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Early this week I decided to try an experiment with Digg.com. I went through all my posts and picked out the ones that felt others would most like to read. Then I posted each and every one of them on Digg. In the next 24 hours my traffic skyrocketed 10 times my normal! Here are 10 things I have learned to get more traffic to your Digg post.

1. Make a profile. You are always a more trusted source if people know who you are
2. Build a Digg network. Find people who think and digg like you and then make them your friends.
3. Email your Digg link to your mom and your friends. Tell them to come and digg your story right at the beginning. 10 digs will go a long way to pushing through the popularity barrier.
4. Respond to your comments. People like to know you are listening to them. Just like when you are blogging you will learn by creating a conversation. Comments attract comments.
5. Be controversial. Controversy always sells.
6. Integrate digging into your site. This means you can be dugg by people without them even leaving your blog or website.
7. Post valuable content. I put in an article about my Apple MacBook, and it got loads of traffic, yet it didn’t get dugg much because it wasn’t well written.
8. Use “Digg Spy” to learn what people are digging. If you just spend a couple of minutes on “Digg Spy”, you will learn very quickly what kind of keywords, topics, and trends are hot on digg.
9. Post a lot. You know what you would like to read. Just post it, you never know what will catch on. Also you don’t have to feel bad about posting rotten material because it will just get buried immediately anyway. In the mean time you will learn what is worth your while.
10. Timing matters. To get the most time exposure you are best to post at times when others aren’t posting as much. I have found more success if I post early in the morning. I think this is because the majority of posts come late at night while a ton of readers come in the morning. This gives your post more time before it is shoved out by other posts.

Here are a couple of other articles that might give you some more ideas on how to get dugg. “Top 7 ways to get a useless article dugg” or “top ten ways to get dugg”.

What is Digg? Digg is a user driven social content website. Ok, so what the heck does that mean? Well, everything on digg is submitted by the digg user community (that would be you). After you submit content, other digg users read your submission and digg what they like best. If your story rocks and receives enough diggs, it is promoted to the front page for the millions of digg visitors to see.

What can you do as a digg user? Lots. Every digg user can digg (help promote), bury (help remove spam), and comment on stories… you can even digg and bury comments you like or dislike. Digg also allows you to track your friends’ activity throughout the site — want to share a video or news story with a friend? Digg it! See source for this information.

To digg this post click here.