How Do I Make My Articles Go Popular on Digg? - DailyBlogTips

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How Do I Make My Articles Go Popular on Digg? Posted: 21 May 2010 10:47 AM PDT This post is part of the Friday Q&A section. If you want to ask a question, just write a comment below. Karen asks: Will a certain article submitted to Digg.com go popular automatically once posted? Or will it take time to be dugg by people? For example if you submitted an article from your blog 2 months ago, is there a possibility that people will still be able to digg that article today? Is it possible for an article to get popular just now even if was submitted long ago? First of all your article will not go popular automatically once you submit it on Digg.com. If you are a power user (e.g., a Digg user with many friends, who participates actively in the community and have sent many stories to the front page in the past), then you’ll probably get a good amount of votes right after the submission, but even in this case it usually takes from 10 to 20 hours to get the story promoted the front page, provided the story is a good one and matches the interests of the Digg users. If you have a recently created or an average account, then your submission will probably only get a handful of natural votes. This means that if you want to have a chance of sending that story to the front page you’ll need to get busy asking friends to vote on it, including a Digg button on the page and promoting it through other channels, leveraging other social networking sites (e.g., Twitter and Facebook) and so on. Getting a story to the friend page of Digg is a harder than it looks, however, due to the competition you have today and to the bias Digg has towards mainstream websites. This doesn’t mean it is impossible, but you’ll certainly need to put some effort there. The main requisite is to understand what kind of content is well received at Digg, and to be able to craft such a content on your website. Once you nail that you’ll need be very active with your own Digg account (submitting, voting and commenting on stories). You’ll also need to go through some trial and error, until you figure what it takes. As for the time window you have to make a story go popular, it is around 24 hours. After that the story won’t get promoted to the front page no matter how hard you promote it and how many people vote on it. This is the current state of things, but they might be changing in the near future. Since Kevin Rose returned to his CEO position he has been announcing many changes, with the goal of making Digg more democratic, which should improve the chances of small websites and blogs making it to the front page. Original Post: How Do I Make My Articles Go Popular on Digg?

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