Ive a member of Digg since April of 07 and have never gotten more than 5 Diggs on a story I've submitted. From world news to pop culture...from technology to sports...never more than 5 Diggs. If it wasnt a popularity contest, it would be a better site/algorithm.
I went to your latest sub today and gave you a thumbs up. You now have 8 Diggs on that story.
Popularity contest it is not, but people who are very *social* make the best progress. You got my attention, and others will notice because you commented (were social).
Take care of your mutual friends on Digg. They should be priority before you. Make sure you Digg all of their subs, add a comment on occasion and more importantly, find mutual friends who do the same for you.
If you want to be on the front page of Digg, you have to do more than drop your own link then leave. You have to stay awhile. Social networks.
You make great points. Let me try to help you out by addressing the issue that Jerry doesn't hit on. No offense to Jerry, he makes good suggestions about people who actually curate their own content, but it doesn't apply to the majority of folks on most social networks.
The elephant in the room that nobody wants to talk about is how Digg f**ked up when they removed the sharing feature. They followed that up with a series of other maneuvers that didn't allow you to follow friends or their submissions or find pretty much anything else that was submitted. Which meant users had to find other ways to hook up with their friends, fans, followers, or whatever.
Their latest solution, Newsrooms and the Newswire are actually pretty damn good. And you can still find submissions from others via other Digg options, but for the most part, I don't think the majority of diggers use them to find things to digg because they are locked in to the other options that were the fallback after shares were taken away.
And Digg staffers, while they think they're doing the right thing by making something like this a "hot story" or "staff pick" just don't seem to get it. While it's nice to see some truly hot stories once in a while, most of the time we see the same diggers have their submissions tagged as staff picks, i.e., Dirtyfries, Geek22, Antdude and a few others. Not that those guys don't put up great content, but come on. I realize you guys can't be 100% with your staff picks, but literally every day you pick something that has already been promoted to the front page. The icing on the cake was that gem from yesterday that the Goldnsilver spammer submitted that was over two years old and had hit the front page back in 2009. It had over 5,000 diggs and almost 500 comments, yet someone thought it a "hot story". Hell, I think I was the first one to post the story the other day when Sarah Burke died. Was it chosen as a staff pick or hot story? Hell no. That story wasn't even promoted. Instead another one hit about two days later.
With Digg's latest blog update, they now say that promoting your submissions via Facebook, Twitter, and Linked is more valuable to the success of the submission than ever before, most of us are wandering around truly scratching our heads.
The best advice I can offer to you and others is to continue to submit good content or whatever you find interesting or newsworthy, drop comments when you can (yes I know that doesn't mean much anymore) and start tweeting out your submissions and/or posting them to Facebook. Digg made that pretty effortless by adding those buttons right on your submission. Start looking for other active diggers to follow on Twitter and Facebook.
I wish you all the success in the world. I certainly want to see more and more new users having success on Digg (not you asshat spammers who keep getting banned and create new accounts). I would love to see Digg get back some of the folks who left after v4 launched or just have folks like you who have been around for a while and don't get promoted have more success.
1) Google 'Digg front page services'
2) Choose payment plan (1 off payment vs percentage of ad revenue)
3) ????
4) Front page with 90 clone puppet accounts.
"Take care of your mutual friends on Digg. They should be priority before you. Make sure you Digg all of their subs, add a comment on occasion and more importantly, find mutual friends who do the same for you."
That's a great way to game the system. Thanks for the tips.
Alan...been around long enough to know you by name/avatar. We dont agree on much, but I appreciate your time and advice where this subject is concerned....truly means a lot.
From what I gathered from all the API fans, Digg all but abandoned API support after the v4 launch. Which is why there are no cool things like Subdigger anymore.
Digg.com is going up and up. There are no two ways about that. Diggs and comments are on the rise. I have always been digging the gaming channel since the day I joined digg. But recently I have to say that 'only' corporate sites are popping in digg/gaming. One look over here: http://digg.com/news/gaming/media/recent and you will know what I am talking about.
Personally I dont have anything against these sites, but digg/gaming could do much better with variation in sources.
It's spam when the other side does it too Niven. I'm sure if I check your comment history I'll see you telling bett and molly to knock it off as well right?
igorunchainedJan 24, 2012Buried
Ive a member of Digg since April of 07 and have never gotten more than 5 Diggs on a story I've submitted. From world news to pop culture...from technology to sports...never more than 5 Diggs. If it wasnt a popularity contest, it would be a better site/algorithm.
PreferredMNJan 24, 2012Buried
Nice, you got on the front page with a post about getting on the front page.
bdbrJan 24, 2012Buried
I got 87 once (a fluke perhaps), but the others never got more than 4. It's a waste of time for normal Diggers like us to submit anything.
alanocuJan 24, 2012Buried
I went to your latest sub today and gave you a thumbs up. You now have 8 Diggs on that story.
Popularity contest it is not, but people who are very *social* make the best progress. You got my attention, and others will notice because you commented (were social).
Take care of your mutual friends on Digg. They should be priority before you. Make sure you Digg all of their subs, add a comment on occasion and more importantly, find mutual friends who do the same for you.
