There are tons of articles on how to hit the Digg frontpage, even I wrote a few articles that cover that chapter of blogging. More and more bloggers seem to have only one goal in their blogging career, that’s hitting the frontpage of Digg…

Yes, hitting the Digg frontpage will give you some exposure, lots of exposure. Dozens of blogs have suffered due to the Digg effect, but today more and more blogs are so called Digg-proof. But if it isn’t, hitting the Digg frontpage will most likely be the (temporary) end of your blog.

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But why would you want to hit the frontpage? Is it good for your ego, or is it really such a rush of adrenaline to see thousands of unique hits in your stats? Visitors via Digg will most likely bounce right away, once they’ve read (or even before finishing) the article. They will never return, untill you hit the frontpage again. And again and again. Read more »

For lots of bloggers, Digg is one of the top referrers for blogs. There are other social networks, not as big as Digg is, but worth submitting your articles. Before you start submitting your articles, there are several points to think about.

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There are several ways and techniques to help people submit your articles to one, or all, social media site. But that’s not everything you need to do in order to make people remark your articles. In order to make your articles just pop out of the crowd, we must do something special. Read more »

There are litteraly tons of posts about Digg to find on the internet. But just a few describe what to do with all the traffic that comes from a succesful post on the frontpage of Digg. Besides gaining thousands of hits within a few minutes and you can patch up your weblog and website to be able to cope with all the traffic, what will happen if the site or blog stays online? You need to grab the attention of all the new visitors and make them come back for more.

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You must see the frontpage of Digg as your minutes of fame. For as long as the post is visible on the frontpage of Digg (or still the second page in some cases) you must convert the new visitors into readers by showing what you’re website looks like. Read more »