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the_west_wing
Joined: Aug 20, 2008
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Posted: 2008-Aug-25 23:59
Hi All,
Now the title suggests I am after friends but honestly I am not a sad old man in a mac sat at home using the internet for sad things ...
As you can imagine I am new to this and have read lots and lots in this forum ... I have the red eyes to prove it.
However I have not seen an answer to a question I have about Digg, so if someone / more than one can offer me any help please, I would be most thankful and so will my eyes 
I have read Digg and some articles on how to use it and how to promote it, and I get all that. The thing that concerns me is how to get people to Digg your article.
If it is a case of reading other Diggs and then digging them, and making that person your " friend " in the hope that they Digg you, then surely I won;t be getting valid readers for my article and thus to my website? Am I right on this please?
So in that case how do I get genuine readers to my Digg article (and actually whilst I am on this subject to Squidoo lenses I have written too please)?
Both have been on there for a couple of weeks, and I am the only one who seems to have read them.
So if anyone can tell me how to get them noticed and read please, so the people go to my website and click away I would be most grateful.
Thanks in advance.
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beth_lk
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Joined: Jun 23, 2004
# Posts: 1247
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Posted: 2008-Aug-26 00:14
Please put your web site addy in your profile
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the_west_wing
Joined: Aug 20, 2008
# Posts: 21
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Posted: 2008-Aug-26 14:17
Hi beth_lk / all,
Thanks for the email.
In all honesty I will be leaving my job soon and setting up on my own, so don't have a website url as of yet. Still working on a domain name for what I want to do.
So this will mean I will be writing some new articles / DIGGS for my own stuff instead of my boss. Finally taking the plunge into working for myself.
So sorry I cannot add my url just yet - does this matter?
I am hoping that someone can advise me on how to do this for when I set up on my own soon.
Many thanks again and look forward to hearing back from people on this
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the_west_wing
Joined: Aug 20, 2008
# Posts: 21
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Posted: 2008-Aug-29 02:12
Hi all,
Just wondering if anyone can help on this at all. As I say I am looking into adding a new website and would like to know the answers to my original post if possible, so I can hit the ground running with this please.
Thanks all.
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animated3d
Joined: Dec 22, 2005
# Posts: 419
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Posted: 2008-Aug-29 02:44
you mean you want friends to tag you on digg? or you wanna know what the best way is to promote yourself there?
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the_west_wing
Joined: Aug 20, 2008
# Posts: 21
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Posted: 2008-Aug-30 01:32
Hi animated3d
I would like to basically know how to promote any DIGG articles I write and submit to DIGG and DELICIOUS and places like that.
As I say in the first post, I am not sure how adding people on DIGG as my friends and digging their articles so they will digg mine will bring in the right people to read the articles.
So yes I would like to promote my articles on these websites.
Many thanks to all who can help me with this.
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animated3d
Joined: Dec 22, 2005
# Posts: 419
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Posted: 2008-Aug-30 06:56
people read up your article and can bookmark it the more of those you get the popular your article becomes and can end up on the Digg front page
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Prowler
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Joined: Aug 14, 2000
# Posts: 1795
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Posted: 2008-Aug-30 07:16
You start with a "quality article" in the first place. If you are passionate about something - anything and know a lot about this subject - then write about this in simple lucid style.
With that basic step covered, we can turn our attention to promoting it. It is a long process and a bit technical - but nothing that will thwart someone with determination.
The following is a broad guideline:
You will have to use tags to identify the primary keyword associated with your content.
Create a Rich Site Summary (RSS) feed and promote that.
Use "bookmarking chicklets" or copy and paste the code (Digg this article) supplied by sites like Digg, Delicio.us etc in your pages.
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the_west_wing
Joined: Aug 20, 2008
# Posts: 21
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Posted: 2008-Aug-30 16:16
Great thanks for the info.
I have added "addthis" to each of the articles on the website where I used to work for, as well as submitting the article to Digg and Delicious.
I had heard that you had to add people as friends (even though you did not know them by digging their articles on Digg) and they Digg your article, which is my initial point of not bringing in the right traffic.
So the only thing I have not done so far is the RSS feed for each article and for the articles I will be writing for my new website.
How do I do this please as again it looks confusing for newbies.
The articles themselves are unique and written very well and have a good ratio of keywords in them, so they should have no problems with that side of things.
The main things then are how to do the RSS for each article and also promote them so genuine people can find them on Digg.
For example when I added an article to Digg it had a value of 1 for 2 weeks and still does I think as no one knew they were there - so I need people to find them.
Thanks for the new info above though and I hope I hear back from you guys on RSS and the promotion.
Sorry final thing, I added tags using the screen on DIGG and Delicious, is this the place you meant for tags?
Sorry for the long message here
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mj1256
Joined: Jun 05, 2006
# Posts: 918
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Posted: 2008-Aug-30 16:54
what you will get from digg is incoming links for a while,but they change constantly because as your listing moves from page to page, the url changes. as for your articles becoming popular, that is actually hard to do and digg is corrupted and the results are skewed by people who have learned how to manipulate the digg system to get their article to the main page. It is not a level playing field.
Occasionally a submission does have enough interest to the users of digg to make it to the top few pages, and unlike a search engine, making the top 25 pages is good, but, if you do make it to the top pages, make sure you have a good host and plenty of bandwidth, I've see it over and over again that a site makes it to the top of the listing but becomes in accessible because the hosting plan does not allow enough bandwidth or simultaneous connections to handle the traffic.
for instance, godaddy only allows 25 simultaneous connections, then you crash.
I don't know what the actual stat is for this, but say 1 per cent of the article readers actually dig it and you have 1000 diggs in one day, thats 100,000 hits, godaddy will disable your account and your site and traffic is lost.
make sure your hosting resources are scalable
participate in digg, YES, expect tons of traffic, NO!
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