There is more How to Get More Diggs evidence in and I may have really screwed up!
How to get more Diggs has been a hot topic over at Social Marketing Central in a thread I started. In case you missed the first article it’s How to Get More Diggs.
While we have beaten “How to Get More Diggs” to death one question remains and I think we may have cracked a vulnerabity in our Digg marketing. Stay with me here, this is a little convoluted. It concerns the shouts.
Shouts are access to your friends list. They get an email on the other end with a link to your shout, usually asking to “Digg this.”
I theorize that Google lessens the validity of content from your own site. In your profile you have the ability to set up links to other networks your are on, your own sites and maybe affiliate programs.? Tell me Google does not discount any Digg items that are from these URLs.
We already all agree not to:
- Submit your own content to Digg.
- Digg your own stuff.
Wait for it… Wait for it…. Wait for it….
DO NOT shout your own Digg items!
Gotcha didn’t I. We are not sure yet but look at your Digg profile.
- Log in.
- Click on your profile.
- Copy the url.
- Log out.
- Now paste your profile URL back in.
This is your public profile. If you have your shouts set to private you don’t see your outgoing shouts in your profile. Right? Wrong!
Click the history tab and then click on “shouts sent” in the left navigation bar. There are all your outgoing shouts right there for everyone to see. Right there for Google to see.
What Chris Lang thinks: Shouts hurt!
Now if I were writing the Google algorithms for Digg I would bury any domain that is continually shouted again and again by the same person. Especially if it was submitted by that person and if they were stupid enough to Digg their own articles. Why add one measly Digg to your item when it hurts you?
If you are continually shouting your own Diggs, even if you didn’t submit them, the Digg item URL is right there. On the Digg item is the link to the original content source. I sent 7000 shouts in the last week. Many of those had my content URL in the page to be Dugg.
Now I was on page 2 of How to get More Diggs in Google. I did not submit my own content. However I asked all my friends to Digg the item when it was sumbitted by someone else. The blog post quickly rose to #4 on Goolge Websearch in an hour. The Digg item was at #8 and I was #1 in Google Blogsearch for How to get More Diggs. Sounds pretty good don’t it?
As I shouted my other items to my 150 mutual friends all my listing in the SERPs rose, many went from the second page to the top 10. WOW I rock, or so I thought. The next day Google kicked me out of many of my terms, downgraded all my listings and removed the original blog post about more diggs from Websearch. As I remember I cried a little when I saw this.
However I am still #1 on blogsearch which is odd to me because blogs are supposed to sink as the post ages. If you do not understand how Google ranks blogs your need to read the article.
Update: Very Very Important Digg information:
From: The Digg Algorithm – Unofficial FAQIf you have a LOT of friends (50-100 or more) you will need 2X or 3X as many diggs as a new user, to reach the frontpage. This is proven and 2 of the top10 users confirmed it to me. It’s natural that Digg implemented this for powerful users, because their friends dug their articles, so they have an advantadge over a usual starting user with just a few or NO friends. So if you are a very new user with no friends, you can still get to the frontpage with 30-40 diggs.
The Bottom Line
So here is the test and you are reading it right now. I will not submit or Digg this article. It is optimized for “how to get more diggs” so there is no variable there. What I will not do this time is shout this article from my Chris Lang Digg profile.
If this post stays in Websearch then it was the shouts. If it gets delisted after a few days then maybe it is not the shouts. We shall see. I have much more Digg strategies in the link below.
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2 Comments
If I have two blogs, and two accounts on Digg, associated with only 1 blog each, could I send shouts from each account for the other blog? Whaddaya think?
Tom (TRCoach)
It does not matter the account that you submit it from. It does matter that you continually send out shouts with Digg URLs that resolve to the same domain from the same profile.
It’s is about a history of evident self promotion. You do not think that Google, with all of it’s billions of dollars, does not know that we use Digg to increase our search engine rankings?
You have to use Digg for what it is intended for, sharing content. If the only content you are sharing is yours then that does not sound much like sharing, it sounds like a an advertisment.
I have a number of strategies that cover all forms of how you can do this without spamming Digg, all right here. http://www.keywebdata.com/seo-tactics.php