If you want to get on the front page of Digg there are a few things you'll want to do:
1. Preparation
- Make 20 friends on Digg. If you log in to Digg with your Facebook account, you can automatically add all your friends from Facebook who are already on Digg. Otherwise, find people on Digg who write topics in your niche and friend them.
- Actively Digg your friend's posts as they publish them. You can log into Digg every day, click on Friend's activity and digg their stories (if they are worth digging of course). Being aware of their stories will also give you an idea of their interests, you can start communicating with them and even propose writing guest posts for each other.
- When you digg, be sure to add the digg to the correct category.
- Build up your credibility on Digg: do a daily survey of the most dugg stories and digg the once you like. That will make you a great resource for others and give them more reason to follow you.
- Be the first to digg other writer's content: subscribe to feeds that post news you are interested in. Try to be the first one to digg that story. That way, people and the digg algorithms will see you as a member who finds interesting stuff. So find blogs that post a lot, digg them fast. Once you've gotten the diggs you started on the front page 20 times, getting on the front page the 21st time will be a lot easier.
Start posting and get dugg
- Get your friends to digg your posts. Do this by knowing what they like and writing compelling content.
- If your story is any good, it will get 30 more diggs, but without those 15 friends initially digging you, it won't happen.
Anatomy of posts that get dugg easily
- Create a compelling title: grab the attention of your reader. Good titles make bold claims, e.g. "Why windows 7 is the best OS" or "Why president Obama is the best SEO specialist". Top 10 type lists are also extremely popular. Or something that makes it sound like little effort is involved to achieve something momentous: "Earn your first dollar blogging in 24 hours"
- Write about Digg. Digg loves Digg. Write about Digg and mention founder Kevin Rose by name.
- Write about Apple. Diggers love Apple. And they hate Microsoft. Play with that.
- Write about global warming. This is a big topic on Digg
- Write about Firefox.
- Add a "Digg this story" to your content. That will make it easier for your story to be dugg.
Some realities about Digg
- Make sure you have good hosting. If Digg generates lots of traffic, your site will need to be able to cope.
- Digg good stories fast, it is important that you are the first to digg.
- Blogs don't do well on Digg.
- Digg management is watching for blogs
- Digg users may report your digg as spam, so be very professional
- Digg bans a lot of blogs as splogs
- You need on average 50 diggs to make it to the front page.
- if your rate of digg is high, you can make it to the front page with just 25 diggs.
