How to Get More Diggs

[Chris Lang]

Yesterday I expanded my friends list on Digg and then decided to write a blog post about it.

How to get more Diggs

Power users on Digg with large friends lists can post the same link as you do and go to the front page while you just get a few diggs.

It takes 51 Diggs in 24 hours to go to the front page, maybe.

Do not digg your own posts. Also when digging an article digg a few other links too. Digg may be finding your digg irrelevant if you only digg one link per session.

Way more in the article. If you have more insight I would love to hear it.

If you are on Digg add Chris Lang as your friend and I will friend you back.

Cheers - Chris Lang

[Michael Lofton]

Thanks Chris!-
This is exactly what (I believe) this group is all about... insights, techniques and discoveries
that are passed on for better social marketing (leveraging) application skills.
best,
-michael

[Chris Lang]

You know Michael,

I have published more free information lately than I should have. I could have easily folded just how Google ranks blogs into an eBook and sold it.

However, Jack is so right when he talks about being an authority site. While I am here to make a living you have to stop chasing money at some point and walk the golden path.

= Chris Lang

[Chris Lang]

>> lets assume you comment on a digg post....

When you comment on someone's submission, the originator of the Digg item gets an email, thus drawing the attention of the person that submitted it. Just like we do here.

>> 51 diggs to the front page

As far as 51 Diggs to the front page, I just watched bluray vs apple start out with 80 Diggs.
As I said in the article, it matters who submitted the post, not how many diggs it has. The bluray post was submitted by a power user. A power user that I drew in to my mutual friends list using the strategies above.

>> id much rather submit my own stuff

You do not have to take the advice of SEOmoz’s CEO, that is linked to and quoted in the article about how 56% of the content on Digg is submitted by 100 power users.

I don't just pull this stuff out of a hat, it is well researched and documented and the links to big dog sites are in the article. Check 'em out.

= Chris Lang

[Chris Lang]

Hey, I'm a funny guy (Goodfellas reference) LOL

But actually look at my page here on SMC I have carried on a three day conversation with Erin about blogs and Google.

Not everything I do is self oriented but if you look at the big marketers they don't do anything that is not somehow related to a product they sell.

Real internet marketers don't do anything that does not somehow make them money.

I learned that watching Paul Meyers at talkbiz.com

[Chris Lang]

Here is an update on my how to get more Diggs post.

58 diggs and counting in 3 days to the how to blog post. The Digg page now appears in the SERPs under the term.

I am now seeing Google switching up my listings and trading out items from my blog through out my listings.

I am bouncing up and down the SERPs as Google tests the pulling power of my items.

That Google does this is detailed by myself and Andy Beard in many articles. I learned most of this from Andy Beard by the way in his articles on how Google ranks blogs.. Thanks Andy!

Two of my blog posts that never did well before both came in today in a Google alert for my domain. That means I am getting indexed more deeply and my incoming links are being found a bit more often.

Even though I didn't use a "Digg this" strategy on many of my pages I have moved up in Google on pages that did not previously rank well and don't have any Diggs!

I also used a strategy that I only reveal in my eBook as new friend requests come in. I keep a shout file in my quick links toolbar and when a new mutual friend request comes in the get this.

"Good to meet you! I just wrote an article on "How to Get More Diggs"

Take a look at this: http://digg.com/tech_news/How_to_get_more_Diggs_2

Cheers = Chris Lang http://www.keywebdata.com"

Now as I posted before Google judges your blog by how many subscribers you have in Google Reader.

I tried adding a link to subscribe to my RSS feed in Reader but not one new friend added it so I pulled it out.

It is well documented that Digg users prefer to stay on Digg, comment on posts on Digg and rarely convert to subscribers.

However by using a friendly blurb I did make quite a few good alliances on Digg yesterday.

The bad news is that the Suns lost to the Spurs. &%$#*

Love to hear your replies, especially yours David.

