How to use Digg to Generate Traffic

Using Digg for driving traffic to a website is controversial. Some people claim it is not even worth doing, yet others have had massive success with it. Digg seems to be like this, extremes with very little middle ground.

There is so much importance attached to getting on the front page. If you can manage to get a story on to the home page of Digg, then you can expect to receive thousands of extra visitors to your site. It really is worth shooting for if you have any chance of making it happen.

You will need to submit your story to Digg, and then rely on other people to vote for it. This is what is known as a “Digg”. You will need a good number of votes to have any chance of making it to the home page and picking up the thousands of extra visitors.

It has been estimated at over fifty, and it is unlikely to ever get any less, as ever greater numbers of people are using the site, yet the amount of space remains the same. If you can get someone else to submit the story, or if it happens naturally, that is so much better, and will give you a much higher chance of getting the votes you need.

If you want to give your story the best possible chance of being voted for, you need to attract the reader’s attention quickly. This means that having an interesting headline and description is of paramount importance. There are plenty of competing articles, and the reader can’t read them all.

Give them a compelling reason to read yours. It also makes a difference if your content is fresh and relevant. If you are writing on topics which are current and hot right now, your chances of getting votes increases enormously.

Don’t forget also that readers are more likely to vote for something which is of genuine use to them, so if you can produce an article with genuinely helpful information in it, you will certainly gain votes.