One of the problems I see with digg is there is no easy way that I could find to discover who is digging my articles that I submit. If you are like me, you have numerous friends and fans on digg, but this creates another problem.
One of the ways to gain strength with digg and become a better submitter is to decrease the amount of friends you have. You might think that I am crazy, telling you to decrease your friends, but hear me out.
The way that articles become “popular” is based on a ratio of how many friends you have versus how many diggs it receives. So this creates the problem of if you submit an article, and only 10 or 15 of your 500 friends “digg” it, the chances of it going popular is slim to none.
Now, if you decrease the “dead weight” on your friends list to keep only the more active friends and fans that are digging your articles, then your chances should theoretically be better for your article submission to become popular.
If your curious, head over to TINC and find out who is digging you!
I can’t guarantee results from this, I have read this several different places and am working on trying it out now. I will post an update soon!
If you are not writing about tech stuffs and let’s say you are writing about blogging guides. Do you think that your articles will get a chance to be featured up there?
As a blogger who is writing blogging guides, I don’t find Digg is useful for me although I am currently on a hype in submitting my own articles there and adding friends actively.
After reading your post, it somehow enlightens me. I guess I will be leaving Digg soon, it just creates no space for some categories.
Wayne, I can relate to the tech stuff submissions. It seems that if it isn’t related the the Mac, IPod, or Leopard OS, it is tough to get on the front page.
I did have one article dealing with blogging redirects that made it to the front page however. It can be a good thing, but it can also consume and take the focus away from blogging as well.
Thanks for the comments!
I wasn’t aware that Digg uses a ratio. I doubt it really matters to me since I don’t write anything that interest the people on Digg. I use to try to get my stories Dugg, but you really have to have certain kinds of articles and I just don’t fit the bill.
Jason,
From what I have read around the blogosphere of how Digg calculates popular items, it does so by taking into consideration the number of friends/fans you have as a ratio to the number of diggs it receives. This way, if you only have 50 friends, and all of them digg it, then each article would become popular.
I do agree with you that there are certain articles that do better, but I’m not sure because there is such a wide range of topics that become popular.