Don’t Submit Your Blog Posts to Digg

What is Digg?

Digg is yet another social community website for rating content.  The way it works is like this:

• You submit a news article, video or picture that you liked.
• You select a category that best fits your submission.
• Digg checks it for duplicates.
• If no duplicates are found you submit the article.

Once the article is live people can digg or bury your submission based on if they like it or not.  The more something is dugg the higher it goes up in rank.  If dugg enough it can make it to the front page where it will get a huge amount of views.

If you run a blog and you create posts and submit them to digg it is not a good idea.  I found out that posting your blog posts on Digg is a no-no.  The Digg community does not like this and they will report your submissions which makes it go no where.

On the other hand you can request that people digg your submissions for you.  If your article, etc. is good enough, then people may digg it many times.  There is this one decent Digg strategy that I have learned by reading around the web.  The first thing you do is add all your social media and blog profile links to your digg profile.  Simply edit your profile on Digg and scroll down to the link section.  Take a look at my Digg profile if you don’t know what I am talking about. 

Enter in all your profile links and they will look like this on your profile page at the top.  Then the idea is to Digg great articles, videos and pictures throughout the web.  If you can manage to Digg some articles that get to the front page then there is a good chance some of those people will take a look at your profiles and who knows what else.

The obvious idea is to get them to your blog or other social media sites where they can see your posts and maybe subscribe if it looks enticing enough.  Choose your diggs carefully!

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