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Yesterday I wrote about How To Launch A Digg Assault   How well did it work?

Overall it worked about as well as I expected.  Got 9 Diggs, 2 negative comments and drove a couple hundred visitors, but never got picked up and was buried in fairly short order.  But it still gave some insight on what worked well and what didn’t.

What worked

1) Getting Friends

Getting some of my blogging friends to Digg the post worked very well.  Chris at Blog-Op, Rich at Rich Minx, RT at Untwisted Vortex, and Tobsy at Bloggers Journey all came through amazingly quickly with Diggs.   I would say that asking some blogging friends to Digg it was the most successful part of the experiment, but the one that you can use the least often.   I certainly wouldn’t feel comfortable e-mailing people to ask for Diggs with any frequency, but once in a rare while is no problem.   

Of course RT is an exception, since he does ask you to submit a site for Diggs.

Now I just need to make some more friends

2) Comments

My article created a little controversy.  (very little) and got a couple of comments.  I think that was a good thing traffic wise and helped drive a few extra people who otherwise would not have come.   The bottom line is that comments can attract attention, and that is always a good thing.

3) Digging it myself

Again, this is a once in a rare while thing.  Digging my own post allowed me to write the intro I wanted, time it like I wanted, and get some Diggs immediately.   If I had waited for a reader to Digg it, it may have happened soon, it may never have.

But self Digg too often and your account will start getting weaker and weaker.   Plus you’ll go blind.

What didn’t work

1) Writing about Digg

Let’s face it, Diggers don’t like anything about gaming Digg or SEO.  It is just not their style, and those kind of posts tend to get buried pretty quickly.   Being so transparent about begging for Diggs was a turnoff to many people I am sure

2) Making The Digg button obvious

Why I think this is good in theory, it didn’t really help in this case.   Most of the Diggers weren’t going to promote it no matter how obvious the button was (see 1) so it was something of a moot point

Hopefully you can use some of these tips to promote your own sites…. Which are hopefully not about getting Diggs.