I probably visit digg about 20 times a day, no exaggeration

If i’m bored, or need inspiration or just want to see whats happening, off i go to digg.

Remarkably, i don’t actually use digg much as a marketing tool for this blog.. and i thought to myself, well why not as i give THEM plenty of MY time..

I had intended to make a list of 101 random website ideas, but i just ran out of steam to be honest – it would take weeks to formulate 101 decent unique website ideas.. but for the craic, i’ve already started on that list, don’t expect to see it anytime soon though

So with my ‘18 random website ideas post‘ i thought i’d submit it to digg as it took quite some time to put together, plus i thought it was digg quality and people would enjoy it. Plus, I also wanted to test out a new plugin i installed – gregarious which isn’t ‘new’ as such, but i’d never got it working properly and had another go at installing it.

It automatically knows if a story has been ‘dugg’ and will display the yellow digg box underneath the article.. for every other post it displays a smaller digg button and you can change it to text or nothing at all if you want.. so you can now digg any post you wish

Anyway, i’ve gotten my best results from digg so far with 45 diggs (at the time of writing; it’s rising all the time), plus a crapload of traffic sent from digg.com (i’ll post some figures later when it settles down a bit). Ok, it’s not frontpage material and it’s not into triple figures or anything, but it’s a solid digg article and 45 people took the time to read it, and digg it.

I deliberately pulled the kontera in-text ads from that particular article as i felt digg users would think it was a deliberate attempt to get a few clicks and that obviously wasn’t the case, plus the ads aren’t fully targetted properly so they wouldn’t be of much use anyway.. the ads remain on all the other posts but i wanted that article to stand out for it’s content.

So the digg effect is definitely an easy one to achieve, provided the content is unique and interesting. Of course consistently unique and interesting content isn’t always easy to create