Cheers = Chris Lang

[Chris Lang]

A little more update.

Here is what Digg had to say about my article.

I am also #1 three days in a row on blogsearch for "how to get more diggs".

Usually blog posts sink down the list as they age and that is internet age in minutes.

That I am #1 three days in a row and only used Digg to generate links sounds like even this basic strategy works. BTW articles about Digg do well in Digg and is a strategy in itself.

Cheers = Chris Lang
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[JohnT]

Thanks for the information, Chris, I think you are on the right track... at the very least. I am going to make changes to my Digg account and see how things improve.

[Warner Carter]

make more friends and when you digg something shout to them all

[Darrell Taylor]

Chris,
Very good and timely info. I was asking someone this question today.
thanks,
Darrell Taylor

[Chris Lang]

I value your appreciation Lisa!

[Chris Lang]

Google buried my site today and here's why (I think).

I was rising in all my SERPs ranking the last four days using my Digg strategy we have been discussing here.

I was working like magic.

Today Google buried me, de-listed some of my blog posts and downgraded all my rankings for "avoid spam filters" and the other terms I chase for my spam filter eBook.

It kicked my butt for a while and I think I even cried a little bit, but then I went to work to figure why.

It's the shouts. Stay with me here, this is good stuff.

I have reiterated time and time again not to Digg your own pages and not to Submit your own pages.

But I did not think that Google could see my shouts to my friends, I have that set to private. No one should see them.

And if you go to your public profile you don't. OK, this is where Google is finding our shouts.

To see your public profile log in and click on your profile. Copy the URL. Log out. Now paste the profile url back in. Now you see your public profile.

Scroll thru your profile and it will even say "Sorry! Chris Lang Social Marketing Genius has decided to keep his shouts private."

Now click on your history in public profile view (you are logged out). This is the history that Google can see.

There are all your shouts. Frakin Digg (Battlestar Galactica reference).

Go to this link: http://digg.com/users/ChrisLang/history/

See my shouts? I do! Google can see that your are shouting links to Digg items that came from your site to your friends. I am going to delete the shouts later today so if you do not see any look in your own Digg profile if you have one.

<begin blatant self promotion>
Also I have links in my profile to my site and other SMO sites like my Squidoo page about How Google Ranks Blogs which will never rank well in Google but who cares, it is #444 today. 344 more slots and I go top 100!'
<end blatant self promotion>

Google knows that these are links that you added to your content. If the parent site of a Digg item is under domains that you link to then Google should be discounting them as self promotion. If I wrote the Google algo for this I would be doing that.

So here is my question of you....

Does Google find your shouts to your domains as spam? Or am I totally wrong here and I am about to remove links Google finds to my Digg items?

There is only one way to find out. I am going to delete all my shouts and see if the Digg item sinks. It can't get any worse here. The good news is that I am still #1 under Google Blog search for "how to get more diggs." Too bad nobody I know clicks the blog link in a Google search.

One last thing and this is really good. I think that when you submit a Digg item you should not copy and paste the headline and then the first two paragraphs right from the original article. This spanks of duplicate content.

I was #6 for "how to get more diggs" and the Digg item was #8. The item was submitted with the copy and paste scenario. Google totally kicked the original KeyWebData article from Google websearch and moved the Digg item to #4.

I really got this figured out but I kind of think I have spent alot of time chasing my tail here. LOL

What do you think? Desperate writers want to know!

[Charly Leetham]

Hi Chris, This is the first time in a week I have had to look at any of this. Your information is great and I think I agree with your surmise above.

As you so rightly point out, digging your items can be considered a bad thing, so why then would shouting them not be? It really comes down to self promotion. Google likes sites that rank organically because they are useful and informative, by shouting to your friends, you are shortcircuiting that.

I am interested to read the rest of your results.

Note to Digg users (and this is something I try to do once a week), go to your friends activity and look at what they're posting and digg it naturally.