Pro Blogger Guide

Many Bloggers these days want to get their blog posts to the frontpage of Digg so that they can increase their traffic and popularity of their blogs. Some are ready to go almost any extent to get diggs such as making fake usernames and asking friends to digg for them.

Yesterday, I had a chat with one of the Top 10 Digg users and he shared a few tips with me. If you really want to get on digg frontpage, here is how you do it…

• make atleast 15 friends on Digg so it gives fast exposure to your story
• get your friends to digg all your posts
• you must digg them in return
• if your story is good, it will get 20-30 more diggs but those 15 friends are the key
• you must select a niche like technology or world news
• then you pick 50 or so feeds and post fast
• feeds gives you fast sources on news
• Some of the Feeds I subscribe are:
  1. Ars Technica
  2. BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
  3. BBC News | Technology | World Edition
  4. Bloglines Search: kevin rose
  5. Bloglines | News
  6. CNET News.com
  7. CNN.com
  8. CrunchGear
  9. Engadget
  10. Google Blogoscoped
  11. Guardian Unlimited
  12. Official Google Blog
  13. Read/WriteWeb
  14. Scientific American
  15. Wired News: Top Stories
  16. The Huffington Post | Raw Feed
  17. TechCrunch
  18. Techdirt
  19. BBC News | Health | World Edition
  20. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
  21. Physics Org
  22. National Geographic News
  23. SI.com
  24. SI.com - NFL
  25. SI.com: SI Writers
  26. BusinessWeek Online — Most Popular
  27. BusinessWeek Online — Technology & Science
  28. TechWeb
  29. Nature
  30. HowStuffWorks.com
  31. Signum sine tinnitu–by Guy Kawasak
  32. Steve Pavlina’s Personal Development Blog
  33. Joystiq
  34. TMZ.com
  35. InformationWeek - All Stories
  36. iLounge | All Things iPod, iTunes and beyond
  37. PC World: How-To’s Update
  38. PC World: Latest Technology News
  39. The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
  40. eWEEK Technology News
  41. Leftlane News
  42. Tom’s Hardware
  43. New Scientist Tech - Technology
  44. New Scientist Tech - Weapons Technology
  45. New Scientist Tech - Aviation
  46. New Scientist Tech - Cars and Motoring
  47. CNN.com - Technology
  48. CNN.com - Science & Space
  49. LiveScience.com
• all u need is good 50-70 sources
• once you get to the frontpage about 20 times, it gets easy
• so you must look for diggers who post a lot, digg them fast, and post good stuff fast
• top diggers like DigitalGolpher (Amit) get 30 free diggs
• top diggers are just gamers, nothing special about them
• use attractive titles using why, how, etc. Example: “Why Windows XP is the best OS”, “15 reasons why Windows XP is the best OS”, “How to tweak Windows XP”
• you must be fast in posting because if you are slow, other Diggers will post the news you want to post, before you.
• use good description
• its a game, you will learn, as you play
• digg bans lot of blogs as splogs so be careful
• digg users may report your posts as Spam for fun as Digg has bad crowd, so you have to be very professional
• rarely blogs gets to go frontpage, unless it’s very popular
• digg management is watching for blogs
• digg groups are not effective
• generaly you need 50 Diggs to get to Frontpage
• if your rate of digg is high, it can go frontpage with 25 Diggs
• I had one not promoted at 65, one took 75, one took only 9 Diggs!

If you want to get your blog posts on the frontpage of Digg, make sure you have posts worth it. Also start digging the stories that some of the top 100 digg users submit. Add them as friends and if possible try to make them submit your stories. Stories dugg by them have more chance of showing on Frontpage. If they find your articles useful, they will surely submit your stories for you.