What digg is to a website

Posted by multippt

Digg, which is a website that combines social bookmarking, blogging and syndication, is very useful to maintaining site growth. This is especially true when you have something which you want to share with the world.

Digg brings traffic

A little traffic does not hurt any website right? Digg is one way of bringing in some. Once a story reaches the front page (after receiving roughly 35 diggs), it will receive immense amounts of traffic. However though, digg can bring so much traffic that it can cause your site to go down with it (known as “digg effect”). Nevertheless, users are more willing to read your article since they visit the website on their on free will (well, most of them are). They are not forced to visit the site and thus, the visitors generated by digg are truly genuine.

A good way to start a site

Obviously, a new website does not have a lot of visitors (unless you cheated). Thus digg serves as a way to show your webpage to the world. In addition, digg allows other users to comment and rate the story in your site, and thus one can find out ways to improve on future stories.

Digg = business + money

Some companies utilise digg as a means of earning money. They try to promote a site provided the owner pays them well. Examples of such services are User/Submitter, Friendly vote and Spike the vote. They may do so by asking the owner of a site to pay for votes, while the company pays the users to vote for it (sort of like bribary), such as User/Submitter. However, this form of forced digging is regarded as cheating since the people that have more money to spare can monopolize the service.

Integration

Its easy to integrate code in your website to send stories to digg. It also allows users of the website to click on a direct link to the specific digg webpage to digg the story. It can be integrated with blogs and news articles. Digg even provides methods to allow users of a website to use digg even though they are not on the official site. Digg works with other services such as youtube.

Digg is quite big

Digg has over 500000 registered users and growing, and most of them frequent the site. Thus, there is a high possibility that 1 of those users might actually stumble across your website. Also, digg has a strong user base since there is always something new there each day and thus attract surfers who are bored.