digg.com

Hi, I am new to social bookmarking and user generated contents. I would like to learn promotion techniques via Digg.com as the most trafficable website among competitors.

Do you have any ideas? It seems that just having great content or free gadget is not enough. Peopel just don't "Dugg" it as I have hoped.

 

I now this is kind of a "grey hat" method, but you can use the Buy, Sell or Trade section of this forum to find "diggers" for your stories...

 

Don't submit your own site to Digg. They will ban your account. I have only seen about 1/2 dozen sites that people "Digg".

 

I always digg my own pages, but only if they're articles. I never digg affiliate pages. To me, that site is nothing more than a backlink that may or may not amount to something, either way I don't care. It's worth a try like everything else.

 

Digg traffic is actually pretty worthless. It usually crashes your server if the story gets popular, and the ad revenue you'll gain from the visitors is surprisingly low.

 

You know what? I never tought of that...

Did you come to that conclusion through personnal experience or just because you're a "hater"... (mind me, a lot of people just come here to shoot other people's dreams)

 

Doesn't matter. If you put your link on Digg, you will get your site indexed in a matter of minutes. I would probably use it if I wanted to index a site really fast. It is a good technique, and I get most sites indexed in a matter of hours at most.

 

I might disagree here except for the Server crashing part.

I've managed to try and hit the Digg's front page 5 times! Yes, the server crashed on two of the websites but the click rate was good.. made around $10 in 20 mins!

Then I hit it on a experimental blog, hosted on wordpress.. was successful and managed to get 90,000 visits p/day

 

I used digg everyday until digg banned me, but only for several days.
I didn't there is a risk behind it

 

if your content is original, it doesn't matter if your digging your own posts.. you wont get banned!

 

I have been digging and only managed to get up to the front page 2 times. I hope to get more.

 

Are you serious? How would they know who the owner is?

 

Well I have to agree with you on that one.

 

WTF! 90,000 is more than I have heard about from digg. I know these are not really buying visitors but thats impressive.

 

Yes, 90,000 in 3 different occasions

Refer to the image and you'll know

 

Anyone know how many diggs you need to get on the frontpage? I know it's not 120 =[

 

if you plan on getting to page 1 digg you better backup your server

 

You gotta make good number of friends at Digg who use them regularly. And also you have to Digg their submissions as you request yours.

And you can ask for Diggs in forums (you can do that on the forum in my sig as well).

That would give you a initial boost, the rest to be done by the quality of your content.

 

I've never had my website dugg, but I've talked to some friends and they say that their ad revenue is just barely more when they're on the front page of digg.

The reason for this is digg users are generally webmasters as well. Webmasters rarely click on ads.

I'm sure it depends on what type of site you have, but a lot of times digg just isn't worth it.

 

you can't trick digg so avoid playing with it, you don't want your site to get banned from there, do you ?

Here is a tip,you can use digg comments to promote your site provided your site is related to the link, and add some value to the discussion. Instead of digg, you can try to promote your site from Digg Clones.