Posted on Sunday, 30th November 2008 by Jeff
First of all, I want to tell you what the best time of the day is to submit to Digg. To keep the answer to this short and sweet - IT’S IN THE MORNING TIME AROUND 8:00 EST. Why may you ask? I’m not 100% sure but it may be because most people are getting up to go to work, and want to check Digg to see what the hottest news articles are. If you’re like me and don’t care about how many Diggs you get or how many people visit the articles you submitted, then you can submit at any time of the day.
While I haven’t worked that hard at this, the reason why most people get more Diggs than others is either because they get more traffic to their site, or because they have more friends. Honestly, I think having more friends will get you more Diggs than traffic because all your friends are definite members of Digg. Therefore, the more friends you have the better. This is why some people submit an article first and get about 50 Diggs, while another person submits an identical article afterwards and gets hundreds or even thousands of Diggs. If you Digg your friends’ submissions on a regular basis, then they’ll probably return the favor.
Unlike websites like MySpace, when you add somebody as your friend, they automatically become your friend. This makes it very easy for you to get thousands of friends on Digg. If you added 100 friends a day, you would have about 3,000 friends after just 1 month! What I normally do is find submissions that are related to the ones that I normally submit, and that have lots of Diggs. View all the friends of the member who submitted that post and add them as your friends. When you submit an article to Digg and a friend of yours Diggs it, then a unique green ribbon appears in the top, left-hand corner of your Digg button. If you go the the homepage of Digg, you will rarely see a top submission that doesn’t have this. This means that its almost impossible to get to the top without the help of your friends on Digg.
An obvious way to increase your Diggs is to include a Digg button within your articles or on your website. The best Digg buttons are the full-sized ones that keep track of how many Diggs you have. Having a small Digg button like the ones I have on my blog won’t motivate a lot of people to Digg your post. If your website doesn’t already have a widget for this, you can use the ones that Digg provides for you. I would recommend you use the one with your Digg count and a submission option. All you have to do is cut-and-paste this code on the pages you want Digged. Or you can place this on a particular area on your template so you won’t have to manually add it each time.
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