If you want to be on the front page of Digg, you have to do more than drop your own link then leave. You have to stay awhile. Social networks.
bossm4nJan 25, 2012Buried
You make great points. Let me try to help you out by addressing the issue that Jerry doesn't hit on. No offense to Jerry, he makes good suggestions about people who actually curate their own content, but it doesn't apply to the majority of folks on most social networks.
The elephant in the room that nobody wants to talk about is how Digg f**ked up when they removed the sharing feature. They followed that up with a series of other maneuvers that didn't allow you to follow friends or their submissions or find pretty much anything else that was submitted. Which meant users had to find other ways to hook up with their friends, fans, followers, or whatever.
Their latest solution, Newsrooms and the Newswire are actually pretty damn good. And you can still find submissions from others via other Digg options, but for the most part, I don't think the majority of diggers use them to find things to digg because they are locked in to the other options that were the fallback after shares were taken away.
And Digg staffers, while they think they're doing the right thing by making something like this a "hot story" or "staff pick" just don't seem to get it. While it's nice to see some truly hot stories once in a while, most of the time we see the same diggers have their submissions tagged as staff picks, i.e., Dirtyfries, Geek22, Antdude and a few others. Not that those guys don't put up great content, but come on. I realize you guys can't be 100% with your staff picks, but literally every day you pick something that has already been promoted to the front page. The icing on the cake was that gem from yesterday that the Goldnsilver spammer submitted that was over two years old and had hit the front page back in 2009. It had over 5,000 diggs and almost 500 comments, yet someone thought it a "hot story". Hell, I think I was the first one to post the story the other day when Sarah Burke died. Was it chosen as a staff pick or hot story? Hell no. That story wasn't even promoted. Instead another one hit about two days later.
With Digg's latest blog update, they now say that promoting your submissions via Facebook, Twitter, and Linked is more valuable to the success of the submission than ever before, most of us are wandering around truly scratching our heads.
The best advice I can offer to you and others is to continue to submit good content or whatever you find interesting or newsworthy, drop comments when you can (yes I know that doesn't mean much anymore) and start tweeting out your submissions and/or posting them to Facebook. Digg made that pretty effortless by adding those buttons right on your submission. Start looking for other active diggers to follow on Twitter and Facebook.
I wish you all the success in the world. I certainly want to see more and more new users having success on Digg (not you asshat spammers who keep getting banned and create new accounts). I would love to see Digg get back some of the folks who left after v4 launched or just have folks like you who have been around for a while and don't get promoted have more success.
blydchyldJan 24, 2012Buried
Real answer?
1) Google 'Digg front page services'
2) Choose payment plan (1 off payment vs percentage of ad revenue)
3) ????
4) Front page with 90 clone puppet accounts.
jerryjamesstoneJan 24, 2012Buried
This was a fun article to write, thanks for the opportunity Digg!
DiggfulJan 25, 2012Buried
"Take care of your mutual friends on Digg. They should be priority before you. Make sure you Digg all of their subs, add a comment on occasion and more importantly, find mutual friends who do the same for you."
That's a great way to game the system. Thanks for the tips.
paintballer747Jan 25, 2012Buried
Agreed.
This is one thing Reddit does have over Digg. The algorithm they use makes it much easier to get a top story.
igorunchainedJan 25, 2012Buried
Alan...been around long enough to know you by name/avatar. We dont agree on much, but I appreciate your time and advice where this subject is concerned....truly means a lot.
jceezJan 25, 2012Buried
b/c 100 users contribute 56% of homepage content.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/top-100-digg-users-control-56-of-diggs-homepage-content
This is the main reason I use Digg much less these days and use sites like reddit, delicious more.
grymusJan 24, 2012Buried
"How To Get On The Front Page Of Digg"
Simple: Pay for it.
/Gotta love the bots
bossm4nJan 25, 2012Buried
From what I gathered from all the API fans, Digg all but abandoned API support after the v4 launch. Which is why there are no cool things like Subdigger anymore.
daimposterJan 25, 2012Buried
3 or 4 years ago, the news and media would mention Digg. Now they mention Reddit.
daimposterJan 25, 2012Buried
"Popularity contest it is not, but people who are very *social* make the best progress."
Sounds like a popularity contest. I thought the most interesting submission would get the front page.....not who has the most friends.
gameondiggerJan 25, 2012Buried
Digg.com is going up and up. There are no two ways about that. Diggs and comments are on the rise. I have always been digging the gaming channel since the day I joined digg. But recently I have to say that 'only' corporate sites are popping in digg/gaming. One look over here: http://digg.com/news/gaming/media/recent and you will know what I am talking about.
Personally I dont have anything against these sites, but digg/gaming could do much better with variation in sources.
jill_kJan 25, 2012Buried
D I G G C E P T I O N!
paintballer747Jan 25, 2012Buried
How to get on the front page of Digg?
Post a tutorial of how to get on the front page of Digg, of course.
alanocuJan 24, 2012Buried
Well done, Jerry J.
dauntless1Jan 25, 2012Buried
It's spam when the other side does it too Niven. I'm sure if I check your comment history I'll see you telling bett and molly to knock it off as well right?
Right?
*crickets*