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Getting Immediate Targeted Traffic From Digg-Like Sites

Digg-style sites continue to go vertical into specific niches and markets. And they can generate a lot of free targeted traffic if you use them and understand how they work.

As far as the original Digg itself, you can still do very well there IF you get to the front page, but it is now less and less likely the average person will ever see the front page since Digg has grown to be a behemoth website.

Without gaming their system, which more and more people are trying to do, you have to rely more on luck than simply writing a good piece to get attention.

And don’t forget that you have to write in a category they provide, which effectively eliminates hundreds of topics and market niches.

Digg has added more categories, but they are anything but comprehensive and their readership is, at heart, still made up of geeks and technophiles.

So good luck getting your “Healthy Eating Habits of Highly Successful Women” piece on the front page of Digg.

Which is why so many people are starting niche-specific Digg-like sites which work in the same way but are targeted to a specific niche, like Digg was in the beginning.

For internet marketing related content, people are finding places like PlugIM.com and MarkTD.com are sending them more traffic than Digg ever has. (Including me.)

Mainly because many Digg users have a pretty strong hatred of marketing content and they have nothing more than a general “Business” category for people like us to publish in.

Which is why PlugIM and MarkTD along with a handful of other niche story sites are doing so well so fast.

If you publish in another niche, don’t worry. You will start seeing Digg-like sites popping up in all niches this year, if you haven’t already found one in your niche.

Just as article directories were only for marketing content in the beginning, so too are the new Digg sites.

It is only a matter of time before you can start seeing almost instant targeted traffic from a site like Digg in your niche.

So there are two things to pay attention to here:

1) You should consider building your own Digg for your niche and gaining all the traffic from the hundreds or thousands of writers and bloggers in that niche. There are lots of scripts popping up out there that do what you need.

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2) You should look for “vertical” Diggs and publish there before you go to Digg itself because you will, most likely, get more traffic from verticals than the almighty Digg even though they are so darn BIG.

Jack Humphrey is the editor of The Friday Traffic Report at and has started a new Digg-style news site for internet marketing content.

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Monday ~ March 03, 2008 by Posted in It news | No Comments

Promote Using Digg

While Digg.com may not be quite as heavily visited as sites like Myspace and Facebook, it provides an opportunity for any webmaster to generate free traffic and links to his or her website. First off, let me state that it is very possible to get thousands of hits in just one or two days using Digg. However, do not expect this rush of visitors to be overly profitable – at least not initially.

Digg users are almost all technically savvy, meaning they most likely will not click on your ads or purchase your products. That being said, if your website offers a truly unique or useful service, users from Digg (or anywhere else) will bookmark your site and return often. Recognize that the initial traffic generated through Digg.com will most often bring more costs (hosting & bandwidth) than it will revenue. Nevertheless, Digg.com can be a huge help to your marketing strategy.

Let’s start with the basics: Digg is free for anyone to use. You can submit as many pages from as many sites as you wish. Don’t get too greedy though, as Digg does ban accounts which only submit pages from one or two sites. Your best strategy is to submit pages from your sites, PLUS other interesting pages you find around the web. Use long, descriptive keywords in the title of your Digg entry and link it back directly to your site.

The benefits are as follows: Digg pages often get highly ranked in Google. When visitors find the pages you submitted, they can easily click through to your website. This gives you instant traffic – anywhere from a few visits per day to a few hundred. Secondly (and almost more importantly), having your website linked to in Digg pages helps Google index your site very quickly.

Last fall, one of my new websites got into Google 36 hours after I created it, and all I did was submit a couple pages to Digg. I was getting 100-150 targeted visits to this website everyday, right from the beginning, only because of Digg.

The method is simple – go to www.Digg.com and sign up. Submit pages to your website(s) and other interesting pages you find around the web. Whether your pages make it to Digg’s homepage or not, you will receive valuable benefits from using this free and effortless website.

