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The Results Are In - How You're Getting Your Diggs

Last week I asked you all to let me know how you get your Diggs. We received a good amount of response which included a mix of answers that covered the spectrum of possibilities. I also want to extend my gratitude to everyone that participated. I really learned a lot about the Pronet audience. Let us begin.

If you write great content, then eventually you will get there. - JakeNudge

Since the only reason for Digg to exist is to socially select the best contents, I think number 6 [good content] is the only one acceptable. - PELUKA

It was obvious that the majority of the responders believed that good content was enough to get Diggs. The tough thing about Digg at this point however, is that there is so much content being submitted, it can be hard to get enough people to look at your article. (This is why their planned friend recommendation system will be so important)

Good Content alone may be the ideal, but I don't think it will ever be the case no matter what Digg tries to do. Digg is too much like the real world. People who already get attention or have the resources to get attention will get it. - Chris Sandberg

A few people stated that supplementing an articles submission by using a mix of the available methods, whether shady or not, are what is needed. I think that this can be done in a non-intrusive manner, but seldom is. Many times, people will spam links or beg for Diggs using email, Facebook, or IM. My favorite comment of the discussion spoke out against some of the shadier methods of promotion.

I tend to think paying people to Digg is pretty unethical, but I don't see any problem with letting someone know your content made it onto Digg, assuming it's a one or two time thing. If "friends" were to start spamming me with "Digg this" requests that'd be... well... spam. - Jeremy Steele

Even well-known Diggers can get caught up in the trap of forced promoting rather than letting the Digg system work organically. As Jeremy stated above, sending repeated messages with "Digg this" is spam, plain and simple. Please don't spam.

Reader Comments (8)

Connor Wilson, June 26, 2007

You can have the killer content, title and description, but factors like the time of day, submitter and amount of time between Diggs can really kill the article's chances.

It doesn't help that there are a bunch of users thinking they're doing the world a service by burying all blog articles thinking it's blogspam. Why not just read NYTimes or something?

Anyways, very interesting survey Steve, and while the results weren't very surprising, there's some nice insight from the users.

Jeremy Steele, June 26, 2007

"It doesn't help that there are a bunch of users thinking they're doing the world a service by burying all blog articles thinking it's blogspam."

Yeah, and it's even worse when some users say something like "How is this blogspam?" and their comment gets dugg down as well.

BTW: Thanks for using my comment :)

Passenger 57, June 26, 2007

where is link to previous article newbie?

Passenger 57, June 26, 2007

My answer "Amazon Mechanical Turk" is deleted!!!!

Steve Searer, June 26, 2007

Here you go P57,

http://www.pronetadvertising.com/articles/how-do-you-get-your-diggs34366.html

My apologies :)

Peluka, June 26, 2007

I actually don't think great content is enough. I even said that I doubt about it because there are great blogs with no diggs (specially non-English blogs, obviously). What I do think is that great content should be enough, cause that's the site for at the end, but there's always other factors in the equation, and that (except for cheating) is not necessarily bad.

By the way, it's an honor to be linked by Pronet. TKS... Any Spanish speaking bloggers arround?

JakeNudge, June 27, 2007

So i guess now that you have quoted me, I really should knuckle down and start writing some great content so I can prove my hypothesis correct huh? :)

Duplinks.com, October 24, 2007

How To Get 1 Million Diggs ==> http://tinyurl.com/yugjqd