What’s That Digg Button On Your Blog?
By David | April 16, 2008
One question that I’ve received on numerous occasions is “What is Digg?” and “What’s that Digg button on your blog?”. I figured I’d leave a quick post to explain it as best as possible. There are going to be those who disagree with my explanation but this is how I see Digg.
According to Wikipedia.org, Digg is a community-based news article popularity website. It combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control. News stories and websites are submitted by users, and then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system.
Basically Digg is a news site in which the tops results are based on the number of times an article is ‘dugg’. The more ‘diggs’ an article, image, or blog entry receives, the better the results. Now with that said, they are changing their algorithm to fight some of the ’spamming’ methods that have arose but the concept is still the same.
The great thing about Digg is that I find articles, videos, blog posts, etc that I would have never found if I didn’t view Digg. It’s like having my very own research team for interesting news. Creating an account with Digg is FREE and takes about 2 minutes. With that said, you can register for a Digg account by clicking here. Then you can ‘digg’ articles that you find helpful, interesting or even funny.
Plus once you’re logged in all you need to do is click on the ‘Digg’ button and the article is ‘dugg’. You don’t need to login or visit the Digg website every time you ‘digg’ an article. I really think it’s something that you would enjoy when you every have a moment to just surf for the latest news on a site other than the major news websites.
Now, how is Digg going to help your website? The amount of traffic to Digg is enormous and submitting your articles, blog posts, etc to Digg will definitely generate traffic to your website. The only thing is that your submissions need to be something interesting or your submissions won’t get ‘dug’ which won’t improve your ranking within Digg.
Well, I hope this helps a bit, you can read more detailed information on the Digg About Us page. Lastly, I always welcome you to ‘digg’ blog posts that I leave if you find them helpful or if you just feel that they could be helpful to someone else.
Best regards,
David Lalumendre
CEO/Founder - www.WebsiteSpot.com
Topics: The Lighter Side |
