do you use Digg ? to promote your site

**Brandon Sheley** · 11-27-2006, 08:47 AM

I've never posted an article on digg.com but I've "dugg" a few..

How does one go about posting an article on digg.com and do you have any tips or suggestions to get the most out of digg ?

Thanks

**SaN-DeeP** · 12-04-2006, 01:32 AM

used digg.com in past not now though.

**Brandon Sheley** · 12-04-2006, 04:54 AM

I'd like to use it on our site here, but I'm not sure how to go about that :|

**eric** · 12-04-2006, 07:35 AM

basically, you have an account on Digg ?
If you have then just click your social bookmark in the post and fill in the fields with digg, just write some text appealing.. it'll pop up in the never ending list of posts with digg, and if you're lucky some will start to click digg, popping it up the list again...
I had one post with 23 clicks and about 150 people flowed over to my forum, but none stayed. So don't hope to get members, but readers...

**Brandon Sheley** · 12-04-2006, 08:42 AM

ya I have an account @ digg..
I wonder if I should have a link back to a thread, or to the whole site, or to a section.. What would you do ? or suggest

**eric** · 12-04-2006, 10:21 AM

I posted from my bog one entry... with a little comment, nothing more, beware they don't label you spam.. after some I think they close your account. Choose a good subject that has potential of interest to many.

OK, after some deep thinking I've written some thing about Digg and if it can help your site... in clear words, get you traffic

comments, agree, disagree ...all is welcome over there.

**Brandon Sheley** · 12-04-2006, 08:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eric

I posted from my bog one entry... with a little comment, nothing more, beware they don't label you spam.. after some I think they close your account. Choose a good subject that has potential of interest to many.

OK, after some deep thinking I've written some thing about Digg and if it can help your site... in clear words, get you traffic

comments, agree, disagree ...all is welcome over there.

right on

I'll read over it, thanks for posting that.

I know the general idea behind using dig, I've been thinking of what to post about for a few week now.. Really ever since we added vbseo with the social icons, so more like a month or two I guess..

I've thought of a few things like
vbulletin help sites, and what is avalible to new admins.

I've thought about the vbulletin optimization tips and what can be achieved with 20 mins of tweaking.

I've also thought about the affect that I feel vbseo has done on this site, with our current ranking for strong keywords like "vbulletin" and "vbulletins styles" but I don't know if I want to post all that info, it's sorta like letting the cat out of the bag..lol

I want to post something interesting and directed towards vBulletin, or webmaster/admin sites.

/me is still thinking.... :xsleepy:

**eric** · 12-04-2006, 09:38 PM

It isn't always easy to find something interesting
But instead opening the vbseo vault and make them unhappy (why would someone buy their product if all can be done...)
Maybe look over all the articles you have published already on optimising.. choose one and find a good friend to push that button for you

(avoids last point in my article).
Do you have by any chance in your super vbseo stats the number of times someone pushed the social bookmark system ? I haven't that option and wonder with moments if they are useful for whatever except advertise for them....

**Brandon Sheley** · 12-09-2006, 08:36 PM

I have a good idea of something that will be somewhat interesting and informative.. now to just get it typed out..

Is it usually done like this..
I make a good size post in the announcements area ? or should I post it on the blog ?

Vault · 12-12-2006, 07:54 AM

I do not really like to post on Digg but it does come in hand sometimes to find other things.

**Brandon Sheley** · 12-12-2006, 09:40 AM

I've never really searched digg for anything.. I did end up making a post and linking it to digg, I had 5 clicks but thats it..

If you want to see it, then you can check it here.

http://forum.vbulletinsetup.com/f4/3...dreds-985.html

**eric** · 12-12-2006, 10:32 AM

tonight we started another experiment, let's see how far that runs

if it ever starts to walk already

**Brandon Sheley** · 12-12-2006, 11:04 AM

I think I'll look around dig sometime and see what sort of info is getting the most views..

titosp · 12-18-2006, 11:14 PM

used digg.com in past not now though.

**ARealRedneck** · 12-19-2006, 02:38 AM

I have posted a few articles on digg, but I have not really seen where it helped any yet.:1yes:

**brandondrury** · 12-29-2006, 03:37 PM

Okay, obviously this site is using Digg now.

So how are you doing it?

Brandon

**Brandon Sheley** · 12-29-2006, 03:51 PM

um, not that great..lol

I've tried it like 4 times.. the last one I was almost first person on digg to post about the former press dieing but I think i had 19 digs on it.

I want to get 200

maybe one day I'll figure it out.

have you had any luck ? I'll add you to my friend account and will digg your stuff and you can digg mine

**brandondrury** · 12-30-2006, 09:33 AM

Sounds good.

Is there a guide / thread that shows how to install those pretty little Digg / Delicious /etc graphics.

Brandon

**Brandon Sheley** · 12-30-2006, 11:14 AM

ours come with vbseo

I can find you the template edits if you want to add it to a non vbseo site

**eric** · 12-30-2006, 11:11 PM

Does it have any sense in the end ?? You make free publicity for them, but what do you get back ?
I tried a few times a submit but hardly got anything back. I'll take those out soon, useless. Again we come to basics... good content is what drives a site.

**Brandon Sheley** · 12-31-2006, 12:03 AM

yup, the best is to post unique fresh content all the time

**Code Monkey** · 12-31-2006, 08:08 AM

I have the tags from vBSEO but I have no idea if anyone actually uses them on our threads. *shrugs*

**brandondrury** · 12-31-2006, 08:17 AM

Quote:

have the tags from vBSEO but I have no idea if anyone actually uses them on our threads. *shrugs*

I was hoping to reverse engineer the code for my articles (not my forum). I just don't see a lot of forum posts getting a Digg.

I noticed that several of my articles had been "Dugg" manually of all things (which is a total surprise). I figure on my best articles, I could send out a newsletter giving away some contest to anyone who Diggs my article.

I'm sure there is some sort of rule against this, but it would be worth a shot.

Brandon

**Brandon Sheley** · 12-31-2006, 03:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Code Monkey

I have the tags from vBSEO but I have no idea if anyone actually uses them on our threads. *shrugs*

you would see a linkback if someone did.

are you a member at digg or any of the other social networking sites ?

Quote:

Originally Posted by brandondrury

I was hoping to reverse engineer the code for my articles (not my forum). I just don't see a lot of forum posts getting a Digg.

I noticed that several of my articles had been "Dugg" manually of all things (which is a total surprise). I figure on my best articles, I could send out a newsletter giving away some contest to anyone who Diggs my article.

I'm sure there is some sort of rule against this, but it would be worth a shot.

Brandon

I just added it to my wifes blog..
I think I'll be able to do okay with it, since it's Very unique

here is one now

digg - Something you've never seen - plexiglass art - Very unique