A few of you know that I’ll be stepping up the promotion for this blog due to Blogging Idol – one of those plans is to hit the frontpage of Digg.
I’ve done it before, with some help – of course, i did not know it at the time. Ironically, the article that hit the front page was about picking good web hosting… a guest post, from a friend. However, as the diggs began to come in, the blog repeatedly crashed – it was on shared hosting and could not handle the 11,000 visitors per day Digg sent.
This time, I’ll be a lot more prepared – I have a reseller account, at Hostgator which can withstand a lot more visitors; I also have WP Cache on hand to enable when things start getting strained.
I however do not have any leverage this time for Digg – my old account was disabled after I participated in one too many Digg swaps at the time and although I have a few accounts that are fresh, none of them have a) history or b) friends, two things that are vital in getting a story off the ground.
I do however have the coolest blogging community out there that will (hopefully) help me hit Digg’s frontpage – I’m estimating around 500 Diggs to get going.
At 5PM GMT on July 11th, I want to produce a blog post that will hit the front page. The blog post will be entitled something similar to ‘Five Things That Tell You You’re Obsessed With Blogging’ or ‘You Know You’re Obsessed With Blogging When…’ – something like that. If you have any suggestions, let me know in the comments section. 
I’ll looking for someone established in Digg to submit the blog post, and everyone to help me out by Digging it. If you guys could help, that would be pretty cool. I promise to make this post top quality, short and humourous – the things you need to succeed on Digg in this niche
If you feel capable of submitting the article (with success in doing things like this before) or want to offer any advice / suggestions – let me know in the comments, or contact me on instant messenger.
Personally, Digg won’t make me money directly – however indirectly it will help get the word out to more people that had never seen this blog before (last time I hit Digg, 97% of the visitors were new) and even if 1% of them convert into subscribers, all’s good.
Have you ever hit Digg’s front page – if yes, what was your experience? If no, why haven’t you, or why aren’t you aiming to do so?
July 7th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Suggestion, suggestion! Not for this project, but for the upcoming Digg-projects of us all.
Would be a darn great idea to add a forum/subforum for digg and Stumbleupon -swaps to BlogPremiere. Dp doesn’t allow those anymore so we need a new place to do it.
I don’t know if this matches the topics and things you want handled at Bp, but it would still be great. =P
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July 7th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Most diggs I have ever had is 24. So I am probably not the best to submit your article
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July 7th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
The problem with digg exchange forums is that it’s so easy to find a number of members and ban them. E-mail/MSN may be more suitable, but not a whole publically viewable forum.
You’re obsessed with blogging when something amusing happens and you immediately think “hmmm…I can blog this!” (not very interesting, but don’t deny it never happens!)
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July 7th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
good luck jason looks like you prepared well for digg frontpage
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July 7th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
I really believe that this is going to be a hard one to pull off, but if you need someone to submit anything for you, I could do it. Not that I’m a power user or anything, it’s just an offer in case no one else that has a higher status volunteers
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July 7th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
I saw some traffic coming from here but I didnt see any links pointing to us? Weird.
Anyways I’ll definitely help ya, I dont have a powerful account, but good enough. Gl on finding a power digger to submit
Make sure to hit up the entrecard forum for diggs as well, they are pretty good about voting up other peoples stuff
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July 7th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Yep digg is uber powerful! the most i got was like 4 i think though i am very bad at marketing and keeping my blog updated!
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July 7th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Just a heads up man, Digg users aren’t too fond of anything with the word ‘blog’ or ‘blogging’ in the title…
Jay
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July 8th, 2008 at 12:58 am
Hello TUK, by being in the front page of Digg you will get a lot of traffic, but you need to write a very catchy title… Good luck with that!
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July 8th, 2008 at 1:11 am
Well Jay is definitely right, you will get a lot of negative comments.
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July 8th, 2008 at 2:08 am
I will Digg the post, though I am not quite the established Digger. I want to know how you plan to do this – besides begging readers – how you promote it yourself.
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July 8th, 2008 at 4:39 am
Should be an interesting experiment to watch and with the community you have built it should be possible. I will definitely digg the post once it is up….
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July 8th, 2008 at 6:24 am
The front page of Digg gives you massive hits. Make sure your servers can take it.
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July 8th, 2008 at 7:53 am
Hey Jason!
Gr8 goal you’ve got there. I might not be of much help with the DIGG’n stuff….but I thought you might like to read a similar post to your subject written a few weeks back. Peace!
http://www.blogohblog.com/are-you-a-blogging-addict/
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July 8th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Now that I think of it, I have rarely seen any topics that have to do with blogging hit the front page of Digg…. Good luck Jason!
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July 8th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
It’s really great idea what am thinking of it!!!
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July 8th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Best of luck buddy. Ping me when you need a digg. May be I can also ask my friends in my yahoo messenger to help you.
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July 8th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Don’t get me wrong man… I’ll still help Digg it even though I’m not a big fan of them… but like I said, Digg users almost despise bloggers…
Jay
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July 12th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
OK, help is coming. We need 100 digs fast and you are on front page.
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July 14th, 2008 at 11:26 am
hi jason… i would not be able to gidd it (reason simple: i am not much active over there)…. but i would love to digg it.. as all your post have a clear meaning and humor… i bet this one would also be the same.
regards
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July 16th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
It would be great if you could write an article about how to get to the front page of digg. I would find that very interesting.
Good luck in your quest to make the front page.
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