Posts filed under 'Digg'

Digg has recently emerged as the best way to drive enormous free targeted traffic to your site. Just post great content, Diggers like it, digg it, it gets on the Digg front page and that starts the cycle of thousands of Diggers headed your way, and many more waves of traffics by bloggers and other sites who wish to quote, comment and critique your story. The traffic can be enough to crash servers and hence the need to survive a Digging is essential. (more…)

Digg has finally managed to shift its official Digg blog on its subdomain. I always wondered why the Digg guys hosted their official blog on Blogspot, the free Google blogging platform Blogger. (more…)

This week I saw my highest weekend site traffic. I will share with you my traffic sources and lessons I learnt over these few days. My Youtube tools post was posted on del.icio.us and the bookmark sharing frenzy started. It was soon amongst the top 5 most popular posts on del.icio.us and kept appearing on the front page off and on. (more…)

We all digg on Digg. But of all that great content that you digg, there is one story that is your best Digg story. Well Digg just added the new ‘My #1 Story‘ Feature. (more…)

The first 10 Netscape Navigators have been selected. They are the people who took “the offer” to become paid bookmarkers. Jason Calcanis of Weblogs Inc blogging network had offered $1000 per month to top users of popular social bookmarking services like Reddit, NewsVine, Delicious, and Digg to switch as paid bookmarkers on Netscape, (often labelled by many as a Digg clone). (more…)

How many times have you submitted a great story to Digg and found it lost below a long queue with a few Diggs. Now you can find such cool stories by a broader and deeper view of Digg using the Digg Labs new features Stack and Swarm. These interactive visualizations from Digg labs look beneath the surface of the Digg community’s activities. (more…)

There are thousands of users actively submitting and bookmarking stories across popular social bookmarking tools like Digg, del.icio.us, reddit and if properly submitted, these stories can top the popular charts and drive huge site traffic to suggested sites and blogs. But since these services are free, most of these top geeky users participate actively for fun, recognition and of course get to search and promote the top web content. (more…)

Digg is undoubtedly one of the most popular sites where you can “Digg” for stories. Recently they released the Digg v3 with some more cool features. But Digg is not alone or unique on the web. How many digg clones or Digg styled applications are there? There are several hundred of them… (more…)

I really enjoy reading and digging the breaking news stories on Digg. But with my slow internet connection browsing through the different categories looking for new promoted posts and new submitted posts was difficult. (more…)

The Digg blog introduces a new feature, the ability to easily add digg news to your own website. (more…)