Savvy Affiliate

Climbing to the Front Page of Digg is like mountain climber assaulting a summit. 

It isn’t easy to get to the front page of Digg.  Here are some tips to help you launch your page to the top.

1) Make Your Page Easy To Digg

You may occasionally get one or two Diggs from random visitors to your page, but to get to the summit, you need Diggers to Digg your site.  Make sure they can do it with the click of a button once they come.  At the top of the pages you are trying to reach the front page with, place a link for easy digging.   Such as

Digg This Page

Note, that link works.  Please actually this this page

2) Give Your Page A Great Title

What is most important in getting Diggs from Diggers.  Content?  Maybe.   Arguably a great title is equally important, if not more so.  Your title should be funny, create controversy, or engage a whole lot of Diggers one way or another.

Example -

How often do you see pro Bush or Bush bashing titles with a lot of Diggs?   I see them all the time.  In fact I will sometimes click and give a Digg to an article I don’t even read, because I like the title and it leans to my side of the political spectrum.  ( Which side that is I will leave as an exercise to the reader. )

Is this title an accident?  No, I hope an article about launching an assault on Digg may create some controversy and get some Diggs.

3) Digg Your Own Post

As a rule, you shouldn’t spend too much time Digging your own stuff.  If all you submit is your own site, your account is going nowhere.  But occasionally you write something you think is great.  Can you leave it to the whims of fate?  No

By Digging your best posts you can

• Control the title

• Control the description

• Control when it is first Dugg

• Get some friends to give it a few boost Diggs right away

Don’t do it often.  But it is alright to sometimes Digg yourself.

4) Get Some Friends

The first 30 minutes after a Digg is critical.  You need to get some more Diggs in that time to boost your site so that the community as a whole can see it.  After you Digg a page, contact a few of your friends and get them to Digg it write away.  If you can get 10 Diggs in the first hour the page is well on its way.  If it goes 3 hours without other Diggs, you have no hope of making the front page.

5) Comment on your Digg

Either you or your friends should write a comment or two on the Digg.   Some controversy would be great.   An example on a pro Bush post would be “How stupid are you to support him.  All you people are idiots.”     A good example for this Digg might be “See this asshole who is trying to game Digg”

A positive review might also be good.  “This really helped me out” or “That is a great idea on getting some traffic from Digg” are all useful

Once again, Don’t do too much.  Diggers are among the last people you want to annoy.

6) Timing is everything

Time your Diggs.  Early morning (PST) is best.  Catch office workers when they first get into work and when they are eating lunch.   If you can’t manage that, try for early evening.  Timing your Diggs can make sure that your site gets seen by the greatest number of people, driving Diggs and traffic.

That’s all the tips I have now.  Any advice you can offer?  Any tips for climbing a different site, like Stumbleupon?