How We Were Dugg
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It’s been a goal of mine for a long time to be on the front page of digg. I have gone to ‘great lengths’ and many hours spent promoting articles. I’ve even gotten my own account and blogaboutyourblog.com banned. However, before the new year came, my goal was achieved.
Step One
Well as I mentioned our blog is banned from digg, so you can’t submit any of the content to it. Mistake I know, but there are ways around it. The easiest way I know is a simple redirect. You know how you see and make redirects for affiliate links? It’s just as easy, just have to have another domain.
What I did was redirect from cfrais.com to blogaboutyourblog’s digg article. I’m not sure if anyone noticed, so there wasn’t any problem with it.
Promoting the Article
I have stressed that networking is very important for any blogger to be successful. This blog would be nothing without the team of authors, and the relationships I’ve built with my fellow bloggers online. Regardless of how big a blog is, you need to network.
Since networking is so important I’ve set up our own voting network. You can read more about our voting network. These networks are very underground and usually secretive. I may belong to other ones.
Another way to promote your digg is to hit up the freebies section at Digital Point. This originally got me banned, however there are better ways to do it. If you are redirecting like we did, it doesn’t really matter if you get banned. Just get a new domain to redirect from.
However to be safe don’t start a thread asking for a digg. Wait until other people do then PM them. Some don’t like this but it will keep you off the digg radar. Also, don’t hyperlink to your digg take out the “http://” so people have to copy and paste instead of clicking.
Watch the Traffic
It’s not as easy as it sounds, obviously it’s taken me a while to put this plan in motion. The sad part is that the huge surge of traffic will take down your blog. After about 1500 unique visitors within the span of an hour or so, our page was down. Before I could get it back up, I think the story was buried.
On our digg comments we received quite a few good and bad comments. Remember diggers can be harsh, don’t take anything too personally.
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sir jorge said:
that is awesome!
I have been trying to get people to digg me, but most just never do, and just shout at me to digg them.
January 2nd, 2008 at 2:30 pm -
Matthew Henrickson said:
for some quick diggs it’s also good to branch out to IM
feel free to contact me anytime on AIM tinka5787
January 2nd, 2008 at 2:32 pm -
Wayne Liew said:
To get the Digging started by getting at least 50-60 Diggs, one thing that we can do is to always Digg the shout by others.
When it is our turn to shout back, the users who shouted at us might Digg back.
January 3rd, 2008 at 1:55 am -
Rodney Olsen said:
I’m glad you finally got onto the front page. Well done.
I’ve never really had any success with Digg but I’ve seen a bit of extra traffic through StumbleUpon. I’m more than happy for anyone to drop in at my blog and Stumble or Digg anything they like. 🙂
January 3rd, 2008 at 4:18 am -
Bruce said:
Interesting little trick. You got me thinking about some evil type stuff now. 😉
January 5th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
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