Daniel Sitar is the owner of iNetwk.com, a website which provides free articles and advice for people looking to profit from the internet. Daniel is an experienced internet entrepreneur and website developer.

For more website development and monetization articles, information, tips and advice, please visit: http://www.inetwk.com

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Monday ~ March 03, 2008 by Posted in It news | No Comments

How Digg Can Be Used For SEO

One of the newest places to submit articles that you have written is Digg. This is a huge social network whose readers actually despise anything that looks like marketing. You probably won’t last two minutes on this site, which has a “burial” feature that kicks overt displays of advertising right off the sight. However if you are very clever about the way you position yourself on Digg you can use it as a marketing tool to bring more visitors to your site and that may mean potential link partners and advertisers. If you are successful at posting writing on Digg then you will likely experience a ton of traffic being brought to your site.

Digg is all about user powered content. Everything is submitted and voted on by the digg community. After you submit content, other people read your submission and Digg what they like best. If your story is popular and receives enough Digg vote, it is promoted to the front page for the millions of visitors to see. So how can you turn this into an SEO tool?

The first challenge is to get people to give a Digg vote to your posting. This means having an article on the top page or linking to someone who has a story on the top page. However even after you manage that you need to have a fantastic title and summary or the savvy, marketing hating readers on Digg may not even glance at any URL that is attached.

The main way that Digg can be part of a good SEO strategy is in driving a lot of traffic to your site quickly by getting in the top ten read articles on the first page of the site. This creates the kind of buzz and credibility for your site that just cannot be bought using keyword articles only.

Anthony Gregory is a SEO and Website Marketer. He can be contacted at: Sales (at) Brilliantseo.com

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Monday ~ March 03, 2008 by Posted in It news | 1 Comment

SEO – Use Digg To Make Your Website An Overnight Success

Internet marketers are going crazy over this new social network called Digg and for good reason too. Using Digg correctly can send tens of thousands to your website virtually overnight.

This is how Digg works: People register with the site, and thus join the Digg community. These registered users then submit newsworthy or rather “Digg” worthy content. A short summary of the news item is written about the content. You can submit nearly anything to Digg; this includes videos, stories, blog entries, funny pictures – Anything!

What then happens is “Registered Users” then “Digg” the story or whatever has been submitted. The “Digg” is actually a vote for the content that was submitted to Digg. The stories with the highest number of “Diggs” make it onto the front page of Digg. Stories can also be “Buried” which will send them shooting down to rankings at Digg. Digg stories are then kept in the up and coming section for around 12 – 24 hours. If the story does not receive enough “Diggs” it is then sent to the Digg homepage. If the story starts to get “buried” it will automatically disappear.

Writing a good story that gets a number of Diggs, and by number I mean a few hundred can produce tens of thousands of page views which will mean thousands of visitors and potential customers to your websites.

To produce a popular story you need to write about something that will help people, actually, writing about Digg itself is a very popular subject and frequently makes it onto the top spot.

This is a form of viral marketing, get it right and your site will do incredibly well, get it wrong and nothing will happen. Site promotion like this is a far, far more powerful way of gaining popularity and backlinks to your site than traditional Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Techniques.

Anthony Gregory is a SEO and website promoter: He can be contacted at sales(at)brilliantseo.com

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Monday ~ March 03, 2008 by Posted in It news | No Comments

Video preview shows Kingston DDR3 overclocked to 2133 MHz

Aiming to tease us into buying a plane ticket and rushing to CeBIT next week Kingston has a nice video put up on YouTube in which two of its HyperX DDR3 modules are overclocked to 2133 MHz.

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U.K.’s fastest supercomputer unveiled

High-End Computing Terascale Resource–can handle 63 trillion calculations per second, which is the equivalent processing power of 12,000 desktop systems and four times faster than its predecessor. The amt. of calculations the system can handle is equivalent to every person on earth simultaneously carrying out 10,000 calculations per second.

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