The Digg post is now in the #2 spot out of my Google data center and your parent post is #1. It is real hard at this point to gather what and how much link juice Digg is passing since there are so many other links and social media posts to your blog post.

Also the Digg post could easily outrank yours since MSaleem submitted it to Digg (#2 user behind MrBabyMan) and he pulled 1180 Diggs.

Also this cannot be considered a true representation of Digg performance since not too many of us get Dugg and submitted by Saleems and BabyMans.

Their ability to go front page, their power in the Digg algo and their ability to pull Diggs from their following on Digg is unlike anyone elses.

One last point I want to make here is that since the Digg ban hammer has now kicked over 2000 users off Digg, Zaibatsu being one of them, you can now get Digg front page for a short time due to the low amount of Diggs.

The Digg front page algo is dynamic, reacting to how many Diggs there are on a specific 24 hour period. I recently saw 73 Diggs go font page.

Traffic and participation is way down as many try to keep their heads down and not get banned for using scripts on Digg. So, if you have ever wanted to build a better Digg profile, now is the time since it is easier to go Digg front page in the power vacuum.

BTW, it was mostly the Who Dugg This script that got many banned. It referenced the Digg API and leaves a big footprint that Digg can see. DO NOT use scripts on any social site, it is not worth the loss of a good profile and the site may pull all your posts when you get kicked off.

I believe this could be the start of the social bookmarking Google slapdown that I have predicted for the last 6 months.

Call me at 480 686 1217 – Chris Lang

@Constantine: Digg traffic bad of business? Are you kidding me? What business are you in? The mafia? Do you not want to be known or seen or do you just hide out at Da Bing like Tony Soprano?

@narendra.s.v: Forget about it, that blog is thru. Internet marketing, SEO and email marketing do not do well on Digg. Search Digg mafia.

@Ilaarijs: you aren’t going anywhere of Digg with a foreign language blog. Go somewhere that suppports your language.

@charles: Digg is NOT owned by Google and never will be, Google said no way to such a easily gamed, Digg top 100 manipulated, Digg mafia buried mess. But it is still good for many things, just not Google. Google “Googling Social” and you will see where Google is headed.

@John, “Chowder your theory assumes that Google both crawls AND reindexes Digg about once every hour, which I’m afraid doesn’t happen.”

You are right John, Google does not index Digg every hour, Google does not index Digg at all. Google is pinged by Digg everytime you submit something. RSS, have you heard of it?

Google consumes every user profile thru the RSS feed that is part of every profile. Google simply parses the RSS feeds in seconds and gets all new submissions when ever they want. Sometimes that is in seconds of submission, sometimes not.

But after submitting a post in Digg, you will be in Blogsearch in a few minutes at #1 due to age of post. You will stay there as long as the Digg post keeps getting Diggs.

@Chowder time: Thank you, you know what you are talking about!

Just my two cents and an attempt to set the Digg info straight, it’s my job.

Don’t ever do this….

One quick tip for those of you who suffer from this problem. If you have any control for how your posts are submitted to Digg, try to get the title to be something different to the title of your blog post. For example, if the title of the Digg submission above had been ‘Lightning Pictures’ or something completely different like ‘Flash, Bang – 15 Images of Storms that Will Rock Your World’ then it wouldn’t rank as high for ‘lightning images’ as my own post.

If you do not have the keywords in the title of the Digg post in your blog post, Google will find all relevance in the link juice passed on to your blog to be worthless.

Let me see if I can explain this more thoroughly…

You use certain keywords in you blog title.

You want the blog post to rank under those keywords.

You get other blogs to link to the post using those keywords.

You get a Digg power user to submit your post to Digg.

If he uses your title with your keywords in it, you will rank higher in Google for the incoming Digg link juice.

If he uses a title that does not contain your keyword phrase you do not rank any higher in Google for that phrase.

Number one, if you want to go front page and your post has what it takes, don’t let just anyone submit it.

Number two, most social bookmarking outranks a blog post for a time, until the post gains incoming links.

Remember that your article is new and has no incoming links yet, but it will soon and the Digg post will not.

If it does continue to rank along with your blog post, great! It is forcing you competition off the top ten Google SERP.

That is a strategy in itself. I don’t usually give this kind of stuff out but the blub at the beginning had the chance to mislead many so I had to add to your post for your own good.

Cheers = Chris Lang

Since Digg points to the syndicated article, and my site has no chance of competing with Digg as far as pagerank or trust or whatever the google algorithm is, I don’t think it will ever get sorted out.

Oh, and people do click through to see the syndicated article (I have access to the traffic that page sees). They don’t click through (except in VERY small numbers) to see my site.

Digg is basically a directory, a socialized version of it, but still a directory. Why does google push a directory to the top of its listing?

And traffic is never bad for business.

LOL! yeah, you don’t want THOUSANDS of people coming to your web site, hey send some of that “bad for business” my way.

Next you’ll be telling us how universal health care is “bad medicine.”

The link to Digg STILL goes back to your web site.

I blog on community blogs using keywords and many times have gotten almost the entire first page of Google pushing my competitors to the second page.

What’s next? Will Darren complain of too much sex or money?

Reality check: People are dying in Iraq, that’s a real downside.
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http://ilaarijs.blogspot.com/

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LOL, I have less than 5 genuine visits per day and those are from people I keep sending my blog to – people I know.

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It’s both a good and a bad thing. On one hand, I’m starting to built a loyal fan base that may help me reach more people by telling others about me. On the other hand, I’m lacking a steady stream of new visitors, which could increase my core audience.

I believe that Digg and other sites can help me in not only bringing in a shit-ton of new visitors, but also potential returning visitors as well.

TheAndySan
http://www.theandysan.com