Digg

Digg is a very popular tool for keeping yourself updated on current events, and new web creations. While there are plenty of other Social Bookmarking sites, I would like to focus on this one specifically because it is currently the largest, and most popular.

Some of you may not be familiar with what Digg is, and how it works. I will give you a basic rundown of Digg. Being a basic user of Digg doesn’t require anything from you besides typing in the URL, and clicking a few links. Now, if you want to comment, submit your own stories, have a friends list, view your Digg history, you will need to sign up for a free account. Once you have an account, you can do all the things I listed above. You can submit stories to Digg for other people to read and vote on, post comments on other peoples’ stories to tell them how crappy it was, etc.

Digg can bring you a decent amount of traffic if you get your story on the front page. Yes, traffic will come occasionally from just having a mildly popular story up, but the real hits start rolling in when you make it to the front page. To get on the front page, you need to get votes. The first thing everyone should do when they post a story on digg is tell their friends. Give your friends, enemies, acquaintances a link to the story, and tell them to Digg it. The more Diggs the article has, the more Diggs the article can potentially receive. The more Diggs the story receives, the closer to the front it gets, and the more traffic you can get.

I wouldn’t recommend spending your life on Digg, trying to get people to vote and whatnot, but it is certainly not to be ignored.  I personally do not have any results to show you from Digg, not because I don’t want to use it, but because I can’t. I won’t get into that though!